Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 98

Chapter 98

The sudden silence in the tent seemed to freeze the air.

Eileen was curiously eyeing two strange men.

A shocked old man. And a middle-aged man who looked worked up.

Eileen grabbed the tent curtain, turning to Egbert, “You’ve got stuff to do, so I’ll just go ask them myself.”

With that, she was about to leave.

“Hold on.” The middle-aged man suddenly blurted out.

Eileen stopped and looked back at him. “You…”

Just then, Egbert stepped forward, grabbing Blake’s shoulder to stop him from speaking.

Blake looked at Egbert.

Egbert turned his head and said to Eileen, “Go on, I’ll stay.”

Eileen didn’t understand what they were up to, she mumbled an “Okay” and left the tent.

The sound of the girl’s footsteps gradually faded away. Only then did Blake somewhat regain his senses.

He closed his eyes, lightly rubbing his temples.

“Egbert.” Derek sat on an uncomfortable folding chair and said in a deep voice, “I need an explanation.”

Egbert glanced at Derek, then patted Blake on the shoulder, signaling him to sit down.

down. Egbert also pulled over a chair to

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two stern gazes, then

Vietnam.”

was a story from a long

after Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had investigated for a

team that cracked a

capture, a woman was accidentally injured and died while trying to escape, and she was

fits. My sister was kidnapped in

back to his country at that time…”

got back, Nathan found that his wife Sarah had given birth

bleeding. Nathan was devastated when he heard the news.

had

family were seeking medical treatment in the capital and conducting research at the National Science Institute, she even

to being born prematurely and with

time Nathan rushed to the hospital, Sarah had already run away. The baby was in the ICU; the doctors said she might not make it through a

the baby died at three in the morning. Nathan cried in

girl he found to a welfare institution. They told him that younger children were easier

later, the elder Howards returned home from their work outside, but they didn’t see Sarah who was about

affair and the premature death

was then that Nathan thought of the baby girl he had sent to the welfare institution.

found out that the child hadn’t been adopted yet. So he went through the procedures and formally adopted

named the child Eileen Howard. That was the name he had originally

two elders of the Howard family didn’t know that the child had been switched, and even Sarah probably didn’t expect Nathan to replace the child

a friend of Nathan’s, a comrade who had fought with him. It took Egbert a lot of

across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own, she

turned sour.

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