Chapter 98

The sudden silence in the tent seemed to freeze the air.

Eileen was curiously eyeing two strange men.

A shocked old man. And a middle-aged man who looked worked up.

Eileen grabbed the tent curtain, turning to Egbert, “You’ve got stuff to do, so I’ll just go ask them myself.”

With that, she was about to leave.

“Hold on.” The middle-aged man suddenly blurted out.

Eileen stopped and looked back at him. “You…”

Just then, Egbert stepped forward, grabbing Blake’s shoulder to stop him from speaking.

Blake looked at Egbert.

Egbert turned his head and said to Eileen, “Go on, I’ll stay.”

Eileen didn’t understand what they were up to, she mumbled an “Okay” and left the tent.

The sound of the girl’s footsteps gradually faded away. Only then did Blake somewhat regain his senses.

He closed his eyes, lightly rubbing his temples.

“Egbert.” Derek sat on an uncomfortable folding chair and said in a deep voice, “I need an explanation.”

Egbert glanced at Derek, then patted Blake on the shoulder, signaling him to sit down.

Blake sat down. Egbert also pulled over a chair to sit.

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his hands on his knees, fingers interlaced, faced two stern gazes, then started speaking, “Nathan rescued her from a

Vietnam.”

a story from

calling Eileen auntie. He had investigated for a long time and most of the

in April, Nathan led a team that cracked a cross-border

while

said, “That fits. My sister was kidnapped in March.”

her back to his country at that

that

bleeding. Nathan was devastated when he heard

Sarah had

elder members of the Howard family were seeking medical treatment in the capital and conducting research at the National Science Institute, she even engaged in risky sexual activities during her pregnancy, which resulted in a premature birth and a

she survived, but the baby, due to being born prematurely and with congenital deficiencies, was critically

was in

died at three in the morning. Nathan

welfare institution. They told him that younger children were easier to adopt, but finding the child’s biological parents might be

later, the elder Howards returned home from their work outside, but

affair and the premature death

thought of the baby girl he had sent to the welfare institution. The baby girl’s age was roughly the

adopted yet. So he went

the child Eileen Howard. That was the name he had

didn’t know that the child had been switched, and even Sarah probably didn’t expect Nathan to replace the child she had given birth to

a comrade who had fought with him. It took Egbert a

all of this, Egbert looked at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own, she was

expression turned sour.

father, I am grateful to him, but Eileen has the right

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