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.

pulled over a chair

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stern gazes, then started speaking, “Nathan

Vietnam.”

a story from a

had started investigating after Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had investigated for a long time and most

ago in April, Nathan led a team that cracked a

a woman was accidentally injured and died while trying

fits. My sister was kidnapped in

back to

he got back, Nathan found that his wife Sarah had

birth, and massive bleeding. Nathan was devastated when he heard the news. He had

had

and while the two elder members of the Howard family were seeking medical treatment in the capital and conducting research at the National Science Institute, she even engaged in risky sexual activities during her pregnancy, which resulted in a premature birth and a life-threatening

was lucky, she survived, but the baby, due to being born prematurely and with congenital deficiencies, was

The baby was in the ICU; the doctors said she might not

died at three in the morning. Nathan cried in

the little girl he found to a welfare institution. They told him that younger children were easier to adopt, but finding the child’s biological parents might be difficult.

their work outside, but they didn’t see Sarah who was about to give

the truth, but in the end, he didn’t. Sarah’s affair and the premature death of her granddaughter were blows that the two elders of the family

of the baby girl he had sent to the welfare institution.

that the child hadn’t been adopted yet. So he went

child Eileen Howard. That was the name he had originally chosen for his

know that the child had been switched, and even Sarah probably didn’t expect Nathan to replace the child

only person who knew the truth was a friend of Nathan’s, a comrade who had fought with

at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own, she was pampered

turned

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