Book 1: She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement Annulment

Chapter 68

Chapter 202: Father And Son Meet

Everyone looked into the distance as one to see a row of black Audis approaching. The bodyguards dressed in black suits and leading the way got out of the cars first. After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Justin finally got out of the car.

This was Justin’s mandatory lineup whenever he went out.

It was just that when he got out of the car, Cherry instead took out a baseball cap and put on a face mask. After getting out of the car, she suddenly held her stomach and said, “Daddy, my stomach hurts!”

Justin narrowed his eyes, not sure what his daughter was up to this time.

However, it must be because that woman was nearby that she desperately wanted to leave this place at the moment.

He beckoned to the person next to him and said, “Take Pete to the bathroom.”

After saying that, he also whispered something else to him.

The bodyguard immediately understood. He nodded and took Cherry to the bathroom nearby.

People at the racetracks here were generally either rich or of high social status. Therefore, even the bathrooms were exceptionally clean—in fact, they even had VIP toilets there.

Cherry secretly changed into a skirt after she went to the bathroom. Then, she openly swaggered out from the bathroom with a mask on.

Her brother was in trouble and needed to borrow Daddy for a while. She mustn’t be a hindrance to him!

Seeing that the bodyguard really wasn’t paying any attention to her as she had expected, the petite Cherry went around the crowd and headed straight into the racetracks. Hehe, she was going to go and admire some handsome guys!

She didn’t notice that a plainclothes bodyguard was following her closely after she came out.

How could Justin possibly not worry while his daughter was out and about?

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Justin strolled around aimlessly after Cherry left. By right, since he had come in person, it went without saying that he would definitely use a special entryway.

However, to everyone’s surprise, he actually walked straight to the normal entrance.

Nora was currently in a confrontation with Paul.

Justin’s lineup was too grand during his arrival. The people around them were already moving about and telling one another about it. Paul stared at Nora and sneered, “When you were using Justin Hunt’s name, I bet you didn’t expect that the man himself would really come, right?”

Nora raised her eyebrows. Her cool and distant countenance was totally calm.

Even if their family of four should meet, then so be it. She would simply clarify the ties between the two of them with Justin, lest the guy kept thinking that she was in love with him. She couldn’t even be bothered to pretend anymore.

In the midst of her thoughts, everyone stepped aside.

Nora looked over and saw Justin striding over under the escort of his bodyguards.

Little Brandon looked at Mia, then at Terence, and then finally at Pete.

However, he noticed that his eyes were flickering a little, and he seemed a little scared.

Brandon panicked at once. He stepped forward, held Pete’s arm, and asked, “Cherry, a-are you really Justin Hunt’s child?”

Next to them, when Mia heard him, she immediately said, “Brandon, Cherry really is his child! Don’t you believe what Daddy says?”

But before Brandon could breathe a sigh of relief, Terence yelled, “That’s impossible. He’s not the Hunts’ child! He is a little bastard! Hmph, now that Justin Hunt is here, you and your mother are going to get your just desserts, Cherry!”

After he spoke, Terence even grabbed Pete’s arm and said, “You mustn’t run away!”

Pete, “…”

Wouldn’t he be admitting that he was lying if he ran away now?

That wouldn’t do at all.

While Pete was frowning, he saw Nora giving him a look.

Pete was short. Additionally, they were also surrounded by crowds, so he couldn’t see what it was like in the distance. However, Nora had already noticed that Cherry was not with Justin.

She didn’t know where she had gone, but the little fellow must have slipped away when she saw that something was wrong. She was surprisingly very quick-witted.

Seeing that Justin was coming closer and closer, Paul took a couple of steps forward and said politely, “Long time no see, Mr. Hunt.”

Justin was wearing a black suit and a white shirt, which looked surprisingly like lovers’ matching clothing with the black outfit that Nora was wearing.

When he came over, his eyes locked onto Nora right away.

The girl stood there lazily with her back straight, but there was obviously impatience in her almond-shaped eyes.

Clearly, someone who couldn’t take a hint had provoked her.

