Revenge Against My Ex-husband
Chapter 134 The Past (II)

After that, Marie left San Fetillo and went to Alsburg City. After more than ten years of hard work, she became a famous specialist. But this was not the life she wanted. If it wasn't for Steven and Myra, she would not have gotten into such a situation. She would be living lavishly with Malcom as his rich wife instead of being just a doctor.

Although she was well-known in the medical world, she was nothing compared to those ladies living in rich families. If that incident hadn't happened, would she be in this situation? She hated both Myra and Steven even more now.

During Marie's time as a famous doctor in Alsburg city, Steven also got transferred over to the city as a politician. Marie was genuinely happy to see how well her daughter was doing, apart from having such a horrible father of course.

If truth be told, she hadn't any ill intention towards Irene. It was Irene who chose to fall in love with Edric that Lily was in love with first. Irene's behavior was as shameless as her mother, Myra.

That was why Marie continued to help Deborah to deal with Irene. She and Margaret used to be old friends, thus she knew Margaret very well. The Myers family were simple-minded people. Margaret was snobbish and wanted to have a grandson. With this information, Marie and Deborah came up with a vicious plan. They would let Loraine secretly drug Irene while staying in the Myers family so Irene could never get pregnant.

For two years, Irene and Edric had no children. Margaret brought Irene to the hospital for a check-up and they consulted none other than the famous doctor, who was also their best friend, Marie. Since Irene was taking medicines that made her infertile, the test results naturally showed that she was barren.

Being infertile meant that Irene could not give birth. Marie also added a lot of details telling Margaret that it would be hard for Irene to get pregnant in this life. By throwing in a lot of medical jargon, she had made Margaret and Irene believe her words.

Margaret, who had already been dissatisfied with Irene, was extremely angry when she heard that. Since then, she often spoke ill of Irene and treated her poorly.

Irene accepted it all in silence. She always thought it was her own fault. Hence, she searched everywhere for a remedy.

Marie was worried that if Irene dug deeper she would realize what the real reason behind her infertility was. Therefore after a discussion with Deborah, they decided to give Irene a tubal ligation to end any hope of her ever getting pregnant.

When Edric wasn't home, Loraine drugged Irene to make the latter unconscious. Then they secretly arranged for people to go to the house and operate on her.

After the operation, they stopped feeding Irene medicines. Later on, when Irene went to other hospitals for check-ups, Marie and Deborah would always interfere and switch out the reports. Hence, Irene had no clue at all about what was going on with her body.

Since they knew that Irene would never be able to have a child, they started to focus on how to get Lily and Edric together.

Everything was going as they planned. Edric eventually gave in to Margaret and agreed to get a surrogate.

Lily was successfully impregnated. As long as she could give birth to a child, Irene would be kicked out of the picture. However, something went wrong with the pregnancy. In the end, Marie and Deborah agreed to expose Lily's identity to Irene and get rid of Irene at the same time.

The plan went well. Irene was kicked out and she went far away.

Marie and Deborah's plan was indeed very intricate. They were close to success when something came up again after the engagement of Edric and Lily. Surprisingly, Irene and Steven had reconciled after discovering their relationship as father and daughter. Even more surprisingly, they were told that Steven was now in an investigation.

Margaret wasn't changing docks because Lily was the child of a mistress, but because Steven was about to lose his power. However, she still had a trump card in her hand. That was the famous designer Thomas, or rather his real name, Dave.

As long as Dave could design the stadium for the sports tournament, Margaret would definitely change her mind.

She had to go ask Thomas about the designs. Once she had the designs with her, she would be able to negotiate with Margaret. There was no way Margaret would give up something as big as that after all. Thinking of this, Marie went to replace Thomas. Thomas was very distant with her; he didn't say much and just handed her the designs. Marie was happy to finally have the designs. She thanked him half-heartedly and left.

With the designs in hand, Marie calmed down a lot more. When she returned home, she began to formulate another plan. This drawing was just a bargaining chip. Margaret was too hard-headed so it would be hard to change her mind. This time she had to make sure her plan was flawless, with no room for mistakes at all.

After seeing Irene's jade pendant, which was the same as hers, Rowane firmly believed that Irene must be somehow related to her. Edric thought the same, hence naturally, the investigation began with Myra. He put in a lot of effort to replace out more about Myra. He uncovered that Dania had remarried and a relative had raised Myra and Thomas. Later, after their relative died, a kind person had adopted them to Cat Alley. Therefore, Edric and Rowane went to Cat Alley to further their investigations.

Yohannes' servant was the one who adopted Myra and Thomas back to Cat Alley. Although they lived there, they did not have much contact with the people around them; thus, no one really knew anything about the two either.

All they knew was Myra married a government official. After she settled down, she took Thomas and her adoptive father away. As for where they went, nobody really knew. Some said they bought a house in San Fetillo; some said they went to another city.

Edric guessed that Myra never took them away at all. Instead, she let them stay in Chijmes Building, and that was why Thomas had always been there.

