Chapter 1609 It’s The Bleakest Choice Or The Bleakest Future?

Yes. She was a moron, because the Tremonts killed her father and made her an orphan, bereft of kindred and support, yet she fell in love with Mark, the scion of the family. She had thought that as long as he stood by her side, she would always be alright, and yet, it turned out that he had helped Shelly hide a terrible, critical secret.

It was a direct affront to her face. It was the clearest sign that she was, doubtlessly, the world’s biggest moron—

“She isn’t my aunt… She’s my mother!”

Arianne was stunned. His sudden confession had sent a seismic shock that locked her into a statue for a second.

Then, she cried, “W-what did you just say?!”

Mark told her everything Shelly had recounted to him that day. It was so difficult that he had to force himself to say it, the one history he never planned to tell anyone.

With this new light being shed, Arianne combed back every detail in Shelly’s behavior and action of the past few months. Suddenly, the fog that had plagued her mind for so