Book 2 : She Becomes Glamorous After the Engagement

Chapter 3

Chapter 615: Triplets!!

Cherry was taken aback for a moment, seemingly only just realizing that she hadn’t asked the boy for his name yet. She asked, “Hey, what’s your name?”

“My name?” The boy sounded terribly cheeky. He said, “My name is made up of two syllables. The first is ‘grand and the second is ‘dad’.”

Cherry was taken aback. “Granddad?”

“Yeah, I’m here!” The boy responded very quickly. “Hello, my granddaughter!”

Cherry: “…”

She was furious. “Why are you so mean?!”

“Hahaha! Alright, I won’t tease you anymore. My last name is Yale while my first name is Dad!”

“Dad Yale?”

“Watch the way you’re talking to your dad, girl!”

Cherry was furious. She was about to hang up when he said, “Okay, okay, I won’t tease you anymore. I can’t tell you my name—you can just call me ‘big brother’.”.

Pete was pulling a long face. “Haven’t you had enough yet?”

The other boy replied, “I have. At the very least, I don’t want to be your brother, I only want to be Cherry’s.”

Nora, who was listening to the conversation next to them: “…”

Nora had thought that Cherry was already very cheeky. She mouthed off all the time and was very mischievous, and was not as well-behaved and sensible as Pete. But compared to the other boy, Cherry was simply too good!

Also, Cherry didn’t use such crude language!

Nora frowned. It stood to reason that she wouldn’t feel any fondness for that little boy, but for some reason, as she listened to the young and tender voice acting like an adult, she actually didn’t feel annoyed or disgusted.

Nora’s voice was very low as she asked, “Boy, has your father returned?”

She remembered that the boy had said the other time that he didn’t have a mother, only a father.

Wasn’t his father going to discipline him when behaved like this?

The boy replied, “He’s back. Who are you?”

Cherry immediately said, “She’s my mommy.” “Oh, the queen of sleep?”

Nora: “?”

She looked straight at Cherry, only to see the little fellow’s eyes darting about and looking elsewhere.

Hah.

Nora cast her eyes down and said, “Children shouldn’t use such crude language, okay?”

“Yeah right, as if!” The boy seemed a little angry. He retorted, “Do you know why Tom’s grandma lived till she was 108 years old?”

Nora: “?”

“Because she doesn’t ever meddle in other people’s business' Do you think you can lecture me when even my father hasn’t said anything?”

Nora’s eyes turned cold. She was about to say something when Pete suddenly lost his temper. “Apologize to my mother!”

“I won’t! Why should I?!”

Pete snorted coldly. “If you don’t, then Cherry and I won’t talk to you anymore!”

“So be it. I have nothing to lose anyway. Do you think I’m afraid of you?”

Pete looked at Cherry.

Cherry had also gotten angry. To be honest, Cherry was actually the most protective of Nora among the few of them. She immediately said, “If you don’t apologize, then we won’t talk to you anymore!”

“Hmph! Then this friendship is over!”

Cherry hung up on him straightaway when the little fellow said that.

Cherry was a little upset. She stared at the phone for a while before she finally looked at Nora and said, “Mommy, he’s too mean. Don’t be mad!”

How would Nora possibly get mad at a child?

She ruffled Cherry’s hair and nodded quietly. Then, she went downstairs for dinner.

Upstairs.

The boy called again after the phone call was disconnected. Cherry rejected the call. However, the boy persevered and called again. Cherry rejected the call again.

In another country.

In a dim and gloomy room somewhere, barely any light lit up the room. Only the light from a bulb illuminated the basement.

A boy who looked just like Justin sat at a desk. He stared at his cell phone and looked in silence at the screen that indicated that his phone call had been disconnected. He couldn’t help but curl his lips disdainfully. “Hmph. How dare she keep rejecting my calls. She must be sick of living!”

He threw the phone aside. Then, he looked at the rabbits, puppies, and kittens in the cages outside.

He got up, walked over, and squatted in front of a rabbit.

The rabbit lay there on the verge of death.

The little fellow kept quiet for a while. Then, he said, “No. 3, are you still alive? You must stay strong!”

The little bunny’s ears moved, but it didn’t get

up.

The little boy sighed. “They’ve gouged out your heart. Puppy No. 3 beside you just so happens to have an extra heart. Say, if I put its heart in your chest, will you be able to live?” The little rabbit remained still and silent, its eyes closed.

The little boy stretched out his arm and stroked its head as he threatened, “You mustn’t die. If you die, I will turn you into rabbit stew! You hear me? No. 3!”

