Chapter 609


    Ste looked away to evade his gaze, “Er… what else can it mean?”


    rence pinched her chin, forcing her to look at him, and said slowly, “Seems like you don’t have a


    clear understanding of me.”


    When he prepared to kiss her, Ste pushed him away, “Get up. I have something to tell you.”


    “What do you want to tell me? And why do I have to get up?”


    Ste was rendered speechless.


    She tweaked his waist and rence let out a stuffy moan.


    Ste took the opportunity to get rid of his confinement. She turned over and got out of the bed.


    Ste tried to find a pen and a paper in the room, yet failed.


    Sitting on the edge of the back, rence leaned backwards with his hands on the bed to support his


    body and closely fixed his eyes on Ste, “What are you looking for?”


    “Pen and paper. Do you have them?”


    “Nope. You can call the reception and ask them to send some over.”


    ‘Oh, that’s true.’ Ste thought to herself.


    Ste walked to the bedside table and dialled the reception.


    Ten minutester, a staff of the hotel sent them a pen and some paper.


    Ste sat down on the sofa, calmed down herself and then quickly drew on the paper.


    After a short while, rence sat down beside her, wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and


    put his chin on her shoulder, “What are you drawing? Didn’t you say you have something to tell me?”


    Ste replied, “It will be finished soon.”


    When speaking, she patted the hands on her waist and said seriously, “Let go of me.”


    rence could only withdraw his hands, leaned against the sofa behind him and watched her drawing


    the picture.


    About twenty minutester, the outline of a man’s face was shown on the white paper and Ste began


    to add details carefully.


    rencended his gaze on the paper and then narrowed his ck eyes.


    He suddenly said, “You were not so serious and careful when portraying me.”


    Ste was rendered speechless.


    Ste took a nce at the picture which was almost finished and put it in front of rence, “This is


    Darnell James.”


    “I’ve guessed it. So it’s really hard for me to understand why you said he’s as handsome as me.”


    Ste’s eyelids twitched as she was very speechlessly. She then looked at him expressionlessly.


    rence said, “Go on.”


    “Maybe it’s because I failed to portray his temperament, but I think…” Ste continued after a while of


    silence, “You two look somehow alike from some aspects.”


    “Come on, are you telling me that he’s another illegitimate son of Dempsey?”


    “Then he should be like Justin. Does it have any rtionship with you?”


    rence raised his brows, “Really?”


    Ste ignored him and continued, “I heard from you before that except for Ms. Anderson, you haven’t


    seen other rtives. So I guess…”


    rence rubbed her hair, “Honey, you’ve thought too much of it. I haven’t seen them because they’re


    all dead.”


    Ste was stunned for several seconds, “But didn’t you say that you never asked Ms. Anderson about


    this?”


    “I never asked her about this. But I investigated it.”


    Ste replied with a nasal sound after a long while and then said, “Maybe I’ve thought too much of it.”


    She had only seen Darnell several times and only at the moment she first saw him did she feel he


    looked like rence. Maybe it was just an illusion.


    “It’ste. You should go to bed early.”


    rence looked towards the picture on the tea table, his eyes turning gloomy, and slightly pressed his


    thin lips together.


    Ste had done a good job and actually, she even showed Darnell’s temperament in the picture.


    As rence had to deal with some work, he directly went to the living room outside.


    Lying on the bed, however, Ste couldn’t fall asleep.


    After turning over on the bed several times, she got her phone and dialled Archer.


    Archer said, “We gave him another examination today and his condition has been stabilized so far.


    We’re now working on a treatment n. This can be regarded as a piece of good news, right?”


    “Yes. Thank you.”


    “You’re wee. I have to deal with other matters. Let’s stop here.”


    “Okay.”


    Ste, who had been restless before, put her phone back on the bedside table, looked out of the


    window and finally calmed down.


    At least, everything was progressing positively.


    Several minutester, Ste’s phone rang. She turned on her phone and found it was a message from


    Archer.


    They were two photos of the baby.


    In one photo, he was pulling a toy’s ear in a crib.


    In the other photo, he was sleeping with his small fists clenched.


    Ste saved the two photos and studied them for a long time. Then she finally felt sleepy.


    After making sure that Ste had fallen asleep, rence put down the documents, stood up, walked to


    the balcony and dialled Dolores. But the busy tone reminded him that Dolores had turned her phone


    off.


    rence’s face turned seriously cold. He then dialled Nathan, “Is there any news from Whalegrove


    City?”


    “Nope. Mr. Conrad, did anything happen to Mrs. Conrad?”


    “Send someone there tomorrow morning.”


    “Okay.”


    rence added after a while of silence, “Let our men in City N investigate my mother’s family


    background and her rtionship with the James family.”


    Nathan, who was at the other end of the phone, was stunned for a while. He immediately replied, “I will


    arrange it right away.”


    rence replied with a nasal sound and put his phone back into his pocket, looking at the distance.


    At this point, there were just a few people by the riverside and only the ships at the distance were


    glimmering.


    …


    At midnight, Ste felt a person lying down beside her. She opened her eyes in a daze, not clearing


    whether she had forgiven rence or not.


    Before she could take any action, rence had pulled her into his arms and said tiresomely, “Close


    your eyes and continue to sleep.”


    Ste closed her eyes in a daze, and the man wanted more. He reached his hand into her pyjamas and


    wrapped his arm around her slender waist.


    Maybe it was because she had slept for long in the past two days, Ste woke up at dawn. She felt


    weak yesterday, but today she felt strong and highly spirited.


    Looking at the man near her who was still sleeping, Ste gently caressed his wrinkled brows.


    What could she me rence for?


    She was also clear of it.


    After all, she was angry that she was so close to the truth numerous times, but he still deceived her and


    persuaded her that it was her illusion effortlessly. She was also on the verge of mental breakdown


    several times.


    However, even if she picked the baby back at that time, she could not protect the baby like rence


    did.


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    In the past, she frequently thought that the child’s existence was meaningless to rence and that he


    was a burden or a yoke to rence, and a burdensome existence that he urgently wanted to get rid of.


    Until the baby got sick and then came to Riverside…


    Only then did she realize that rence had much more care towards the baby than she knew.


    It was just that they had different ways to express their love.


    rence had been like this since childhood – he was sharp-toned, yet had a soft heart.


    Although he despised it verbally, he had done many more things for him than others.


    It was rence who had overtaken everything since the child’s birth.