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 to sit.

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faced two stern gazes, then started speaking, “Nathan

Vietnam.”

from a

after Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had

ago in April, Nathan led a team that cracked a cross-border drug trafficking case.

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

said, “That fits. My sister was kidnapped in March.”

brought her back to his

found that his wife Sarah had given birth prematurely.

premature birth, and massive bleeding. Nathan was devastated

had betrayed

family were seeking medical treatment in the capital and conducting research at the National Science

due to being born prematurely and with congenital deficiencies, was critically

Sarah had already run away. The baby was in the ICU; the doctors said she might not

died at three in the morning. Nathan cried in pain, handling his daughter’s

told him that younger children were easier to adopt, but finding the child’s

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

Sarah’s affair and the premature death of her granddaughter were blows

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

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

the name he had

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

Nathan’s, a comrade who had fought with him. It took Egbert a lot of effort to find that retired soldier and get this

Egbert looked at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised her as his own, she was pampered in that family, without a care in the world.”

expression turned sour.

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