“Are you trying to tell me, Mr.Miller, that during Steven’s past five years of being in a coma, someone had hurt him and left behind this scar?”
Brettley’s tone was sharp and malicious.
The domineering aura surrounding Brettley’s entire being was so suffocating that Mr.Miller could not help wiping the sweat from his forehead.
”As for this, shouldn’t you be asking the Hughes family instead of me?”
“Is that what you think?”
Brettley narrowed his eyes and glanced at his phone once more.
“I guess letting your stocks drop one point every ten minutes isn’t enough for you, Mr.Miller.Is that so?”
With that, Brettley took his phone out of his pocket and poised his finger over the keypad, ready to dial the number.
“No, no!”
Mr.Miller stormed forward to stop him.
“Please don’t do this, Mr.Morrison! You want to know the truth about Luke and Steven, don’t you? I’ll tell you everything!”
Brettley finally tucked his phone away as he turned to glance coldly at Mr.Miller.
“Continue.
“If whatever you tell me doesn’t match up with my investigation…”
Brettley curled his lips into a smirk.
“I can’t guarantee that Miller Group will even still be standing tomorrow.”
Brettley never tried to target the Miller family all because of Luke.
Even though Kate had almost killed Bonnie, and Jim therefore developed a hatred toward her, Brettley never chose to get revenge on the Miller family, but it was not because he did not possess the power to do so.
Truth be told, even though the Miller family was one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Saigen City, they were still no match for Brettley at all.
The only reason he let them off the hook was that the Miller family had given Luke hope during his loneliest days.
If the Miller family had not told Luke about the potential cure for Gwen’s disease, Luke would have taken his life to be with Gwen.
Therefore, before they arrived in Saigen City, both Brettley and Jim refrained from laying a finger on the Millers during the past month that Luke had left.
However, after knowing that Luke was possibly Steven’s long-lost twin brother, Brettley could not help thinking that time had run out.He had shown the Miller family enough grace.
“Don’t worry, Mr.Morrison.”
When faced with the look of malice in Brettley’s eyes, Mr.Miller shrunk backward and whimpered, “The truth is, Steven and Luke…
“They’re indeed…twin brothers.”
He sighed and continued, ”Mrs.Hughes had indeed given birth to a set of twins, but…unfortunately, a fortune teller had foretold the future and claimed that the Hughes family was only allowed to have one heir.
However, Mrs.Hughes had given birth to two sons.
“According to the fortune teller, the Hughes family were only allowed to keep one son and abandon the other.If they ignored the prophecy, both the children wouldn’t live…
“Initially, no one believed the prophecy, but not long after the birth, both the sons ended up falling gravely ill…”
Mr.Miller sighed.
“After desperately trying to cure the two little boys to no avail, the Hughes family finally believed the fortune teller’s word…and abandoned the sicker one of the two children.”
Mr.Miller lifted his head to glance at Brettley.
“Since you’ve already looked into this, Mr.Morrison, you should know by now that the boy that the Hughes family abandoned is none other than Luke.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes.
“Go on.”
Truth be told, Brettley had guessed that much.
However, as the father of four children, he was unwilling to believe that someone could have abandoned their child just because of a prophecy.
Not only that, but the abandoned child was his best friend, Luke.
Brettley’s chest tightened whenever he thought of how Luke talked about his difficult upbringing.
If Luke had not been abandoned by his family as a baby, he would not have ended up becoming a gangster that had to fight for his survival.
Brettley knew just how hard it had been for Luke to claw his way to the top.
Never in Brettley’s wildest dreams had he imagined that Luke Jones, the man who literally had to fight his way to the top, was actually the heir to the Hughes fortune, the wealthiest family in Saigen City.
Fate was playing a trick on Luke.
However, the people who did this to him were Steven’s parents, Mr.and Mrs.Hughes!
It was their superstitious beliefs that led them to abandon Luke as a baby!
“Five years ago, Steven Hughes got involved in an accident and wound up in a coma, and because of this, the Hughes family requested our help tracking down their lost child,”
Mr. Miller continued.
“Of course, Mr. Morrison, you know that Miller Group has substantial resources in the medical field, but not only that, both our families had a marriage agreement since a long time ago as well.
“Therefore, the Hughes family agreed that if we helped Steven wake up from his coma, they’d let their son marry our precious Kate.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes and tapped his slender fingers lightly against the coffee table.
“So this was how you found Luke?”
Mr. Miller nodded.
“That’s right. About a year ago, Luke came to seek our help, and just the first glance at him shocked us all to our cores. He and Steven were like carbon copies of each other!
“We’ve been searching for him for five years, and we never thought that he’d appear on our doorstep!”
Brettley furrowed his eyebrows.
“What happened next?”
Mr. Miller sighed and could not help feeling a little guilty when he thought of this. “Well, you know full well that Luke had come to us because of his girlfriend, Gwen. “
After our medical experts conducted a thorough workup on her, they found that even though Gwen was in ill health, she would, fortunately, be cured if she received a heart transplant from Luke…”
He sighed and continued, “Initially, we had planned to give Luke’s to Gwen, whereas the rest of his organs would go to Steven. That way, Steven stood a chance of waking up from his coma, but this came with risks and complications, of course.”
Mr. Miller rubbed his glabella in frustration. “Therefore, we came up with another plan.
“Since Luke and Steven were identical twins, Steven’s heart would also be able to save Gwen. course of action was to transplant Steven’s heart into Gwen’s body, which would save Gwen and also allow Luke to return to his family and become the rightful heir to the Hughes fortune.
“However, the Hughes family would never agree to this. After all, they had raised Steven since birth, but not only that, they’d never allow a gangster to take over the family fortune.”
A glimmer of malice flashed through Brettley’s eyes. If Luke was still alive, he would not have wanted to reclaim his family after knowing what kind of people they were. He was such an arrogant and prideful man; he would never have imagined that his family would look down on him like this.
“We dabbled on this for a long time and finally came to a compromise.”
Mr. Miller turned his head away so as not to meet Brettley’s gaze. “In the end, we used Steven’s heart to save Gwen as a tribute to Luke.
“The body you guys buried was, in fact, Steven’s, and as for the real Luke…”
Mr. Miller sniffed.
“We wiped all of Luke’s memories away and instilled his mind with Steven’s instead. To put it in simpler terms, the man you now know as Steven is actually Steven’s mind contained within Luke’s body.”
Brettley narrowed his eyes.
“Does this mean that Luke has lost all his memories?”
“Well, not just his memories.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.