Just as Charles was about to faint, Luna furrowed her brows and lunged forward, grabbing hold of the pill he was holding in his hand and shoving it into his mouth.
As soon as he swallowed the pill, Charles did not pass out after all.
His entire body was slumped against Heather as he pointed at Luna, shaking. "You-
"You! You good for nothing daughter! Where did you send your mother?"
Luna let out an exhale. "I sent her somewhere safe."
She lifted her head to stare intently at Charles. "I didn't think she would be safe in Merchant City, so I sent her away."
Heather paused when she heard this and glanced at Luna with a look of fake confusion. "But when I came here to visit Mother yesterday morning, she was still here, so when did you send her away?"
Luna sneered. "Since you saw her in the morning, then I surely sent her away in the afternoon."
Heather clapped her hand on her mouth in shock. "It turns out that...the thing that Joshua's men had been escorting out of Merchant City was Mother?"
"What?" Charles erupted in anger when he heard this."
Joshua was the one who sent your mother away?"
"Don't be angry, Father; I was just making a guess." Heather bit her lip and glanced at Charles somewhat hesitantly, then at Luna. "I just heard that...Joshua had sent many of his men to escort a van out of Merchant City yesterday...
"I thought that something that required Joshua to show up himself must have been an important material for his supply chain or something, and I even sent some of my men to follow them."
With that, she took out her phone and showed Charles the video that Malcolm had taken of Joshua's men the day before. "Look, this is what my men sent me.
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