The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 1681

"I think I hear Raymond yelling. Could the people out for my blood have found the FIB headquarters through us?"

If she had unwittingly led the enemy right to their doorstep, wouldn't she be the ultimate sinner?

"Or maybe he just regrets letting you take his mushroom sauce," Dane replied.

Dane actually knew a bit about Raymond's background.

Claire was curious. "Why? Didn't he say it was sent from his hometown?"

"Can't they just send more later?"

Still, it was a long way from Cabinda. For Raymond to part with an entire jar of it was incredibly generous.

"It's not that they can't send it. The truth is, the person making that mushroom sauce for him isn't his brother's wife."

"Even though his brother and sister-in-law treat him decently, they aren't the ones who care about him the most."

From what Dane had gathered, Raymond once had a childhood sweetheart named Bonnie Miller. The two had been deeply in love.

But he had always treated Bonnie like a sister. After leaving to study and eventually settling in Cabinda for work, his visits home grew increasingly rare.

Dedicated entirely to his career, he never married and had no desire to do so.

Heartbroken, poor Bonnie was eventually married off to someone else.

Tragically, her husband passed away early.

When Raymond learned that she was struggling, he started sending money back home regularly—half to his brother's family, and half to Bonnie.

With no other way to repay him, Bonnie began making his favorite mushroom meat sauce.

The 'mushrooms' in the sauce weren't standard button mushrooms, but a rare wild fungus that grew in the mountains of their hometown.

Right now, it was too cold, and the wild fungus hadn't sprouted yet. So once he finished this jar, there wouldn't be anyone to make him more.

"How do you know things about Raymond that he doesn't even know himself?" Claire looked at him skeptically.

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