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Chapter: 24.

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"Tell me, how is my stepdaughter?" The second asked and the first smiled.

"Is she not my stepdaughter?" He returned bemused. "I'm the one who is married to her mother."

"Not after I'm married to her father she won't be anymore."

"How cruel." The other accused and they both laughed.

"That was the plan and why neither mother nor daughter knew about you and me, not now but surely." They both smiled.

"Well, not many people knew the famous D'aureville had two sons." The first added with a tint of sadness in his tone. He was stripped of everything. A disgraceful son no parents want to talk about.

Sensing the change in his brother's mood, he directed the conversation towards a little memory. "You know back in the days Alexander was the brightest pupil in school, studying Mechanical Engineering and was excelling so brilliantly, it's surprising how his life took this strange turn and even more surprising how he never recognized me even until now but then again, it would