Chapter 799
Edwin went to the hospital to fetch Catelyn and Joanne, telling them what he found. "I checked the doors and windows, and they were all perfectly locked without signs of forced entry."
This puzzled Joanne. "How did the thief get in?"
Catelyn and Edwin looked at each other, and they both saw something unusual in each other's eyes.
The doors and windows were all in good condition, indicating that it was not a break-in but a legal entry with the key instead.
'If the bracelet in that photo was similar to the phoenix bracelet, who'd deal with the painting?’ Catelyn and Edwin pondered at the same time.
The only reasonable explanation was that the bracelet in the portrait was the one that Quinn gave to the Atherton family, so Quinn was the one who wanted to get rid of the portrait.
It was precisely because of that that she seemed guilty on the night that accident happened.
Edwin asked Catelyn, "Do you still remember the origin of that bracelet?"
"It’s been too long. I can't remember clearly.” Catelyn had never looked at the bracelet carefully. With the vague memory she still had, she said, "I vaguely remember that in that family portrait, little me was grabbing onto the bracelet. I'm afraid only my mother knows the origin."
Edwin seemed a little interested when he heard that. " You held it?"
"Yes. Before our family was ruined by bankruptcy, he'd often give me all kinds of strange things to play with. I even found a skeleton of a small dinosaur in the storage room a few years ago. A real one. That's why I didn't
take the bracelet to heart at all; there were so many odd things in my house."
Joanne finally caught up to the conversation. "That means it is very likely that Quinn took Catelyn's bracelet and stole her identity as Miss Atherton as well, right? That's why if she wants to keep her secret forever a secret, she has to...kill Stella..."
The realization horrified Joanne. Quinn was completely a psychopath!
Edwin had never worried about Quinn. He was instead worried about the people from his family who were dealing with her every day.
He looked at Catelyn and warily asked, "Do you have a photo of your mother?"
"If I said no, would it shock you?" Catelyn helplessly gave a wry smile.
Joanne reacted to that before Edwin could. "Don't you even have one?!"
"No." Catelyn shook her head. "I knew Stella was my stepmother when I was very young. I asked my father where my mother was, but he only told me that my mother died birthing me. He wouldn't tell me the information either, so I went around looking for pictures of my mom-"
"What then?" Joanne could not bear the long story Catelyn was going to tell.
"My father said that when my mother died, she was full of regrets, so he burned all her things, including photos, and buried them with her. Therefore, I never knew what my mother looked like, but my father would occasionally stare at my face in a daze. I'm guessing... that we share some similarities."
Speaking of her past, Catelyn instinctively thought of Ezekiel.
He was suffering in a prison somewhere in the world.
She had already divorced Cedrick and given up the custody of her two children at the request of Elder
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