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 knees, fingers interlaced, faced two stern gazes, then started speaking, “Nathan rescued her from a drug dealer’s den

Vietnam.”

from a

Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had investigated for a long time

in April, Nathan led a team that cracked

died while trying to escape, and she was holding

“That fits. My

Egbert continued, “Nathan brought her back to his country at that

when he got back, Nathan found that his wife Sarah had

pregnancy led to injury, premature birth, and massive bleeding. Nathan was devastated

Sarah had betrayed

research

survived, but the baby, due to being born prematurely and with congenital

to the hospital, Sarah had already run away. The baby was in the ICU;

day, the baby died at three in the morning. Nathan

little girl he found to a welfare institution. They told him that younger children were easier to adopt,

home from their work outside, but they didn’t see Sarah who was

wanted to tell his parents the truth, but in the end, he didn’t. Sarah’s affair and the premature death of her granddaughter were blows that the two elders of the family

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

adopted yet. So he went through the procedures and

That was the name he had originally chosen for his

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

knew the truth was a friend of Nathan’s, a comrade who had fought with him. It took Egbert

Egbert looked at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own,

expression turned

Eileen’s biological father, I am grateful to him, but Eileen has the right to know the truth.” Derek said grimly.

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