Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Antonio Smith clicked on the message he received as soon as his meeting concluded and saw the picture of a girl.

Her facial features were almost identical to his, except for her mouth.

A grim look flashed past his eyes, and he clenched his fists.

He cursed inwardly. “Darn it! I can’t believe that woman did something like this to mess with me after taking advantage of me back then!”

He asked: [Where is Lilian?]

Louis‘ response came quickly. It was a video.

In the video. Lilian was lying in a pool of blood. The little girl was howling sorrowfully beside her lifeless body.

Someone asked the girl. “Where is your daddy?”

The girl said without hesitation, “I don’t have a daddy!”

Hearing the girl’s words, Antonio frowned and thought to himself, ‘No Daddy?

It’s pretty obvious why Lilian gave birth to this child, but she actually told the girl she didn’t have a daddy.

What was she thinking?”

His expression was gloomy. Just as he was about to put down his phone, he couldn’t help clicking on the video and playing it again.

The girl in the video was crying her heart out, repeatedly calling out for her mother.

Alas, Lilian couldn’t respond to her anymore.

His heart ached for no reason, and he tightened his grip on his phone.

He thought, ‘Darn it!

I can’t believe I have an illegitimate child!

How am I going to explain this to Winnie?”

Louis‘ message came in quickly! It read: [Winnie can’t know about this! Back then, Winnie had a kidney removed because of Lilian and even became blind in one eye. She just had a corneal repair procedure. She will break down if she finds out about your illegitimate daughter!]

Naturally, Antonio knew he couldn’t let Winnie know.

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He got drunk that night because of certain reasons. Lilian seized the o bed by impersonating Winnie.

What happened that night left a stain on his life.

He didn’t expect the stain to still be there.

Just as he was pondering, his phone rang again.

His three sons unanimously sent him pictures of Laura from various angles.

One of them questioned: [Dad, where’d you get an illegitimate daughter?]

to climb into his

Another asked: [I heard that you cheated on Mom once. Was this the child you had with another woman back then?]

The third son expressed his disappointment: [Dad, you’ve let us down.]

A deep frown marred Antonio’s countenance.

His three children had inherited his and Winnie’s high intelligence, so it was impossible to hide anything from them.

“But… Even though the girl looks like me, it’s not necessarily my child,” he thought.

Just then, Louis set up a group chat with Antonio and the latter’s three sons.

Louis typed: [All three of them found out about it. I failed to hide it from them. Let’s discuss what to do with this child. How about putting her up for adoption?]

Xander Smith: [If she’s my father’s biological daughter, she’s related to us by blood. It is strange to send her out for adoption. She may come back to haunt us one day. So she might as well be left to fend for herself.]

Everett Smith: [She’s still a kid. How can we do that? Let’s send her abroad for adoption so she’ll never find out about us.]

Jasper Smith: [Even though she’s abroad, she can still find out about us. Best to leave her be and let her fend for herself.]

Louis: [You guys are such “kind souls.” She’s your sister, for goodness‘ sake.]

[Ha–ha, what a joke. How decent can she be when she’s raised by an evil woman? I won’t acknowledge her as our sister. Uncle Louis, you don’t want her either, do you?]

Louis: [You’re right. I don’t.]

Antonio’s face was grim. After a while, he stood up and typed: [Find out where she is. I’m going to do a paternity test with her.]

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He couldn’t believe the girl was his child.

Laura curled up on a chair at the police station with snacks piled next to her.

The police stepped in to see this scene.

The four–year–old girl had long hair that cascaded down her back, resembling a delicate doll in a toy store. She was breathtakingly beautiful.

Such a pretty child did not deserve such a horrible fate.

The female police, Angie,

snacks?” she asked, hear forward. “Lala, why didn’t you eat anything? Do you not like the

Laura lifted her head timidly. “You left these snacks here. I can’t eat them. They’re not mine.”

Angie was stunned. With tears brimming in her eyes, she said in a choked voice, “Go ahead and eat. I specially brought the snacks for you.”

“Thank you, Madam, but I don’t want it. I have dried pasta.” Laura presented the packet of dried pasta she had been holding in her hand. “When Mommy is done eating the pasta, I will get to have some leftover mushroom soup. When will Mommy come back?”

For a moment, Angie was stumped by the question, not knowing how to answer.

“She will have the leftover soup after her mother finishes the pasta? What a devil her mother was!” Angie thought to herself.

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