“I’m fine.”The man who coughed said softly, “I think I’m exhausted from all the traveling.”“Hey, boy. Open the gates and let us in now. Can’t you see our eldest friend is about to collapse? Why do you care who we are? Do the Stones not know how to treat their guests properly?”The man who said he could demolish the door was loud. He was impatient too.He glared at Gabe and urged him to open the gates. He would have taken the gates down without his companions keeping him in check.“Dan,” one of them scolded him. Dan immediately went silent.“Boy, this man here is the person your missus has been looking for. Don’t worry. We aren’t bad people.“Please open the door and let us have a glass of water. He has a weak body.”The youngest among the five elderly men was the one who checked the sick man’s pulse. He was Dr. Carden’s teacher, the legendary doctor.The legendary doctor had already brought Laurence back to FC Manor and took care of baby Oliver there. Later, he found out
Patrick’s attempts to return and avenge Tiara had been stopped by the legendary doctor and the rest.They said there was no one to be the next matriarch even if his revenge was successful, unless he could find Tiara’s daughters. Thanks to Silver, Patrick finally received information about Tiara’s daughter.After discovering Audrey’s location, Patrick had wanted to rush over to find her. However, he was unable to do so due to his weak constitution.The legendary doctor had spent a lot of time improving his health. Patrick wanted to meet Audrey, the Fisher family's youngest miss back then, as soon as possible due to his old age. He wished to tell her everything he knew and pass on some evidence he had to her.He felt regretful for not being able to avenge Tiara.Therefore, he had to hand over this responsibility to Audrey.From what his friends told him, one of Tiara’s daughters had died in a car accident over ten years ago and she left behind two daughters. Her in-laws were crue
Clive’s son, Elias, was crying. Clive walked around the room with Elias in his arms to calm him.Alice did not even open her eyes. She asked, “Is he hungry? Or did he poop?”“I think he’s hungry. You can continue sleeping, love. I’ll coax him and give him some formula. He’ll be asleep until about nine after drinking the formula.”Alice hummed in agreement. She turned around and went back to sleep.Although they had a nanny, the nanny could only carry Elias when he was asleep. If she tried carrying him when he was awake, he would start crying within minutes.It was because he needed to smell his mother’s scent.Therefore, Alice would look after Elias during most of the day. Luckily, he was a good boy too whenever Audrey and Elisa helped out. Otherwise, Alice would have died from exhaustion.Elisa often praised Elias for knowing how to differentiate family from other people. He never cried when his family members carried him.However, he would break into tears immediately in his
“Dear, who was it?” Alice rolled over when she heard the phone ring and sat up too, leaning toward her crying son to pick him up.“Don’t pick him up, love. If you do, he won’t want to drink the formula I made for him.” Clive hurriedly stopped his wife. “The kiddo’s really fussy. Once he smells you, he’ll refuse to drink his formula.”Alice saw that Clive had already started preparing the formula, so she did not pick their son up. It was fine for him to cry a little.“Gabe called and said a few elderly men came by looking for Mom. Apparently, they’re the ones Mom’s been looking for all this while,” Clive said as he made up a bottle of formula. “I don’t know if it’s true, but I asked Gabe to receive them first. Once I’ve fed Elias, I’ll head downstairs to take a look.” “Is the person Mom’s been looking for that really capable guy who assisted your grandmother back in the day?” Alice knew all about Audrey’s family background and the grudge against the Fisher family. She also knew tha
Elias quickly became full. Clive carefully handed him over to Alice to carry before calling Julian to see if he had any news of that old assistant’s whereabouts.Julian replied a little sheepishly, “We still have nothing even after searching for so long. Mr. Stone, I suspect the person you guys are looking for isn’t among the living anymore.”There were plenty of old people in their seventies or eighties, but old people in their nineties were much rarer. The person Audrey was looking for was almost a hundred years old, which was why Julian thought he might be dead.Very little information could be found on him also because all of this had happened decades ago. This made it very difficult for them to find him. Audrey did not even remember what that person was called anymore. All she remembered was whenever she saw him as a kid, she would call him “uncle”.She did not even know his surname. How was Julian supposed to find him? The Buchams had a powerful information network, but they
Alice laughed. “Of course. If we manage to get on Quinn’s good side, it’ll be just the same as getting on Julian’s good side.”As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Stones, Alice had no need to curry favor with anyone, but she still wanted to forge ties with Julian’s wife. There would always be a need for the Buchams at some point.For example, they had only managed to get the Buchams to help now through Zachary’s connection. The rich madams of the upper class mostly had ulterior motives for keeping in touch, apart from the rare few who were truly friends. The rest were just using one another.“Hurry downstairs and see if the old people who came are scammers.” Alice then turned to coax her son softly. “Elias will fall asleep really quickly. I’ll sleep a little longer with him. There’s no need to wake me for breakfast. You have to eat something before you head to the office.”“Okay.” Clive leaned close to kiss his beloved wife on the cheek before tenderly touching his son’s face. He
His face was full of wrinkles and only looked somewhat similar to the portrait Audrey had drawn of him from memory. It was no wonder Julian had not been able to find him. Audrey had not been able to remember what he looked like very clearly, so although the portrait was lifelike and drawn well, it was of no use since he was drawn in the wrong likeness. Was he Tiara’s outstanding assistant?“May I know your names?”“That’s not important. It’s been decades since anyone asked for our names, so we don’t quite remember them anymore,” the legendary doctor said. “You can just call me Doc. Mr. Stone, I’ve been a doctor for decades and have been labeled ‘the genius doctor’ among others. Lilian Carden is my disciple. You must have heard of her.”He introduced himself first. At Clive’s age, it was very unlikely for him to know of the legendary doctor, but he must have heard of his disciple Dr. Carden, who successfully treated Camryn’s eyes.“Mr. Stone, we don’t like beating around the bush ei
Doc explained on Patrick’s behalf the real reasons he had been unable to avenge Tiara for the past few decades. Patrick was agitated as his tears streamed down his face out of guilt toward his matriarch and he began to cough violently.Doc hurriedly took out the medication he took with him everywhere, shook two pills out of the bottle, and made Patrick swallow them as he said, “Don’t get so excited, Patrick. We haven’t even gotten to meet your little miss Audrey yet.”The others also kept comforting Patrick and told him not to get overly excited. Once he took the pills and had some water, Patrick calmed down. Clive was very nervous too, worried about the old man’s health.He had never met Doc before but knew of his abilities and how Dr. Carden was his eldest disciple. Dr. Carden had helped Camryn recover her eyesight and Doc was pretty much the Johnsons’ in-law, while the Stones were also in-laws with the Johnsons. Due to this convoluted form of kinship, they could not be neglectful