The truth - chapter 6

Meanwhile Nathan, after receiving Gab's telegram, sent another one to him, asking him to protect her at all costs and took Newton and went to Hope Valle.

— Can anyone tell me what's going on?" Nathan asked from the doorway of Elizabeth's house.

Everyone was surprised and quickly filled him in on everything, including Lucas telling him everything that had happened over the last 24 months and about the fake affair and his marriage to Fiona.

Lee learned that all the accidents at his lumber yard were her family's fault, including his accident where he almost lost his right foot. Rose lost her papers and then some contracts from her clothes store, losing several orders. Henry had two attempts to get him arrested, but both times Abigail, Elizabeth and two other people he never saw defended him and the cases were closed. Clara and Jessy had problems at the café, and soon someone came up with some slumber parties which is where they got back on their feet, but Elizabeth did everything without appearing for them. Abigail was threatened with corruption at city hall and various problems getting businesses and money into the city, as well as them threatening to take the adoption of the children out of her hands. As for you Bill and you Nathan, your corruption, negligence, theft, abuse and other cases... well... I can only say that the senior police officer who defended you was Senior Colonel Wynn Delayne, he is Elizabeth's uncle, married to Elizabeth's father's sister, who was also threatened by Willian Thatcher for a long time. Well, he knows her family well, and he knows that Elizabeth has been running away from her father and Charles for years. When she was 12, she was almost raped by him, but Aunt Agatha managed to save her. When she was 15, as far as I know, it was even worse, she was narrowly avoided being raped by Charles, she was saved by a friend who was already a mountie, but he died when Charles shot him. She came here half running away from it all, Jack and Abigail protected her. Since Jack's death, the horror has only increased. As for me, Charles put a gun to my head and was about to shoot me saying that Elizabeth was his, when Fiona shouted that she was my wife, meaning that he didn't kill me because he thought I was cheating Elizabeth out of money, so he proposed calling her to Hamilton and they would take her by force. That's when I sent the urgent telegram.

— Bill, but how does she know all this?

Lucas went on to explain that the Thatcher's butler and his wife have always looked after her since she was a child, they've never lost touch with her; When she came here years ago, they knew, and they didn't come to Jack's funeral, because her parents locked them in the house in Hamilton, but since then they've been watching everyone there, then they had a meeting with Charles and his family where they signed a contract for millions of dollars, and according to Ana, the butler's wife Éder, they . ...you'd better read this, I have the photo she took of the contract, Bill and Nathan looked at the screen in horror, it said that the trade for Elizabeth was being made and with no return and Jack Junior being a fatherless and motherless, they sold Elizabeth and the child.

— Oh my God! exclaimed Lee and Rosemary at the same time.

Everyone looked at them and saw the pallor and astonishment on their faces. Reading the letter aloud, everyone began to understand. Bill, Nathan, Lucas and Henry read their letters again. Nathan had tears in his eyes, he had heard what he had always hoped to hear, ever since he fell in love with her. Henry didn't know where to find air to breathe, because he saw the first person who had forgiven him in the city. Bill was furious with himself for not protecting his daughter, knowing that the fear she was going through alone was killing him.

Lucas was speechless, pale, he seemed to see death coming towards him. His gaze was lost in time...

Nathan called out to him and shook him. Lucas wake up, we need you, but he was motionless with tears rolling down his face, then Nathan realized that he knew something else...

— Save her, please... by all that is holy, you have to save her...

— Calm down Lucas, we'll help her, Bill said.

— You don't understand Bill, there are many threats against all of us, I went to Hamilton, because in the last letter from her father, he confirmed the threats made two years ago, when she kicked you Nathan.

Nathan took a deep breath and said that she didn't need to worry about him, after all he was a mountie. But Lucas went on to say harshly that he was an idiot, he had threatened Alien, Cody, Robert, Laura, Beck, Jack Junior, Opall and Emilie. Elizabeth would never let anything happen to her children, that's why I turned into her lying boyfriend so you'd stay away. She fought with all of you for it. She knows William Thatcher and Charles very well.