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Chapter 739
Chapter 739
Chapter 739
Gloria lifted her gaze abruptly to stare at Harvey. “What are you trying to say? Are you trying to tell me that Tyler wouldn’t have fallen in love with me even if he ended up finding me instead of Vicky back then?”
“Yes,” Harvey uttered slowly, his words like sharp blades cutting into her heart. “Even if he found you, he would’ve never fallen in love with you. Besides, it was actually Vicky whom he was looking for… Gloria, he found the right person, and Vicky never tried to impersonate you.”
Gloria was stunned for a few moments, but she soon started cackling. Her often-soft voice sounded extremely sharp and unpleasant.
“Fine. None of you would believe me. You all think that I’m lying. But that would mean that either Tyler or your lover, Vicky, are lying about it as well, right? Or are you going to say that the necklace I happened upon isn’t Tyler at all?”
“None of you lied.” Harvey looked into her eyes. “You did play ‘The Moonlight Bay’ that night in the garden, but that doesn’t mean Vicky has never shown up at the same spot the same night.”
Gloria paused. “What do you mean?”
“Recently, I dug into what happened back then. The reason why all this happened is that Vicky went to the same garden to practice the same song before her performance that night. She appeared in the garden before you did. Tyler’s men located her after that…so she was under the impression that Tyler had been looking for her.”
Gloria clenched her fists. “What about the necklace I found, then? Was it a fake one? Was it not Tyler’s?”
“It’s true that you found a necklace that belonged to Tyler, but since Vicky appeared in the garden before you did, how would you know if Tyler dropped the necklace when he was listening to you play, or when he was listening to Vicky play? When you saw the necklace, I suppose you tried searching for the owner, right? Did you see anyone in the garden at the time?”
Gloria was rendered speechless.
She had indeed searched around for the owner of the necklace, but the garden was empty at the time.
“That doesn’t mean Vicky was the one he was looking for!” she gritted out.
Harvey stared into her eyes and said cruelly, “Gloria, as I said before, Tyler can’t possibly fall in love with a woman just because of a glimpse of your back. It doesn’t matter who he saw at the time. What matters is—”
Gloria interrupted him hysterically. “Why doesn’t that matter? If he didn’t see me or look for me, he would’ve never gotten to know Vicky! Without me, they would’ve never ended up together!”
Harvey stared at her with a dark look in his eyes, wondering how the young woman who once saved his life had become such a stranger.
After a long silence, he decided to tell her the truth.
“There was no surveillance camera in the garden back then, but there were a few at the entrance. Tyler was seen rushing out of the garden at the time, and you weren’t in the garden when he left.” He paused and continued, “You must’ve wondered what makes me so certain about that, right? It’s because a woman was having an accident out in the hall at the time and you performed CPR on her, which was captured by the cameras.”
Gloria froze, as she distinctively remembered saving a woman back then.
It was not after the ambulance arrived that she went to the garden.
“Gloria, if you don’t believe me, I can show you the surveillance footage,” Harvey continued.
Gloria remained dazed for a long while before muttering while sobbing, “If the person Tyler was looking for wasn’t me, why…would Vicky and Tyler admit to it? Were they toying with me?”
Harvey shook his head. “It’s because you happened upon Tyler’s possession and became extremely certain that he was looking for you. You were so determined about it that Vicky started having doubts as well. Since Vicky admitted that Tyler was looking for you, it’s understandable that Tyler would be misled as well. Most importantly…”
Gloria looked at him. “What?”