Will You Marry Me, My Ex-Wife? novel Chapter 2206

If a person had died more than 20 years ago, they would never again walk the world of the living no matter how powerful Samuel thought he was.

Malcolm sighed and looked at Luna and Joshua apologetically. "My father is just desperate to save my grandmother; that's why he came up with these lies. I—"

"I'm not lying,” interjected Samuel before Malcolm could finish. He then looked at Luna and Joshua and bowed to them. "A priest should not lie, and I am not lying."

He mustered a small smile as he stared at the shocked Luna and Joshua. "Remember the two rings you talked about that contained video chips? You thought I was the one who made it after Lucy died, but it wasn't me."

Samuel shifted his gaze to stare forward as he added indifferently, "The two rings were made by Lucy herself. I'm sure Joshua knows that she was a jewelry maker."

Joshua furrowed and looked at Samuel, puzzled. "It doesn't make sense."

If Lucy did not die back then, she would have gone looking for Charles or gone back home to look for Granny Lynch, judging by her personality. Samuel's story did not seem to add up to that.

Moreover, if she had the time to make the two rings, why did she not return home? If she did not die, where did she go?

"She lost her memory," said Samuel after seemingly reading Joshua’s mind.

Sighing, he lamentingly continued, "Lucy truly did survive, but her life was at stake.

When she was on the verge of death due to the torture she had gone through, I tricked Quentin by saying that I had ruined Lucy's face, which he eventually believed. I used another corpse to replace Lucy and ruined the dead body's face as well before replicating all of Lucy's body features to the dead body, making sure Quentin wouldn't suspect a thing.”

Samuel's expression softened with what seemed to be melancholy.

"So, I used the excuse of becoming a priest to leave UKS< tried every method available to treat her. It took her five years for her body to recover, but her brain had automatically erased all the painful memories.