Chapter 337

Inside the living room of Shelbert Condominium, Edmund was playing blocks with Susan when his phone on the table suddenly rang.

Upon picking it up, he realized it was his assistant on the line.

Thereafter, he gradually got off the couch and gave Susan's hair a tousle as he spoke. “Carry on playing. I need to take a call.”

“Okay.”

Once he entered the study, he swiped to answer.

“What is it?”

“Mr. Chivers, I have just received news that General Fletcher's battleship has turned back.”

The stunned Edmund narrowed his gaze slightly. “Turned back? Are you sure you haven't made a mistake?”

“I'm certain of it. Ms. Jefferson has also returned to Hallsbay. The moment I heard the news, I tracked her down and learned that she headed straight to Mr. Xuereb's medical base the moment she left the port.”

Justin's medical base?

Edmund's brows furrowed in reflex. “Did you find out the reason for her visit?”

“Based on what I've learned, Maxton was bitten by a cobra. However, I'm not sure if that's why Ms. Jefferson has decided to return.”

right, I

ending the call, Edmund let out a gentle sigh as a wry smile emerged on his

snake bite, her return has proved how indispensable both of them are to

the medical base, Bailey injected the specially-formulated

until she was certain the venom was neutralized that she breathed a sigh

drained from

Bailey was greeted by

her of the first time she

Rhonda at all. Instead, she

matter, she came to the

rang out from her throat. “Are you really my son? I have gone through so many cycles of hope and despair that I've long been traumatized by it. It's not that I don't love you. It's just... I no longer dare to

the room and came up to her side. Placing his hand on her shoulder, he remarked softly, “Actually, if we really think about it, everything does make sense. Back then, Rhonda and you gave birth on the same day. You lost your eldest son, whereas she had a boy. Thereafter, she brought the child to the Luther family and claimed it as her own, demanding due recognition. At the end of the day, this was nothing but

now, I don't trust what anyone has to say. Only the maternity test can

in acknowledgment. “In that case,

he probed, “Bay, if the test results show that Max is

sent a

and I aren't related by blood, it would also

give her a hug. “Don't overthink it. Going forward, the children and I will be by

“Don't worry. If it turns out that I'm not their real daughter, it's

didn't know

Bailey got

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