Five Years Wasted Now They Beg Her Back novel Chapter 549

"What happened next?" she asked urgently.

"Next..." Quentin closed his eyes as if the memory pained him. "The day before the test results were due, the lab was broken into."

"All the core data vanished without a trace."

"The police pulled the security footage. The last person to leave the lab that night was your mother, Lauren."

"How could that be..." Grace murmured. "My mother would never do something like that."

"Of course we didn't believe it either, but the evidence was irrefutable. They found a check from Ringhold Tech in Lauren's locker." Quentin gave a bitter smile. "I couldn't bear to see such a brilliant young girl thrown in prison, so I called in a lot of favors from old friends to suppress the scandal."

"That night, Lauren and Silas had a massive fight. The whole hallway echoed with Lauren's tears as she demanded to know why he had betrayed their beliefs, screaming and asking if he had sold his soul for money."

"And then..."

Quentin's voice dropped. "Late that same night, the lab caught fire. All the samples and backup data were incinerated."

"Heh." Grace scoffed coldly. "A classic cover-up."

"After the fire, Silas returned to Europe, and Lauren..." Quentin looked at Grace. "Exactly a month after the fire, she abruptly announced she was marrying Alistair Hart, who was just a small-time businessman back then."

A month.

The image of Cassian's devastated face flashed through Grace's mind.

Could her mother really have...

Alistair was dead; uncovering the specific details of that time would be nearly impossible.

But... Grace refused to accept it.

She couldn't bring herself to believe her mother was that kind of person.

Even if Lauren hadn't loved Alistair, she would never have used someone as a scapegoat.

Grace firmly believed Lauren was incapable of betrayal, whether emotional or physical.

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