The more Neil thought of it, the more upset he became. It was as if there was a huge boulder sitting on his heart, something that he could not move away from nor ignore.After a long while, he could no longer take it. He picked his phone up and went to the backyard garden to make a call.When she picked up Neil’s call, Aura had just left Michael.She was lying on the sofa in the hotel. Looking at the called ID, she frowned a little.If she recalled correctly, the night before, she and that little b*stard had set a time to only contact each other once every three days.Only a day had passed, yet he had already actively reached out to her? Aura narrowed her eyes and picked up the phone.“Mother.”On the other end of the line was Neil’s voice. “Are you and Luna really biological sisters?”Aura furrowed her brows. “Why are you suddenly asking this?”Neil took a deep breath. He carefully said, “Just now, Nellie said that you and Luna aren’t biological sisters…”Aura narrowed her
Neil clutched the phone tightly in his hand.His heart raced wildly. After arranging with Aura to find an opportunity to get Nigel and Nellie out, Neil sat on the bench in the garden anxiously.It seemed that his gut was not wrong. The doctor might not be wrong either.Nigel and he were very likely identical twins. Perhaps even Nellie was born at the same time!However, he was feeling complicated at such a thought. On one hand, he was happy that he could finally have real siblings.On the other hand, he felt that Joshua and Luna were utterly pretentious the more he thought of the idea.How could they pretend to be benevolent parents to other people’s children? During dinner, Neil unprecedentedly took food for Luna and Joshua.Both Luna and Joshua were shocked yet delighted. Luna looked at Neil, and she then looked at Joshua. Joshua was also looking at her, and their eyes, filled with surprise, met.Nellie, by the side, smiled and looked at them. She chuckled calmly. “Are you
“Whether Nigel is a kid who likes to joke, I can still see for myself. You guys just don’t trust me. Since you don’t trust me, why did you bring me here?”Then, Neil struggled to grab the plate, but Luna pressed it down with force.In the end, the plate could not bear the struggle, and it immediately slipped right out of both of their hands.Crash! The plate fell, and the cookies were scattered all over the floor.The entire dining room fell into silence.Neil smiled. “Great, now no one gets poisoned.” Then, he took a deep breath and strode upstairs.He did not even swerve past the broken plate shards, and the pieces pierced through his slippers, stabbing into his feet. However, it was as if he did not feel any pain. Neil continued heading upstairs.The kids' room door slammed shut loudly.By the dining table, the family of four looked at each other. After a long while, Luna looked at Joshua with rebuke. “Why did you have to ask such a question?”Joshua looked at Nigel. “I o
Luna furrowed her brows.Joshua, by the side, also coldly swept Nellie a glance.“Only the three of you are going to get the DNA samples?” Joshua furrowed his brows. “Just get him to tell us where Aura is staying. I can just send my men to do it.”Joshua thought that things like obtaining DNA samples would not need those three kids to do it.Any bodyguard they had was professionally trained. They did things cleanly and swiftly, with no room for error.“But Neil wants to head there himself.”Nigel slowly lifted his head. “He said that Aura doesn’t stay in one place all the time. Also, she’s extremely guarded. If we’re to send men to do it, it’ll alert her sooner or later. “But if he were to head there himself, Aura won’t be suspicious. She’ll only think that he wants to see her. “As for bringing both of us…” Nigel looked at Nellie helplessly. “Nellie’s only afraid that Neil might not return after going to see Aura, so she thought of following him.”Then, Nigel lifted his gaze
Luna immediately grabbed hold of Neil’s ankle, exposing his injured sole of the feet. There were still a few broken pieces lodged in them.She sighed and clutched onto his ankle, while gently taking the broken pieces out of his feet with the tweezers.“How could you be so careless?” Neil was initially seated, but when Luna tugged at him, he was forced to lie back on the bed. He could not exert his strength. Luna clutched onto his ankle tightly. It was quite painful, so Neil just gave up struggling.However, even though his body stopped struggling, he was still defiant in his speech. He furrowed his brows and looked at Luna.“It’s none of your business whether I’m careless or not. I’ve already said to stop being a hypocrite and pretentious with me! I’m not Nigel or Nellie. This won’t work on me!”Luna furrowed her brows. “Even if I’m being a hypocrite, even if I’m being pretentious, I’m helping you to clean your wound. What do you have to lose? Why are you resisting it?”When sh
“If you have the confidence that Nellie and Nigel won’t get hurt if they tag along, of course, I’m fine with it.” Luna smiled.She gently ruffled Neil’s head. Her tone was gentle. “You’re willing to get close to them, I’m quite happy about it, actually.”Luna sighed and threw the tissue papers and cotton buds used to clean Neil’s wound into the bin. Then, she kept the first aid kit before turning and leaving.Neil lay in bed looking at Luna leaving. He pursed his lips tightly. If Nigel and Nellie were to follow along the next day, he would definitely protect them with all his life.This was Joshua, Luna, Nigel, and Nellie placing their trust in him. One could never be a person without credibility and limits.However…Neil closed his eyes. He could not imagine if the truth was like what his mother had said, none of the children belonged to Luna.When the children leave her, she would feel extremely terrible, right?…The next morning.During breakfast, Neil once again suggeste
