After All the Hurt, She Chose Herself novel Chapter 356

Back then, Alden had worked tirelessly for a month, barely sleeping, to develop a small vial of medication tailored to Raphael's condition. It was meant for immediate use.

But on that day, Raphael's fever was so high and out of control that he couldn't take the medicine right away, so it had to be returned to the Evernight family's sterile lab.

Who would have thought that the problem was with the medicine itself!

The water inside had accelerated Raphael's infection...

That's why Alden thought his research had failed. And although Aldous Evernight never said a word, Eveline knew it had become a deep regret for Alden.

"But what does that have to do with dropping the lawsuit?"

Gideon lowered his gaze and didn't answer.

He'd been young and couldn't keep a secret. Panicked, he'd told Ivy what happened, and her comfort had eventually calmed him down.

He never imagined it would become leverage in Ivy's hands.

Why else would he have agreed to drop the lawsuit?

"Don't tell anyone about this," Gideon said. "If Grandpa finds out, I'll be kicked out of the Evernight family."

Eveline nodded quickly.

***

"I think I found a match!"

Mira said, rubbing her red, tired eyes.

"Look, this child has a hereditary history of cancer! Both parents were cancer patients!"

Raphael's team had been working quickly. Since Aria didn't have much scheduled for the next few days, Mira had offered to help and was looking through files at Aria's house.

At her words, Aria and Raphael immediately put down their own files and looked over.

The records showed that the infant was premature, born in August—on the exact same day as Aria.

"If my husband cheated on me before I got pregnant, and I only found out after, I'd hate his guts. If I were more extreme, I'd definitely hate the other woman, too."

Aria blinked, then blinked again. "Mira, that makes so much sense!"

That had to be the reason Roxanne didn't want her to have a good life.

Roxanne cared so much about her reputation that she could play the part of a virtuous wife for everyone to see, but in reality, it was just her vanity at play!

She cared about what others thought, so she didn't want to become a laughingstock. But she couldn't just swallow the humiliation of being cheated on so publicly.

So she came up with this plan to torture Aria.

In that case, Sylvia's car accident was very likely orchestrated by Roxanne too!

Raphael glanced at a message on his phone, his expression darkening.

"It's just as I suspected. The information on that child's parents is gone."