Jim lifted his head to stare at Joshua, his eyes dull and lackluster.
"Why else would Mother do this, then?"
He could not think of any reason to justify Rosalyn stopping Christopher from returning to help Bonnie.
"Perhaps she wasn't trying to stop Christopher from flying back to help at all, but just trying to prevent
him from coming back during a time like this.
After all, she knows better than anyone what condition Christopher is in...
"She didn't want Christopher to return because she knew that if he saw the state Bonnie and June were
in, it'd trigger a psychotic episode, and he'd blame everything on you.”
"Rosalyn was just concerned about you and Bonnie, and she wanted nothing more than for you to have
a happy, smooth wedding ceremony.This was why she chose not to disclose this to Christopher and
even instructed him not to return home."
Joshua's words made the glimmer in Jim's eyes return.He stared dazedly at Joshua and asked, "Are
you...Do you think that's what happened?"
"Of course." Joshua smiled at him.
"Bonnie is a good person, and I'm sure God will bless her.Rosalyn was just doing this for you and
Bonnie because she didn't want to see your wedding being gatecrashed."
Jim let out a sigh as he closed his eyes.
"But I ruined the wedding ceremony myself."
"Now's not the time to feel guilty."
Seeing that Jim had finally bought into Joshua's explanation, Luna let out a sigh of relief and
interrupted Jim before he could fall into a spiral of guilt, "What we have to do now is get to the bottom
of what Mickey and Butler Fred have up their sleeves."
They had used Sean's address to forge a message to Christopher from Bonnie, making it seem as
though Sean had deliberately triggered Christopher's psychotic episode.
What were they trying to achieve? Did they want to get Sean kicked out of the Landry family? Or
perhaps...they did not want Jim and Bonnie to get married? Could they have other ulterior motives for
doing this? Jim regained his composure and glanced at Luna, frowning.
"How're you planning to investigate this?"
"Well, since we know what they want, we might as well give it to them."
Joshua narrowed his eyes.
"Since they want us to think Sean was behind all this, we'll just play along CFn"[IML try to observe their
next move."
Then, he lifted his head to glance at the operation room behind Jim.
"However, we might need Sean's help in this."
Jim lifted his head in warning upon hearing this.
"What're you going to do to my brother?"
Not even Jim himself noticed that he had referred to Sean as his brother out of instinct.
Joshua and Luna exchanged a glance, and Joshua broke out into a smile.He strode over to Jim's side
and gently patted his shoulder in reassurance.
"Don't worry, Jim.Now that Sean is your brother, that makes him my cousin, too, and I promise [ won't
do anything bad to him.”
"It's just...we might need him to put on a show with you and Luna, where you'll both pretend to kick him
out of the Landry family and leave him to survive on his own.”
"However, I'll secretly send him over to Luke's, where he'll be taken good care of while he's recovering
from surgery, and after we get to the bottom of Mickey and Butler Fred's scheme, we'll bring him back
to Landry Mansion."
Joshua narrowed his eyes as he explained his plan to Jim, but his gaze seemed to penetrate past
everything and fixate on somewhere far, far away.It was time to get to the bottom of everything,
including— Rosalyn had denied ever trying to poison Granny Lynch, but all of her poisons were kept in
the warehouse behind Landry Mansion.
The only person besides Rosalyn who had access to the warehouse was Mickey.
If this was the case, Mickey was the only person who could have known the identity of Granny Lynch's
murderer.
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