The car drove for a very long time. In the back seat, Nellie shifted from bored to death from her initial excitement.She pressed her head onto the window and looked at the scenery out of the window. A huge question popped up in her head.Nellie turned to look at Neil. “Didn’t you say we were going to the hotel?”Why was the car heading to a more secluded place, it was even reaching the outskirts of Banyan City? Neil looked at the address on his phone. He pursed his lips. “We’ll be there soon.”The address that Aura gave was a very secluded place. Neil had also once suspected the address, but Aura said that the DNA Diagnostic Center was huge, they had to be built in places like the outskirts. After all, it took up a huge space and the city was not cheap.Neil was convinced and no longer had any doubts about the address.However, the car headed further into barren land. Where was the huge DNA Diagnostic Center? Nellie looked at Neil a little anxiously. “Jake, did you take us t
“I’m telling you to stop the car!” Neil yelled at the driver manically.However, the driver seemed to not have heard him. Not only did he not stop the car, but he also increased the speed.Neil bit his lips and slammed on the car door. He glared at the driver. “You are my driver! Why are you not listening to me!”The driver laughed, “Do you think I’m Theo Allen, that I would listen to whatever you said? Young Master, don’t think too highly of yourself. We’re Lady Aura’s men. We only listen to her!”Then, he slammed the gas. Soon, the car arrived right at the entrance of the abandoned factory.Nellie’s eyes widened. She looked at the car outside in shock. In the end, she turned around and looked at Neil.“Nigel…Jake, you lied to us!”Did he not say that they were going to the hotel where Aura was to gather her DNA samples? Why were they there at a deserted place? There was nothing around except the abandoned factory in front of them. How could Aura possibly be staying there?F
At that, he looked at Gwen. "Actually…"Steven found himself unable to finish his sentence. After a long while, he shook his head and smiled. "Forget about it.""Steven…" Gwen looked at him, and her tears fell.Her heart was not made of stone. How could she not know Steven's feelings toward her?She was silent for a long while. In the end, she stood up and slowly walked over to Steven with arms opened wide. "Give me a hug."Steven hesitated for a while, but he still stood up.They hugged."Gwen." Steven hugged her thin figure. "I have to meet you earlier in the next life so I can compete fairly with my brother."Gwen nodded with tears streaming down her face. "Okay."They thus hugged once more. Minutes later…"He's gone," said Stefan.Tears kept falling.They hugged for a while longer before pulling apart. Gwen looked at Stefan with her tear-stricken face. He had tears on his face as well.She bit her lips and reached out to wipe his tears. "A—Are these tears…yours or his?
The next day, Rachel flew from Merchant City to Sharnwick City to diagnose Anne's condition. Theo tagged along as well because he had another identity, Rachel's boyfriend."According to the report, Anne's condition is slowly recuperating." Rachel was relieved after assessing the report. "Although she is very weak, she is going to get better with lots of rest."There is nothing wrong with her vocal cords too. It could be a psychological thing that makes her lose her voice. A knot in her heart that causes it." She looked at Luna, then at John. "Considering all factors, I think that knot is Luna."Rachel continued, "John, I know Luna is the root cause of all these bad things. Being away from Luna, Joshua, and other people is going to guarantee a safer life for you and your family. But have you thought about it from Anne's point of view? Other than you and Sammie, she has her own life and her circle of friends. Never has she blamed Luna for what happened, yet you forced her to leave Lun
It was almost a miracle for Anne to willingly leave the house just to visit him!Robyn, meanwhile, sobbed at the sight.The nurse who accompanied Anne to the ward was puzzled. What was going on with these people?She snuck her phone out of her pocket and took a photo of this surreptitiously. Then, she sent it into the nurse's group chat with the caption, [What a strange family I met today.]The nurses in the group chat began gossiping about this. One of them tagged a fellow nurse named Daisy and said, [Hey, isn't this the guy who saved the old man you're looking after? What a hero!]Daisy was, at this moment, walking into Andy's room to help him change his wound dressing. She saw the message but was not able to type on her keyboard to respond, so she recorded a voice message instead. "Yes, that's the man. What's wrong with his family? What are you guys talking about?"As soon as she finished her sentence, she lifted her head and finally realized that Andy was not there.Instead,
