Crowned by the Man They Feared (Amelia and Jeremy) novel Chapter 535

Chapter 535 The Truth Surfaces

Amelia wasn’t stupid-she immediately heard that something was off.

She knew she’d already split with the Nygards, even if her conflict with Raymond had been the least severe.

But knowing his personality, he wouldn’t talk to her like this unless something serious had happened.

“My position is sensitive. I can’t attend. You’ll go in my place-and in your own. That’s what you should do.”

Walter was quiet for a long time before he finally spoke, his mood visibly heavy.

The grief in him didn’t seem any less than Amelia’s.

He was just the type to keep it contained, never letting it spill over.

That only made Amelia more suspicious.

“Walter … did he ever work with you? Or have contact with you?”

Seeing how serious he looked-and hearing what he was saying-she started to form a guess.

“Yes.” Walter sighed softly and closed his eyes.

After a long moment, he opened them again and said slowly, “He was my most trusted confidant-my right-hand man. I sent him to follow and investigate that organization.

“All these years, Raymond sacrificed so much for that mission-his family, his career, his freedom.”

He looked at her hard. “Most importantly … he sacrificed you.”

That last sentence made Amelia’s heart shudder.

Her bright, star-like eyes trembled, and her thick lashes fluttered like startled butterfly wings.

Emotions she rarely let show spilled out anyway.

“W-What do you mean, Walter?”

Raymond… was her mentor’s man?

How could it be this absurd-two people who didn’t even seem connected, yet they’d been

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superior and subordinate?

“It’s a long story,” Walter said. “It’s complicated-highly classified.

“But now that Raymond is gone, I don’t want him to die and still be forgotten-still be misunderstood and hated.”

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Walter sighed, the sharpness in his eyes softening as he looked into the distance.

It was like he was remembering something-like old memories were surfacing.

“Walter, can you tell me properly? What does it mean?”

Amelia was anxious now.

It was the first time she’d been this desperate to understand something.

“The reason I knew your father … was because of your grandfather.

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“Your grandfather, Conrad, was a businessman-but he was also a brilliant pharmaceutical researcher. Otherwise, the Nygard Group’s core project wouldn’t be medicinal plants.

“Back then, the most legendary all-around genius of them all-Hendrick-was my closest friend.”

It was rare for Walter to talk this much. It felt like he was reliving the past.

When Hendrick was still around, he wasn’t just a powerful businessman, scientist, and educator -he was also a top-tier pharmaceutical researcher.

He, Hendrick, and Paul-Esmond’s younger brother-became the “three musketeers.”

Back then, they were famous: talented, good-looking, and loaded-every woman’s idea of a prince charming.

They often developed new drugs together—and worked on advanced tech projects, too.

One day, Paul discovered a secret lab-one that used living people as research subjects.

They seemed to be extracting the genes of geniuses, trying to transplant them into ordinary people.

The goal was to transform regular people into prodigies.

And to speed it up and make it “more effective,” they started with infants-using babies for experiments.

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Could

you really “reverse” an ordinary person into a genius?

It was beyond ridiculous.

It was insane-completely unhinged.

Paul told Hendrick about the discovery … and that was when the nightmare began.

Once they got involved, they couldn’t step back anymore—even now, they still hadn’t uncovered the whole truth.

And even if they’d refused to interfere, those people would’ve found them anyway.

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