Chapter 218

Lunch was soon ready, so Laura stopped arguing with Hanzel and led Pearl by her hand into the house, leaving Hanzel there looking annoyed.

At the dining table, Allan kept zoning out as he looked at Pearl’s familiar face. He finally spoke up, saying, “May I ask you a question?”

Pearl smiled and replied, “Your curiosity is showing. Go ahead, I’ll do my best to answer.”

Allan nodded. “What’s your father’s name?”

“My father…” Pearl’s mind briefly wandered before she answered, “Max Leighton.”

An awkward silence hung over the table.

Allan’s lack of response, Pearl inquired further,

that, Pearl. Do you remember your mother’s name?”

a moment, then said,

my dad?”

that name, Allan’s eyes welled up with tears. He wanted to say more but refrained, considering the presence of a child and

I might have remembered wrongly.”

Hanzel and Laura continued working on their flower crown, Pearl went to Allan’s

“Pearl…”

the situation and asked, “So… I’m

believed that her mother grew up

mom is my sister, the only daughter of

Jordans. Twenty years ago, the daughter had eloped with an unknown man. Master Jordan, who deeply loved his daughter, was concerned about her reputation being tarnished, so he had

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