Revenge of the Hideous Lady (Xyla Quest)
Chapter 2072

Sebastian Brenand was now sporting a messy, untrimmed beard, appearing exhausted.

He handed his letter over to Xyla Quest the moment he walked in. "Here, what did you want to tell me?"

With that, he promptly reached for a chair, placing it next to Xyla and Stanley Batton's bed before sinking down on it.

Xyla stayed in bed and directly opened Rachel Wood's letter, noticing a dried tear mark in the center of a red flower at the bottom right of the paper.

It was indicative of how heartbroken Rachel had been as she wrote this letter.

However, the mark was faint, so no one would notice it with a single glance.

Frowning deeply, she peered at Sebastian. "Before Rachel left, did anything happen between the two of you? Or did Rachel show any odd behavior?"

Sebastian shook his head. "No, everything was fine between us. We went shopping after leaving your place the other day, and then she asked me to take her out to a fancy place for dinner.

"After dinner, she was very affectionate and gentle. She even gave me a massage. I didn't even realize when I'd fallen asleep.

"She was gone when I woke up in the morning. That's when I saw this letter by the bed," he recalled carefully.

"The only odd thing was that Rachel usually doesn't behave like this. I thought she was being spontaneous, but now that I've considered it through, she was probably preparing to leave. That's why she wanted to be good to me for the last time." Sebastian cried after saying this.

Sebastian lifted his head to wipe the tears away before attempting to hold his tears back.

It didn't help.

After spending so much time with Rachel, they'd practically become inseparable.

Sebastian still couldn't accept what had happened. He'd already experienced the pain of losing Rachel once. He didn't want to go through it again.

"Did Rachel meet anyone before she left?" Xyla asked.

He shook his head. "Not that I know of as I had been busy at work the day before yesterday. How was I supposed to know?"

All of a sudden, he sprang to his feet as if something just occurred to him. "I know! It must be my mother."

Xyla and Stanley had already suspected this was the case all along. Neither of them showed any reactions to his derived conclusion. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Two nights ago, my mother asked me to return home. When I got there, she said she would introduce a girl to me, despite knowing that I was

dating Rachel. I didn't have the

patience to reason with them, and that's when I mentioned leaving that house for good.

"To be honest, I always thought I could slowly wear my parents down eventually. However, I realized then that it was impossible. That's when I itwa came up with an excuse to sever ties with them.

"After doing so, I returned everything they'd given me before leaving. 10 didn't tell Rachel any of this because I didn't want her to worry. I thought

I'd replace a chance to tell her in the

future.

"I suspect my parents hated her even more because of that incident. Perhaps that's why they went to see her," he said through gritted teeth, clenching his fists by his side. He believed this to be what happened as the timing of it all was too much of a coincidence.

"That's not impossible," Xyla said slowly. "If you can't replace anything from the surveillance footage, you can check with your parents if they've seen Rachel recently.

"I'm not worried if she had left on her own accord. Our men are capable of replaceing her if that's the case. I'm only worried that your parents might hurt Rachel for your sake. "Of course, the latter is only a guess. That's the worst-case scenario," she added.