The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress - Chapter 291

Ren was stunned at Elios’s words. He looked at his father-in-law with a face full of questions.

“I don’t understand what you mean …” said the young man politely. Even though Elios’s statement was shocking, he was always able to control himself and did not show his emotions through his expression so easily.

“You are a genius, aren’t you? How could you not understand something as simple as that?” Elios said, staring at Ren closely. He thought back to when Vega slept with a nightmare. His hand gripped the glass wine firmly.

Ren could see this and immediately realized something was bothering Elios.

“Did I do something wrong?” asked Ren again.

“You know, Ren … You remind me of your father,” Elios said suddenly. “He was very much like you. He was also a genius, spoke many languages, and he was very visionary. However, there was one thing very different about you two. Your father had never hurt women.”

Ren looked at Elios closely. He didn’t expect Elios would suddenly talk about his father. He knew that his father used to work at Atlas X which was later bought by Rhionen Industries before it was turned into SpaceLab.

Ren always thought SpaceLab was his father’s right because it was his father and Sam Atlas who first sparked the vision, but then Elios took it and turned it into something different. That was why Ren accepted the offer to work at SpaceLab years ago to make his father’s wish come true. It was so sad that his father never saw his wish come into reality when he was still alive.

“My father died before I was born, so I won’t know what kind of person he was,” Ren replied with a bitter tone that he tried to hide. It was really difficult for him, sitting alone with the person who was responsible for the death of his father and still had to act polite like this.

If it wasn’t for Vega, Ren would have charged at Elios and strangled the man in front of him. Ren was not afraid at all even though he knew Elios was a former professional assassin equipped with very high martial skills.

After all, he spent his entire life focusing on getting revenge on this man. Ren was not afraid to die.

“I know,” said Elios in a tone full of regret. “He was gone too soon.”

“He didn’t want to die,” said Ren later. He could not take it anymore to see Elios feign sympathy for his father. Didn’t Elios himself consider weak people unworthy to live on earth? Ren really hated hypocrites like him.

‘My father didn’t want to die. You’re the one who killed my father. I really hate you,’ Ren could only hold those words of hatred in his heart.

“I met your father when he was working at Atlas X. In fact, one of the reasons I bought the company was your father. After Sam Atlas died, Friedrich Neumann was the next person who was visionary enough to bring humans into space,” commented Elios. “I think you inherited his talent so you continued his work at the SpaceLab.”

Ren didn’t answer. To his knowledge, Elios was not a very talkative person, but the man seemed to have started discussing a lot of things tonight after staying silent for a while. He was just waiting when Elios would discuss the main reason why he asked Ren to comee.

“I got a secret email from a certain source that covered his track. The email told me that you were the mastermind behind Vega’s kidnapping,” said Elios directly without beating around the bush. He looked at Ren with a sharp gaze. “I can torture you until you confess, or you will confess right away and make up for what you did.”

Ren pretended to be shocked at Elios’s accusation.

Ha. The plan worked. He deliberately sent instructions to Elios who accused him of kidnapping Vega.

It was better if Elios confronted him now and he could get rid himself of the accusation. That way, Ren could avoid any suspicion that was directed toward him in the future.

“Me?” Ren narrowed his eyes with a sneer. “What reason would I have to kidnap Vega?”

“You tell me,” Elios said calmly as he leaned back on the chair. “I didn’t like you from the start we met, but I am grateful that you took care of my daughter for almost the last two years. However, after I realized that she had to suffer a lot while she lived with you, I disliked you even more.”

Ren looked back at Elios. He could not argue with the man’s words. He did make Vega suffer during the first year of their marriage because he only used Vega as a pawn for revenge.

In fact … he had done so many cruel things to hide the girl since she was a teenager until now. He stole Vega’s memory, took her identity, and let her live in misery in the village.

But those were all in the past when he was still burning by the fire of revenge and his whole life was devoted to hurting Elios Linden through his daughter. Now, he regretted it all.

Wasn’t it okay if he wanted to make up for all his mistakes in the past by treating Vega as best as he could now? Taking care of her and making her happy … and devoting his whole life to atoning for his sin to Vega? Ren had even let go of his grudge against Elios, for Vega’s sake.

Didn’t he deserve a second chance? Elios got his second chance when he met his now wife and build a family with her. Why couldn’t Ren get the second chance too?

“It wasn’t me who kidnapped Vega. If I was the culprit, there is no way Vega could be found now,” Ren replied calmly. He took his glass and took a slow sip of his wine. “I want to know what evidence you have that you could accuse me of that.”

“I don’t like you, but I didn’t think there would be a man who was so evil that he would kidnap my daughter to marry her, that was why I never suspected you before,” Elios said quietly.

His tone sounded emotional. Vega was his only daughter, it was natural to expect he would talk this emotionally about the incident that took place many years ago. Talking about the kidnapping incident and the suffering that followed their lives over the years made him feel angry again.

“But after I got the anonymous email, I started to investigate you deeper and became aware that there were so many coincidences. Your father and I met. He left the company I just bought.

Now I realize that he was actually angry because I bought the company that he co-founded and turned it into another company. Then you just “happened” to meet Vega and quickly married her.

You are a prince of a prominent kingdom in Central Europe, but you decided to marry a village girl so easily. This alone brings suspicion,” said Elios again.

“I guess, if I force you or try to dig out deeply, I will be able to find out all the details, how did you do everything. What I don’t understand is … why? What’s the reason you did that to a girl as kind as my daughter? She never did anything wrong to anyone…”

“The reason?” Ren shrugged. “I can’t say because I didn’t do it.. If you want to force me to leave Vega because you think I was responsible for her kidnapping, you must be able to prove that I was guilty.”