Chapter 514 - The Heir to Linden Family (1/2)
”You may already know our adopted son, Elios Linden,” Ned said as he glanced at his beautiful vast hall. ”Eli is Portia's nephew. His parents died in the last world war and Eli spent a long time wandering. He just returned home and we feel it's time he took part in the clan more actively.”
The atmosphere immediately became noisy. The Linden surname was a fairly influential name in the past and they did not think the extinct family had an heir. Everyone surnamed Linden was dead, Princess Luna was the last one.
People who saw Alaric at the Ritz Gala before did not connect him with the Linden family for this reason, but it turned out that Elios Linden was now acknowledged as a nephew of Portia ... which means ...
Whose son was he?
”Now I know who he reminded me of,” Caspar said quietly. He turned to Aldebar. ”Do you still remember Mars Linden?”
”Linden's youngest child who was sentenced to death?” Aldebar asked back. ”It was a long time ago. Do you think this is his son?”
Caspar looked at Elios from the side. The young man seemed to enjoy his wine while chatting a little with Portia and occasionally staring at Ned who was introducing him.
The youngest son of the Linden family was never discussed by the Alchemists because of his terrible reputation. He was born long after his two older sisters and was spoiled by the Linden couple as their only son. Unfortunately, he was associated with bad people and eventually made an unforgivable mistake.
The sentence for an unforgivable mistake was Death. Since then he was banished from the clan, never discussed again and no one thought they would one day see his descendants.
”As I thought, people think you are Mars Linden's son,” Portia commented, looking at Alaric, ”Let's leave it at that. People don't need to know who your real parents are. It's better if they think of you as my son.”
Alaric nodded. They have talked about this before. For Alaric, his mother's reputation was far too important and valuable to be tarnished by telling the whole world that she had a son outside of wedlock. For him, his own status was not important at all.
Mars Linden was the youngest sibling of Princess Luna who had long disappeared since he was banished from the clan before World War I. He was not yet 50 years old at that time, still very young and very angry.
Portia knew that Mars had finally committed suicide and Linden family kept it a secret from everyone. He did not leave any offsprings, but the rest of the clan did not know this. She then suggested that Ned introduce Alaric as Elios Linden, son of Mars Linden, the missing heir of the Linden family.
Ned gave the signal and Portia then got up while embracing Alaric.
”This is Elios Linden, our adopted son, and the heir to three families, Linden, Lewis, and Baden,” Portia said to everyone and tapped Alaric on the shoulder. The young man bowed his head slightly and smiled for the first time. His smile made all the girls unable to take their eyes off of him.