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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gazes, then started speaking, “Nathan rescued her from a drug dealer’s den in

Vietnam.”

story from a

Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had

Nathan led a team that cracked a cross-border

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

said, “That fits. My

brought her back to his

he got back, Nathan found that his wife Sarah

months pregnant. Excessive sex during pregnancy led to injury, premature birth, and massive bleeding. Nathan was devastated when he

had betrayed him.

Ableson while Nathan was abroad, 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,

baby, due to being born prematurely and with

Nathan rushed to the hospital, Sarah had already run away. The baby was in the

at three in the morning. Nathan cried in pain, handling his

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

home from their work outside,

and the premature death of her granddaughter were blows that the two elders of the family couldn’t

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

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

named the child Eileen Howard. That was the name he

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

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

Egbert looked at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as

turned

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