Chapter 421

Actually, the reason I asked Derick to investigate instead of waiting for Brandon's conclusion was because I was afraid Brandon might deceive me. After all, his father was the one driving back then. Now it seemed I was making up scenarios on my own. "You had doubts about the brake failure from back then, didn't you?" Brandon asked me. Now that we had officially established our relationship, I didn't want to lie to him. "Yes. I needed a definite answer." Brandon didn't respond right away. After a moment, he quietly asked, "Maddie, if—just if—the brake failure had something to do with my father, would you... leave me because of it?" The words "leave him" struck me deeply, and my throat tightened as if someone's hand was squeezing it. I understood what he meant by that question, but I hadn't thought about it, mostly because I didn't dare to. "Brandon, I don't know." There was a voice in my heart saying that even if the accident had something to do with his father, I couldn't hold Br