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

Vietnam.”

from

after Isabel insisted on calling Eileen auntie. He had investigated

a team that cracked a cross-border

a woman was accidentally injured and died while trying to escape, and she was holding a one-month-old baby

“That fits. My

Egbert continued, “Nathan brought her back to

Nathan found that

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

Sarah had

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

baby, due to being born prematurely and with

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

next day, the baby died at three in the morning.

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

from their work outside, but they didn’t see Sarah who was

affair and the premature death of her

he had sent to the welfare institution. The baby girl’s age was

out that the child hadn’t been adopted yet.

That was the name he had originally chosen

that the child had been switched, and even Sarah probably didn’t expect

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

at Derek and Blake across from him and calmly said, “Nathan raised

turned sour.

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