Goodbye You Never Loved Me novel (Martha and Stefan) novel Chapter 513

Catherine's Palace.
Half an hour after the guard left, he returned to Catherine's palace with Catherine's mother.
After the guard walked in with Catherine's mother, he bowed his head respectfully.
"Your Grace, your mother is here."
"You may leave us now," Catherine glanced at her guard, and her palms were sweating.
During the half hour of waiting for her mother, she imagined countless possibilities.
But in the end, she still hoped that her first child was still alive.
"Yes."
The guard responded respectfully, turned around and left.
After he left, Catherine's mother asked suspiciously.
"Why did you summon me so urgently?"
Catherine suppressed her excitement, turned the ring on her finger, and asked gently, "How is the Hopper family these days?"
"Everything is fine at home. You are working too hard managing everything alone," said Mrs. Hopper looked at her daughter with pride.
If she hadn't acted decisively and sent Catherine into the palace, the Hopper family wouldn't be where it was today.
Catherine grew up with her mother, and now seeing her like this, she naturally understands what her mother means.
She clenched her hand, and without any further hesitation, she asked directly about what happened back then.
"Mom, do you still remember what happened back then?"
When Mrs. Hopper heard this, she frowned unconsciously.
She didn't expect that her daughter was still thinking about what happened back then after so many years had passed.
Her daughter's son had become the new king, yet her daughter could not move on until now.
Mrs. Hopper thought of this, her eyes full of complicated emotions.
She thought her daughter hadn't let go of the past, so she tried to persuade her.
"Catherine, the past is in the past, so don't worry about the past."
"Besides, now that your son has become a king, you should think about what's next."
When Catherine heard these words, she tightly clenched her hand.
Things were all in the past, but she had been living in nightmares these years.
Her parents surely remembered that they killed her husband and son, yet they acted like had never happened.
Mrs. Hopper paused for a moment. She seemed to sense Catherine's mood swings and smiled hurriedly.
"Although what your father and I did back then was somewhat thoughtless, we did it all for your own good."
"Look at how well you're living now. Isn't this good?" she added.
Catherine's eyes darkened as she watched her mother with a serious face.
"Mother, tell me, about that child, is it really dead?"
Mrs. Hopper frowned suspiciously, and looked at Catherine sitting at the host's seat in puzzlement.
"What do you mean by that?"
Catherine didn't answer, she just looked at her mother solemnly and asked.
"Tell me, did you see that child die with your own eyes?"
Mrs. Hopper shook her head, and answered, "No, I didn't have the heart to do so."
After all, that child was her daughter's child, and she was unable to kill that child no matter what.
Later, she could only let the child fend for itself.
As soon as those words came out Mrs. Hopper's lips, Catherine's eager questioning sounded.
"Mother, please tell me what you did back then."
"Things have passed; what's the use of asking these now?"
Mrs. Hopper looked at Catherine helplessly, her eyes full of doubts.
She didn't understand why Catherine brought her here and ask about the past.
Alain Ducasse, Catherine's second son, had become a king. She wondered why Catherine couldn't move on.
She thought of this and she said, "We should move on no matter what happened in the past."
At these words, Catherine felt more irritated.
Catherine asked again patiently, "Mother, how did you treat that child back then?"
Mrs. Hopper saw the firmness in Catherine's eyes, sighed helplessly, and then spoke the truth about the past.
"Back then, your father asked me to kill your child, yet I didn't have the heart to do it, so I let him live or perish himself and watch him float into the sea."
At that time, the child was so young. Mrs. Hopper guessed the child probably either drowned or starved to death.
Yet Catherine saw a ray of hope after hearing Mrs. Hopper's explanation.
Since her mother didn't see that child die, it was very likely that the child was not dead yet!