"This is why Howard Geoffrey doesn’t want to tell you about this..."
"Hmm?"
"You want to figure out the reason, but unless Vivian Lindsey is willing to talk, you won’t even know who Chester Robinson’s biological mother is..."
"Then go ask Vivian Lindsey!!"
"Howard Geoffrey has already gone to the prison to question Vivian Lindsey, and the result confird our suspicions were correct. Vivian Lindsey admitted she is not Chester Robinson’s biological mother but refused to reveal Chester’s mother’s identity to Howard Geoffrey..."
Rebecca Quentin asked suspiciously, "Is she trying to hide sothing?"
Alice Robinson shook her head, "She’s not trying to hide anything, she’s willing to talk, but she made a condition with Howard Geoffrey."
"She wants Howard Geoffrey to find a way to get her out of prison?"
Alice Robinson still shook her head, "No, the only condition she made is—she wants to et you."
"Did I hear wrong? She wants to et ?"
"Yes, this is the only condition she asked of Howard Geoffrey."
Rebecca Quentin scoffed, "She’s really strange... living in the world for more than twenty years, unwilling to et , even hating , despising , and now she says she wants to see ? Isn’t this so kind of sche of hers?"
From Rebecca Quentin’s words and actions, Alice Robinson could already feel that Rebecca Quentin had a deep-rooted hatred for Vivian Lindsey.
Indeed, in Rebecca Quentin’s view, Vivian Lindsey had never given Rebecca Quentin an ounce of motherhood over the span of more than twenty years, and even to achieve her revenge against the Geoffrey family, she had many tis resorted to threatening Howard Geoffrey by harming her...
Rebecca Quentin thought for a mont, then shook her head, "No, she’s in prison now, even if she wants to sche, it’s just the desperate struggles of a dying person..."
Alice Robinson took over the conversation, "So, she really wants to et you..."
"Impossible!!" Before Alice Robinson could continue, Rebecca Quentin already burst out angrily, "I will never et such a heartless woman who abandoned her family and is cruel... I will never et her in my lifeti!!"
"Then, will Chester’s origins remain a mystery?"
"Howard Geoffrey will find another way to force her."
"Vivian Lindsey said if you do not want to see her, she will take this secret to her grave, even if she rots away in prison."
"Why does she want to et ?"
With this question in mind, Rebecca Quentin slowly walked out of the hospital room.
Howard Geoffrey had been waiting outside the ward all along, and upon seeing Rebecca Quentin, quickly stepped forward and grabbed her soft shoulders, calling out nervously, "Becca..."
Rebecca Quentin had a gloomy expression as she was lost in thought.
"I’m sorry, forgive my selfishness, at the ti, I just didn’t want you involved with M..."
Rebecca Quentin interrupted Howard Geoffrey’s self-reproach with a frown, "Why are you saying ’sorry’ to ?"
Howard Geoffrey froze for a mont, his dark eyes subtly contemplative, "Didn’t Alice Robinson tell you?"
"She did! She said you and Chester are half-brothers on your father’s side, but it’s unlikely that Chester and I are siblings. She also said you went to test Vivian Lindsey in prison, trying to make her reveal Chester’s biological mother’s identity, but Vivian Lindsey refused, wanting to et her instead!"
Howard Geoffrey raised an eyebrow, "She only told you that much?"
Rebecca Quentin nodded, "She said there were other things she wanted to tell on your behalf, but after thinking about it, she felt it would be better for you to tell personally, so here I am asking... is there anything else you want to tell ?"
"Becca..." Howard Geoffrey’s voice suddenly turned hoarse.
Rebecca Quentin looked at him intently with her beautiful eyes, "Hmm?"
On Howard Geoffrey’s handso face, there was a difficult-to-understand emotion that Rebecca Quentin couldn’t quite decipher.
"Howard Geoffrey, actually the fact that Chester is your brother doesn’t affect our relationship at all, so why were you willing to hide it from , making misunderstand while you took care of Alice Robinson instead of telling this?"
"Because I knew that once you found out Chester’s identity, you would definitely want to find out who his biological mother is."
"Of course I want to find out!!" Rebecca Quentin exclaid with emotion, "Vivian Lindsey would rather care for a child who isn’t her own than care for . Is it because Chester’s biological mother is deeply connected to her, or because, in her eyes, I’m not even as good as an adopted child?!"
"Becca, I’m afraid the only person who can answer these questions for you is Vivian Lindsey herself."
"That’s why I’ve decided to see Vivian Lindsey."
Howard Geoffrey’s eyes darkened even further, "I knew you would eventually be willing to see her."
Rebecca Quentin slowly lowered her gaze, "I really don’t want to et this person, but she knows Chester’s origins... I really want to figure these things out."
"You still care about her, don’t you?"
Recalling all the past wrongdoings of Vivian Lindsey, Rebecca Quentin angrily blurted out, "I don’t care, why should I care? I’m only eting her to find out why a woman like her, who doesn’t care about family bonds, would develop a mother-son relationship with Chester?"
Howard Geoffrey’s deep eyes looked intently into Rebecca Quentin’s eyes.
In her clear eyes, aside from anger, hatred, and resentnt, there was also disappointnt and misery buried deep within.
He still rembered after he sent M to prison, because Chester had been fanning the flas from behind the scenes, she learned about the existence of M.
At that ti, he had asked her if she wanted to see M, and he still rembered her answer—"Of course, I want to... I want to see a mother who can give a child warmth and care, not a cold-blooded woman who doesn’t care about her own daughter and harms her indiscriminately, she doesn’t deserve for to see her..."
Later, when he explained to her that he had no choice but to send M to prison, she expressed understanding but said she wanted to know about M’s situation in prison.
From that mont on, he knew that even amid her myriad of grievances against M, M was, after all, her mother, and deep down, she yearned for the warmth of maternal love.
"Howard Geoffrey..."
"Hmm?"
"What are you thinking, you seem lost."
Howard Geoffrey gazed at Rebecca Quentin intensely, his magnetic voice more husky than usual, "I don’t want you to et M."
"Don’t you want to figure out who Chester’s biological mother is?"
"I don’t care."
"But I care, I’ve already decided to et Vivian Lindsey."
"Becca..."
Rebecca Quentin was puzzled, "Why don’t you want to et her?"
Howard Geoffrey pressed his thin lips together, not answering.
Suddenly Rebecca Quentin had an epiphany, "I get it, you hid the fact that you were taking care of Alice Robinson from because you didn’t want to know Chester’s identity, you were afraid I’d go et M... why?"
At that mont, Howard Geoffrey pulled Rebecca Quentin into his embrace.
Rebecca Quentin gently struggled in Geoffrey’s embrace, "Let go first... you haven’t told why you don’t want to et M."
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