Robert nodded obediently as he watched his mother walk away dazedly.


    Elliot shot up from the couch and hurried after Avery.


    "Avery, why are we going back all of a sudden?" Elliot caught up to her and grabbed her arm.


    Robert wanted to know what was happening as well, so he ran over to eavesdrop.


    "Look at this." Avery showed Elliot the photo Wesley sent her.


    Robert stood by the stairway and watched as his parents stared at the phone. Unfortunately, he was too far away to see anything.


    "What are you looking at? Can I see?" He wanted to follow them up the stairs.


    To his bewilderment, his parents, who had spoiled him rotten since birth,pletely ignored him and went to the second floor.


    Shaken to the core, Robert immediately dialed Hayden''s number. "Hayden, our parents are going home today and asked me to drop them off at the airportter. Do you know anything about this?" "Do you know something about this that I don''t?"


    Robert froze at his answer and said, "Did Mom tell you?"


    "Yeah."


    "Why are they going home? Are they mad at me? They were fine this morning... We were even talking about going surfing in a few days!"


    "You overestimate your importance. This has nothing to do with you," Hayden reassured him.


    Robert had been the youngest child, so everyone had always been extremely tolerant of him.


    "Oh. Alright, then. I thought that they were mad at me." Robert sighed a breath of relief.Text content ? N?velDrama.Org.


    "Dad might be but not Mom," Hayden said. "But I''m guessing that Dad won''t be mad at you for long. You can do whatever you want from now on and no one will care."


    Robert gaped. "Hayden! For real? Why won''t they care if I do whatever I want?! Am... am I not their son?! Did something change now that they know I don''t want to inherit Sterling Group?" Robert felt all strength drained from his body and his mind drifted away.


    "Robert Foster, have you been


    watching too many of those idiotic television shows that you''ve turned into an idiot, too? I feel like I am going to be one just by talking to you. Bye," Hayden said, before hanging up. en.s


    Robert silently gripped his phone.


    On the second floor, Avery packed while Elliot stared at the photo of Irene on Avery''s phone. His eyes filled with sorrow.


    "Honey, do you think that she''s our daughter?" Avery swiftly finished packing and checked the time.


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    Seeing that they still had another half an hour, she sat down next to Elliot. "We suspected that she was Ivy once before, yet she slipped away from right beneath our noses! It''s fortunate that she is healthy. Wesley said that she had traveled all the way to Hightide Church to see Sister Arya. She had raised her for a time... That means she is a grateful young woman as well. She was raised right," Avery said. "Once we get back, we should leave her alone. until the results of the DNA test are out. Wesley said that she''s rather shy, so I''m guessing that she must have been through a lot of hardship." en.s


    Tears rolled down Elliot''s cheeks.


    It had been years since he had shed a tear.


    Avery immediately wrapped her arms around him and gently wiped away his tears. "Elliot, don''t cry, If she really is our Ivy, we will make it up to her. I''m sure that she will forgive us." en.s