Carter was quiet for a moment before he replied, "He went to a reliable center for a paternity test.""A paternity test?! With whom?""I tried to find out, but I didn't get any details. All I figured out is that he asked a nurse to pay him a home visit to take that blood sample today."Maxwell was stunned. All of a sudden, he remembered seeing a nurse walking out of the door with a medical case before he saw Hayden and Sonnet emerging from the room.He had not paid that any attention at the time, but now that he connected the dots with Hayden and Sonnet's movements, he was suddenly struck speechless. Could Jaybie and Lune be Hayden's biological children?Was Hayden the man Sonnet has been looking for all this time?!That would explain everything. Why else would Sonnet approach Hayden so uncharacteristically? It was probably because she realized that Hayden was the children's biological father!Maxwell felt as though a fire blazed in his chest. It burned and hurt.He could n
The other men gasped in unison and turned to look at Maxwell as one.Maxwell's expression was stormy, on the verge of a violent explosion.Logan could feel Maxwell's body gradually building up more strength. He secretly held him back with more force, but Logan was not sure if he could stop Maxwell later.The room was so silent they could hear a pin drop!"Why did she ask you for another child?" Maxwell said coldly after a long, long time. "Because she wants to save Jaybie! He needs the umbilical cord stem cells of a full biological sibling. It would increase his chances of getting a match."Hayden added, "But I swear, I'm not Jaybie's biological father! I did a second test to figure out where Sonnet's test went wrong.""But how? How did you and Sonnet…?" Marcus was relieved at first, but then he asked again anxiously. Hayden's gaze swept across the other men. "You're all as suspect as I am!""Why do you say so?" Logan was not involved in any of this, so he crossed his arms,
Maxwell looked at Logan, who continued, "I first met Sonnet when she asked about Lil Lux Club. She confused the place with mine. I even helped her with her investigations for a while.""So you knew all along?" Howard asked in surprise. Logan nodded. "Yeah, that's why I say it's a series of coincidences. I knew the truth, but I was the only one who didn't go that night. You never told me about it, either, so I had no idea you were involved in this."He then turned to Maxwell. "Maxwell knows about the story too, but he forgot that he was ever there. You three remember going there, but you didn't know her side of the story.""So what do we do now?" Howard asked, scratching his head. "I don't remember having a one-night stand with anyone. I'm still an innocent virgin here!"Marcus hurriedly added, "Yeah, same here." As soon as he said that, he suddenly remembered that he recently had his first time with the woman he loved.He recalled his wonderful time with Lindy, and his mind imme
Marcus' eyes lit up at Hayden's words. "If those children are really Maxwell's, wouldn't it be happy endings all around? But—"He turned his head to look at Hayden, who was driving. "As far as I know, paternity tests are rarely wrong. Even if you do it again, chances are high that it'd be the same result.""The tests are rarely wrong, but the samples could be wrong," Hayden said immediately. "I suspect she took the wrong sample.""If the test comes back negative, then maybe she took the wrong sample. But her test came back positive! So whose sample did she take to get that positive result?""Uh—" Hayden was stumped. Yeah, who was the father if not him? Sonnet Tom the wrong sample and somehow found the children's father by accident?Something clicked in his mind, and he yelled, "I remember now! Maxwell was there when Sonnet took the sample! She probably took a sample from him instead!""Sonnet's a smart lady, though. How did she end up taking the wrong sample? This is really impor
Hayden wailed over the phone. "Maxwell, even if the results are out, they won't tell me at six in the morning! Don't worry, I'll tell you as soon as they tell me!"On the fourth day, just as Maxwell arrived at the company, he received a call from Hayden, who sounded excited. "Maxwell, I told you! Those kids can't possibly be mine!"Maxwell's heart skipped a beat. "The results are out?""Yeah. Jaybie and I aren't related at all!""But why did Sonnet say your test came back positive?""I've been thinking about that lately. If I'm not the one, I think you stand the highest chance of being the real father! Sonnet probably took the sample from that night when we had dinner with her together, remember?"Hayden sounded rather excited. "She told me the sample she took was the fruit pick that had poked me in the mouth! I remember you used a pick, too. Do you think she could have gotten them mixed up?"Maxwell's heart gave a huge jolt at that. That night, he had poked himself in the mou
Sophia turned pale and ran into the room. Maxwell used the opening to follow behind her.Jaybie was sitting on the floor, the floorboards in front of him covered in blood. Even his clothes were bloody.Maxwell's heart tightened in his chest. When he saw Sophia panicking, trying to press down on Jaybie's nose, he hurriedly stepped forth. "Let me do it."His tone was so certain that Sophia froze and stepped aside. Maxwell felt terrible for Jaybie, but he did not hesitate. He pulled Jaybie into his arms and pressed down on his nose, yelling to Sophia at the same time. "Bring an ice pack!""O-Okay!" Sophia ran off and returned with an ice pack. Maxwell sat down and let Jaybie lean into his embrace. With one hand, he pressed Jaybie's nostrils together, and he put the ice pack against the bridge of Jaybie's nose with his other hand.After a long time, Jaybie's nosebleed finally stopped. Maxwell then calmly helped him change out of his bloodied clothes and gently put him onto the bed
He was overwhelmed with joy, so much so that he felt dizzy. His entire body felt light, as though he would lift off from the ground and fly off any second.Jaybie and Lune really were his children!To think he did such an unbelievable thing in those few hours while he blacked out on the night five years ago!Didn't that mean he was fated to be with Sonnet?They accidentally slept together five years ago, had two adorable children, and then coincidentally got together again five years later. Sonnet was destined to be his woman!Overjoyed, he left quickly with the report in hand.The doctor could not help but laugh as he saw Maxwell practically skipping away.His colleague asked, "What's so funny?""In all my years in this field, I've never seen a man so happy to receive a paternity report that he'd skip out of the center. Today is a first."Maxwell skipped down the steps of the center and then called Hayden. "The results are out.""How is it? Are they yours?""Yep, they're my
How could this be? The results were positive the first time and negative the next! How could the results change like that? What went wrong?She thought it over and then called Lindy. "Hey, could you help me ask a doctor about paternity test accuracy…?"Lindy had plenty of connections. Soon enough, a doctor called Sonnet. Sonnet told the doctor about the different test results. The doctor said, "Now, that's odd. If there was a problem with the sample, it would more likely result in a negative than a positive. If it's positive, the chances of it being a faulty sample are exceedingly low."You said that the samples for the second test are more reliable than the first, which means the likelihood of the second test being a false negative is lower. But how would that explain your first test? Did you accidentally use your toothpick instead of the potential father’s for the sample?"The doctor quickly refuted their own suggestion. "No, that's impossible! If it was your sample, the resu