She collapsed onto the ground and shook her head. “This isn’t true…” “This isn’t true!” Jill crawled over and held her in her arms. “Queenie, the DNA testing center must have made a mistake. They must have made a mistake!” Bennett’s heart hurt as he watched her from the stage. He was human. He had emotions. After all, he had treated Queenie as his child for nineteen years. No matter what, his heart would still ache for her when he saw the state she was in. However…The truth always hurt. He took a deep breath and continued speaking. “I could not accept this result either, so I had our DNA tested about ten times, and even switched DNA testing centers just to be sure. All results came back conclusive that Queenie Tate has no blood relation to me.” “In the end, after a month’s worth of sleuthing, it was confirmed that Natalie had left a child behind when she had left me. However, she had taken another one with her.” “The Tate family thinks that Natalie adopted a child
The midsummer night was exceptionally warm. Bennett’s birthday banquet had evolved into a press conference in search of his child. Everyone present began asking questions, and Bennett answered each one seriously. From how he met Natalie and got into a relationship with her, to how they began fighting, to what he did after she left him. It was so detailed that Sally had grown tired of listening before the interviewers had grown tired of asking questions. She leaned into Elijah’s arms and yawned. “Sleepy?” The man murmured into her ears. “A little bit.” The girl smiled sheepishly and turned towards the table to get some coffee that would wake her up. However, Elijah stopped her. “Too much coffee isn’t good for you.” “Let’s leave if you’re sleepy. How about that?” “That… doesn’t seem appropriate.” Sally pursed her lips and looked at Bennett, who was still explaining how important it was that he reunited with his daughter. “The birthday celebrant hasn’t even blo
“Queenie!” In the end, Bennett could not stand it and called for Queenie to stand by his side before he had blown out the candles. “Here, come blow out the candles with your dad.” Queenie’s eyes instantly reddened. “But… Grandpa said…” “You may not be part of the Tate family, but I’ve raised you for so many years. I can’t just abandon you.” Bennett sighed. “However, if you continue to bully others, the Tate family might abandon you for real.” Queenie wiped her tears away. “I know…” Then, she turned to look at Sally, standing at her other side, and gradually hid the hate in her eyes. Old Master Tate disapproved of what Bennett had done, but he chose to say nothing. When it was time to blow out the candles, he pulled Sally nonchalantly to stand beside him and whispered to Queenie, “Don’t you dare bully my precious Sal in the future, or I’ll see to it that you suffer even more!” Queenie curled her hands into fists. However, she still looked at him respectfully and sa
Because of Sally’s insistence, not only did Elijah miss a chance to “work out”, but he was also locked out of their bedroom.He sat on the couch and stared at Pierre. Pierre, “Sir, it’s late. You should be asleep.” Elijah, “Why aren’t you in bed?” Pierre, “Blair locked me out of the room, I’m going to sleep on the couch tonight.” Elijah, “Sal locked me out of the room, I’m going to sleep on the couch tonight.” Pierre, “...” Even the couch was precious real estate now! Elijah stared at Pierre for a while longer before he sighed and said, “You can have the couch. I’m going to take a walk.” Pierre glanced at the clock. It was already past ten. “Sir, where are you going?” “I’m going to the main residence to see if they have any spare keys. Or maybe I’ll just borrow a ladder and climb in through the window.” Pierre, “...” “Sir, thank you for your service!” Elijah was not lying. He did make his way to the main residence after he stepped out of the room. However
“You’ll have the entire Tate family as your enemy if you dare mistreat her!” Elijah nodded and smiled sincerely at him. “I swear that I will treat her well.” “And don’t tell her about this.” Old Master Tate sighed and shut his eyes. “I’ve always known about Natalie’s whereabouts. I just haven’t been able to tell Bennett…” “So don’t tell Sal.” “It’s nice to see how she has no worries.” “If she knew of her identity, and knew that her parents…” Old Master Tate shook his head. “As for how to destroy that chip.” The man retrieved a bottle of medicine. “Take this medicine for three days. Give her a third of the bottle every morning.” “Three days later, the medicine will seep into her neural pathways and corrode the chip. No one should be able to control her then.” “A destroyed chip shouldn’t do much harm to her.” Elijah nodded.Taking a deep breath, he reached into his pocket, retrieved the jade pendant, and placed it into the man’s hand. “I’ve also fulfilled my part
The moon bathed Summers Family Village in its light. Shawn Summers sat in his garden; a coat thrown over his shoulder as he smoked listlessly. Jane lit mosquito incense in the old lady’s room after she put the two children to bed. Then, she shut the door quietly and crept out to the garden, where she stood next to Shawn. “Can’t sleep?” The middle-aged man sighed as he wrapped his arms around her. “I’ve been feeling anxious lately.” “Sal told me last week that Elijah was taking her to Europe. I don’t know when they’ll be back.” The man shut his eyes. “Her eyes just look so much like her mother’s…” “I’m afraid…” Jane sighed as she took his hand in hers. “It’s been so long. Hasn’t she been safe all this while?” “You’ve also mentioned that Sal’s mother… is already with another man… Who knows, she might have had more children and forgotten all about Sally.” Shawn’s brows furrowed deeper as he heaved a long sigh. “You don’t understand.” He extinguished the cigarette h
