Concerned about potential trouble, Hilda stood and announced, ““I’ll go cook.

You two chat.”

Quickly, Lucinda caught Hilda by the arm and coaxed her back to her seat.

“Let them handle the kitchen tonight, Hilda.

Stay here with me.”

“How can I let our guests do the cooking? That’s not right.”

“They hardly see themselves as guests.

They know what they’re doing.

Don’t fret,” Lucinda reassured her.

Leaning close, she whispered into Hilda’s ear, “He’s just another man claiming to be my husband.

Keep an eye on him for me, will you?”

At that moment, Nathan was at a loss for words.

He wasn’t deaf.

From such a close distance, he could hear their hushed conversation clearly.

Whispering was pointless.

Hilda stole several glances at Nathan before settling

gaze shifted

deep in thought, she continued to watch

head, Lucinda

she challenged, “You claim

Can you prove it?”

brief pause, Nathan retrieved his

fingers trembled as he scrolled through it, eventually pulling up a

to Lucinda, showing her a picture of their family of four in the lab

the photo,

“Photos can be manipulated.

truly here for me, preparing something like this would have been easy,” she remarked

with a wry smile, “We have twins, five

is the older brother and

the future inheritance issues of the Payne and

were the one

voice softening, “A lot happened during your

fatal

your lineage with the

was immense, and it left you on edge,

rolled up

‘s

clenched his fist tightly, causing the veins in his

to reveal faint tooth marks etched

the scar, his eyelashes fluttered rapidly as he spoke, his voice hoarse

when I stopped you from eating those oranges and bit

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