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Chapter 988 - 988: I Betrayed Them

"I'll go down and do an on-site inspection. If it works, I'll arrange for the actors and crew to come over in a few days." This was exactly what Sawyer had been worried about; hearing this, he finally relaxed."Mm." Aurelia Shaw nodded.

After parting ways with Sawyer, Aurelia went back to where she was staying.

Caspian Parker wasn't home. He had his own work, and Aurelia never interfered too much.

She went back to the bedroom, took a shower, then leaned against the sofa reading the script when suddenly her phone started vibrating.

She glanced at it casually. Seeing the caller ID, her brows knit together.

Why would Balthazar Shaw be calling her?

"What is it?" Aurelia answered, her tone neither exactly cold nor warm.

Balthazar Shaw was silent for a long time on the other end.

Aurelia's brows furrowed slightly. "If there's nothing, I'm hanging up."

"Don't hang up yet!" Balthazar said urgently, then fell silent again for a moment before saying, "I... have something I want to say to you."

Aurelia lifted a brow. She was quite curious what Balthazar wanted to say to her. Before she came to M Nation, he'd never tried to keep her, and after she arrived, he hadn't called her once. Now he suddenly called, saying he had something to tell her.

To apologize for the past?

He'd already apologized plenty of times. It shouldn't be those things that made it so hard for him to speak.

All of a sudden, something flashed through Aurelia's mind. Her heart inexplicably started pounding, a bad premonition rising in her chest. "What do you want to say?"

Balthazar Shaw: "Haven't you always wanted to know what happened between me and Mason Nightshade?"

Aurelia's heart thudded faster. Her fingers tightened unconsciously around the phone. She tried to steady her voice and asked, "What happened?"

Balthazar let out a long sigh. "You shouldn't hate him. Whatever he did to me, I deserved it. My sins are unforgivable. Even death isn't enough for me to atone."

"Balthazar!" Aurelia's voice abruptly dropped, turning cold. "If you're still going to spout this useless crap, there's no need for this call to continue."

Balthazar fell silent for a second. "Mason... one of the brothers he once fought side by side with, his good brother, died because of me."

The light, offhand sentence landed like a thunderclap, slamming hard into Aurelia's heart. Her knuckles went taut. "What do you mean? What did you do?"

"I once worked with Mason's father on a pharmaceutical research project. Later, after Mason's father died, I took over the project alone. But this project threatened the interests of certain Mafia Sects.

They came to me and threatened me.

Mason was in charge of the project's security, but I... I betrayed them."

"That doesn't add up. If you betrayed the country, why are you still alive and well now?" Aurelia questioned him like this, but she already believed eight or nine tenths of what Balthazar was saying.

Only this could explain why Mason hated the Shaw Family so much.

Why Mason was determined to destroy the Shaw Family.

And also what Eleanor Spencer's last words to her had really meant before she died.

Balthazar's voice came again: "Because they don't know it was me."

Before Aurelia could voice her confusion, Balthazar explained, "Back then, Mason's father was the main one in charge of the project. I stayed in the background. They never knew who I was. Later when I took over the project, I continued the research in secret.

Later still, Mason's older cousin took over the Nightshade Family, and I contacted him to work together on the project.

I just don't know how the Mafia found out about it..."