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 more complicated 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 to comfort Olivia. "The truth will never

come late. 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 been completely wiped off by now."

"You have to think positive, Olivia."

As soon as our conversation ended, Robert came down from upstairs and went to Clair beside us to

chat. When it had gotten late, I eventually took Eilam back to the hospital for him to stay there

temporarily.

I wanted to let him stay at Felix's Villa, but he might feel uncomfortable, 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 succeed 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! Eilam, 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 Villa 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 planned to let you stay at the

villa 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.

As I got him a blanket, 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 desolation in his eyes. It must have been from the things he had had to experience

when he was a child.

Eilam 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 and lay

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 Eilam's parents. His father was a businessman in

Rothfield, well-established but slightly inferior to Daniel.

Eilam'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 Eilam's mother had married beneath her by making Eilam's

father her husband. His father's company only grew in size and strength after he married Eilam's

mother. They were just like me and Nicholas back then. However, his father was a cruel person. After

using Eilam's mother to strengthen his company, 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 played second fiddle in Rothfield. It seemed like Eilam's father

was the ungrateful one.

And what of Eilam's mother?

She took Eilam 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 Eilam three years ago. Eilam 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.

Eilam 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 Eilam. 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, Eilam, 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 or later if I stayed in France, and I would disrupt her life.

She also said that she bought me a plane 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…"