Devoted Love:The Billionaire's Precious Wife
Chapter 259

Chapter 259: Chapter 259

"Aren’t you supposed to be going out with your friends tonight?" Louisa shot back.

Serena hadn’t expected her mom to ask about her plans last night, so when she said she was going out with friends, her mom didn’t take her to the charity gala. Would her mom only take Rosemary to the gala in the future?

"Friend gatherings are just small potatoes. But a charity gala is such a big event that it might be Ms. Rose’s first time, right? It would be nice to have Serena accompany her," Martha suggested warmly.

Louisa took a few sips of coffee and said coldly, "I’m enough company for Rose. Besides, Rose’s never a stranger to any situation! When it comes to experience, Rose’s got Serena beat by a long shot!"

That sentence left Martha and Serena speechless.

Louisa, grinning, looked back at Rosemary and said, "You go upstairs and rest. I’ll have Edith call you when dinner’s ready."

"Okay."

After Rosemary went upstairs, she received a phone call.

[Ross, you asked me to investigate the fire at Mercy Hospital on September 10th, eighteen years ago. The more I look into it, the fishier it seems.]

"How fishy?" Rosemary walked onto the balcony, her expression cold.

[I found out that the janitor, Yvonne, who adopted Yolanda, heard an explosion while cleaning up water that night. At first, the explosion was very loud, and she was too scared to approach. It was only when she wanted to rescue people that she noticed several unlicensed black sedans driving in the opposite direction.]

Yvonne was too busy rescuing people to pay much attention, so she didn’t see what kind of car they were driving or what they looked like. So I checked with her colleagues at the time and asked them about the situation that day, and they all said the same thing as Yvonne.

[But one janitor said that after the explosion that night, they rescued many people from the health center. It was raining heavily, and while she was resting, she suddenly saw one of the black sedans that had left earlier returning.]

[In that era, in that place, very few people owned sedans. The car was the same as the black cars that had left earlier, with four rings on the front.]

"Audi?"

In that era, very few people could afford an Audi, let alone in a place like Wye.

[I showed her photos of cars from that era, and she said the car she saw was indeed an Audi, but their car didn’t have a license plate, so it’s hard to investigate.] [That night, three men got out of the black sedan that returned. They looked very fierce and kept searching among the rescued crowd for someone. They left when they didn’t find them.]

[I checked the car model and compared it with the Audis that had appeared in Wye that year. My eyes were about to go blind from all the investigating before I found a tiny clue!]

Rosemary seemed used to his way of talking: "Keep going."

[One of the owners of the Audis died on September 12th, eighteen years ago! It was said to be a drunk driving accident! If he hadn’t had an accident that night, he was supposed to leave the country the next morning.]

"What was his job?"

[He was initially jobless, then started driving people around like a cab driver.]

"He drove an Audi to pick up passengers?" Rosemary couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. Who would believe that?

[He supposedly won the money to buy the car from gambling. He drove for a few days after winning the money and then suddenly died in a car accident.]

So he thought it was strange.

"Any other findings?"

[The other car owners also suddenly owned an Audi. Some won it in a casino, others got it through other means, but not long after they got it, they suddenly died!] Was there really such a coincidence in the world?

The person on the other end of the phone said, [Boss, if someone really planned this explosion, and all the drivers involved that night were killed, and it has remained undiscovered for so many years, then his power is definitely not something that Martha alone can handle.]

"Uh huh, I know."

But after investigating, she found that things were not that simple.

"Did you check the blood relationship between Martha and Serena?"

[Boss, the hair samples you gave me last time were fake! I mean, one of the two types of hair you gave me last time was from a wig!]

"A wig?" Rosemary raised an eyebrow. Serena couldn’t possibly be bald; could Martha be wearing a wig? Thinking about it this way, she couldn’t help but want to laugh.

[By the way, Boss, all those Audi drivers were loners, without family or friends. But I found that one of the drivers, after suddenly becoming rich overnight, visited a woman several times, always the same one.]

[The woman said she had a very deep impression of the driver because he was very generous. She once curiously asked him where a driver got his money, and he said someone gave him a lot of money to do a big job, which was to pick up a few people and take them to a place, then safely bring them back.]

