Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier) novel Chapter 234

However, Rufus did not know that Jacinta was pregnant back then.

That was because he was utterly disgusted by how Jacinta’s parents had drugged him to have sex with their daughter just because he owed them a favor.

The moment he managed to contact the Fairchild family, he quickly gave the Sumner family a sum of money and fled the village without looking back.

By the time he found out he had another child out there, the child was already more than a year old.

That time, Jacinta’s father, Cesare Sumner, had already married her off to a rich, older man who was from the area.

Initially, even Jacinta was not sure if the child belonged to Rufus or the old man she married after that.

It was not until she brought the child to the hospital one day for a checkup, which required a blood test, that Jacinta and her family discovered the child did not belong to her current husband.

From that day onward, she was treated horribly. Physical assault, verbal abuse, and domestic violence were a common occurrence.

Her husband even sent her one-year-old child back to her parents’ house.

Jacinta wanted to flee from her abusive husband so badly, but the latter would not let her go.

Back then, she had pinned all her hopes on her son. Never did she expect Cesare, who was addicted to gambling, to gamble away all the family’s assets. At his wits’ end, he brought the child to the Fairchild family in hopes of using the child to blackmail Rufus for a sum of money.

Rufus did not expect Cesare to have the guts to seek him. He even thought the child was a random stranger the latter had brought to make it sound more convincing.

Yet, the paternity test had proven that the child was his.

Rufus hated Cesare to the bone and was utterly disgusted by him. Not only did Rufus not give Cesare a single cent, but he also forced the child to stay at the Fairchild residence.

Although Rufus hated the child’s existence, he did not want his own flesh and blood to be brought up by such a despicable person.

And that child was Rufus’ second son, Xavier’s uncle, Stuart Fairchild.

When Cesare was chased out of the Fairchild residence, he did not give up and continued pestering them. Still, he was not a match for the Fairchilds.

Being the lazy and penniless person he was, he ended up roaming and begging on the streets for more than a month before returning home.

Upon arriving home, he was cornered by the creditors. As he tried to escape in the middle of night, he accidentally fell into a pond and drowned to death.

From that day on, his wife, Camille Pennington, became the creditors’ target. Unfortunately, Cesare had spent all her hard-earned money long ago. There was no way she could pay off the debt.

Unable to handle the situation, Camille hung herself in her own home a few days later.

With no news of her biological child, the death of her parents, and the terrible abuse she had to endure every day, Jacinta eventually lost her mind and became mentally ill.

When Cesare’s creditors failed to find him, they went straight to Jacinta and demanded she paid the debts on his behalf.

Seeing that she had lost her mind and her family was deep in debt, Jacinta’s husband decided to chase her away.

Jacinta refused to leave and hid in the woodshed. But to her horror, her heartless husband actually set the building on fire.

The fire that day was strong. If it was not for the sudden rain, Jacinta would have died in the fire.

Just like that, she survived the incident. After roaming the town like a madwoman for over a month, she was finally taken home by her distant aunt.

She was nameless in the past, and everyone called her “Young Lady.” Her name, Jacinta, was given by her aunt.

Jacinta lived in her aunt’s place for over a decade, and her condition gradually improved. However, she had lost all memory of the painful experiences before she went crazy.

Even so, that was great news for her. As soon as she recovered, she carried on living a normal life.

She even got married again and met a great partner this time.

However, they failed to have a child of their own even after years of marriage.

Perhaps the heavens had taken pity on the couple. One day, when they were on their way to the market, they found a little girl.

The little girl was Jacinta’s adopted daughter and Winnie’s biological mother, Lorelei Garland.

Afte having Lorelei, Jacinta and her husband lived a happy and wonderful life.

Alas, good things never last. Jacinta’s husband died in a traffic accident. In the end, Jacinta had to bring up Lorelei alone while enduring the sorrow.

At that time, she had begun to be mentally unstable due to her husband’s death.

Her condition only became worse when Lorelei was killed by Hamish and Yara. If it were not for Winnie, who needed her care, Jacinta would have lost it completely long ago.

When Winnie grew up and was taken back by her maternal grandfather, Jacinta began to suffer again.

There was even a period when her memories were jumbled together. The memories of losing her own son and Winnie moving abroad had caused her to be convinced that she had a grandson who had been taken away by the Fairchild family.

That was why she had been asking Winnie to help locate her grandson.

However, in reality, Jacinta’s son was the one who had been taken away. She never had a grandson in the first place. It was just a mixup between two different memories.

As to when her memories got mixed up or when she regained them, it started from the day when Rufus invited her and Winnie to the Fairchild residence.

That day, they were sitting at the dining table, and Rufus was talking about giving Winnie the keys and the right to manage the Fairchild residence.

He talked about many other things apart from that. As Jacinta stared at him, she suddenly remembered the incidents from the past.

She recalled how her parents had drugged her back then and made her sleep with Rufus. She also remembered bearing him a child and realized that Stuart was her son.

In fact, she had known about Stuart and Zyon all along. They were never favored by Rufus.

In the past, before she regained her memories, she could not understand why Rufus always treated his eldest son better than the second son when both were his children.

However, it was at that moment she understood the reason. All that prejudice was because she was the one who gave birth to Stuart.

Winnie used to ask Jacinta all the time why she disliked Xavier and thought that men from the Fairchild family were not trustworthy. Jacinta could never come up with an answer because it was her gut feeling.

However, she finally had her answer on that very day: all men from the Fairchild family were horrible beings.

She was also a victim back then. Her parents were the ones who were guilty, and she had absolutely nothing to do with it.