"Who in their right mind would give up their only son for adoption? It's not like they have sons to spare. They only have one, and they want to give him away to someone else? Their intentions are clearly malicious."
Kieran Kerr had just finished his rant when Arabella Donovan quietly offered the answer: "Because they're about to die."
Everyone: "!!!"
"How does that saying go? The ones who frame you know better than anyone how innocent you are. By the same logic, the ones who want to kill you know better than anyone when you're going to die."
"They know that with the combination of the fate-swapping and the backlash from the ghost, they don't have to do much more before you die. At that point, all they have to do is temporarily have their only son adopted under your names. After you both pass away, their son can effortlessly inherit the fortune you've worked for all these years, saving him decades of struggle."