[Boss, do you think it’s possible? Suppose there’s a puppet master who wants to kill someone in the health center, so he hires a bunch of drivers, specifically to transport his subordinates to and from Mercy Hospital. The reason why he specifically hires drivers who have no family or friends is to make it easier to deal with them later.]

If it was his own people who did it directly, then the investigation would likely lead back to him!

Rosemary nodded. "That possibility cannot be ruled out."

[But back then, Mercy Hospital was just a dump, and the people who lived there were nobodies. There wasn’t anyone worth going to such great lengths to kill for money, was there? If there were any big shots, wouldn’t your parents be the most important?]

Rosemary, hearing him say this, her eyes suddenly lit up. "What were my parents’ achievements back then?"

[You mean around the time of your birth, eighteen years ago? Let me check. But boss, why are you asking this?]

"Tell me as soon as you find out." Rosemary suddenly thought of a possibility, but she wasn’t sure.

[To my knowledge, your parents were just passing through that place, and suddenly your mom’s water broke. If someone wanted to harm them, they couldn’t possibly predict your mom’s water would break that night, could they?]

"Less talk when you’re stupid, or you’ll expose your IQ." Rosemary’s voice sounded very lazy. "I’m hanging up now."

[Hey, Boss?]

What did she mean, she’s just hanging up like that? Was the boss saying he’s not smart enough? But he clearly did a ton of research; if anyone’s the dum-dum, it’d be Jones! At least he’s better than Jones!

Seven in the evening.

Rosemary, along with Kenneth and Louisa, headed over to a charity dinner. This shindig was started years ago by a big shot from Summerfield. It’s held annually, and ever since the guy kicked the bucket, his daughter had been keeping it going. It’s been a thing for about seventeen years now.

The point of this event every year was to help the kids out in the sticks sort out their grub, education, health, and stuff like that. The crowd was pretty much the people from the upper class of Summerfield. It’s not open to the public; it’s just for folks with some serious clout and standing.

Kenneth and Louisa had been coming for the full seventeen years. But this time was a little different; they rocked up with their daughter Rosemary in tow, who pretty much stole the show as soon as she arrived.

Rosemary had this cool, classy vibe about her. Dressed in a black evening gown, she looked icy yet regal, like some kind of queen bee. She rocked up, arm in arm with Kenneth on one side and Louisa on the other, and instantly had all eyes on her.

Lots of guests started asking around: Who was she? Why did she seem so chummy with the Collins family?

The event host, Erlinda Archer, spotted them and made a beeline, saying, "Rosemary, you made it! I was worried you might give it a miss!" She saw Rosemary arm in arm with Kenneth and Louisa, and curiosity got the better of her. "You guys know each other?"

Looked like they’re pretty tight, considering Rosemary was usually pretty aloof and wouldn’t just go around linking arms with anyone.

Kenneth and Louisa were taken aback by her words. Erlinda knew Rosemary too? Just how wide was Rosemary’s social circle?

Erlinda was the head honcho of the Archer family. Ever since her old man passed away, she’s been running the family’s century-old business and had some serious sway in the business world. She was over forty and looked capable and gutsy, with the sharp eyes of a businesswoman.

"They wouldn’t happen to be your actual parents, would they?" Erlinda hit the nail on the head.

Rosemary nodded, making no attempt to hide it: "Yes, they are my parents."

"I thought as much." Erlinda shook hands with Kenneth, gave Louisa a hug, and said, "Great to see you guys at the Archer family dinner again this year. I had no idea you were Rosemary’s biological parents. She had a rough time with the Harris family. From now on, you should shower her with love and make up for the past."

Louisa was puzzled: "How do you know my daughter?"

"It’s a long story." Erlinda chuckled. "But I’ll give you the short version."

It happened a few years ago. Erlinda, who seemed to have everything, had a dream one night where she was wearing a super fancy dress. The next day, she hunted down Rosemary, who was just making a name for herself as the founder of LY, hoping she could make a dress just like the one from her dream.

The young girl told her straight up that the dress wouldn’t suit her and would turn out ugly. It was a waste of time. Erlinda didn’t buy it and insisted. The girl refused, and things got tense between them.

Eventually, she went to great lengths to find someone else to make it. Sure enough, the dress turned out to be an eyesore. She had no desire to keep it and tossed it straight away.

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