Justin raised his eyebrows. The beauty mark at the corner of his eye became increasingly dazzling. He was about to walk over to her when Paul blocked his path, causing Justin to frown.

Nevertheless, he was forced to stop and say politely, “It’s been a while, Mr. Quinlan.”

Paul was a standard villain.

As they said, it was better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain. The saying was referring to exactly people like him.

The Hunt's weren’t afraid of him, but they weren’t willing to offend him easily, either.

Paul smiled and made small talk. He said, “Do you also like to watch car racing, Mr. Hunt?”

Justin replied, “My child likes it, so I came to join in the fun.”

Paul nodded. “Do you have a favorite, Mr. Hunt?”

Justin shook his head. “No. I’ll probably place a random bet later.”

Paul wanted to continue the small talk, but Justin instead asked, “Is something the matter, Mr. Quinlan?”

Only then did Paul stop talking.

Over the years, the Quinlans had actually been trying to curry favor with the Hunt's. After all, should they gain the Hunts’ protection, they would surely do even better.

However, Justin was terribly hard to get hold of. He simply couldn’t establish any sort of ties with him even after interacting with him several times.

They had even considered sending him women before, but Justin had driven them out right away. He even publicly announced that whoever sent him any women in the future would be his enemy.

Therefore, everyone speculated in private that Justin might not like women.

After all, with the exception of his child, he had always practiced abstinence ever since he was a child, and had never had any women trouble.

With that in mind, Paul replied, “There is indeed something trivial. I just didn’t expect that there would be people using your name to do whatever they want outside, so I stopped them, Mr. Hunt.”

Justin was a little taken aback. “What?”

Paul knew that Justin would definitely be very angry and fly into a rage.

Thus, he didn’t mind doing Justin a favor. He pointed to Nora and Pete and said, “That mother-daughter pair claim to be your woman and your child. That child, especially, has been showing off and wreaking havoc, and telling everyone that you are his father.”

Terence also shouted, “Yes, he’s the one. He insisted that his father is Justin Hunt. All of us kids know about it!”

He looked at Pete happily and said, “Did you see that? That is the real Justin Hunt. Is your father really Justin Hunt? Do you dare to confront him face-to-face about it?”

Pete, “…”

He glanced at Justin in silence. Only then did he see that Justin seemed to have only just spotted him. He looked at him and raised his eyebrows a little.

Seeing that all of them weren’t saying anything, Paul immediately smiled and said, “You don’t have to be too angry about it, Mr. Hunt. After all, you have a good reputation out there. That’s why there are even children who are pretending to be your child. I just happened to chance upon them doing something wrong, so I decided to expose them. It’s mainly because I was concerned that they would do worse things outside…”

He had only just said that when Justin asked, “Why are you here?”

Chapter 203: Daddy!!

That one line from him made everyone there dumbfounded.

Everyone looked at them incredulously.

Pete kept quiet for a while before he finally said, “Daddy.”

Justin nodded. He took a step forward and took the initiative to ask, “Didn’t you go to the bathroom? Why are you here instead?”

Pete, “?”

As it turned out, Cherry had made up an excuse and gone to the bathroom. No wonder his father didn’t recognize him!

At practically the same time, a bodyguard came over and said, “Mr. Hunt, the little mister is gone. We…”

He’d only just said that when he spotted Pete. He closed his mouth right away.

Both Nora and Pete fell for their act.

Pete immediately adopted a different stance and said, “I came to look for Mommy.”

He held Nora’s hand after he spoke.

Nora raised her brows.

She glanced at the bodyguards and then at Justin. She couldn’t help feeling that something was a little amiss, yet she couldn’t pinpoint it. Wasn’t Justin purported to have a very high IQ?

How was it possible that he couldn’t even see through such a low-level loophole?

But… it did make sense!

There practically weren’t any boy-girl twins that looked identical in this world. If she weren’t their mother, she probably wouldn’t have ever thought that she also had a daughter, right?

With that in mind, Nora lowered her head as if she had thought it through.

Next to them, Paul was dumbfounded. He stared at them incredulously and sputtered, “The… the two of you…”

Nora raised her eyebrows. “I told you. Who says this child isn’t Justin’s?”