Anne stared at John for a long time before forcibly smiling and told him in sign language, "Robyn didn't return after so long, so I got worried and came by to check on her.""Daddy, Aunt Robyn, are you two hugging?" Sammie asked, blinking innocently as she raised her head in curiosity.John and Robyn turned pale at this.It was understandable for such a young child like Sammie to misinterpret them as hugging, but what would Anne think of this?John leaped off the bed and staggered toward Anne. "Anne, it's just a misunderstanding…"However, he was still so weak that his legs could not hold up the full weight of his body at all, and he almost crumpled to the ground.Quick-witted Robyn managed to catch him before he could fall, but this gesture appeared once again rather intimate to both Anne and Sammie. Sammie furrowed her brow and asked rather indignantly, "Are you hugging again? Daddy, how can you hug Aunt Robyn like this when you've never even hugged Mommy and me like this befor
When the nurse pushed Anne to John's ward, she overheard John and Robyn fighting from the door. The fight was about how John was anxious to return home because he was worried about Anne and Sammie.However, as someone who used to work as a nurse, Robyn knew John should not leave the hospital after being shot by a gun. At least, he needed to stay in the hospital and be observed for 24 hours to make sure that he was fine before leaving the hospital. If an infection happened, John's body would crash easily and he would become weak just like Anne.In the ward, John frowned and talked with a serious tone, "I'm really fine. Get me my clothes so I can go upstairs to thank Miss Andie and go back home immediately. If Anne knows that I'm hurt, she is going to worry. She will easily be suspicious since you haven't gone back home for a long time. What if she worries about me and brings Sammie to the hospital to look for me? Can you bear yourself even just thinking about it? She's weak and Sammie
Sammie's soft and cute babyish voice melted Stefan's heart immediately. It had been quite some time since he actually put a smile on his face. "Hi, there. What's your name and how old are you?"Sammie tilted her head to look at Stefan's handsome face and smiled sweetly, "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sammie."Then she did not forget to introduce Anne to Stefan too. "This is my Mommy. Her name is Anne."At this point, Stefan had given all of his attention to Sammie and did not notice Sammie mentioned that her mother's name was Anne. He pinched Sammie's cheek and said, "Your Mommy is not feeling well. You have to be a good girl and take care of her, do you understand?"Sammie nodded seriously and said, "I will.""Alright, sir. I will bring them to where they want to go," the nurse saw Anne signing to her anxiously. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of them."The promise from the nurse gave an assurance to Stefan that they would be well taken off. He smil
This was the first time Anne brought Sammie out. Ever since she escaped from death, she became a different person—a recluse and was afraid of the sun. This situation became even worse after she became mute.The last time she left the house was two weeks ago when she had to go for surgery.However, she worried about John. In the morning, Robyn told her John was hurt and needed to stay in the hospital to rest. However, she had a hard time believing what Robyn said.After spending so many years together with John, Anne reckoned she was the one who knew John the most. If it was a minor injury, John would never want to stay in the hospital. He cared too much about her and Sammie, so he never dared to let her worry about him. Therefore, it just did not sound reasonable if John would stay in the hospital because of a small injury.Furthermore, Robyn had not returned home since the morning, which was nearly three hours since she left the house. After much consideration, she decided to call
Tara fell silent upon hearing this. She bit her lip nervously and shot Gwen a tentative glance. "I didn't mean to offend you, Gwen…" "I know." Gwen let out an exhale and interrupted Tara before she could finish, "I know you meant no harm, but I can't deny that this is something I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around. In the future, neither of you—even you, Luna—should bring this up again." Her love life was such a mess that not even she could unravel the ties, much less expect other people to understand. Tara pursed her lips and did not reply. Luna stared at Gwen in silence for a while before finally saying, "But you have to face this eventually, Gwennie. After all that you've been through with Luke, all of us hope for nothing but the best for the two of you. Even if you avoid it now, you'll have to face the truth eventually. Otherwise, are you planning on spending the rest of your life in this complicated relationship with Luke? Can you bear the thought of not being
Stefan was mildly amused by the look on her face. He extended his arms out in a gesture of defeat and said, "I never intended on ratting you out to Joshua. You three spoke about these secrets in my presence." With that, he shot Andy a rather helpless look. "Don't you agree, sir?" Andy was surprised to be called out all of a sudden. "Of course!" Although Gwen and Luke had been together for a long time, Luke had never much cared for maintaining good relations with his future father-in-law. He always thought his relationship with Gwen did not concern anyone else outside of the two of them. Combined with the fact that Andy had done some hurtful things to Gwen in the past, Luke grew even more disdainful of his future father-in-law. Because of this, he had never given Andy as much as a second glance throughout their relationship and rarely ever addressed him directly like this. The truth was, Stefan had already called out to Andy once before, during their rescue mission the day befor