Cecelia held Anderson's small hand in her palm with a doting face.
Luther turned to Cecelia with a solemn look on his face, "I should have called you Mom, Mom, I'm sorry. Charlotte took the place of Joyce. I had been under the mistaken impression that Charlotte had saved my life before I agreed to marry her. I'm sorry I made Joyce suffer so much over the years."
"I have never been involved with Charlotte, and what she is carrying, is not my child."
Karl duly added, "According to our speculation, Charlotte is most likely carrying the child of Thomas, who was killed by Ricky. That's why Charlotte was in such a hurry to instruct Ricky to kill her."
"On the day of the engagement, Charlotte deliberately fell down the stairs herself. For one thing, she wanted to take the opportunity to abort the child in her womb, and for another, she wanted to frame Joyce," Luther looked at Joyce with apologies.
Joyce raised her eyebrows, "You believe it now? That she directed the whole thing herself?"
"I'm sorry." Luther eyes more dull, repentant, "At that time, when I said the words to you, on the spot I regret. Unfortunately, you suddenly left Riveria Haze. When I found you... did not expect, I watched you fall off the cliff."
Joyce wanted to say something else.
Cecelia stopped with her eyes, "What happened in the past, all of us are at fault. I was looking for my daughter but did not get the whole thing straight. That's what led to all the mistakes that followed. If I hadn't misidentified Charlotte, I'm sure her deception of Luther would have been impossible to cover. It was because I had given her glory and Ricky as her bodyguard that she became unscrupulous, and I was the cause of the mistake."
Joyce choked up, "Mom, you mustn't say that. I've never blamed you."
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