SWNOVELS Chapter 888
Chapter 888
Isaac had been a vigilant sentinel inside the room, not leaving Grace’s side for a moment.
After what seemed like an eternity, Noel approached Brittany with teary eyes. “Brittany, Grandma wishes to see you.”
Brittany met Noel’s gaze, and a smile reflexively graced her lips despite the situation. “Okay.”
Noel could see that even Brittany was panicking inside; his eyes dimmed with a shadow of unease.
Brittany entered the hospital room to find Grace drained by her ordeal, her cheeks hollowed and her frame frail.
The distant cries of the Salter kin echoed through the halls.
“Zac, would you mind stepping outside?” Grace’s voice was weak but insistent, clearly, she had something to discuss with
Brittany alone.
Isaac’s eyes were rimmed red, bloodshot with fatigue, as he strode out, leaving them in privacy.
Brittany slowly approached the bedside, her emotions a tangled web as she faced Grace. “Grandma, whatever it is, just say it.”
Grace’s eyes were clouded, a stark contrast to her former vitality. She managed a feeble smile. “I’m sorry.”
Her hand trembled as she grasped Brittany’s. “The things that happened back then... I regret them.”
Brittany’s heart lurched as she realized that Grace knew about her investigation-and its findings.
“Grandma, I don’t understand. Why would you do those things?”
Supporting a research institute, conducting live experiments-even sending your own grandson into their midst.
Grace coughed, struggling to speak. “It’s a long story. My husband, Pete Salter, his health was always poor, clinging to life by a
thread of medical intervention. Then we heard about a research team in Craneville claiming they could extend life. We poured
money into their promises...”
Nestled in Craneville, the institute supplied Pete with a cocktail of drugs that initially seemed to revitalize him. However, the
improvement proved fleeting.
Following a series of relapses and diagnoses, it was determined that he was afflicted with multiple rare viruses, tormenting him
to the brink of endurance. The Salter family was coerced into paying exorbitant sums for relief.
Eventually, the institute’s ambitions swelled, leading them to use the Salter name to justify their live experiments.
Pete passed away too soon, and in that same year, Grace, with ulterior motives, considered sending Isaac to Craneville.
Isaac was sharp and enigmatic, his identity largely a mystery.
With her insiders at the institute, Grace hoped Isaac could dismantle it from within and retrieve evidence of the Salter family’s
investments.
But fate had other plans. On the ship, Isaac met a young girl, and they fled together!
This unexpected turn of events led Grace to abandon her plan to send Isaac to Craneville, which is why their pursuers had
abruptly ceased their chase during the escape.
Brittany’s body tensed. “All this suffering, just for his health? Making countless people guinea pigs?”
“We didn’t know at the start,” Grace shook her head weakly. “I was busy with official duties, rarely overseeing the institute’s
operations. By the time we realized, it was too late.”
Brittany struggled to discern the truth in Grace’s words. Taking a deep breath to hold back tears, she asked, “Why poison me?”
“The poison was indeed my doing.” Grace’s head lolled with exhaustion. “You were too clever. You touched Zac’s heart, and he’s
been haunted by you for years. I couldn’t allow him to have a vulnerability. I thought you wouldn’t survive, but you did.”
After escaping from the ship, Isaac had searched high and low in H city for Brittany.
Grace, widowed and determined to mold Isaac into her successor, couldn’t possibly let him pine for a mere girl.
Even though Brittany had anticipated the motive behind the poisoning, the revelation still stung.
“So, you knew who I was from the start?”
From the moment they first met.