Sir, Madam Dispeared Again After Divorce!
Chapter 572 It Was Brandon

Upon hearing her words, Sydney felt as if the whole world was spinning around her while there was buzzing in her head.

Then, she held her forehead and staggered as she almost collapsed onto the ground.

The moment Julien saw Sydney's reaction, he quickly stood up and pulled her into his arms so that she could rest on his chest. "Watch out." "I'm fine." Sydney said in a hoarse voice.

After all, she hadn't thought there was more to her father's suicide because she had always thought it was due to the devastation from Skylight Corporation's bankruptcy and the betrayal of Madeline and her mother running away with his money.

Therefore, when Natalie told Sydney that her father killed himself because Madeline and Kaylie had drugged him and someone coaxed him to take his own life, Sydney struggled to accept the harsh truth. Sydney thought, "No! How is this possible?!

Sydney broke away from Julien's embrace and walked closer to Natalie, clutching Natalie tightly while asking in an eager tone, "Natalie, are you telling me the truth? You aren't lying, are you?" Deep down in her heart, she wished Natalie was telling a lie.

In the meantime, Natalie saw through what was on Sydney's mind and sympathetically shook her head. "I'm sorry, Sydney, but what I just said is the truth. I'm not lying at all. When I first heard this, I was just as shocked as you are right now. At that moment, I couldn't help but wonder why Madeline and her mother were so evil that they would even kill her own father and her own husband. However, I wasn't aware of the relationship between you and Madeline until I learned yesterday that she is your half-sister. It was then that I realized she could be the one who drugged your dad and made him end his life, so I quickly came over to tell you the truth."

At that moment, she knew that she could no longer fool herself by believing that what she heard was all a lie.

She lost all her strength at once as her face turned pale. Then she collapsed onto the couch with dazed eyes. She felt as if her body had just turned cold.

"Sydney." Julien walked closer to her and called out to her in concern.

Sydney looked at him for a few moments before she said, "Madeline... How could she do that? How did she have the guts to drug our father and make him kill himself? How could she kill him even if my dad had never treated her well? That was her birth father!"

What's more, her dad had never treated Madeline badly.

It was just that sometimes Madeline didn't listen to Harry, so Harry felt so tired that he beat and scolded Madeline, but it didn't mean he didn't love Madeline.

How could Madeline be so cruel!

Sydney thought, "Dad never treated them unfairly. And he never stopped giving them pocket money. He allowed them to spend as much as they wanted. Even when Skylight Corporation was in trouble, he never deactivated their bank cards, so why would they want to kill him?"

The more Sydney dwelled on those thoughts, the more she shivered with fear. In the end, she couldn't suppress her emotions and ended up bursting into tears.

Meanwhile, Julien gently rubbed the back of her head and cuddled her in his arms while he spoke in a deep voice, "Cry all you want. After crying, you need to be strong and tough, because you're going to avenge your father's death."

Sydney's body stiffened for a moment. Soon, she cried even louder.

Then, Julien gently patted her back as he looked at Natalie. "You said Madeline was talking on the phone with the person who gave her the drug, right? Could you tell who it was?"

As soon as Sydney heard Julien's question, she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. After that, she freed herself from his arms and looked at Natalie too.

Nonetheless, Natalie shook her head and said, "Nope. Madeline didn't address the person's name on the other side of the phone call, but she talked to that person in a polite manner." "Brandon Madden," Sydney replied as she bit her lips.

"What makes you so sure? "Julien asked as he looked at Sydney.

Sydney nodded with certainty. "The reason why Skylight Corporation landed into trouble six years ago was that Brandon had set my father up. Back then, there was a piece of land that my father wanted to acquire, but Brandon somehow found out about it. Then Brandon wooed a friend of my father's and asked the friend to deliberately reveal to my father that there is a decent piece of land in the east of the city." "The east of the city? "Julien squinted as he said, "I remember that the land in the east of the city eventually unearthed a large tomb. Am I right?"

She replied with an affirmative hum. "Yes. Brandon was aware that the place had catacombs beneath the ground, which he used to plot against Skylight Corporation and my father. Dad trusted that good friend and did not suspect that his good friend was lying to him, so my dad fell for it and took out almost all of Skylight Corporation's assets to bid for that piece of land. If that land had been decent indeed, it would have helped to develop the business of Skylight Corporation, but sadly, it wasn't.

She clenched her fists as she added in a high-pitched voice," After the construction team worked on that land for one month, the team found a large number of ancient tombs, which drew the attention of the relevant authorities. Then, the relevant departments sent people to investigate the ancient tombs. After the investigation, archaeologists found the ancient tombs were extremely valuable for archeological studies, so the government decided to seize the land but only compensated Skylight Corporation with ten percent of the initial acquisition price!"

Julien continued, "And since it wasn't possible to retrieve the rest of the capital, Skylight Corporation was soon doomed into bankruptcy."

Sydney choked up and nodded, "Brandon wanted to make Skylight Corporation bankrupt. After the tombs were discovered, he visited us and gloated at my father while also admitting that he planned to set my father up. Besides, Brandon also said he wouldn't stop until our family fell apart, which would make sense to say that he instigated Madeline and Kaylie to drug my father! *

"That's highly possible." Julien stroked his chin as he said in a deep voice. "But you have no evidence to confirm this. Even if the mastermind is really Brandon, you can do nothing about it."

"What about Madeline?" She gazed at him." Since she and her mother were the ones who drugged my father, I bet Madeline would know who provided her with the drug, so let's just capture her." "Well, that's right, but I'm afraid that Madeline might not even know who she was in touch with. What if the person she was in contact with was merely one of Brandon's men? If that was the case, we still can't testify agains him either," Julien made this somewhat unacceptable guess.

"I don't care. I have to try." Sydney kept her head down.

Then she said as she took a deep breath while looking at Natalie, "Natalie, do you know where the Ferrell family has taken Madeline to?"

"I'll have to ask my father-in-law first," Natalie answered shortly before something else crossed her mind. "You'll probably have to wait until the afternoon because he will likely be having an important meeting with my father at this moment. The meeting will last for hours. Thus, I think they won't be reachable during the meeting." "It's okay. Once you are in touch with your father-in-law, please ask him for me." Sydney felt grateful and nodded at Natalie.

Soon, Natalie excused herself and then left.

Sydney and Julien were the only two people in the living room.

Then, Sydney sat there with her head lowered as she still tried to overcome the emotional devastation.

After all, what Natalie had just told her was simply beyond shocking and heartbreaking.

Meanwhile, Julien only sat silently beside Sydney like a guardian angel watching over her.

A few moments later, Sydney wiped her face and said, "Did you know? I actually noticed something wrong with my father six years ago, but I didn't pay much attention to it."

"What do you mean? " Julien asked while passing her a glass of water.

When she took the glass of water, she let out a long sigh before she answered, "A month before my father took his life, he seemed to be so mentally ill that he became forgetful, temperamental, and absent- minded."