Chapter 244: We did that for your future.
"My business was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time," Keith continued. "I owed millions to the investors, and I had nothing left. Even if I sold everything I had, I wouldn’t have been able to repay the debts. I couldn’t see my children starve to death. So we made a plan."
He took a deep breath and then continued. "Claudia worked as Bruce’s assistant. We planned to trap him. Claudia was pregnant with Frank at the time, and we thought we could use it to extort money from Bruce."
Gina felt even more disgusted as she heard that. They were so shameless that they did not hesitate to use their unborn child. She shook her head in disbelief as she heard his next words.
"We managed to drug him at a party," Keith recalled that night when he had served the spiked drink to Theodore’s father, Bruce. The drug had put him into a deep sleep, and Claudia slipped into the bed beside him.
"Claudia made him believe that he had forced her while he was drunk," he continued. "Bruce gave her money to keep it a secret as he didn’t want his wife to find out about it. He fell into our trap, and we used him to repay our debts. But his wife somehow discovered that Claudia was pregnant, and she thought it was Bruce’s child. Their issues increased and they finally divorced. Bruce then proposed to Claudia to marry him."
Keith clenched his fists, his features contorting. "That was not a part of our plan. We only wanted to extort money from him using the baby in her womb. But his proposal changed everything. We saw it as an opportunity to get everything the Reid’s owned."
"So you let her marry Theodore’s father," Gina sneered. "How could you do that? She was carrying your child!"
"We did that for your future," Keith reasoned. "If we hadn’t made that decision back then, you wouldn’t have been living in a luxury."
Gina chuckled. "No, you did that for your own comfort. I didn’t ask you for a luxury life. All I wanted was my mother, but you separated me from her." She cocked her head and squinted at him. "Tell me honestly: what else did you do to get to this point? What else you are hiding?" She paused for a moment as she glared at them, one by one. "Did you kill Theodore’s father?"
She hadn’t forgotten that Theodore had suspected that his father’s heart attack wasn’t natural. Gina was also intrigued to know if Keith and Claudia had something to do with Bruce’s heart attack.