Devoted Love:The Billionaire's Precious Wife-Chapter 1045 - 1044

"This also shows that person has been secretly spying on our lives. It’s terrifying." Kenneth remarked.

"Oh, boss, this is the phone Martin wanted me to give you." At that moment, Jones finally remembered the task at hand and handed the smartphone to Rosemary.

The phone had been cracked by Thomas, and as Rosemary scrolled through, she found Erik’s last words to Serena, along with all the information related to the mastermind. She projected it directly onto the TV screen.

Everyone in the room was left in shock, their emotions a tangled mess of grief and disbelief.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town.

Alma was sleeping soundly when a frantic knocking at her door startled her awake. Rubbing her eyes with irritation, she opened the door and grumbled, "What’s with the knocking? In the middle of the night, why disturb people’s sound sleep."

"Miss, we’ve gotta go quickly." her nanny was pulling her arm to leave, then suddenly remembered something and pulled her back, "Grab your passport, jewelry, and whatever else you need."

"What for?" Alma asked impatiently, "It’s so late, what’s gotten into you?"

But Lina didn’t have time to explain; she hurried Alma towards the safe, urging her desperately, "Hurry, punch in the code. We’re in deep trouble, and if we don’t move now, it’ll be too late. Hurry."

It was the first time Lina had ever spoken to Alma with such urgency, which gave Alma an ominous premonition. She even pressed the wrong digit while entering the password.

Lina was beside herself with panic, "Everyone’s ready; it’s just you we’re waiting on, hurry up."

Alma tried again, only to press a wrong digit once more.

It wasn’t until the third attempt that the safe beeped twice and swung open.

Lina quickly grabbed a bag, stuffed everything inside, and then pulled Alma to run.

As the family of four ascended the aircraft’s stairs, five dashing young men and their entourage had surrounded the helicopter.

"Where could my dear aunt and uncle be going this late hour?" Hunter’s voice sent a chill down the family’s spines.

He signaled to his men, and numerous subordinates began pouring gasoline on the runway, ready to ignite it at any moment.

With a wave of Chasel, and the rest drew their weapons, aiming at the family.

Clark smirked, "Uncle, aunt, what a pleasant surprise. Wouldn’t it be a loss if guns went off accidentally?"

Sean toyed with a grenade in his hand, "This is a gift from Rose, though I haven’t tested its power yet."

David chuckled, "We’d like to invite you over for a chat and some tea at our place. And the two sisters should come as well."

Half an hour later.

The family of four of Lucas was invited to Reflections Villa.

Bernard and Cornelia sat in the main seats of the living room, their faces with anger and disappointment.

On the sofa to the left were Kenneth and Louisa, looking as calm as the eerie stillness before a storm. To the right sat Rosemary, her expression unreadable.

Romeo knew what followed was a private matter for the Collins family, and as an outsider, he had excused himself half an hour earlier.

The five brothers came in one after another, each carrying designer shopping bags from various brands.

Jewelry and valuables were dumped onto the coffee table, quickly piling up into a glittering mound along with the family of four’s passports, bank cards, and other personal items.

Bernard was livid, striding over to his second son and grabbing handfuls of the jewelry, hurling it at him with fury.

Alma was petrified, wondering what exactly had happened and why her grandfather was so angry.

"You ungrateful wretch!" Bernard’s voice trembled with rage. "You think you can escape after everything’s been exposed? To think I, Bernard Collins, raised someone like you."

It seemed his anger was insatiable, and he struck Lucas across the face several times.

Lucas kept his head down the entire time, not once lifting his gaze.

Alma, however, became anxious. "Grandpa."

Seeing her grandmother so enraged, Alma hurriedly interjected, "Grandma, could there be some kind of misunderstanding."

Her mother had always been the perfect daughter-in-law in her grandmother’s eyes.

"Misunderstanding???" Cornelia was visibly upset, "Rose, show them the evidence."

Alma looked at Rosemary. Was she causing trouble behind the scenes again?

Ever since Rosemary had been recognized by the family, a series of mishaps had plagued the household.

Rosemary proceeded to cast the evidence from Erik’s phone onto the TV screen.

Over the years, every mishap at Collins Corporation, every peril Kenneth and Louisa faced on their travels—they were all orchestrated by Lucas and Beverly.

Especially during the early years when Kenneth took over the company, Lucas and Beverly had a number of schemes against him, leading to widespread doubt in his abilities, nearly costing him the position Bernard had entrusted to him.

Frederica and Alma were in disbelief. The idea that their own parents had been secretly sabotaging their uncle and aunt for over a decade was unimaginable.

Additionally, Erik’s will revealed even more shocking details. Eighteen years ago, during the clinic fire, Martha, in her last moments of consciousness, saw Louisa carry away her daughter. But weakened from childbirth and smoke inhalation, she was powerless to stop it, and ultimately, it was Erik who rescued her from the clinic.

It was only after reading the next day’s newspaper, which announced that the Collins family matriarch had safely given birth to a daughter, that Erik and Martha realized that their child had been taken by a wealthy family.

At the time, Louisa had given birth to five sons and now had a daughter, but she was unable to nurse. The baby girl refused milk formula and cried incessantly, leaving Louisa no choice but to hire a nanny.

Torn between the need for money and the longing for her daughter, Martha applied for the job.

To everyone’s surprise, Serena stopped crying at the sight of Martha and even reached out to be held by her.

After being nourished by Martha’s milk, Serena became unusually calm, prompting Louisa to keep Martha on to care for her.

Once Martha’s position was secure, she brought Erik in.

Erik gradually worked his way up to the position of butler, earning Kenneth and Louisa’s trust.

After being bought off by Lucas and Beverly, Erik spent years feeding them information about Kenneth and Louisa’s whereabouts, including their daily lives and social circles.

Lucas and Beverly could never have imagined that Erik had secretly amassed such a comprehensive trove of evidence.

"You knew all along that Serena wasn’t my own flesh and blood, yet you hid it from me for eighteen years, forcing Rose to suffer on the outside." Louisa’s voice choked with emotion, her eyes bloodshot with fury.

He shook his brother’s shoulders, weeping as he questioned, "Haven’t I been good to you these years? What have I done to deserve your longing for your elder brother’s death, tell me, what did I do wrong?"

Louisa’s tears also fell. From her first day in the Collins family, she treated Lucas and Beverly as her own siblings, even more so than her two brothers who lived abroad; she had never guarded against them.

The betrayal by Serena had hurt her, but now Lucas and Beverly had also wounded her.

Her heart was riddled with pain, struggling to breathe.

"I was pregnant at the time; no matter how much you hated me, the child was innocent."

Louisa sobbed, "How could you bear to harm her. You were her uncle and aunt. If it hadn’t been for Rose’s luck, being taken in by the Harris family, if our people hadn’t arrived in time, three lives would have been lost that night."