Madeline looked stunned upon hearing Fabian’s answer.
“What do you mean? How would Jeremy benefit?” Madeline was further confused by Fabian’s words.
Fabian sipped his coffee and suddenly chuckled.
“To be more precise, the person who benefited most, in the end, would be Jeremy’s uncle, Felipe.”
“What? ” Madeline was befuddled. “Fabian, could you make yourself clear?”
Fabian’s lips curled slightly as he spoke mockingly, “Jeremy is a high-level Interpol official. Back then, he only stayed with Lana to spy on her, isn’t that right?”
“You only got half of it right, ” Madeline corrected him; her expression was serious. “Jeremy is an Interpol official, but the reason he stayed with Lana, spying on her, was that Lana had tried to kill me by blowing up the yacht back then. She’d wanted to use Jeremy’s amnesia for some illegal business, so Jeremy merely played along.”
“Played along… Hmph.” Fabian scoffed. “He played along indeed. If Lana had deserved this, then what about my brother Yorick?”
“Yorick had violated the law, and he was punished by the law. He suffered the consequences of his actions, so why do you blame Jeremy for your siblings’ deaths?”
“If my brother suffered the consequences of his actions and only had himself to blame, what about Felipe? His crimes were the same as my brother’s crimes in F Country. Felipe even instigated a homicide, so why was he able to escape legal sanction?”
As Fabian questioned, there came a change in his emotions, and he became more worked up.
“Jeremy is from Interpol. He and his colleagues had set a trap to capture my brother. Don’t tell me that he doesn’t know that Felipe had also committed the same crimes? Of course, he knew.
“I’ve always thought that my brother had himself to blame for the outcome because of the crimes he had committed, but I know now—Jeremy used you, then used me. In the end, my brother became a trophy he got for working with Interpol.
“The reason Lana was killed by Ryan was also related to Jeremy. You two had planned all of this.”
Fabian vented out the dissatisfaction in his heart.
After hearing his words, Madeline could finally understand the reason Fabian had been intensely hostile toward them all this time.
Madeline did not know how to explain it, and she felt that no matter how she explained it now, Fabian would not listen to her.
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