The bunny remained motionless.

The little boy slowly heaved a sigh. Then, he looked at No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 at the side.

He propped his chin on his hand and said, “I’ve done a search on the Internet. The doctor who can perform organ transplants the best now is Anti, a woman. I wonder if I’ll succeed if I learn from her?”

He was babbling continuously to himself when someone suddenly opened the door.

Then, a big and tall figure walked in.

The light behind the man covered his face in darkness, so one couldn’t see clearly what he looked like.

However, the little boy’s eyes lit up. “Daddy, you’re back?!”

“Yeah, I’m back.” The man chuckled somewhat maliciously. His voice also sounded very shrill. He asked, “Xander, do you want to go to the United States?”

The little boy was surprised. “The United States? For what? I don’t want to go, Daddy. I just want to stay here.”

His fifteen rabbits and innumerable dogs and cats were still waiting for him to master medical skills so that he could save them! However, the man said, “Tsk, what am I to do, then? Someone has detained your aunt in New York, and they have demanded that you go over to take her place!”

Xander scoffed and said indifferently, “I’m not going! Whoever wants to go there can go instead!”

—

After her meal, Nora looked at her cell phone and found that Justin had sent her a few messages.

She gave him a call.

Justin answered very quickly. The man’s voice was low and a little raspy as he asked, “You’re up?”

“Yeah.”

Nora responded. She stretched and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Do you remember who delivered the children for you back then?”

Nora frowned at the question.

Back then, Henry had thought of her pregnancy as a scandal, so she’d never had any maternity checkups done. Even until she gave birth, she had never had any checkups.

She replied, “It’s a small clinic, I don’t quite remember anymore. Why?”

Justin was silent for a moment. He’d initially wanted to hide it from her, but when he suddenly thought of Nora’s abilities and her identity, he came to terms with it. Thus, he voiced his guess. “Nora, is there a chance that you actually gave birth to triplets back then?”

Chapter 616: Too Many Children!

Triplets?

Nora subconsciously wanted to retort, “Do I look like an animal to you?”

But when she was about to do so, she suddenly remembered that due to obstructed labor, she had actually passed out at one point during childbirth.

From her perspective, she had only fainted for a short while at the time. She had regained consciousness after just a brief blackout. The doctor had then told her to continue pushing.

Then, she gave birth to a child, who was taken away by Henry. When she got down from the delivery bed to take her child back, her belly acted up again, after which she gave birth to Cherry.

She found Justin’s supposition too strange, so she couldn’t help but reply, “It’s not impossible, but the chances are very low.”

Even she hadn’t noticed three different heartbeats in her belly during her pregnancy.

Justin’s voice was full of joy. “Really? Then I’ll get them to send the child back. When he’s here, let’s have a DNA test done.”

Seeing that he was being so anxious about it, Nora didn’t really have any objections, either. “Alright.”

However, at the bottom of her heart, she didn’t hold out much hope.

She understood how Justin felt, though. Even she would find it fairly disgusting if he had a child with another woman, let alone Justin himself.

Besides, she wasn’t that much of a saint that she could treat Ruth’s child like her own.

If Ruth and Justin really had a child together, would she and Justin be able to remain as they were? She couldn’t guarantee it, nor could she imagine it.

She was too lazy to deal with overly complicated relationships.

After hanging up the phone, Nora returned to the bedroom.

Cherry was playing games while Pete was studying. Mia was seated next to Pete, her chin on her hand as she watched him while nodding off.

Pete sighed helplessly. “Mia, why don’t you climb onto the bed and nap for a while?”

Mia immediately sat up straight. “I am not sleepy, Pete!”

Pete: “…”

Cherry glanced at her. Although puzzled, she continued to play her game with her head down. While she was playing, she said, “Pete, that boy is calling me again. Should I answer?”

“No, you’re not allowed to answer unless he apologizes to Mommy!”

“Okie-Dokie!” In a soft and tender voice, Cherry replied, “I’ll do as you say, Pete!”

Pete was very satisfied. However, he was very curious. “How did you meet him?”

Cherry tilted her head and replied, “I once went to play with Princess Lucy. You know how the royal family has a lot of rules and regulations, right? Princess Lucy was taking etiquette lessons at that time, so out of boredom, I started playing with my phone. Then, someone nearby sent me a message. Without thinking too much about it, I added them back and we chatted a little. That boy is very strange. He only talks to me when it’s late in the night, and the things he says are also very confusing. But he is very smart and he taught himself a lot of things! I hadn’t contacted him for a very long time. If it weren’t because you were forcing me to study, I wouldn’t have remembered him either!”

