Chapter 179: Unravelling a Secret
Alexander Sterling sat behind his behemoth desk as his assistant stood before him, anxiously holding a dossier. The opulent penthouse office of the man was adorned with floor-to-ceiling windows that offered panoramic views of the city skyline but neither men paid any attention to the surrounding.
Robert cleared his throat, his voice quivering slightly as he began to report on a matter of great sensitivity. "Mr. Sterling, I have been following the developments regarding your late brother’s daughter. There seems to have been some problems that we have found."
Alexander’s eyes narrowed, his patience waning. "And?"
Robert hesitated before clarifying slowly," Your niece... I mean Sara Anderson passed away in a fire. It seems she was there with her mother and another man. The entire instance has been ruled as an accident but there was indeed foul play. I have collected surveillance videos from a few places where it is clear that tied up and taken there. However, that is not all... There is something even more disturbing that the investigations have found out... We believe that your brother and his wife Lara had two daughters- Nellie and Sara. But there is another daughter..."
Sterling’s sharp blue eyes bore into the man as he hurriedly reported," As you know, Nellie died a few years ago but the other girl Nora..."
Slowly, the man explained everything he had discovered about the girl’s existence unravelling a great deception. Once done, a lethal silence echoed in the room, making Robert even more scared to breathe.
"So you are telling me that, all these years, the girl who visited me, who I doted upon is not my brother’s daughter but his wife’s lover’s daughter? That woman had us all fooled?"
Even though that was the truth, Robert dared not nod his head. At the moment, he felt that it was a good thing that woman was already dead, or she would have been buried alive. And the way she died painfully, she deserved it.
Finally, when the silence in the room turned so oppressive that Robert could feel himself having difficulty breathing, the older man spoke, "I want to see this girl. This Nora...Bring her to me."
The words resonated in Robert’s chest like a bullet. He had been most afraid of that. "Sir..."
"What is the problem? That bi*ch is dead, isn’t she? So you can bring my niece to me. Don’t tell me you do not know her whereabouts!"