Married First, Loved Later : A Flash Marriage with My Ex’s "Uncle" - Chapter 584

Chapter 584: Drawing Closer to the Truth About Her Brother

“As the only direct blood heir of the Hill Family, the compliments you’ll receive from now on will only grow, never lessen. This really isn’t much.”

Selina was silent for two seconds. “…There’s no need to go over the top.”

Getting used to it was one thing, but even if she returned to the Hill Family with such an identity, she didn’t expect to be called Miss everywhere she went.

“Alright.”

Aaron’s expression carried a trace of regret. “I thought you’d like it.”

He waved for the fleet of cars to leave first, then said, “Shall we grab a meal together?”

Selina nodded in agreement.

Aaron simply wanted to meet the sister his father and grandmother had thought about for so many years. He couldn’t help but think of his aunt—Selina’s birth mother—who had passed away in the dead of winter many years ago. And the root cause of it all…

“Selina, would you like to come back to City N with me?”

Selina looked up. “I have no interest in City N.”

Others might envy the Hill Family’s wealth, or the status of being their heiress, but Selina had little attachment to such things. She truly didn’t care.

Aaron could naturally see her sincerity and sighed softly. “I know you look down on all this. I’m not asking you to come back because of it. I just think… you’d want to personally avenge my aunt—your mother.”

Selina’s eyes narrowed sharply.

“I’m sure you’ve uncovered plenty of the rumors about the Hill Family.” Aaron paused, his tone meaningful. “The tragedy never really started with Hannah. Yes, that woman was despicable and certainly played a part in your and my aunt’s suffering, but she wasn’t the root cause. Do you understand me?”

Selina did. Her voice was even, betraying no emotion. “The root cause is Matt?”

Matt—the younger brother to Charles, though not by blood. The son of the Hill family’s former chauffeur, taken in and raised as an adopted son, treated as family.

Aaron said, “You could say that—for now, the root cause is Matt. But with no evidence, even if the Hill Family quietly erased every trace of Matt’s line, the truth could never be made public. Matt would always be considered Hill Family.”

Selina’s eyes narrowed again.

“Besides,” Aaron continued, “back then Matt schemed relentlessly to drive out our grandparents, to force out my father and my aunt. But now our grandmother has returned, and my father has taken back control of the Hill Family.”

“Hannah and Matt were partners in crime. She too schemed to drive away my aunt and steal everything from her. Don’t you want revenge now?”

Selina met Aaron’s gaze.

“And more importantly…”

Aaron exhaled softly. “Selina, you actually have an older brother. A real one.”

“What?!”

Selina was genuinely shocked this time, her eyes widening as she snapped her head up.

“Do you know why the Morris Family built up such an enormous lie? Why Joe and Grandma Morris both knew it was false, yet Kyle still clung to the belief that he was my aunt’s son?”

“It’s because the records show that before Kyle was born, my aunt truly was pregnant.”

“But that child had nothing to do with Joe. He was the son of my aunt and her fiancé—no, they were already married by then. He was their firstborn child, your brother. But right after birth, Hannah schemed to have him taken away. To this day, his whereabouts remain unknown.”

“My father and I have searched in countless places, following every lead, yet we still haven’t found him. Matt and Hannah swore he died, but…”

Aaron didn’t finish the sentence. He only let out a cold, bitter laugh.

Selina understood.

Hannah would never let her mother’s child die.

Hannah was twisted. She had fought so hard to take everything from her mother, only so she could watch her and her child fall from grace. How could she ever allow her son to be killed?

What Hannah wanted was for Victoria’s son to be stripped of his birthright as the Hill Family heir, reduced to a nobody. Then she would grind him down bit by bit, ensuring he could never stand alongside the Hill Family—separating them like heaven and earth.

For some reason, a sudden chill rose in Selina’s chest. She shut her eyes softly, as if someone were crushing her heart in their fist, the pain almost unbearable.

“I’ll think about it,” she finally said. “I’ll give you an answer in a few days.”

Aaron wasn’t surprised. “It’s your decision to make.”

After their meal, Selina went to SL Group to take care of business. By the time she returned to Sapphire Valley Villa, it was already ten o’clock at night, and rain had started to fall.

She hesitated, unsure how to bring it up.

She wanted to go to City N. She wanted to uncover the truth about what had happened back then, to repay kindness and avenge wrongs, sparing no one.

But Logan’s foundation was in City A. She couldn’t just selfishly ask him to abandon everything and leave with her.

“Madam, you’re home. The young master is here too—quite lively tonight.”

Miller Butler took Selina’s coat. Selina raised a brow. “Luke?”

Miller Butler didn’t answer. Selina walked in to see Luke on the sofa, clutching his head and sobbing.

“Boohoo, I don’t want to be CEO. It’s too exhausting! I just want to laze around, eat, drink, and collect my dividends every year. Logan, please, just take Reid Family Group back—I can’t handle it alone…”

Beside him sat Logan, expressionless, reviewing financial reports. He glanced at Luke’s whining and said flatly, “Page three has six errors.”

“What?!”

Luke practically shot upright like a dying man revived, his tears gone, his drunken act forgotten. He bolted up from the sofa like a schoolboy caught cheating by his teacher, frantically flipping through the report, muttering in panic.

“How could it be wrong? I checked this several times! How could this project be wrong? Impossible! Does this mean I’m really an idiot…”

Selina: “…”

Suddenly she had a whole new appreciation for the saying “pulling up seedlings to help them grow.”

Miller Butler leaned in and whispered, “Chairman Reid—well, Daniel, Amelia, and Owen are all in prison now. And even though Reid Family Group has declared bankruptcy, it’s still a massive piece of cake.”

“Currently, the Group’s shares are in Mr. Reid’s hands. Outsiders won’t dare touch them. But if Mr. Reid passes the company to the young master, and the young master can’t hold it together, then those shares will only be snatched away.”

Selina understood immediately.

She arched a brow. “Others would kill for Reid Family Group, yet you don’t want it?”

Luke pouted. “Owning Reid Family Group means studying. I’m just a second-generation rich kid. I can earn money lying down—why should I study?”

It… actually made sense. Selina couldn’t even argue back.

She picked up the report. “Still, even if you call yourself ‘good-for-nothing,’ you shouldn’t be messing up something this simple.”

Luke’s cheeks flushed at the words good-for-nothing. He blurted defensively, “That’s only because I wasn’t paying attention!”