Nora: “?”

She narrowed her eyes.

Princess Lucy was Cherry’s good friend in the UK. The little girl often visited her, but because Nora needed sleep, it was usually her aunt who took her there.

If she had added him as a friend when she was in the palace, wouldn’t that mean that the boy had been near the palace? Or even living in the palace itself?

Princess Lucy was part of the UK’s royal family. Why would there be unrelated people in the palace?

So, just who exactly was that boy?

While musing over it, her phone rang again.

When she answered, Morris’ voice came from the other side. “Ms. Smith, Caleb Gray has successfully returned to the mysterious organization. He said that he will help us find the location of the mysterious organization’s headquarters in the near future.”

“Okay.”

Nora responded indifferently.

Although she sounded indifferent, she had cast her eyes down coldly.

Her mother had been driven to her grave by the mysterious organization. She would definitely avenge her!

She asked, “Haven’t you guys found any clues during all these years?”

Morris was silent for a while before he sighed and replied, “It’s very difficult for us to look for clues. First of all, it’s inconvenient for us to do anything abroad. Secondly, they seem to be protected by very powerful people. Furthermore, there are many places abroad that even the Interpol can’t reach.”

Nora understood.

Not every country was like the United States. There were still many countries with a monarchy. The UK was a country like that.

It was just like how there was a mysterious child hiding in Princess Lucy’s palace, yet no one could go in and investigate!

As the two didn’t have anything else to share with each other, Nora hung up the phone.

Elsewhere.

Justin tapped the sofa with his finger lightly.

He was musing over something with a frown.

Next to him, Lawrence felt like his boss had gone a little bonkers.

Just now, he had dispatched someone to California to investigate the person who delivered the children for Ms. Smith back then. The two were currently waiting for news.

How could that kid possibly be the boss and Ms. Smith’s, though? And why would their child possibly end up in Ruth’s hands? On top of that, he was even in Trueman’s clutches.

These things were simply too complicated.

But wasn’t it exactly just as strange back then?

Someone had called and said that his boss had a child and that he was about to die. When his boss went to the specified location, he had really found Pete.

That wasn’t all. Later, they met Cherry, and now, there was Xander too? Surely there wouldn’t be a fourth, fifth, and sixth child, right? That would be too many children!

While he was thinking, agitated footsteps rang out outside the door.

Sean walked in. He looked at Justin and said in a low voice, “I’ve found information about that small clinic!”

Chapter 617: You Are Not My Mother

Justin subconsciously sat up straight. He lowered his voice and instructed, “Speak.”

Sean said, “That small clinic had only one doctor when Ms. Smith gave birth. After that, the doctor went abroad for further studies and has not returned to the country since. I’ve checked his family background and found that he was unmarried back then. Both parents have died, so he doesn’t have any family anymore.”

Sean then paused and said, “During my investigation, I discovered that Ms. Smith had already sent someone to look for him when she was living abroad. After returning to the country, she had searched for him again. She was probably searching for the little mister at that time, but she couldn’t find the doctor.”

Nora had told him all that on the phone just now.

Nora would definitely tackle the problem from a few different angles when she was searching for her child. Yet despite her abilities, she still hadn’t managed to find the man. This showed that the man had hidden himself very well.

Justin’s long slender fingers tapped against the sofa.

Lawrence became anxious. “What are you doing? You can’t even find a doctor from some small clinic?”

Sean glanced at him silently and said nothing. Lawrence lifted his chin, looked at Justin, and asked, “Boss, what should we do?”

Justin suddenly said, “We can’t find him, but surely there is someone else we can ask?”

Lawrence asked, “Who?”

Sean seemed to understand something. He nodded and said, “You’re right. I will send some men to look for him right away.”

Lawrence: “?”

After saying that, Sean went out.

Lawrence immediately looked at Justin. “Boss, who are you looking for?”

Justin glanced at him indifferently. Then, he answered, “Henry Smith.”

When Lawrence heard this, he suddenly realized something. “You’re right! Henry Smith watched Ms. Smith’s entire childbirth, so he must know how many children she gave birth to! Why didn’t I think of that? After his wife and daughter betrayed him, he didn’t even have money to buy a plane ticket home. Our men schemed and made him a beggar, so he must still be under our surveillance now! We just need to find him and we’ll know what we wanna know!”

