Chapter 274 - Ch. 274 The Allanach Siblings

In confinement on Folkland Island, a pair of brothers and sisters sat pensively counting the days. They were pretty sure their father would expel them after a week, but there was no sign of their heartless father showing up.

"Oh, what a life. Who would have thought that the day would come when I would be locked up here? What should I do? Am I really my father's son?"

The brother's singing made the corners of his sister's lips twitch.

"Could you please stop your annoying song? It worsened my mood."

"And now my sister hates my song… Uuuhh, what a life. What did I do in my past life to deserve this?" and yet the brother kept singing his newest tune.

"Nicolau Allanach!"

Nick stopped singing when his sister called his real name.

"Sis, why are you giving me that scary glare? My inspiration flow fluently here. I should have asked my manager to lock me in the basement in the past. Who knows, I might compose dozens of hit songs?"

"You're too relaxed for a person who was imprisoned by his own father?"

"Imprisoned? This place is our home, and there are no police

observing us. Hhhh…" Nick let out a long breath as he tapped a piece of wood against the bars of his prison. "I can understand why father locked me up, but why did he lock you up too? I thought he loves you more than me."

Wendy laughed sarcastically at that. "Father loves us? The world will end if he does."

"Why do you think like that?"

"He only uses us as tools. The reason why we are good friends with Roxy and Kaylee was because he wanted to get info from Mr. Zouch."

"What kind of information?"

"Frontier Shadow, or so I've heard."

"…" How did his father know about Frontier Shadow? "Frontier Shadow? What's that?" nonetheless, Nick behaved like a clueless boy and asked curiously.

"Don't ask me. I tried to snoop something from Mr. Zouch, but he knew nothing about it."

"Tsk. We shouldn't have come back here. Didn't the Larsons want to adopt us officially? We should just accept their offer." Nick steered the conversation so they wouldn't talk about Frontier Shadow.

"And leave our father alone?"

"You still think of him as a father? He doesn't think of us as his kids, why should we think of him as a father?"

"He's not like this before. Our father was a loving and doting father."

Nick looked at his sister sitting next to him in disbelief. Conn Allanach is a loving and doting father? Which part of their father seemed to be a loving and caring person?

From head to toe, Conn Allanach was everything but a loving and affectionate father. He was cruel, heartless, and ruthless, a perfect

incarnation of Hades.

But Nick knew his sister would never lie to him. "Then, what made him change?"

"Our mother's death. Ever since that incident, he's changed for the worse. He no longer cared about us and… used us as his tool for revenge."

"Revenge? Didn't our mother die of a heart attack?" Nick didn't quite remember his mother because Mrs. Allanach died when he was three or four.

"That's what he wanted people to believe. The truth is, our mother was murdered."

Nick's brow furrowed, not at all expecting this new truth. "Why are you telling me now?"

"Maybe this place made me reminisce and decided to let you know the truth."

"Did he find the killer?"

"He did, but he didn't have the proof, or someone might lead us astray on purpose. Who knows?"

"Who is it?"

"Let's stop for now. What about you?"

This sister of his changed the topic deliberately. "What about me what?" But Nick decided to follow her lead.

"Did you manage to win over Lydia?"

Nick had opened his mouth to answer his sister's curiosity, but he changed his answer when his ear caught a sound.

"What does it have to do with Lydia?"

"Oh, come on. I'll be a fool if I can't recognize the way you look at her. You're in love."

"I'm not. Lydia is an attractive girl, and she did attract me. But not anymore since I was locked up here."

Wendy glanced at her brother disdainfully. "Are you really my brother? Why are you so heartless playing with a maiden's heart?"

"As if you're not as heartless as me. You know how deeply Robert loves you, but you keep avoiding him and leaving him."

Wendy was about to refute her brother's words, but a deep, menacing voice preceded her.

"It's because she is wiser than you think."

The Allanach siblings raised their heads at the front gate, where someone appeared and stared at them coldly.

"You've been here for a week. Is there nothing you want to say?"

Neither Nick nor Wendy spoke.

"You seem to like living here. Who would have thought that you would rather live in a place like this than in your comfortable room?"

"Is that what a father says to his kids?" Nick ignored Wendy, who nudged his elbow and refuted his father sarcastically.

"Lydia Brewster, isn't it? You know, one of my spies accidentally killed her grandmother last night."

Wendy gasped in disbelief at that, while Nick's jaw tightened at that, but he controlled his emotions.

"You threatened me with Lydia Brewster a few days ago. Now you killed her grandmother instead, doesn't that mean you're not interested in what I know?"

"What's the point of finding out an organization you don't know about?"

"Then why did you touch her?"

"Because she is your distraction."

"I told you. I had no relationship with that girl!"

"Then why are you angry?"

"I'm angry that you implicated an innocent people!" Nick got to his feet and looked at his father with anger. Sometimes he wondered if this person was his birth father? Even Mr. Larson was a much better father than this older man.

As evil as humans are, they never harm their flesh and blood.

But what Conn Allanach had done over the last ten years was nothing but abandon and use his children to his liking.

"No, Nick. You got her involved. Ever since you entered her house and hid there for hours, her fate was settled."

"…" how did his father know?