Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1405

Shannon looked at Celeste in silence for some time. Then, she said, "I'm the one who was lied to."

She paused and added, "I'm the one who should feel awful."

Celeste froze halfway through holding a napkin. She turned slightly and glanced at Shannon with a hint of guilt.

As she noticed Shannon sit expressionlessly, her heart ached even more.

If Shannon hadn't endured the hardships inflicted by the Grays from a young age, she wouldn't have developed such a composed demeanor in the face of everything.

During those innocent and young years, Shannon had no one to rely on but herself.

The thought pained Celeste deeply. When she'd first learned of Shannon's life with the Grays, she remembered wanting to kill them all in her rage, but she couldn't.

"I didn't abandon you on purpose," Celeste muttered as she suppressed the turmoil in her heart. She clung to Shannon's arm and began explaining the past.

"The Jensens probably told you that you were kidnapped shortly after you were born, but it wasn't an ordinary kidnapping. Someone targeted you."

More accurately, they were targeting the child who might've inherited her demon bloodline.

"The people who silently took you from the Jensens were from an organization known as Ghost Mist."

Shanno frowned slightly at the mention of Ghost Mist. She turned to Celeste and asked, "Is that the organization whose members are evil masters skilled in control of black smoke?"

Celeste nodded. Her expression turned serious as she asked, "Did they come after you again?

"...Sort of," Shannon replied. To be exact, it was because she'd repeatedly interfered with their plans that they now targeted her.

She believed that even if she never returned, Adam would soon come to take their child back.

But when she regained vitality and found a way to return her soul to the original world, she borrowed Fennec's body, only to discover that Shannon had failed to return to the Jensens and had been adopted by malicious people who sought to steal her fate.

Celeste later learned through investigation that another Ghost Mist member had been hiding in the shadows. After she and the others had fallen into the alternate world, he had taken the infant Shannon and given her to the Grays.

It was to exchange Shannon's fate with the Grays and transfer her astrological houses to his son. That man was Earl, who'd given Shannon to the Grays.

His personal agenda was the reason the Ghost Mist hadn't sent anyone else after Shannon.

It was then that Celeste decided to hide her true identity and stay by Shannon's side only under the guise of being her mentor.

She explained, "I didn't know how long my soul could remain in Fennec's body, so I figured that compared to a mother who could disappear at any moment, the ability to protect yourself was more important."