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, “Is

than that, Pearl. Do you remember your mother’s

silent for 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 Hanzel, to

name. I

Pearl went to Allan’s room. Both Allan and Lindsay were present, and tears filled

“Pearl…”

and

had believed that her mother grew up in a normal

mom is my sister, the only daughter

daughter had eloped with an unknown man. Master Jordan, who deeply loved his daughter, was concerned about her reputation being tarnished, so he had worked tirelessly to keep the man’s name

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