Serenity and Zachary York



Adrian answered, "Not yet. I asked Caroline to call Mom and ask her, but she didn't give us an answer. She probably won't be back so soon."

Hunter looked noticeably more relaxed when he heard this. Even while living with his son, Belinda was on his mind, worried that the ruthless old woman would come looking for him and disrupt his peace. After all, he was an old man himself now, and in fact a few years older than Belinda was. "It's none of our business what your mother does. She'll let us know of her own accord when she's coming back, if she wants us to know. If she doesn't, we won't be able to find out either, so it's best not to even try, lest she suspects you guys have ulterior motives."

Hunter sighed and continued, "I've been married to your mother for decades and still only got off so easily because we had you all. She doesn't feel much for me, but she still has motherly love and only lets me live out of consideration for you guys. I'm just living for the sake of living now."

Mentally and physically, he had suffered a great blow. He knew how domineering and possessive Belinda was. For the past few decades, though he dared to lust, he had not had the guts to follow through on it and cheat on her. This year, he finally found the courage to do it because he thought Belinda was thoroughly distracted by family matters and that Tiara's descendants had been found.

While Belinda was away in Wiltspoon, he lost control of his lower half. After years of controlling himself, he finally cheated, only to be caught with his pants down. He was just down on his luck. Even though he had ended up in such unfortunate circumstances, there was no telling what happened to the pretty girl he had the affair with.

Hunter did not dare to ask, neither did he dare try to find out. His guess was that she definitely had not ended up well and was possibly even six feet under by now-not because of Belinda's ruthless reprisal, but rather the doubt that the woman's sugar daddy would let her live after discovering her betrayal.

“Dad, we'll think of something to get Mom to forgive you and let you move back to Fisher Manor to live out your retirement.” All Adrian could do was console his father. He had no one to blame but himself for not having the capability to stand up to his mother.

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to coax Belinda into changing the family rules and letting him take over; not at all thinking he was inferior to Caroline. When Celine was still his sister in name, the Clark brothers had little ambition, knowing that was just the way things were in the Fisher family.

They doted on Celine very much partly because they could not help but pamper their only sister, who was also the youngest. However, it was also partly because Celine had е been groomed as Belinda's successor ever since she was little and was given much more attention and better treatment than any of the brothers.

They thought if they had a good relationship with her, they would be able to get more benefits when she eventually succeeded the position. If they could not get the position, they at least wanted to get some benefits out of it. This was the Clark brothers' biggest scheme.This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.

The previous matriarchs' siblings all managed to get numerous benefits. Belinda had no brothers and her sisters were dead, but Hunter's family had managed to reap a little benefit from her.

"We've never dared to simply track

Mom's whereabouts. If anyone's going to do it it should be Caroline. Mom's starting to favor her more now, even though she looked down on her and scolded her for being erand

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failure when she first came back. In hindsight, it must have all just been a deception. In reality, Mom's been biased toward Caroline for a long time now. Even Celine was used by her."

At the mention of Celine, both heartache and hatred surfaced in Hunter's eyes. He had cared for her truly. After all, she was the child he carefully nurtured into an adult, but she was driven to her death.