My Secret Billionaire Husband
Chapter 1554 - 1372: He was betrayed by someone

Chapter 1554: Chapter 1372: He was betrayed by someone

Just moments ago, Mrs. Rowlett was sobbing uncontrollably, and now her cries suddenly stopped.

When she looked at Aria, her pupils flickered, and her gaze became a little evasive.

"This, this..."

Aria took a deep breath and suppressed her anger: "He gambled again? Didn’t you stop him?"

"Issac is innocent, he was set up by others," Mrs. Rowlett started sobbing again, "They deliberately wanted to cheat him of his money. He is young and doesn’t understand their tricks, so he was easily fooled."

"So, why exactly was he taken to the police station?" Aria looked at her sobbing parents, feeling increasingly annoyed. She held back her anger and said, "Crying won’t solve the problem. You have to tell me the whole truth about why Issac was taken to the police station. If you want to solve this problem, you have to tell me everything."

No matter how upset Aria was with her parents’ favoritism, they were still her birth parents.

And Issac was her own brother.

When they were younger, Joanna enjoyed a close relationship with her brother. Issac was a likable younger brother.

But then, Issac fell into bad company and picked up many bad habits. The once well-behaved younger brother strayed further and further down the path of degeneration.

As a result, the relationship between the two siblings grew more distant over time.

"Well..." Mr. and Mrs. Rowlett exchanged a glance. After a while, they stammered, "Issac, he went to play cards and met a shill in a casino. That guy said he felt a connection at first sight and insisted that Issac was like his own brother. So, when he found out that Issac didn’t have much money on him, he lent him some to gamble with."

"Issac took the money he borrowed and went to a place called Gambling City. He lost all the money there."

"The man demanded that Issac repay him. Unable to pay, Issac secretly ran back home. But that man, along with his gang, pursued him. They showed the IOU, accused Issac of not repaying his debts, and had the police take Issac away."

At this point, Mrs. Rowlett gnashed her teeth: "That man is a beast, and his heart is thoroughly rotten. If it weren’t for his loan, how could Issac have ended up owing a huge debt and being taken away by the police?"

When Aria heard the words "huge debt," she suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.

She looked at Mrs. Rowlett: "How much money did Issac owe?"

It was not the first time Issac had owed money due to gambling. In the past, Mr. and Mrs. Rowlett had managed to help him out.

"This..." Mrs. Rowlett’s eyes became evasive again, her gaze flickering. She stuttered, "About... about ten million dollars, I suppose."

"What, ten million dollars?" Aria widened her eyes in disbelief, "He owes someone ten million dollars?"

Aria had already prepared herself mentally, but she was still shocked by the number Mrs. Rowlett mentioned.

Ten million dollars was an amount the Rowlett family could never earn in their entire lifetime.

In the past, when Issac had owed money, it was usually only tens of thousands.

Aria even wondered if she had heard wrong.

"Yes...yes." Mrs. Rowlett seemed to realize that the number was terrifying as well, and her voice became even less confident, "That’s why I said that man is a swindler. When he first met Issac, he lent him ten million dollars. Hasn’t he ever bothered to inquire about our family’s situation and find out whether Issac could pay him back?"

"So, you’re saying that upon their first meeting, he lent Issac ten million dollars?"