A Guest


    In the Beckhams'' Mansion, Harrison had just finished his dinner when he was told that Magnus was


    here.


    The living room was filled with the aroma of tea. Harrison looked at Magnus sharply and asked him,


    “You didn’t work at the ST Group recently. Did Joseph ask you to do anything?”


    Magnus was surprised, “You already knew?”


    Although Harrison asked Magnus, he had already done the investigation. He asked Magnus toe


    just for the confirmation. It was the same every time when Magnus came to find him.


    “Tell me about the girl, P.”


    Harrison took a sip of his tea with a frown, and there was something a little severe and forbidding about


    his face.


    Magnus swallowed hard, but his throat felt dry, so he sipped the tea as well.


    “Six years ago, Mr. Beckham asked Caesar to arrange for the surrogacy. And they nned to ask the


    surrogate mother to go abroad after she bore a child. But, P identally reced the girl they had


    arranged in the beginning and came to the hotel. Nevertheless, Caesar sent someone to spy on P


    for some time and found that she was pregnant, so they asked her to give birth to the children.”


    Magnus exined that briefly. Harrison was shocked and a bit angry, “That’s absurd.”


    In Harrison’s mind, it was absurd that Joseph pursued surrogacy to deal with him. And Joseph even


    made a mistake unconsciously.


    “Such a good girl, what a jerk!”


    Magnus exined for Joseph carefully, “Caesar should havepensated P.”


    “Compensate?” Harrison was more irritated, “He really believes that he can do whatever he wants with


    his money.”


    The atmosphere in the living room was getting more and more intense.


    Feeling awkward, Magnus kept drinking his tea, and he was almost full.


    Mark tried to break the tension, so he whispered, “Mr. Beckham, Mr. James hasn’t finished his words.


    You should calm down and let him exin why this girles back.”


    Hearing this, Harrison nodded his head.


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    Magnus breathed with a relief secretly, “That’s because Joseph found something went wrong with the


    surrogacy. Then he sent me to investigate. After the further confirmation, I found P was that girl. She


    was married, but she had no kid. Besides, her husband got the advanced gastric cancer, and there was


    no much time left for him.”


    Harrison felt pity for this.


    “We should offer to help now that we know about that.”


    Magnus shook his head, “Mr. Beckham told me to transfer the money to her, but she didn’t receive. She


    said it was impossible to cure her husband, so the money was useless. She would go to Britain for


    further study after her husband’s funeral six monthster. But she did not have a kid after she got


    married, so she only wished to meet little Noah before she went abroad.”


    Harrison said in a low voice, “That seems a reasonable request.”


    “Mr. Beckham, I think we should discuss thister,” Mark reminded, “If Noah met his mother, what


    should Ms. Downey do?”


    Hearing this, Harrison frowned deeply.


    That was a tricky problem, he thought.


    After Hayden met P in the restaurant, she was talking about business with her clients these days.


    She attended plenty of dinners and she went to the hotel to sleep most of the time.


    In fact, she was not that busy, but she was trying to avoid meeting Joseph.


    Harrison’s birthday party was before the Christmas, and the invitation letter was sent to the Green


    Lemon Clothing which signaled that the Beckham family and Green Lemon Clothing would establish


    business rtions in the future.


    “Ms. Downey, although you’re still angry with Mr. Beckham, you will attend this party, won’t you?”


    Anna gave the invitation to Hayden, looking at her carefully.


    The sunset glow shone through the window. Hayden stared at the red invitation letter, finding the


    characters “Birthday” on it quite dazzling.


    Instead of being angry with Joseph, Hayden was upset by herself. But she could not always hide from


    him.


    “He came here this afternoon?”


    “Yeah.” Anna answered immediately, “As usual, he bought us some desserts. You said you didn’t want


    to eat those so I didn’t brought in.”


    “OK,” Hayden waved her hand, “I see.”


    She didn’te home these days, but Joseph came to thepany with his assistant every day,


    taking plenty of food and drink. A few dayster, Hayden felt she was tired to get angry with him. As the


    staff turned to support him, it seemed that she was the one who was being irrational.


    She was going to attend the party and then exin to Joseph.


    Now that there was some woman who imed to be the mother of Noah, Hayden would prevent P


    from taking Noah from her.


    The following evening, the Beckham family held the party in the top floor of Zifeng restaurant.


    Harrison was traditional, so his birthday party was traditional Chinese style. There were ground tables


    all over the banqueting hall, with the main table near the host area. Harrison was wearing in ck and


    gold, looking quite energetic.


    Hayden was asked by Mark to sit at the main table next to Joseph when she got the restaurant.


    In fact, she was not supposed to sit there since she and Joseph did not get married yet. Now that she


    sat at the main table, the guest all knew that she was the future Mrs. Beckham and they would count


    on herter.


    “Hayden.” Harrison was d to see her.


    Hayden nodded and looked at Harrison directly, ignoring Joseph next to her, “Where are Noah and


    Ste? I haven’t met them.”


    Joseph said before Harrison answered her, “They went to the bathroom with nanny.”


    Hayden frowned slightly and did not reply, looking toward the bathroom.


    She was to avoid eye contact with Joseph, but she caught a sight of a guest she did not expect.


    The southeast corner of the banqueting hall was far away from the main table, and the guests sitting


    there were some people that the Beckham family barely knew. They tried hard to get invited. And some


    of them were journalists.


    But Hayden descried P among them.


    She looked quiet and tender in her cream-colored dress, looking toward the bathroom as Hayden did.


    Hayden was unnerved as if her heart was grasped and pulled by someone. She turned around and


    asked Joseph right away, “You invited her toe?”


    Joseph did not know what she was saying and then he saw P.


    Theughter of children came out of the bathroom. Then Ste and Noah ran out, followed by the two


    babysitters.


    “Mommy!” Seeing Hayden was here, the kids ran to her immediately. But something in Noah’s hand fell


    to the ground when he passed through P.


    P bent down and grabbed it, giving it back to Noah.


    Hayden clenched her fists and got infuriated.