Joshua's words stunned Thomas for a good few seconds.
After a while, he managed to calm himself and looked at Joshua.
What makes you ask me this question, Mr.Lynch? If I remember correctly, we're not close enough to be
calling each other brothers.
Joshua changed his position to a more comfortable posture.He sat on the couch in a kingly manner
and stared at Thomas, who pretended to know nothing.
"Do you not know, or are you just pretending that you know nothing? I'm sure you remember your
mother's family name." Thomas squinted at this.
"I'm sure my mother's family name has nothing to do with you." Thomas' mother was, in truth, Senior
Howard's first wife.
Back in the old days, Senior Howard was just a poor young man, while Thomas' mother was the
second daughter of an affluent, powerful family.She met Senior Howard and thought he was her
soulmate, the love of her life.
Thus, she decided to elope with him, leaving her family and twin sister behind, vouching to never
reunite with them again.
At that time, she thought she was set for life as though she was the main character of a romantic
drama, having lowered her status to marry a poor man.She thought she was the type to give up
everything just for the name of love.
As it turned out...it was not what she thought after all.
The love Senior Howard had for her only lasted that long.
When she helped Senior Howard become a successful business in the town, he no longer appreciated
this woman who supported him from the ground up.
Even when Thomas' mother was the one who funded the business through the money she earned in
her spare time, and even when Thomas' mother was the one who helped to earn the first bucket of
gold in the business...
Senior Howard thought that it was all his hard work and had nothing to do with the plain- old housewife.
Thus, he chose to desert Thomas’ mother to gain more benefits for himself.
After that, he married his current wife, the new Mrs.Howard, who was from a family with a powerful
background.
At that time, Thomas' mother's family slowly declined, GEp, JuKL her twin sister passed away, too.
Since she had severed all ties from her family, she did not have anyone backing her up or supporting
her.
In the end, she was forced to a corner by the new Mrs.Howard where she committed suicide by
jumping into the sea.Her son, Thomas— the true eldest son of Senior Howard —was then called a
child born out of wedlock instead.
Everyone thought his mother was a maid in the household and that he did not have the right to inherit
the family's wealth.
Moreover, they thought that was what Thomas thought, too.He was only four or five years old when his
mother passed away.
Naturally, they thought that he knew nothing.In fact...no one knew that Thomas had started to develop
memory at that time.He knew and remembered everything that happened when he was a child.
Everything was so vivid that he remembered his mother's real name.
"I followed the investigation's result closely, you see.Your mother was a maid working in Senior
Howard's house previously.Her family is Levine, am I right?" asked Joshua.
Thomas sneered at Joshua's words.
'Guess the almighty Joshua Lynch isn't that formidable after all"
He was expecting more from Joshua, thinking that maybe Joshua could truly get to the truth about his
identity, but he thought wrong.
Joshua Lynch was just an ordinary person like everyone else.
"However..."
Just when Thomas had that thought in his mind, Joshua narrowed his eyes and looked at Thomas with
his deep, dark pupils.
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