Falling For My Ex's Uncle - Chapter 472: Chapter 472

"Why don't you just answer my question?" I stepped forward, my gaze locking on Melody. "Are you hiding something?"
Melody's body trembled slightly. She lifted her head to meet my eyes, a flicker of struggle flashing through them.
"There are some things you're better off not knowing." Her voice was hoarse. "Knowing the truth won't do you any good."
"No, I must know the truth." My tone was firm. "This is about my mother. I have the right to know."
Melody let out a sigh. She slowly stood up and walked to the window, gazing at the night sky outside. She remained silent for a long time. I stood quietly behind her, waiting for her answer.
Melody finally said, "From the very beginning, Maddox and Yvette's marriage was full of conflict and contradictions. Although Maddox married Yvette, he could never forget about me. And Yvette sensed it too. It filled her with pain and resentment."
I listened in silence, the anger and doubts in my heart growing deeper.
Melody said, "Over time, life for Yvette in the Parks family became increasingly unbearable. Not only did she have to endure the cold stares and rejection from the Parks family, but she also had to suffer Maddox's indifference and distance."
She continued, "She tried to win him back, but it was all in vain."
"Then why didn't they get a divorce?" I couldn't help but ask.
Melody turned around to look at me, her gaze filled with helplessness.
She said, "Because she was carrying the Parks family's child. Yvette followed Maddox back home, breaking ties with her own family. She had nowhere else to go." She added, "And she knew the Parks family would never let her take their child away.
"So she had no choice but to endure everything alone, hoping that one day, Maddox would change his mind."
I was stunned, my heart aching. I had never imagined that my mother had endured so much suffering and humiliation.
It was no wonder she never accepted another relationship after leaving the Parks family.
"But Maddox never changed." Melody's voice grew heavier. "The conflict between them only deepened, and in the end, they still reached the point of divorce."
I asked, "Did my mother willingly sign the divorce papers?"
A trace of hesitation flashed in Melody's eyes. She lowered her head, fell silent for a moment, then said, "I don't know. I only know that after Yvette left the Parks family, Maddox sent people everywhere to look for her, but he never found her."
A deep sense of powerlessness surged within me. If my mother hadn't willingly signed the divorce papers, then what kind of scheme was hidden behind it?
"Laurel, it was your mother's fault for trusting the wrong people. The past has nothing to do with Kailyn," Melody said sharply, her gaze piercing as she stared at me.
I let out a cold laugh. "It was your daughter who kept trying to kill me."
She replied, "Kailyn was wrong, but she was just afraid that you would take away everything that was supposed to be hers."
"Everything that was supposed to be hers?" I raised my eyes meaningfully, looking at Melody standing high and mighty before me. Disgust was evident in my gaze.
I added, "If you hadn't gotten pregnant and moved into the Parks family back then, how could my mother have mistaken your child as Maddox's?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Melody's entire body trembled violently. She clearly hadn't expected me to know such a hidden secret.
"You... you..." The once overbearing Melody now looked deathly pale, trembling, unable to form a complete sentence.
My mother's departure from the Parks family could not have been as simple as Melody described.
Otherwise, how could a pregnant woman have gone into hiding, afraid to even return home?
Perhaps the Parks family had already intended to kill her after she gave birth. That must have been why she left so quietly.
But who was it that wanted to kill her? Someone from the Parks family, or Melody herself?
"What do you really want?" Melody asked, her sharp eyes filled with murderous intent as she glared at me.
Was she planning to kill me to silence me, to erase all future trouble?
"I just want to know what my mother went through all those years ago and why the signature on her divorce papers wasn't written by her," I said calmly, then sat down on the sofa in the living room.
Judging by the tension and anger on Melody's face, it was clear that only Maddox knew the truth about Kailyn Shepherd's real identity. If that was the case, then something must have happened back then.
Something must have led Maddox to bring Melody into the Parks family and even personally acknowledge her unborn child as his own.
"Impossible." Melody furrowed her brows, her gaze filled with confusion.
Melody thought for a moment before suddenly letting out a soft laugh. A look of disbelief appeared on her once-arrogant face.
"It seems that your mother wasn't the only one deceived. I was too," she muttered in a low voice. "If it weren't for my marriage to Maddox back then, how could the Parks family have reached its current status?"
She continued, "They might have gone bankrupt long ago. I always thought your mother willingly divorced Maddox. But now it turns out it was all a lie. Back then, I truly believed in his love for me. I never expected..."
Melody let out a self-deprecating laugh. After a long pause, she finally said, "I was a fool. If he could abandon the woman he truly loved, how could he have ever been sincere with me? In the end, all he ever wanted was the Shepherd family's power."
"What do you mean?" I asked, shocked.
If Melody wasn't behind the fake divorce agreement, then the only person who could have orchestrated it was Maddox himself.
So the one my mother truly feared wasn't Melody, it was the man she once loved.
He must have wanted to silence her, afraid she would bring harm to his family, which was why she lived in constant fear.
"Do you think I'll believe what you're saying?" I asked with a cold smile. "After my mother left the Parks family, she spent her life in hiding, struggling just to survive. I used to think she was afraid of losing me, that's why she lived so cautiously."
I continued, "It wasn't until later that I learned the truth, that my biological father was Maddox. And my older brother, Isaac, ended up being your son."
"So, you've always believed that I was the one who wanted to kill your mother?" Melody let out a mocking laugh. "If I had truly wanted her dead, why would I have given her the chance to escape?"
I fell silent. I had to admit, she had a point.
No one was competing with her for the title of Mrs. Parks. She had no reason to kill.
She continued, "Besides, Yvette moved into the Parks family without even having a wedding. Then she left quietly. Why would I bother to kill her? Just to create more trouble for myself? If I had wanted her dead, I would let her die miserably."