Amelia didn’t seem to understand at first.
The kidnapper was patient, almost as if he knew everyone outside was watching this scene unfold. He even took the time to "kindly" summarize it—
"So, according to what you’re saying, you stole Miss Anna’s son and made him into a so-called illegitimate child. That illegitimate child... is Logan, isn’t it?"
"Then—what does this story have to do with Owen?"
The kidnapper feigned confusion. "At best, Owen just isn’t Anna’s son. At worst, he’s nothing more than an adopted child. And you’d spend a hundred million on an adopted child? Come on—I don’t buy it."
"If Owen’s worthless to you, then maybe I should just—"
"No, no, no! Don’t!" Amelia screamed in terror. "Owen is my son—my biological son!"
"To erase Owen’s bastard label, I threw away that damned brat Logan, then faked being devastated over ’losing my child.’ After that, I staged an adoption for Owen so he’d become Reid Family’s rightful heir. Who would’ve thought Logan would survive—still thriving under the curse of being called a bastard? I hated it, hated it so much. So I came up with a plan—have Owen claim Anna’s child as his own. That way, both the Reid and Perry family fortunes still go to Owen! Hahaha..."
The kidnapper sneered, drawing out each word: "Mrs. Reid, are. you. sure?"
Pulled out of her frenzy by the weight of the question, Amelia’s eyes flooded with tears as she looked at her bound son. In sheer panic, she nodded frantically. "Yes, yes—it’s true!"
"Good." The kidnapper nodded.
By now, everyone watching understood—these were Amelia’s true thoughts. She didn’t realize her words were being broadcast. And words spoken in terror are the most truthful of all.
So this decades-long lie finally had its answer—Logan was never a bastard. He was Anna’s son, the rightful heir of the Perry Family.
But because of the jealousy of Perry Family’s false daughter—Amelia—his first twenty years had been stolen from him.
How dark can human nature get? Amelia stole Anna’s identity, her family, her husband, and even her child. And when that wasn’t enough, she made sure Anna died a miserable death.
And what of Daniel? What of the Perry Family? They didn’t know?
Daniel’s face went ashen, his whole body trembling. He could barely stand. "No... I didn’t know. Amelia—Amelia is raving nonsense! I knew nothing, nothing at all..."
"Ha! Spit!"
Finally, someone snapped. Even though Daniel had once been the head of the Reid Family, the reporters scoffed openly.
"Didn’t know? You mean to tell us Amelia pulled off this entire scheme all by herself?"
"You expect us to believe you never noticed what Anna’s child looked like? That you didn’t know why Amelia doted so much on Owen? You raised the real bastard in your house while branding the true heir as illegitimate. Disgusting!"
"All these years, whenever the Perry and Reid families mistreated Mr. Reid, Daniel would stand up and say it was because Logan was a bastard—that his very birth had hastened Anna’s death, and that was why no one loved him."
"Every vile accusation was piled on Mr. Reid. Tell us, even if he was illegitimate, why was he the one punished, instead of you for cheating—and Amelia, the homewrecker?"
"You both played innocent, as if the affair and the power grab had nothing to do with you. What a joke!"
"And now it turns out Mr. Reid was never a bastard at all. The real bastard is Owen—the one who never stopped mocking Logan as illegitimate. Are all of you in the Reid Family rotten to the core?"
"The golden boy, destroyed by a mistress and her lies—what a tragedy!"
Even when Reid Family Group went bankrupt, Daniel had never endured such ruthless scolding. His body swayed, nearly stumbling. "No, it’s not true—it’s really not true..."
"Anna died, and I—I didn’t want Logan to grow up without a mother. So I gave him to Amelia. I did it for his own good!"

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