Marissa could not figure out why Ralph would hide the fact that Mable was not part of the family. To make matters worse, Ralph even put an outsider like Mable in charge of the family. Mable looked at Marissa and said curtly, “The paternity test could be fake.” Marissa nudged her chin. “Easy there. Check the photos in the back.” Furrowing her brows, Mable flipped through the photos and found a medical report. Mable magnified the photos for a closer look, and her face went white. Marissa smiled sarcastically at Mable. “Have you read the file? Your mom lost a lot of blood giving birth to your brother, so the doctor removed her womb to stop the bleeding. Haha. How could she possibly have you without a womb?” Mable looked at the patient record in disbelief. The medical case, prescription, and date were written so clearly that she could not detect a single flaw.Maybe her parents really found her on the streets. Marissa looked at Mable and said indifferently, “You can inve
Mable left the place where Marissa was held captive and took a ride back to the villa. She needed a moment alone. As if the truth behind her birth was not shocking enough, she had to learn about the truth of her parents’ passing and the feud between the Jeffersons and the Fowlers. The whole thing overwhelmed Mable, and she needed time to process everything. Hugging her knees, Mable sat on the bedroom sofa. Her mind was all over the place. Spike opened the door quietly and looked at his mother worriedly. He had sensed her low spirits when she returned home. Concerned about his mother’s well-being, he came to check on her. As he suspected, his mother had encountered something unpleasant. Picking up on the noise, Mable looked up and saw Spike approaching. Mable reached her hand out. “Come and let me hold you, darling.” Spike would never say no to his mother. He slipped into her embrace. The boy looked up at his mother and extended his arm to smoothen her frown. “Don’
Locating Anthony could be key to curing the virus in Mable. “Huh? Alive?” Kyle was surprised as Blair had previously ordered an arrest on Anthony, dead or alive. However, now Blair wanted him alive. Blair nodded and explained the virus in Mable’s bloodstream to Kyle. Kyle responded, “Got it.” Once the call ended, Blair left the phone aside and pinched between his brows. … That night, Mable visited Blair and brought him dinner. After dinner, Mable told Blair about her conversation with Marissa. Mable showed the paternity test results and her mother’s medical record to Blair. Blair read the file and fell silent before saying, “Ashdale Public Hospital should have a record of Natalie’s medical history. I’ll put my men on the job right away. We should know soon whether the patient file is genuine.” “Alright,” Mable replied dejectedly. She looked at Blair as the frustration got to her. “Who am I if I’m not my parents’ daughter, Blair?” Blair pulled her into his arms
Blair showed no emotions behind his eyes when he stared at the man who was supposedly his father for over twenty years. “We have better things to do.” Luke smiled and spoke in a husky voice, “What are you doing here?” Mable pulled out a photo from her bag. “Do you remember this person, Luke?” Luke glanced at the photograph, and the smile on his face froze. He grabbed the photo, his bony fingers running along the face of the woman in the photograph. Luke then smirked and replied, “The joy of dying young. She remains forever young and beautiful.” Mable clenched her fists. “Did you send my mom to spy on my dad, Luke?” Instead of answering Mable’s question, Luke stared at the photo of Natalie, lost in his thoughts. “Your mother was one of the most beautiful women in Richworth when she was young. She was talented in music, literature, and painting. They all fell at her feet and went crazy for her.” Luke looked at the photo with a proud look. “Oh, Natalie Barwise. I taugh
Luke pointed at Blair. “Do you think you have won, Blair? Don’t celebrate too soon. Haha. In a few years, you will go through what I have been through. We share the same blood and mental illness! Hahaha!” With her heart sinking, Mable gripped Blair’s hand. The firstborn sons of the Fowler family would inherit a mental illness, and Blair carried the gene. Blair looked at Luke, his eyes narrowing dangerously. “At least I won’t raise my son as if he is a parasite as you had. I will never let my son and his siblings tear each other apart, either!"Mable said, “Quit your bluff, Luke. The Fowlers’ hereditary mental illness isn’t incurable. I will cure Blair.” “Oh, really?” Luke glanced at Mable in disdain. Mable turned to Blair. “Have faith that I will fix you up, Blair.” Paul had said the illness was treatable. “Of course.” Blair held Mable’s hand tight and nodded. His eyes were no longer cold when he met her gaze. Luke fixated eerily on Mable. “Haha. I shall wait and see.
Blair and Mable left the prison, feeling a little down. Mable’s footsteps felt heavy. When Luke admitted the truth of her parents’ passing, Mable was livid and confused altogether. Ralph knew the plane wreck was not an accident but did not follow up on the lead. Maybe he knew the culprit was Luke. Why did Ralph not avenge Adrian and Natalie, then? He let Luke on the loose for years, and that was the thing Mable could not figure out. Blair took Mable’s hand and stared into her tearful eyes. His heart went out to her, and he stopped, pulling her into his arms. “I’m sorry, Mabes.” Blair held Mable, feeling sorry like never before. His father took her parents and grandfather away from her. He had also hurt her unintentionally. It would take more than a lifetime to atone for the sins Blair and his father had committed. Mable looked up at Blair. She was upset at first, but his warm embrace and soothing words brought a lump to her throat.“Blair…” Mable looked at him wi
That afternoon, the doctor came to redress Blair’s wound. Standing in a corner, Mable looked at Blair’s abdominal injury and told the nurse, “I’ll do it.” Although she could not perform surgery anymore, she could still handle simple tasks like dressing wounds. The nurse handed the items to Mable and left the ward to give her space. Lying in bed, Blair cocked his head and looked tenderly at Mable’s profile. Redressing wounds could be painful, so she moved with deliberate care, her touch as gentle and precise as possible.Mable sat Blair up and wrapped bandages around his abdomen. “It’s your third gunshot wound.” Mable looked up at Blair, revealing the guilt in her eyes. He took a bullet for her in Ashdale and hurt his shoulder. Back then, she surgically removed the bullet for him. Later, Blair suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm when retrieving the Ice Jade Flower from Isaac. This time, Blair was shot in the stomach for saving Spike. It dawned on Mable that h
Blair contacted the hospital yesterday to retrieve the medical records of Mable’s mother.He took the records handed over by Amos and passed them to Mable without looking at them.Mable felt a bit uneasy. However, in the end, she mustered up the courage to take them and open them.Blair watched her. Although he had not read the contents of the record, he already knew the result from Mable’s expression.Seeing that he was not needed, Amos silently exited the ward.After a long time, Mable closed the record and looked at Blair with a blank expression.“Blair, what should I do? I’m really not my parents’ biological daughter...”The content of this medical record was more detailed than the one Marissa showed her. Her mother indeed had a difficult delivery when giving birth to her brother, so the doctors had to remove her uterus to save her life. Thus, she could not conceive again...Could what Marissa said be true? Was she really an abandoned baby her parents picked up by the roads