The purpose of Dolores asking this question was to find out from Victoria's answer whether Charles was lying or not.
Upon hearing Dolores's words, Victoria's face, which had just brought back the roses, instantly turned pale again. She stared at Dolores and felt like she had fallen into an ice cave, chilling from the top of her head to the tips of her toes.
She actually knew Nathan?
"Are you uncomfortable talking about it?"
Dolores sensed her hesitation.
She hurriedly denied it, "No."
Kevin had forced her to a dead end, and she had no other choice.
"How did you get into danger?" Victoria asked with concern.
"You don't have to worry about this. Matthew has helped me out and I'm fine now. I want to know about you, was it also a conspiracy for me to be brought here by Kevin to learn the craft of tea silk making?"
Dolores felt that a huge conspiracy was looming behind her, but she couldn't peer into it.
Victoria closed her eyes and also made up her mind in this short period of time.
What was done was done, and there was nothing she could do to change it.
However, she was afraid it would cause big trouble for Dolores. Her cold, uncontrollably trembling hand clasped Dolores's hand, "You're a good girl."
Her eyes reddened slightly, and her voice changed its intonation. "I can tell you everything, but you have to promise me one thing."
Since she was Matthew's real mother, then of course she wanted her son to be good. Now she had given birth to two children for Matthew, so she must also like her, or at least not hate her. Moreover, she gave her the Forbis family's ancestral jade bracelets, so she definitely wouldn't hurt her.
Dolores nodded and said, "I promise you, go ahead, what is it?"
"You must keep everything I tell you a secret, and you can't say anything to anyone, including Matthew."
Dolores's eyelids drooped slightly as she had expected such a request. If she wasn't afraid of Matthew knowing about this, how could she try every possible way to conceal it?
She just didn't understand what kind of past was there that she couldn't even recognize her own son?
There were thousands of pains in this world, such as old age, sickness, death, love, hate and separation; however, the most heart-breaking and tragic was that I couldn't acknowledge you even though you were right in front of my eyes.
Dolores was tempted to ask her what exactly was more important than recognizing her son?
But when the words came to the tip of her tongue, she swallowed them again. If there was no difficulty that she couldn't mention, how would she like to be separated from her own children?
Dolores looked up at her and replied seriously, "Alright, I promise you."
Victoria didn't feel relieved, on the contrary, she felt increasingly heavy-hearted. She never intended to pull Dolores into the whirlpool of the past, but the current development was beyond her expectations.
Her involvement was bound to be detrimental to her.
Victoria pondered for a few seconds, but still couldn't muster up the courage to open her mouth.
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