Chapter 496

Vivienne knelt down, clutching Walter's weathered hands, her wrinkled face breaking into a fragile smile. "Old man," she whispered, her voice trembling with decades of unspoken guilt, "I was the one who hid the truth from you all those years ago. Yet you never held it against me instead, you've loved me unconditionally every single day. Meeting you was the greatest blessing of my life." She paused, her breath labored, as if each word carried the weight of a lifetime. "Now that our time is running out... I must face the consequences of what I did." With great effort, she rose to her feet, her frail frame swaying slightly as she turned toward the Wallace siblings. Her gaze, though clouded with age, burned with resolve. "I was the daughter-in-law in Jay's story. I was the one who took that little girl away and abandoned her." Her voice cracked, but she pressed on, "I couldn't let my husband lose his birthright because of me. I needed to expose Walter's schemes to reclaim what was ours. Ev