However, Edric did manage to uncover one clue. Around twenty years ago, Myra had stayed in Cat Alley for a period of time. It was winter then and she wore thick clothes, making her look a little chubby. Besides Sugar, no one had seen Myra interacting with anyone else.

Sugar was Deborah's nickname. The person who had mentioned this had mistaken Marie for Myra since they looked alike. Furthermore, they never had much contact back then. It was only expected that others would confuse the two.

"Wasn't Myra already married to Steven at the time? Why would she return to Cat Alley? Also was she chubby because she was pregnant?"

Edric felt like something wasn't adding up. According to his calculations, Irene would already have been a few years old by then. Why would Myra leave Irene behind and go stay in Cat Alley for so long? More importantly, Deborah was pregnant with Lily at the time. Rowane and Lily are about the same age. Could it be that Myra had come to Cat Alley to give birth to a child?

However, Myra and Deborah had been so close. If they got pregnant at the same time, how could Myra not know about the child in Deborah's womb?

Deborah's child belonged to Steven, this was also the reason that led to Myra's eventual accident. Since that was the case, how could Myra have such a good relationship with Deborah?

There was something strange going on. Could it be that the person who returned to Cat Alley was not Myra? But if it wasn't her, who could it be?

Edric and Rowane hadn't made much progress in their investigation at Cat Alley. Meanwhile, John had just uncovered something huge whilst investigating Dania and Yohannes.

After Dania married Yohannes, she gave birth to a daughter named Qiana. Later, Yohannes and Dania passed away. Following this, Qiana and her brother Dave disappeared.

John showed Edric two pictures of Marie and Dave. "Why does Dave look just like Thomas? Also, Mr. Myers, don't you feel that Qiana looks just like Dr. Walker?"

Edric was shocked at the photos. Although the photos were old and a little yellow, the faces could be seen clearly. Dave indeed looked exactly like Thomas, and Qiana looked exactly like Marie. "What the hell is going on?" Edric was puzzled. He couldn't understand the connection between Thomas and Dave, but at this moment, he was making a bold guess about the Myra he learned earlier in the day at Cat Alley.

It wasn't Myra who was close to Deborah back in Cat Alley; rather it was Qiana. Following this explanation, it would mean that Qiana was most likely Rowane's mother.

While Edric and John were discussing the matter, the designer he hired, Sinclair came in to talk to Edric. He glanced down at the photos in front of Edric and exclaimed, "Isn't this Dave? Have you guys found him?"

Edric was stunned. "What did you say?" He recognized the name immediately and was shocked at Sinclair's mention of it.

Sinclair picked up the photo and looked at it. He told Edric positively, "This is the amazing designer Dave! I met him once when I went to Fransburg to study."

"Isn't Dave from Fransburg?" asked Edric.

"At first I thought he was, but I found out later that he wasn't. He is from Haverland but he keeps his identity a secret. It's rare to see him in the news. I've only met him once at an engineering fair. He was in a hurry and left after a few minutes. I noticed that the Fransburg people were all very polite to him. I asked around and found out he was Dave," explained Sinclair.

"Do you know his full name by any chance?" Edric passed the photos to John.

"No I don't." Sinclair shook his head.

Sinclair talked to Edric for a while and left. Edric waved to John to come over. "When you were investigating Dave, did you manage to replace out that he had gone to study in Fransburg?"

John nodded. "Yes. I am about to reach that part of the report."

Edric massaged his forehead. It was all so strange. "Is Thomas' real name Dave? Then where is the actual Thomas?"

No matter how Edric thought about it, it didn't make sense. The Thomas in his mind was so honest and simple. How could he be related to that genius designer Dave?

Edric pondered for a moment and ordered John to call the company's language interpreter over. He asked the interpreter to call Thomas in French, and the call was soon connected. French was the official language of Fransburg. The interpreter asked in French, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Bush?"

Thomas replied in French, "No, you're mistaken!"

The interpreter hung up the phone after saying sorry in French. Edric and John stood beside him and had heard clearly Thomas answered in French. Edric waved his hand, indicating for the interpreter to leave After Thomas graduated from junior high, he dropped out of school and stayed at home. Edric, at this moment, knew very well that Thomas who was on the phone a while ago was just a fluke. Why was Dave pretending to be Thomas?

Did Irene know about this?

Edric pondered for a while and called Rowane to come in. Now he was sure that Thomas was Dave. But he was not sure whether Marie and Qiana were the same person. In this case, it was better to let Rowane meet Marie and ask the latter about the jade pendant personally.

Irene had an appointment with Kinsey for lunch at noon. Coincidentally, she ran into Rowane there. When Rowane saw Irene, she came over to say hi. Irene greeted Rowane back as she didn't want to be rude. The two of them exchanged small talks before Rowane went into a private room.

When the door opened, Irene took a look inside and saw that the person Rowane was meeting was her long time acquaintance, Marie. Irene remembered Marie because the latter used to treat her infertility. It was strange that Marie would meet Rowane. Was Rowane also seeing her for infertility issues?