Chapter 439
Chapter 439 The Real Story
With a sigh from Aaron, I finally heard an explanation about his background for the first time after knowing him for so many years
My guess was correct in some aspects. The current Mrs. Grace is not Aaron's biological mother. Her real name is Maria Weston, and she was a regular girl born into a working-class family in New York. When she was eighteen, she met Aaron's father, Jeff Morris, who had Just started his entrepreneurial journey
The two of them quickly fell in love and began dating with the intention of getting married. Old Morris even gave Maria an engagement ring
However, as his business empire continued to expand, the need for funds also increased,
inevitably leading to some difficulties
But the worst part was that the Morris Group, which had just started to make a name for itself at that time, was severely hit by the financial crisis and desperately needed an investment to revivePlease check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.
In this situation, it would be ideal to have a suitable business alliance. However, Maria, who comes from a working-class background, cannot provide any assistance to old Morris. On the contrary, the chairman of the Hoffman Group has taken a liking to this young man for his daughter and has actively proposed to help him overcome his difficulties through a marriage alliance
"So your father concealed the fact that he was not single at that time, and thus abandoned his lover, and accepted this business alliance?"
I widened my eyes and couldn't help but interrupt to add on as soon as Aaron had just started telling his story
Because the surname Hoffman 1s so familiar, Aaron said that it was his grandfather's surname, which was also his mother Grace Hoffman's maiden name
The person leaning against the head of the bed "hmm"ed, and I couldn't see his expression clearly, but I could sense his emotions from the way he held my hand in his palm
He was suppressing his anger, and I was very familiar with him being in such a state
And as I heard the rest of the story, I quickly understood the source of Aaron's anger
In order to obtain Hoffman's support, old Morris
broke up with Maria, even though he already knew about her pregnancy, and instead married Aaron's biological mother, Grace Hoffman
After getting married, Grace took her husband's last name and used her father's resources to help him get through the financial crisis. Together, they made Morris Group even stronger and even convinced her father to merge several pharmaceutical companies under the Morris umbrella
What she didn't know was that her considerate husband, who was always attentive to her in front of others, actually had another happy family in the countryside of New York
Maria, who had broken up with old Morris while pregnant, was unwilling to let her first love end like this. So, she secretly gave birth to the child and named him Joe Morris. On his
first birthday, she held him in her arms and found her way to the office of Morris Group, without anyone knowing
Old Morris already felt guilty towards Maria emotionally, and coupled with her silent threat, he could only choose to give them a sum of money and settle them in a country estate. He would visit them once every two weeks. From then on, Maria had unlimited money to spend and seemed satisfied with this kind of life. She never appeared in Old Morris's normal social circle again
But there are no secrets in this world that are eternal, in the fifth year after Aaron was born, the Morris family renovated their villa again
When Grace, as the lady of the house, personally organized some personal belongings, she unexpectedly came across a photo album that belonged to old Morris and Maria
The story came to an end, and a glimmer of tears flashed in Aaron's eyes. He held me in his arms, and I could hear the rapid beating of his heart in his chest. At the same time, his muffled voice seemed to be tinged with a sob
"T felt nothing could be more heart-wrenching than watching my husband fall in love with another woman right before my eyes. I was by my mother's side at that time, watching her flip through that photo album page by page. At first, she was calm, perhaps thinking it was just an old item my father kept to remember his first love. But then, my brother's figure appeared in the pictures, and as she continued flipping, there were photos of the three of them together, a family outing, each page indicating how he cherished his mistress and their illegitimate child. Meanwhile, his legal wife and son watched helplessly as their happiness unfolded."
I raised my hand to wipe away the tear that slid down Aaron's cheek, only to realize that his body was also trembling. However, he didn't pause, as if he had made a great determination, he turned to the most difficult page in his memory and presented it before my eyes
About his mother's death