Sebastian gasped. "My brother said that to you?!" "No."
"If that's not the case, why do you think that I'm the one behind all this? Simply because with him gone, I will be the next in line to inherit my father's wealth?" he asked.
Avery did not respond.
"Naha! Well, you won't be the first to think that. I don't care if the others think so because their narrow minds do not affect me, but I'm a bit hurt that you would say such a thing," he complained sadly.
After a moment of silence, Avery explained, "Your brother didn’t say that you are behind it, but he mentioned that someone planned the "accident" to get him killed. I don't know anyone else other than you in the Jennings family."
"What do you mean, you don't know anyone else?" Sebastian did not accept the explanation. "You should know Angela, right? I still remember how shocked you were when I mentioned her name. If you didn't know her, you would have asked who she was and why she was with my father... but you didn't ask a thing.”
"I am confused, too. Angela went to our school to look for Professor Hough before, yet your dad says that he met Angela the first time at a party the Jennings family held. Have you really not seen her before at school?" Avery asked.
"Avery, that's not important—" "I feel like nothing any of you said is true," she said. "Are you all wary of me because you don't want me to find Elliot?" "I don't know what my father and brother think. We might be a family, but we are not as united as you think we are. I was only introduced to the family after reaching adulthood... So trust me, what I tell you has a higher chance of being true compared to what my father is telling you."
"So were you behind the car accident your brother was in, then?"
"No," he answered without hesitation. "If it was me, my father wouldn't hand my brother's assets over to me. I would have been dead by now if I was behind it...
Probably severely maimed, if not dead."
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