“No, no.”She sniffed. “If Uncle hears my crying voice, he’ll definitely think you bullied me again!“You can’t call him now!”The girl tossed the phone aside and resumed lying in Elijah’s arms, trembling.However, Shawn Summers called back.The phone rang and vibrated on the bed.Lying in Elijah’s arms, Sally looked at him pitiably. “I’m afraid to pick up…”Elijah shook his head helplessly. His large, well-defined hand picked up the phone and answered.“Uncle.”“Elijah?”At the other end of the line, Shawn smiled. “Why is Sally calling me at this time?”“She had a nightmare and thought of you.”Elijah teasingly poked fun at the little woman in his embrace. “She was sniffling the moment she woke up and said she missed you. She picked up the phone and called you, but she was afraid you’d make fun of her, so she hung up.”Lying in Elijah’s embrace, Sally bit the part of his pecs exposed by his open shirt collar in angered embarrassment.Shawn laughed heartily. “This silly g
This action proved that Elijah was quite strong.Although Sally was in pain after being scrubbed by him, at least she was completely relaxed after the bath.After bathing, she started bugging him about going out to shop again.“I promised Uncle I would buy souvenirs for Auntie and the others.”The girl laid on the couch, two hands holding Elijah’s arm, which was tapping away on his laptop, and shaking it back and forth. “Hubby, you can’t bear to see your wife be called untrustworthy and a liar, can you?”Elijah smiled lightly. He pulled his hand out to caress her head. “Be good. Don’t think I didn’t hear you—you were the one who wanted to bring gifts for them in the first place.”Sally was speechless. “…“Even if I was the one who wanted to get them gifts, I already said those words. I can’t go back on my word, right?”As she said this, she resumed clinging to his arm pitifully, shaking it over and over. “Hubby~“Hubby~ Hubby~ Hubby…”Elijah shook his head helplessly with a s
————One year later. The wedding of Zoey Williams, president of Yoder Corporation, and Thomas Yoder, the young master of the Moses family, was held at A City’s grandest hotel. On the wedding day, Zoey wore a gorgeous wedding gown as she walked over to Thomas. She raised her head and smiled at him. “When I was a kid, Freya always said that I would have to marry her brother when I grew up.” “However, I realized that I did not like Elijah. I much preferred Sis Sally.” “Who would have thought that at the end of the day, I would still end up marrying Freya’s younger brother. As per her wishes, I’ll be taking care of her brother forever, and allowing her brother to care for me for the rest of my life.” Thomas smiled as he pulled her into his arms. “My beloved ZZ, I finally get to marry you.” Freya, carrying Frigg and sitting with the rest of the family, turned to exchange smiles with Bennett. The wedding was joyful and romantic. Everyone attending basked in the loving atmosp
“If you destroy everything I have, then I’ll destroy everything you have!” Queenie gritted her teeth, a hideous expression on her face as she glared at Sally and said, “If it weren’t for you, I would still be the high-and-mighty young lady of the Tate family!” “It’s all because of you that I became nearly a stand-in for you. I’ve enjoyed many years of lavish treatment at the lavish family, but I was discarded unceremoniously into the dust!” “Sally Summers, it’s all your fault! Everything is because of you!” “I won’t forgive you even if I become a ghost!” “Alright then, go be a ghost!” Elijah narrowed his eyes and raised a hand to grip Queenie’s chin. The hatred in his eyes caused Queenie to smile. “Elijah Moses, choke me to death if you have the guts to do so!” “If you can’t choke me to death, I have multiple ways to make life miserable for you!” “Your sister is just one part of my plan!” “You probably don’t know this yet.” Her lips curled upwards into a bloodthir
The woman lying in bed frowned and said in a weak, hoarse voice, “You are…” “I’m the woman who did it for a long time with your husband.” She sat down on a nearby chair and watched gleefully as the woman’s face turned increasingly paler. “You have a pretty bad memory, Mrs. Lucca.” “We just met the other day.” She shook her head as she spoke. “It makes sense, though. It’s only normal that a half-dead person would not have a great memory.” “Forgive me for being blunt, Mrs. Lucca. President Lucca told me that you don’t have many days left.” “When you’re gone, he’s going to leave his daughter and marry me.” The woman lying in bed turned pale as she shook her head and said, “Impossible… That’s impossible…” “Quincy, he…” “Nothing is impossible.” Queenie continued smiling a gleeful and flaunting smile. She threw her pregnancy test strip onto the woman’s face. “Look, I’m pregnant.” “How could I have gotten pregnant if we only did it one time? Such coincidences don’t exi
“In your dreams!” Quincy gritted his teeth together tightly. “I wouldn’t want you even if every other woman on the planet was dead!” The woman on the other end of the line laughed lightly. “You’re going to abandon your child because Freya Moses is dead?” “You planted your seed in my stomach.” Quincy gritted his teeth and was about to continue arguing when Elijah gave him a look. Quincy pursed his lips. “So, what do you want?” “Let’s meet up.” Queenie yawned. “Can you pick a place?” “There’s a cafe nearby the hospital.” Quincy sighed. “I don’t have much time for you, so don’t try talking nonsense after we meet.”“What a man you are, trying to ghost someone after you’ve slept with them.” The woman shrugged nonchalantly. “Alright. You can wait for me. I’ll be there soon.” She hung up. Quincy pursed his lips and looked up at Elijah. “Why do you want me to meet her?” “You’ve got to have some bait if you want to trap someone.” “This time, Quincy, you’re the bait.
