The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 282

Two days after Hannah and Friedrich arrived in the Rhine, the young genius took his own life.

Hannah didn’t find him when she woke up in the morning. She knew Friedrich couldn’t possibly go anywhere without telling her.

Hannah tried to call his phone, but it turned out Friedrich didn’t bring his cell phone. Hannah immediately grew anxious. She asked their driver for help to mobilize the villagers to comb their surroundings.

Finally, Friedrich was found in the lake, lifeless, without any signs of violence on his body. The police investigation concluded that he committed suicide.

Charles, who heard the news, immediately went to Moravia on the next available flight. He didn’t even have a bag with him, only the shirt on his back and a passport.

His mind was chaotic, and he couldn’t concentrate. This tragedy happened so suddenly.

“What happened?” asked Charles, who ran over to Aurora and Sebastian.

They both sat despondently in front of the operating room. Sebastian had sent a helicopter to pick up Hannah and Friedrich’s body from Rhine. Now, he and Aurora stayed with Hannah at the hospital.

Hannah was so shocked when she learned that her husband had suddenly died that her water broke, and she was forced to give birth early.

Her pregnancy was not even eight months in, and doctors feared that either the mother or the baby would die.

Aurora spontaneously got up and hugged Charles. Although she had never met Charles in person, she had heard a lot about the young man from her friend and knew immediately who he was when Charles arrived at the hospital.

“Please, accept our condolences, Charles. Your brother is a good person. We will all miss him very much,” whispered Aurora in between her tears.

“I want to know what really happened …” Charles repeated his words, this time through gritted teeth. He broke free and turned to face Sebastian, whose eyes were swollen from crying over Hannah’s misfortune. “Sir, tell me … why my brother could go on vacation to the village that you suggested and he ended up dead? Answer me!!!”

He grabbed Sebastian by the collar and acted threateningly. Fortunately, the young aristocrat understood that the immodest act of the young man in front of him was done because he was really feeling devastated by the death of his brother.

“Calm down now.. Making a fuss won’t do anything. It won’t bring your brother back,” Sebastian said patiently. He patted Charles gently on the shoulder and invited him to sit down. “Hannah’s giving birth in there. Better not stress her out. She’s been suffering enough.”

With a calm and sympathetic voice, Sebastian then narrated from the beginning since Friedrich disappeared from the villa where he and Hannah stayed until the villagers found his body drowned in the lake.

“My brother can’t swim. Why did he go to the lake?” asked Charles in a choked voice. He then glared at Sebastian. “Why did you tell them to go to that village??”

Sebastian instantly felt guilty. He didn’t know Friedrich couldn’t swim. It seemed hard to believe that in this modern time, there were people who do not have such important life skills as swimming.

Besides … Nobody asked Friedrich to swim in the lake. They only suggested that he and Hannah enjoy the beautiful village scenery to relax their mind.

The Rhine was such a beautiful place that was popular as a spa town for visitors from the capital to wind down. They also didn’t know why Friedrich went to the lake and jump into the lake on his own, knowing he couldn’t swim.

Charles buried his face in his hands and wailed. He really could not accept this fact.

His beloved brother, someone he looked up to all his life, the only person he loved in this world, even more than he loved himself… just left like that… without thinking about him, Hannah, and his unborn son.

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Hannah was too weak after a cesarean section to deliver the baby so she couldn’t attend her husband’s funeral. Sebastian and Aurora took care of everything.

After the funeral, Charles disappeared. He spent the night in a bar in Almstad’s Old Town and drank himself senseless to vent his grief.

He had no one to talk to. Hannah was still lying sick in the hospital and his nephew was in critical condition due to being born prematurely.

Charles was down. He did not understand why his brother suddenly committed suicide. Didn’t he still eagerly await the results of clinical research on new treatments last month?

Charles did hear from Hannah that Friedrich had been looking sad and depressed a lot recently because of his illness, but this was no reason to end his life!

Charles knew how excited his brother was to welcome his son. It had become the main thing that kept Friedrich going. He became so positive and optimistic after he knew Hannah was pregnant. He kept pushing so he could see his son be born.

His positivity affected his health that even though it had been over two years, his condition had not gotten as bad as his doctor had predicted.

Then, why did he give up? Why did he commit suicide?

Charles sobbed and buried his face on the bar counter. He really felt alone in this world. The only person he loved was gone.

Charles’ fuzzy mind suddenly became alert when he saw the news on the television above the bar. What were they talking about?

The people on TV were talking about a strange phenomenon around the world. Many experts called it a mass psychological crisis. He frowned and tried to listen to the report from the newsreader.

What was it again? Suicide cases increased by 20 percent over the past week? What’s wrong?

Charles tried to pay close attention to the TV screen, but his brain suddenly refused to work because he had drunk too much alcohol.

The rise in suicide rate around the world was the last thing Charles remembered before he collapsed at the bar counter.