Chapter 690
After taking Sylvie in, Herbert sent his men to Dartan to find out more things about her. He then
found out that Sylvie’s mother had passed away when Sylvie was sixteen, so she had been forced to g
o to a children’s home.
Sylvie had lost her parents before she turned an adult. She was all alone, and she could barely take ca
re of herself, let alone think about other things.
“I’m sorry that you had such a tough childhood.” The suspicions that Herbert had turned into heartache
s.
He pulled Sylvie into his arms and brushed her chestnut–
colored long hair. “I didn’t get to watch your mom grow up, but I’ll definitely take good care of you.”
All of a sudden, Cooper laughed. “Old Mr. Zeigler, if you have questions in your heart, why don’t you voi
ce them out loud?”
“I have none.” Herbert determinedly uttered as he returned the phone to Cooper. “My daughter has pas
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sed away many years now. Mr. Sutton, there’s no need for you to dig further into this. matter anymore.”
Cooper raised the phone and glanced at its screen. “It’s true that this woman in the photo is Ms. Clasen
’s mother, but… she’s not your daughter.”
Everyone’s eyes widened.
Unlike them. Herbert’s expression
never changed. He even coldly said. “I lost Juliana when she was about seven to eight years old. It’s n
ormal for a girl to change her looks when she grows up.”
“Ms. Juliana is your daughter. No matter how she changes, she’ll still look similar to you or her brothers
like Commander Zeigler.” As Cooper spoke, his eyes flitted toward the middle–
aged man on the other table.
That man was Herbert’s eldest son, and he was the commander of Baykeep’s military, Phineus Zeigler.
Phineus was in his fifties, and he was a tall man. His high–
ranking position only made him seem even more solemn than ever.
At the same time, he was also the one who resembled Herbert the most.
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Although Phineus never spoke to Cooper, he had been watching and listening to everything Genevieve
and Cooper had said until then.
Phineus was looking at Cooper as he uttered, “Mr. Sutton, can I take a look at the photos?”
“Of course.” Cooper handed him the phone.
Meanwhile, Sylvie was still keeping her head down. To others, it seemed like she was being an obedien
t girl, but only she knew how anxious she was. At that moment, she desperately wished that she could t
oss Cooper’s phone into the hot soup.
I knew it! I knew that Genevieve and Cooper aren’t here just to give Old Mr. Zeigler a present. All I can
do is wish that Phineus won’t remember what happened in the past and what his sister looks like.
Unfortunately, things did not go the way Sylvie wished it would.
After a glance at the photos, Phineus confidently said to his father, “Dad, the woman in the photos is de
finitely not Juliana.”
Herbert stiffened.
“Juliana has a scar on her forehead, and
it’s there because she hit her head at the corner of the table when I accidentally pushed her back then.”
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Phineus walked over and handed the phone. back to Herbert. “This woman doesn’t have the scar.”
It was then Herbert recalled the incident.
There had been a night when Herbert returned home to find Juliana with bandages around her head. H
e later found out about how mischievous his eldest son was, so he taught his son a lesson.
Herbert’s eyes flicked between the woman in the photo and Sylvie in disbelief.
Then, he came up with an excuse himself. “Maybe it’s because the technology of
cosmetic surgery had caught up, so Juliana had the scar removed. I’ve done two DNA tests with Sylvie,
and she really is my granddaughter.”
Moreover, he had asked the driver to do the second DNA test in a different place.
Η
That was something only he and his driver knew about.
Genevieve, who had not spoken for a long while, unlocked her phone. “General Zeigler, you’ll understa
nd everything once you hear this audio recording.”
Soon, the voices of two women talking to each other traveled out of the phone.
“I was wondering how Xavier managed to escape from Xedells Prison when the security there was tight
and when the Wood family had fallen.”
A pause later, the first speaker continued, “Sylvie, I know that you’re not Old Mr. Zeigler’s granddaught
er.”