The sharp end of the knife sank into Quincy’s skin. Intense pain came, but he did not seem to feel a thing as he continued pushing. Suddenly, a large, strong, and dry hand took hold of him. Quincy frowned as he tried to continue forcing the knife in, but he could not exert any more strength. Elijah’s cold voice rang beside his ear. “Do you feel like my sister will live on for much longer if you die before her eyes?” “Have you ever thought about how much she likes you and how important you are to her?” Stunned, Quincy turned instinctively to look at Freya. The woman was sobbing controllably. As she gazed tearfully at him, it seemed that she had multiple things she wanted to say but could not find the words. Tears flowed once more from Quincy’s eyes. Ignoring the blood flowing from his chest, he dashed over to Freya and held her tightly. “It’s my fault.” “It’s all my fault!” “Freya… I can’t live without you.” “I cannot… I…” Freya could not stop herself from wr
After Freya was hospitalized, Quincy canceled all his work plans and spent all his time in the hospital watching over her. Although she never let him in, and although he could only ever gaze at her through the window from afar. However, he insisted on not taking even a step away from her ward. He stood guard there stubbornly, and no one could talk any sense into him. Both Elijah and Thomas could not bring themselves to chide or drive Quincy away when he acted this way. And thus, Freya finally agreed to meet him on the seventh day. The woman’s face in the ward was pale, and she was considerably thinner than from before hospitalization. She looked extremely haggard. Tears welled in Quincy’s eyes when he saw what his beloved looked like from a close distance. It was all his fault. It was all his fault! He had caused her to end up this way! All because of him!“Is there anything you would like to say?” Freya leaned against her pillows. Eyes shut, she seemed to have
Sally’s lips pursed themselves together when Freya’s name was mentioned. She would admit that she had had a horrible first impression of Freya when they first met. The woman had stripped nearly twenty years of Zoey’s life away from her. Even now, Zoey still bore the scars she had inflicted upon her on her face. And she had even attacked Sally’s mother during her and Elijah’s wedding. However, times had changed, and five years had passed since then. Sally could not bring herself to be cruel toward Freya, who now showed complete remorse. Additionally, she had treated Sam and Little Sarah with genuine kindness lately. Sally had begun to think of her as family. Yet, now, something like this happened. She sighed. “Freya…” “Freya will not be in great condition when she regains consciousness. You need to prepare yourself mentally.” Freya’s illness was in her heart. The sort of illness she had made it so that she could not be made angry, excited, or frantic. If not, not e
Evonne and Sally were slurping instant noodles when Elijah and Thomas arrived at the doctor’s on-call room. They were starving and had virtually no energy left. The only thing in the room they could use to fill their stomachs was instant noodles. When the door opened, Elijah frowned slightly when he saw his petite wife steadily making her way through a pack of instant noodles. The man strode over and grabbed her bowl. “Unhealthy stuff.” Sally had been enjoying herself and raised her head angrily when her instant noodles were taken away. “I don’t care if it’s not nutritious! I’m hungry… Hubby?” The emotions in the woman’s eyes turned from anger to shock, and then to surprise! Reaching out her arms, she encircled Elijah’s neck and jumped into his arms. “You’re back!” “I missed you so much!” He had been on his ocean trip for more than half a month. They had never been separated for so long since getting back together. The signal on the sea was spotty, and she could never
When Sally finished suturing the last ruptured blood vessel in Freya’s heart, she was starving, exhausted, and had little to no energy left. Evonne, who was beside her, was not much better off. “It’s steady! The patient’s heartbeat is steady again!” The nurse staring at the electrocardiograph yelled out excitedly! Given the condition the patient was in, if it weren’t for these two doctors, they would never have been able to save her! “Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner are amazing!” “Of course.” A senior doctor standing nearby smiled as he stroked his beard and said, “How did you think Dr. Summers earned her title of genius surgeon?” The young nurse’s mouth widened in surprise. “In that case… why are Dr. Summers and Dr. Turner no longer working as doctors?” The senior doctor sighed. “I guess they have their reasons…” In another corner, Evonne leaned against the wall, exhausted as she turned to look at Sally. “Dr. Summers, do you still plan to stay on as a housewife?” Sa