Clarence smiled silently and looked up at him. “That's interesting. You don't ask your mother what she does, instead asking me?”

Emmett's face stiffened and he gritted his teeth before saying, “I went to her, but she wouldn't tell me. And... As her son, I don't want to investigate her."

“So, Mr. Carter is asking me to investigate your mother for you?”

Emmett did not speak, but nodded his head with difficulty.

Clarence said blandly, “I can do that on one condition.”

“What's the condition?”

“Don't show up in front of Stella in the future.”

Emmett took a breath and said, “You don't need to talk about this again. She has already talked to me before.”

Clarence smiled quietly without saying anything.

After a few seconds, he said again, “One more thing, since Mr. Carter has asked me to help you look into this, no matter what method I use, who I talk to and what result I get in the end, you have no right to interfere.”

At this point, he had no other choice.

It wasn't that he was trying to exonerate himself or anything, but that if it got out to William, his mother...

What he could do is trying his best to restore the truth of this matter and find out why his mother did it so that he can help her deal with the aftermath.

Before leaving, Emmett said, “I have one last question for you.”

Clarence said, “Go ahead.”

Emmett asked, “I always feel that you are very hostile towards me. I know it's because I like Stella. But obviously Horace Jason mean more in her heart compared to me. You don't seem to have much hostility towards him.”

Clarence's expression remained unchanged. “That's because Horace Jason is more decent than you, and he knows what he should do and what he shouldn't. He doesn't even bother to use the tricks you played.”

As Clarence's voice fell, Emmett's face turned pale again, and even his body was a little shaken.

He admitted that he had deliberately slandered Clarence in order to be with Stella.

But he was desperate at that time.

It seemed that in a relationship, playing some naughty little tricks wouldn’t hurt.

But he lost all he had.

After a long while, Emmett said, “When this is over, I will go to Canada and won't be back in recent years.copy right hot novel pub