Justin listened to him prattle on and on. Then, he nodded. “Yes, you are right.”

Lawrence touched his head. “I also think I’m really smart. To think I understood Boss’ thoughts right away.” He completely forgot that Sean had immediately understood what Justin meant with just one sentence from him, and had already left to get things done by then.

Justin gave Lawrence a disdainful look. Then, he asked, “How is that person in the basement?”

Lawrence, who had underperformed next to Sean just now, was just thinking of proving himself. At Justin’s question, he hurriedly replied, “Don’t worry, Boss, our men are watching her. We won’t let her escape! We have also given her a cell phone to let her contact her people abroad. She has been making frequent calls almost every day and begging her brother to send the child here!”

“Oh,” said Justin.

Just as he got up and was about to go out, Lawrence suddenly asked, “Boss, it’s been almost three days. Are you really not going to give her any food?”

Since that day, Ruth had been imprisoned in the basement. Justin had also left instructions forbidding anyone from giving her food.

The basement had a bathroom with water in it.

However, there was nothing to eat there. Ruth had already asked for food several times over the last few days!

It had been three whole days. She was close to starving to death.

Lawrence was also afraid that she would really starve to death. That was why he had asked about it.

Unexpectedly, Justin replied coldly, “She won’t die of hunger. Of course, if the child doesn’t return within ten days, then it won’t matter even if she starves to death.”

If Trueman didn’t send the child back, then it would mean that he didn’t care in the least whether Ruth lived or died.

In that case, why should he care?!

Lawrence swallowed. He felt that there was murderous intent in his boss’ voice when he said that. It was only then he realized that his boss had really become angry this time.

His boss rarely got angry for real. After all, he could pretty much solve every problem with just a wave of his hand. For him to become so angry this time. Surely it wasn’t because Ruth’s existence had made Ms. Smith jealous, right?

Lawrence felt like he had figured something out.

Justin couldn’t be bothered to go to the basement. Or rather, the sight of Ruth made him sick, so he didn’t want to go. Lawrence, however, had to go.

After all, he had to remind and urge her several times a day to call her people overseas.

When Lawrence went down to the basement, he saw Ruth lying on the ground and eating… paper towels. She was in a pathetic state. Her hair was greasy and stuck to her face while her cheeks were sunken in from hunger, making her look a little scary. After going hungry for three days, she had probably lost a few pounds.

Lawrence tutted a couple of times.

At the sight of him, Ruth put down the paper towels in her hand. She stared at Lawrence, her eyes fierce and vicious. She said, “Give me something to eat! My son is about to come back to the country soon. When he does, he will become a Hunt! Even if Mr. Hunt does not give me the status I deserve, he still has to acknowledge his son! My son will be the head of the Hunt's in the future! Lawrence, aren’t you afraid that my son will make life difficult for you in the future if you treat me like this?!”

Lawrence: “?”

He scoffed and threw the phone to Ruth. “Time for you to make a call. If you want food, then we’ll talk about it when your son arrives! Just like you said, he is a Hunt. If he says the word, who would dare starve you?”

Ruth bit her lip, picked up the phone, and called Xander.

She had no other choice. Trueman had said that Xander didn’t want to come. He had to respect his will.

Ruth’s eyes flashed with hatred when she thought of this.

Was there even a need to respect his will? He was just a sh*tty kid! They had raised him for so long. What was the big deal about making him return to the States to save her? Shouldn’t he do that? That kid was a total devil!

While thinking about it, she took a deep breath.

The call was quickly connected.

Xander’s devilish voice rang out. “Aunt Ruth, what do you want this time?”

Ruth got a shock when she heard the word “aunt”, and she glanced at Lawrence. She quickly lowered her voice and said, “How many times have I told you this? You have to call me Mom!”

“Tsk, did you give birth to me? Why should I call you Mom?”

Ruth was so angry that she yelled, “Xander!”

“I’m still here, you don’t have to be so loud. I can hear you.”

Ruth took a deep breath and suppressed her anger. “Xander, be good, hurry and come and save me, okay? There are a lot of fun things to do in America!”

“Wow, really?” Ruth nodded. “Yes, yes, of course. If you come here, I can buy you lots of things.”

“Oh, I don’t need anything.”

“Is there anything else you need? If not, then I’m hanging up. Also, Aunt Ruth, don’t ever talk about being my mother or whatnot anymore. My mom is the woman who gave birth to me, not you!”

Elsewhere.

Lawrence was eavesdropping on their conversation with a listening device.