Mia and Brandon also immediately jumped in and said, “Yes, that’s right! Cherry is a child of the Hunt's! We weren’t lying, yeah!”

Terence, “!”

Brandon looked at Terence again. He stuck his tongue out and said, “Nanny nanny boo-boo! To think you wanted to bully Cherry. So, Cherry can go in now, right?”

“…”

Justin finally understood what exactly had happened after he said that.

It seemed that his son had been bullied by a six-year-old in kindergarten.

How useless.

He secretly dissed him inwardly before he pulled a long face and said, “What’s going on? Are the Hunts’ children not allowed to enter the racetracks?”

The security officers, “!!”

The security officers at the entrance broke out in cold sweat at once. They said, “Of course they are!. It’s an honor that your child graced our racetracks with her presence, Mr. Hunt! It’s my fault for failing to recognize a famous person when I see one. Please come in, please come in!”

Both Justin and Nora knew that the security officers were just threatened by Paul, that’s all.

He was just a man trying to make a living, so why bother holding it against him?

Nora scoffed and said insinuatingly, “Never judge a book by its cover. Remember to keep your eyes open the next time you do anything.”

The security officer nodded at once.

Next to him, Paul, who had wanted to do Justin a favor, looked livid.

Never would he have ever expected things to turn out this way!

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“Cherry, where are you?”

Worried about her safety, Pete sent Cherry a text message immediately after he entered the racetracks.

Cherry: ‘I’m already seated in the benches! Come and look for me later, Pete!’

Knowing that she was safe, Pete breathed a sigh of relief.

Only then did he look up at the two people walking in front of him.

Justin was smiling, and his dark eyes were full of mirth. He said, “So, Ms. Smith, you’ve been claiming to outsiders that you’re my woman?”

Nora, “…”

She stuffed her hands into her pockets casually, seemingly disinclined to carry on the topic. She asked, “What put you in the mood to come and watch the race, Mr. Hunt?”

“It can’t be helped. My son likes it,” replied Justin.

As expected, it really was because of little Cherry.

Nora let out an ‘oh’. Just as Justin was about to say something, she suddenly did a U-turn and said, “Since you’re here, then please take Pete and the two children from the Smith's with you to watch the race, Mr. Hunt. I have to go backstage to visit my dear cousin.”

Although Cherry was a clever and adorable child, this was ultimately a messy place. Nora was worried about her safety.

Justin narrowed his eyes and said, “Okay. See you at the benches later?”

Nora waved but didn’t answer.

He must be kidding. Was she supposed to go to the benches so that the family of four could meet one another?

She was dying to avoid him instead!

Justin watched as the woman’s slender figure disappeared into the distance. Only then did he look back at Pete.

After a few days of separation from the little brat, it seemed like there was now light in his eyes, especially with Mia and Brandon next to him at the moment. The three of them standing together looked like they were on pretty good terms with one another.

Justin cast his eyes down.

Pete didn’t have any friends at the Hunt's. In addition, Pete didn’t allow anyone other than him to go near him.

In spite of that, because the children weren’t walking properly, Brandon bumped into Pete from time to time, yet he didn’t show any sign of annoyance.

Justin’s brows drew together.

The woman might look lazy and sloppy, but by her side, Cherry had grown up to be a lively and lovable girl. Her son had only been with her for a few days, yet he also seemed to have become much more cheerful.

Was he really not as good as that woman at raising a child?

While he was reflecting upon himself, Paul came over to make up for what had happened just now. He smiled and said jokingly, “Information about you is really too confidential, Mr. Hunt. I always thought that you had a son, but as it turns out, it’s actually a daughter?”

He glanced at Pete and hesitated again before he asked, “So, is he a boy or a girl?”

Justin glanced at him with his deep-set eyes and slowly replied, “Either is possible.”

Paul, “?”

He wanted to say more, but Justin had already turned around and left with the children. It was obvious that he wasn’t interested in talking anymore.

Paul, “…”

What the heck did he mean by either was possible?

