“I’m not sure if I’m drunk.”
He rubbed his aching temple with his slender fingers.
How he wished he was drunk! If he were drunk, he would not remember anything that happened tonight the next day.
“It looks like you had one too many a glass,” said Averie.
“Go lie down.I’ll get Mrs.Scarlet to make you a bowl of hangover soup.Drink it before going to sleep.”
He agreed to her request and ended the call.
About half an hour later, Mrs.Scarlet came up with a bowl of sour plum soup.
Elyette was lying in bed, and he was still wearing the same clothes.
His eyes were shut.
Only one bedside lamp was turned on in the room, and it was quite dim.
Mrs.Scarlet was not sure if he was asleep, so she stood by the door of the room.
Then she heard his deep voice, “Come in.”
He opened his eyes and sat up.
Mrs.Scarlet served the sour plum soup.
Inadvertently, she caught a glimpse of dark red blood on his palm.
“Sir, your hand is bleeding!”
Mrs.Scarlet was shocked.
“I’m fine.”
He took a sip of the soup.He sounded relaxed, but his voice held an undercurrent of steel, “
Don’t tell Averie anything.”Mrs.Scarlet lowered her head
“Okay.Next time I’m worried, I’l] ask you.”
“I saw Nathan White tonight.”
Elyette continued to drink the soup, but his voice was tight.
“Do you know what he said to me?”
Mrs.Scarlet’s face turned black.
‘’No matter what he said to you, don’t believe him! No truth comes out of that mouth!”
“He said he was my biological father.”
Elyette was completely awake, and he set aside his soup.
“He said that my mother planned everything.My mother trusted you.Tell me now.Was he telling me the truth? “
Mrs.Scarlet fell to the ground with a plop.
“Nathan White, he must have come to ask you for money, didn’t he?”
Mrs.Scarlet said incoherently, “Madam Rosalie didn’t tell me anything about this.After all, I’m just a servant…but…”
“But what?”
Elyette looked at her with his eyes that resembled a dark pool.
His dark eyes seemed to penetrate through everything.
“Thad to look after a child.That child was taken to see a doctor.He was gone for a while, when he came back, I knew that it was not the same child that left.The child that came back was a different child,” said Mrs.Scarlet as tears streamed down her face.
“We servants who had taken care of the child know this well, but we didn’t dare say anything.I’m not sure if this was Madam Rosalie’s arrangement.”
Elyette breathed a sigh of relief, but the pain he felt did not disappear.
“Sir, don’t blame Madam…She treated you like her own and looked after you as she would her own.The reason she might have done such a thing was because she was depressed.Not a day went by where there would not be a fight.They fought over the children, and how they were both unhealthy.Madam probably did such a silly thing because of that…”
“She’s already dead, and you still speak for her.”
Elyette’s voice was cold.
After a moment, he sneered, “I should thank her.If she hadn’t chosen me, I would either be begging for food on the streets or rotting in the slammer right now.”
“How can you say that, Sir? Gold shines wherever it goes!”
“My biological father is a gangster, and my biological mother is a bartender…In such an environment, it would be a question of whether I was still alive!”
“Sir! What Nathan said is not necessarily true! Besides, you are currently indestructible.Your position right now prevents just anyone from pulling you down!” said Mrs.Scarlet.
“Don’t admit that they are your parents! As long as you don’t, you will always be the head of the Foster family!”
The next day, a black Rolls-Roice stopped at the entrance of the Public and Judiciary Paternity Test Center.
Escorted by his bodyguards, Elyette strode into the test center.
This was the test center that had sent some documents to Averie last time.
It was the reason why he had decided to get the paternity test done here
The person in charge immediately invited Elyette to his office.
“Mr.Foster, what brings you here today?” asked the person in charge gingerly as he poured Elyette a cup of tea.
“Do you know my fiancé?” Elyette asked.
Stunned, the person in charge said, “Who is your fiancé?”
“Averie Tate,”
Elyette lowered his voice and said, “You mailed something to her a while back, right? I saw it.”
The person in charge brightened at the mention of Averie.
“You mean Miss Tate! I do know her.She is a brilliant woman, and it is my pleasure to know her.I didn’t know that the two of you are engaged! What great news! The wedding…”
“The wedding is on the first of June.You can come if you are free on that day.”
“Of course, I will be free!”
“What business did she come for the last time she was here?”
Elyette could not help but ask.
Averie had been avoiding his eyes when he had asked her about it, and the way she behaved was somewhat unnatural.
Apart from that, she had also brought up the topic of his identity.
Asking him what would he do if he found out that he was not the person he had thought he was, and she had done this only after she had received the parcel that had come from here.
The person in charge was taken by surprise and said hesitantly, “Mr.Foster, according to our policies, we are forbidden from sharing our clients’ personal information.You are about to marry Miss.Tate, so why don’t you ask her?”
“She did tell me.I’m just not that sure if she’s telling me the truth.”
“Why don’t you trust her?”
“There are white lies and then there are malicious lies, “
Elyette said with confidence, “I am about to marry her.Of course, I trust her.”
Relieved, the person in charge said, “I can talk to you about it briefly.Miss Tate sent us a blood sample of her patient and told us to—”
Elyette interrupted him immediately.
“Alright, I know.You don’t have to continue.”
If Averie had told the truth about sending her patient’s blood sample, it meant that she had not lied to him.
Perhaps he had overreacted thinking that she was avoiding looking at him.
The person in charge, however, could not seem to stop.
“It’s really interesting, Mr.Foster, let me finish Elyette’s brows twitched.
‘You want to tell me about the gorilla?”
“Oh! I guess Miss Tate did tell you everything, then.”
The person in charge picked his mug up took a sip of tea.
“By the way, is there anything we can help you with today? You are Miss Tate’s fiancé, so we will be sure to provide you the best service.”
“Do I not deserve your best service if I’m not Averie’s fiancé?”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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