Nora stared hard at Old Maddy to look at his reaction after she voiced the question.She would never trust a person's words that easily, so she wanted to determine whether he was telling the truth through his reaction.

What she didn't expect, though, was that because of the burns on Old Maddy's face, he couldn't make any facial expressions.

Even his eyes were too small for her to see anything.This made him hard to read.Old Maddy kept quiet for a while.

Suddenly, he asked, "Twins? Triplets? What are you talking about? Didn't you only give birth to a daughter?"

In Old Maddy's impression, the daughter of the lady he served had returned and gave birth to a daughter.

How could it have been twins or triplets instead? Seeing how logical his answer was, Nora frowned.

"Uncle..."

"I'm not worthy of having you call me that."

Old Maddy interrupted her and said, "My name is Jake Reed.I am your mother's subordinate, and you are the young lady whom I now serve."

Seeing that he had brought up her mother again, Nora asked, "What on earth happened back then?"

Old Maddy heaved a sigh.

was tricked into doing human research by a mysterious organization back then.When she realized what was happening, she hurriedly ran away from the organization.However, that organization was simply too powerful.In order to avoid implicating your father, your mother staged

but it matched the story that Nora had previously

"And then?" She asked.

your mother found someone with the last name Smith—Henry Smith, I think—and pretended to marry him.The two of them then lived in secret

but

last name ‘Smith’.Even if you couldn't grow up under your

like what

been deeply in love with lan back then! That was why the tiny company she had founded in

on the love between her

Instead, she listened quietly.

Old Maddy went on.

me to leave and hide somewhere.Then, once you turned twenty, I was

mother was in danger, so I had only one thought in my mind, and that was to look for your father! The Smiths were

of confusion.All I knew was that I had to go to New York to look

Maddy mentioned that she had to

him bringing it up again, even though she knew that she shouldn't be interrupting him at this time, judging

was nothing

asking, "Why did I have

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