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

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two stern gazes, then

Vietnam.”

a story from a long time ago.

Eileen auntie. He had investigated for a long time

a team that cracked a cross-border drug trafficking

woman was accidentally injured and died while trying

Blake immediately said, “That fits. My

her back to his

got back, Nathan found that his wife Sarah had given

premature birth, and massive bleeding. Nathan was devastated when he heard the news. He had been abroad, so how could this happen to

had betrayed

treatment in the capital and conducting research at the National Science Institute, she even engaged

to being born prematurely and with congenital

The baby was in the ICU; the doctors said she might

in the morning. Nathan cried in pain, handling

to a welfare institution. They told him that younger children were easier to adopt, but finding

from their work outside, but

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

had sent to the welfare institution. The baby

hadn’t been adopted yet. So he went through the procedures and formally adopted the little girl he had saved.

That was the name he had originally

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 she had

only person who knew the truth was a friend of Nathan’s, a comrade who had fought with him. It took Egbert a lot of effort

calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own, she

turned

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