Married To My Billionaire Stepbrother-Chapter 429: About The Real Sister

Aeldric stood up from his chair, his face covered with expressions of disbelief as well as shock.

"Liked the surprise, old man?" he heard his grandson ask, who leaned back in the chair, making himself comfortable—sitting like a king.

"What’s the meaning of this?" Aeldric asked as he looked back at him, then at the two people.

"Simple," he answered. "You are not to be trusted, so I’m the same. You shouldn’t trust me either—after all, I am your blood, isn’t it?"

The couple that entered the office walked ahead, hand in hand.

"I’m sorry I couldn’t attend the wedding as I was busy with my wife, Natalie," the man said and looked at his look-alike who was sitting in the chair. "Aaron, congratulations on your marriage."

"Brother-in-law, congratulations," Natalie said clinging to Justin’s arm like a sweet wife. "Though I don’t like that woman Grace, I’m sure you can handle her until we achieve what we want."

Aeldric looked at the one sitting in the chair—the one who had just married Grace. "You are Aaron, not Aiden. You’ve been alive as well?"

"I’m sure I’m not a ghost yet," Aaron replied with a smirk.

"You two brothers kept it from me?" Aeldric said.

"Old man, someone would mistake your behaviour as if you are happy to see me alive," Aaron said, "I would like it if you quit pretending. I simply hate it."

Justin spoke up as well, "I am sure you have an important worry to deal with that how you are going to answer Colin Hartz about this, that he was deceived and his daughter isn’t married to your heir."

Aeldric looked at Aaron, "This can’t be. You can’t marry Grace. The marriage was fixed between my heir Aiden and her. If—"

"But, I am already married to her," Aaron said.

Aeldric angrily glared at him as if Aaron was the thorn in his eyes. "You...."

"Calm down, old man," this time Justin said. "Now quietly sit in the chair and listen to me—unless you want Colin Hartz and others to know that Hartz was deceived."

Aeldric smirked as he was not ready to give up, "No one can tell the difference between you two. I can just tell them it was Aiden and now due to this woman Natalie, you were backing out."

"Don’t bring me into this," Natalie said, acting like she was wronged, "Like a good granddaughter-in-law, I didn’t even reject your idea of marrying my husband to some other woman. Where would you find such an obedient granddaughter-in-law such as me and here you are blaming me. Old age is truly turning you senile."

Aeldric didn’t want to waste time arguing with her, and looked back at both brothers. "I won’t let it happen. The one married to Grace would be Aiden, despite who was standing there at the altar. No one will know."

"Really?" Aaron said. "The marriage certificate is ready and it will be here soon for you to take a look. Oh, I just received a picture of it now." Aaron put his cellphone on the table and let the old man see the picture.

"It’s clearly my signature, my name there as the husband. If you want, I can go to Colin Hartz and tell him right away," Aaron said. "I can tell him, it was all your plan to deceive him as Aiden was not ready to leave his wife."

"You know how much you need Hartz’s support at this moment, and any mistake can turn into your losses," Justin added. "You know well, you are not the same powerful lion now."

There was silence on Aeldric’s side. After a while, he scoffed, "You two, all of this was just so you could know about your sister? Morons!" Aeldric looked at the two as he repeated, "Such morons!"

Justin and Aaron looked at each other but said nothing, as they waited for the old man to say something.

"Now let me tell you two a secret," Aeldric began, his eyes shining with the thrill of getting back at his own grandsons.

Justin and Aaron didn’t have a good feeling about it.

"Your sister—I don’t have her," Aeldric said. "Neither do I know where she is."

"What do you mean?" Aaron asked, while Justin simply stared at him.

Aeldric smirked. "When she was just a few days old, still in the hospital, someone kidnapped her."

"Are you taking us for fools, or are you telling us there was someone smart enough to fool you and risk going against you?" Justin asked. "Are you saying you were such a failure that you couldn’t stop someone from kidnapping your own granddaughter?"

"That was just a girl. I couldn’t care less," Aeldric said in a dismissive tone, as that little girl meant nothing to him. "But it was truly infuriating that someone managed to infiltrate the tight security of my people and escaped without even being noticed. I killed so many of my men to find the traitor who must have helped the enemies, but still couldn’t find anything. It was indeed the greatest failure of my life."

"Didn’t they ask you for ransom?" Aaron asked.

"There was nothing. Whoever it was, they disappeared with the child into thin air. My people, nor any other sources, could track them. Either they escaped successfully, or that child had died," Aeldric answered.

"And you think we’ll believe this ridiculous story of yours?" Aaron said. "You even raised a fake granddaughter. It shows how important her existence was for some reason—that there’s no way you could let anyone take away your real granddaughter."

"You can choose to think what you want," Aeldric said coldly, but then his tone softened a little. "I raised that girl for Marina’s sake. Back then, if I had told her the girl was not there, she wouldn’t have been able to handle the shock. But I couldn’t find that girl either, so I told her that I took the girl away.

"That way, I could keep Marina with me using that girl as leverage, as she was going to leave me after Alex and her grandkids died. And it worked. Marina stayed for the sake of that woman Serena and the child I was hiding. But one day, I had to show her that girl, so I raised a fake granddaughter."

Silence gripped the office, as no one spoke.

I thought there was no one worse than Sephina, but this old man keeps proving me wrong, Natalie thought as she looked at him. I can see he had genuine feelings at least toward his wife, but his arrogance just gets the best of him. Serves him right.

Aeldric looked at Justin and Aaron. The next moment, the arrogance was back on his calm face. "Now, you two are not going to get your sister, so keep it down and listen to me quietly like good little boys." ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

Aaron and Justin simply looked at the old man, as it was not surprising to see him change colors like a chameleon.

"The one who married Grace was Aiden," Aeldric declared.

"You are still not out of your dream?" Justin asked.

"I find myself doing the exactly opposite," Aaron added with a smirk.

"I will kill you two if you do anything of that sort. Don’t forget I am the king here and my orders rule. My people can kill you both, and I can just get rid of any trouble," Aeldric growled.

"This guy is still delusional, isn’t he?" Justin said to Aaron.

"We should clear his delusion," Aaron said, offering a wicked smirk to Aeldric.