Lahat ng Kabanata ng Second chance at happiness: Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

“Cough…cough…” Matthew could no longer hold it in; he twisted his lips awkwardly as he stepped out from his position and sat down on the couch opposite Jane with a resentfully expression.“Hur …hur….hur…” Samuel chuckled before calling out “Is you partner in crime still deluding himself of his masquerading abilities?”“Seriously…” Jane shook her head “You guys are too bored. Why did you even have to dress up?”“Couldn’t you have taken a seat openly?” Jane wrinkled her brows “You are family, why would anyone question your presence?”Matthew scratched the tip of his nose in embarrassment and let out a sheepish laugh before trying to cover his embarrassment by counter questioning teasingly “Why are you here? You looked like you had a fire at the end of your tail…Hur…hur..hur...”“Fire at the end of my tail would have been better…” Jane muttered before turning to Jack and Mira with a serious expression “That lot does not have a single honest bone. Don’t get pulled into their scams.”“The o

Jack’s lips curled up, looking at the awkward Martin “No rush. Sit down.” He rang the bell to summon Harrison and ordered “Serve some tea and nibbles.”“Why are we …” Martin grumbled as he rubbed his hands impatiently; he was a man of action, he fidgeted as he ran all that he had gathered from conversations through his mind.“I am waiting for someone.” Jack answered Martin patiently; he knew Martin best and was not offended in the least. The others didn’t even take the interlude between brothers into account; they had come to understand and appreciate the bond between these cousins.Lazarus returned in the time it took them to finish tea but before he could open his mouth to report, Mira smiled “Drink some tea and eat some nibbles before anything.”Lazarus looked at Jack in confusion before hurriedly downing his tea and gobbling a piece of tart. He knew by now that he wouldn’t get any support from his lord to defy the lady’s orders.“Ha…ha…ha…” Martin laughed happily looking at someone

Everyone’s expression brightened before it fell once again with Oden’s question “Wouldn’t that arise suspicion towards Jack’s identity?” “I didn’t mean anything else…” Oden explained as he saw eveyone’s gaze stopping on him “I assumed that we were keeping his identity under wraps till the whole thing is blown over since Jack still put on a guise while meeting the Sorens.” “That is true…” Cornelius nodded with a perplexed expression while Baldwin spoke with a smug smile “He can still keep the guise, and I can take him over.” “Why didn’t I think of that?” Thomas lightly tapped the back of his head; he had forgotten that although the Zumerongs never returned, his father dutifully paid them a visit every month. This was no secret; everyone knew about it and even mocked his father for being the lapdog of the discarded Zumerongs without respect for his own station. “I can go along, as a sign of goodwill, wanting to repair old relationships and it will not have an impact on our country as

“For the first half of the evening, they were just drinking and boasting, teasing the maids at the joint. It was only when Jason got rough with one of the maids and one of the man servants stopped him, he slipped” Martin smiled like a sly fox who was watching his prey walk into his trap.“Under the influence of the drinks, I guess he forgot to keep his carefully crafted simple minded persona and berated the man loudly asking him if he knew who he was. He also blatantly claimed that he was the heir apparent of Lord Rovner.”Martin: “At that time, I misunderstood his claim. I doubted if he was the illegitimate child of Lord Rovner and whether his confidence came from the fact that this Lord didn’t have any heir.”“I stirred the pot by antagonizing the other patrons at the joint, angering him further making him blurt out in a fit of anger that he was no one’s illegitimate child and that he was the rightful heir and that he was married to Lord Rovner’s favorite daughter.”Martin’s gaze tur

“That reminds me…” Listening to the siblings bickering, Cornelius suddenly remembered an incident that happened years ago when he was desperately searching for Alex, refusing to believe that he passed away.“After I cleared the Zumerongs of any wrongdoing and invited them back, a man who looked like a madman had rushed up to me and told me to go north, to the Bartel estate, an estate in the far north.” Cornelius narrowed his eyes as he tried to remember that incident “At that time, before I could ask any further, he started laughing and then spoke a whole lot of stuff that made no sense, he said that he was being chased by leprechauns for stealing their pot of gold and that he was richer than the king and a whole lot of rubbish before pulling me to go along with him .”“He then stopped midway and took two steps away from me and ran in the opposite direction saying that the grim reaper was coming after him.” Cornelius paused, his gaze drifting towards Martin “For some unexplainable reas