Chapter 568
Chapter 568 Thank You, Renee
Those things that happened back then were obscure, but I could tell from Joseph and Anthony''s
attitude that someone with malicious intent was obliterating the truth.
However, Joseph and Anthony signed a non-disclosure agreement...
They both worked for the Xenos Family.
Could Zack… be a bodyguard for the Xenoses as well?
I suddenly thought of this key point.
So, was it my father or Shawn who doubted his devotion?
Or were things moreplicated than I thought?!
I couldn''t look too deeply into it. The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong, not
to mention how much my curiosity grew. I put this topic to a stop tofort Olivia. "The truth will never
comete. Don''t be sad."
Olivia nodded in agreement. "It was something that happened nine years ago. We can''t do anything
even if we think about it. The truth might have beenpletely wiped off by now."
"You have to think positive, Olivia."
As soon as our conversation ended, Robert came down from upstairs and went to ir beside us to
chat. When it had gottente, I eventually took Em back to the hospital for him to stay there
temporarily.
I wanted to let him stay at Felix''s Vi, but he might feel ufortable, having to stay somewhere he
wasn''t familiar with on the first day. I was the one who adopted him after all, so I simply brought him
along with me.
While we were on the way, I mentioned to the taciturn young man again, "It may be hard for you to call
me your mother since you are not a child anymore. From now on, you can call me Aunt—
"Mother." He cut me off mid-sentence.
Hearing that, I cast him a look of surprise. "Eh?"
"You adopted me. I get to enjoy everything you give me, and I will keep enjoying them even in the
future. It''s only reasonable for me to call you my mother."
He was so oddly mature.
He knew what give-and-take was.
I raised my hand and ruffled his hair as I coaxed him. "No need to be so reserved. I will be your mother
from now on, and I will take care of you for the rest of your life! I will watch you grow up healthy, get
married, and have children. Of course, I don''t expect you to bring me glory. I only hope that you are
happy."
"Do you not want to see me seed in my career when I grow up, Mother?"
"It''s not that. I care more about your emotions." I gently caressed the back of his neck. "I hope you
grow up to be someone outstanding. But before that, I want you to be happy! Em, I will send you to
school after two days when you get used to being in Bryxton so that you can continue with your
studies. And I will take you back to Felix''s Vi tomorrow. That is my home. For now, you and I will stay
at the hospital."
"Why the hospital?" he asked curiously.
"I need to stay in the hospital for a few more days because of an injury. I nned to let you stay at the
vi tonight, but since it is your first day here, I''ll take you with me because I''m worried that you would
feel self-conscious."
The boy seemed taken aback at first, and he only uttered thanks after a long minute.
He fell silent after that.
I only looked at his thin shoulders and said nothing. After arriving at the hospital, I had him sleep on the
couch for the night.
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As I got him a nket, he took off his shoes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. He came out
wearing the short-sleeved top and trousers I bought for him today. He was a handsome young man, but
there was a look of destion in his eyes. It must have been from the things he had had to experience
when he was a child.
Em was someone who had experienced the fickleness of human nature.
"Was the water cold?" I asked him, to which he shook his head and replied, "It''s just nice."
"Alright. The hair dryer is over here."
I wanted to wait until he finished drying his hair to ask him the reason why he suddenly decided to look
for me. However, I was somewhat worried about him being reluctant to tell me. I simply gave up andy
on the bed as I started to scroll through my phone.
I hadn''t seen the information Waylen sent me.
I clicked into the file and saw the detailed records of Em''s parents. His father was a businessman in
Rothfield, well-established but slightly inferior to Daniel.
Em''s mother, on the other hand, was the daughter of a wealthy family in Rothfield.
Their marriage was considered an alliance among the fittest.
I continued to scroll down and saw that Em''s mother had married beneath her by making Em''s
father her husband. His father''spany only grew in size and strength after he married Em''s
mother. They were just like me and Nichs back then. However, his father was a cruel person. After
using Em''s mother to strengthen hispany, he quickly abandoned her and married some other
wealthy man''s daughter from another city.
After his second marriage to that other rich woman, he relied on the woman''s power to continue to
grow. It took him many years of hardships to finally catch up to Daniel.
It was because of this that his family yed second fiddle in Rothfield. It seemed like Em''s father
was the ungrateful one.
And what of Em''s mother?
She took Em back to France after she was abandoned. However, being the ambitious woman that
she was, she hid the fact that she had a child in order to marry into a local powerful family, and she
even abandoned Em three years ago. Em was left homeless in France for three years, and my
mother''s castle was his permanent residence.
My mother must have treated him well, considering how he politely called my mother the Duchess
when I first met him. Furthermore, he lied to me then about how his mother was a mistress who ruined
someone else''s family and was threatened to leave for France by the legal wife of the family.
Em also said at the time that abandoning him was a condition the Frenchwoman proposed. However,
what was written in this document was that his mother had hidden the fact that she had a child. His
mother actually lied to him so that he wouldn''t hate her too much.
I was baffled by how someone like this even existed. I was a mother as well, and if I were her, I would
never be able to do something so heartless.
I started to pity Em. It hurt to think about how he lived those three years. What exactly did he have to
go through that turned him into a stony-hearted person who seemingly had seen through life? Come to
think of it, he was currently only 11 years old!
He was but an 11-year-old young boy...
As I sighed, Em, who had been quietly lying on the couch, suddenly asked, "Why aren''t you asking
me for the reason I decided to follow you?"
Right. I was curious about why he changed his mind. After all, he was the one who kept insisting he
didn''t need my sympathy back then.
I went along with it. "Well, why did you decide to follow me?"
He suddenly sat up and stared at me with his pair of beautiful eyes. I told him before that these were a
pair of indescribably clear and cold eyes hard to find anywhere else in the world.
His eyes were the most valuable thing about him.
"I saw my mother again."
My heart skipped a beat. "Did she say something?"
"She said that I would be discovered sooner orter if I stayed in France, and I would disrupt her life.
She also said that she bought me a ne ticket so that I could leave and go to where my father was.
Then again, my father couldn''t care less about me."
"Did you look for me because you didn''t want to go to your father?"
"Whether it is my biological father or mother, they are both unworthy of my yearning, let alone my
pursuit. Even if I am left with nowhere to go, I will not look for them. But right when I didn''t have
anywhere I could go, I remembered what you said to me. I gave you a go, and you didn''t refuse me..."
"I keep my promises."
"Thank you, Renee. From now on…"