Elsewhere, Nora called Cherry and was informed that the little fellow was at the benches. However, it seemed that she had slipped into the benches to the west, so she was planning to go over and look for her.

They were currently in the north. This was where the final sprint would be, so the point of view was excellent there. It was a position that only people like Justin could occupy.

To get to the west side from the north side, she had to pass by a row of resting areas.

The racers were currently resting there.

The abandoned location occupied a huge area, so the resting area was made up of a row of small houses. When Nora was passing by, a couple of racers happened to walk past her. They were chatting earnestly with each other.

“Have you heard? Logan has a leg injury. He definitely won’t be able to take first place in the race anymore!”

“Of course. I even heard that it was the Myerse's who did it to go against the Anderson's, but no one dares to say anything about it. After all, Paul Quinlan is backing up Winston!”

“What should we do? If Logan loses, will the bookies let him off?”

“No way! Logan probably won’t be able to step out of this place alive today. You have no idea how fierce those people are.”

“Sigh, how tragic.. If he insists on racing with his leg injury, his leg will probably be a goner after this. With the way things are now, he’s doomed unless Yanci descends from heaven to save him!”

Chapter 204: Yanci!

“That’s impossible. The international racer Yanci? In a place like this? I heard that the organizers send him an invitation every year, but there’s no way he’ll have any interest in races that aren’t fit to be seen in public like this.”

“Sigh, that’s true. You’re right. In that case, Logan is really done for this time! And so are the Anderson's, right? If they want their son back, they’ll need 50 million dollars…”

“…”

The two passed by Nora as they chatted.

Nora stopped in her tracks.

She had known all along that Logan seemed to be in some kind of trouble, but she hadn’t expected it to be this bad.

Why didn’t he bring up even a word about it at home?

While thinking about it, Nora sent Cherry a text message reminding her to pay attention to her safety. Then, she headed to the racers’ lounge.

The racers’ lounge wasn’t accessible to ordinary people.

The people guarding the place were all men that Jordan trusted the most. The one standing guard at the entrance happened to be one of the people who had tried to stop Nora from going up the stairs when she rushed over to the Hoffmans’ the other day. He had also been involved in what happened after that, so he knew who she was. Rather surprised to see her, he hastily said, “I’ll take you to Mr. Hoffman!”

The Andersons’ affairs were indeed rather troublesome this time.

Mr. Hoffman had also been having a headache over it the last couple of days.

If he had known this would happen, he would’ve listened to Logan and postponed the race to next month.

What was he to do now?

That was 50 million dollars they were talking about. Even they would have difficulty forking out that money, let alone the Anderson's. After all, who would have that much cash with them?

Nora nodded.

As she walked into the lounge with the man, they ran into Mrs. Hoffman.

Mrs. Hoffman had been taking care of Jimmy in the hospital the last few days, so she hadn’t had a good sleep in a while. It was to the extent that she even had dark circles under her eyes. At the sight of Nora, she grabbed her hand and said sincerely, “Oh, you’ve come? I was just about to go and look for you. Are you here because of Logan? I know all about it. Don’t worry, I will definitely make sure he’s fine!”

She went on and said, “I came here especially to look for Jordan. Even if there’s no other way, we can at least get those 50 million dollars ready!”

The corners of Nora’s lips spasmed a little as she stared at Mrs. Hoffman, who seemed like a completely different person now.

The woman was really straightforward.

She said unhurriedly, “No, it’s fine.”

Mrs. Hoffman sighed and said, “You don’t have to stand on ceremony with us. I’ve already heard from the doctor—if you hadn’t rushed over to our place, what I would have seen the next morning would probably have been Jimmy’s dead body since I had thought that he was feeling unwell just because he was scared. You saved him! So, that makes you our benefactor! I’m willing to give you even my life, let alone 50 million dollars. I have some jewelry here that should also be worth a sum…”

At this point, she suddenly straightened her back and said, “By the way, I haven’t formally apologized to you yet. I misunderstood you. Sigh, I’m not trying to make excuses for myself, but every time Jimmy got a headache in school, the teacher would call me; but every time I brought him back home, he would be right as rain again. That boy is such a halfwit. To think he couldn’t even describe the symptoms clearly. We had also gone to the hospital for his headaches. The doctor suggested a brain CT scan, but also said that there will be radiation exposure, so he wanted us to think about it ourselves. Later, we took him back home, yet he said that it didn’t hurt anymore. This repeated over and over again… That was why when you told us to have a lumbar puncture done, my first reaction was to think that you were spouting nonsense… Now that I think about it, I was really so ignorant!”

Nora actually wasn’t angry.

She had seen family members of patients who were even more difficult to deal with than Mrs. Hoffman. Besides, doctors tended to favor conservative methods of treatment for children.

The amount of radiation exposure that a brain CT scan would expose one to, was equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of a chest radiograph.

It was normal for doctors to let them make the decision themselves.

She nodded. Then, she interrupted Mrs. Hoffman and said, “I’d like to visit Logan.”

“Okay, I’ll take you there!”

With Mrs. Hoffman leading the way, no one dared to stop them all the more.

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In the lounge.

Logan shifted his ankle after he put on his clothes. The severe pain made him as pale as a sheet, and cold sweat trickled down his forehead.

His friend next to him ranted furiously, “They sure were ruthless! The bones at your ankle are all shattered! You can’t apply any force on it at all! Is there even any difference whether you take part in the race or not? In my opinion, you should just go to Mr. Hoffman and give up the race!”

Logan didn’t pay him any attention. A look of pain and resolution came over his untamed countenance.

It was one thing to lose, but something else entirely to give up the race.

He couldn’t let down the people supporting him.

He took a deep breath and said, “Let’s go.”

The door was suddenly pushed open at this moment.

Linson Leigh, the racer whom Winston was supporting, stood outside the door.

Linson was an upstart racer. He had taken second place the year before with a result of merely five seconds behind Logan.

Paul was in support of him, and he had become a rising star in the world of car racing.

Logan looked at him and asked hostilely, “What are you doing here?”

Linson stood arrogantly at the door and replied, “I’m here to show Logan—The Racing King some concern, of course. How’s your foot? I heard that the bones are all broken. If you still don’t undergo surgery, you probably won’t be able to ever recover, right?”

Logan, who was pulling a long face, retorted, “It’s none of your business.”

Linson curled his lip disdainfully and said, “Sigh, why so angry, Logan—The Racing King? As they say, the new constantly replace the old, while the old grows cold. In New York’s world of racing, the era of Logan—The Racing King has already passed. Now that you’ve become too old, surely you should make way for newcomers, right?”

His words angered Logan’s friend, who yelled furiously, “If the seniors have to make way for the newbies, then let’s just go through a normal handover! Besides, Logan is only 22 years old! He’s in the prime of youth right now! Make way, my a*s!”

Linson was about to speak when Winston came over. It was obvious at first glance that he had overly indulged in carnal desires, causing his health to be all spent. With an annoying look on his face, he said, “Sigh, what are you worked up for? No matter how young he is, he can only be a thing of the past. Starting from today, New York’s world of racing is about to welcome a new era! The era that belongs to Linson has come!”

“Get out!”

A furious Logan stood up abruptly. However, pain shot up from his leg, causing him to fall back onto the sofa. He looked at his leg in astonishment. The pain was getting worse today, making him unable to even stand for a while there!

Winston looked at Logan’s leg. As he hadn’t undergone surgery in time, the wound was already festering somewhat.

Winston clicked his tongue a couple of times. He said, “Logan, with that leg of yours, you probably won’t even be able to step on the brakes if you get into the car, right? With the way you are, how are you going to take part in the race? Oh, what are you to do? Team White doesn’t even have a substitute. Is there even anyone who can race in your stead?”

Logan clenched his fists.

This was the crux of the problem.

Team White had always taken first place!

Therefore, Team White had never needed a substitute. This led to them becoming unable to even find a decent substitute after something happened to his leg.

In addition, geniuses like Linson were indeed rare. Apart from Logan in his prime condition, Yanci was probably the only one who could beat him…

In the midst of his thoughts, a woman’s voice reached them.. She said, “I can.”