Chapter 1720: Chapter 1723: Nolan Lucas, I Know Where Your Biological Mother Is
“I… I…”
Tara Hammond staggered backward several steps, finally realizing all was lost.
Evelyn Lucas was about to step forward when Theodore Lucas, her escort, suddenly flung off Evelyn’s hand.
He took a step forward, grabbing Tara’s wrist. “Tara, what is going on here? Nolan isn’t your child—then who is that mute girl? I don’t know any mute woman; why…”
“Heh… hehe…” Tara suddenly started laughing. Her laughter was bleak and desolate.
Seeing her despairing smile, Theodore suddenly felt a sharp pain between his brows.
“Theodore Lucas, do you want the truth? Fine, I’ll tell you the truth… That year, after I aborted our first child, the doctor told I might never conceive again. Did you ever think about how young I was then, how scared I was?”
“But… But you later gave birth to Evelyn?”
Theodore had been at Tara’s side every day during her pregnancy with Evelyn.
He was certain Evelyn must be Tara’s biological daughter.
“Yes, but that was years later, wasn’t it? I took countless supplents, did endless recuperation, and only then managed to conceive Evelyn. But before Nolan was born, I thought I’d never be able to bear children again. And you, guided by Mr. Lucas’s wishes, went ahead and married another woman.”
“Did you ever consider how I felt back then?” Tara asked, teary-eyed, “What if your wife had given birth to a child—what would I have done then?!”
Her words struck Theodore with guilt.
He loved Tara, deeply enchanted by her unique charm from the very first glance.
Theodore recalled the scene of Tara, in anguish over his impending marriage, crying as she tried to throw herself into the river.
He knew this woman loved him beyond asure.
He knew he was Tara’s everything.
“Even so, you shouldn’t have… Sigh…” Theodore sighed, unable to admonish her.
On the surface, Tara appeared grief-stricken, but internally, she felt proud.
Indeed, she had rehearsed her response countless tis for the day when the truth from the past would co to light.
Now, only a sliver of the truth had erged, and she had plenty of strategies left to reclaim the hearts of both Theodore and Nolan Lucas.
“Mom…” Nolan’s trembling voice ca from behind Tara.
He didn’t know whether he should call her “mom,” but years of habit made it impossible for him to change how he addressed her.
“Then, my mother—my biological mother—where is she now? Why… Why did she…”
“Nolan, mom understands. Mom should’ve told you earlier. But…” Tara turned around while wiping her tears, wearing an expression of fear that Nolan might be hurt.
“Your biological mother was a mute woman. Back then, she seed to owe a massive debt, and she was planning to enter that kind of business to pay it off. I saw her accidentally and thought she looked so pitiful. She was clean, beautiful, and mute, which ant she could keep secrets. So, I offered her money to beco a surrogate for … She took the money without hesitation and disappeared. Over all these years, I’ve had no idea where she went.”
As Tara spoke, she turned to Theodore. “Do you still rember that ti, not long after you got married, when you got drunk at my apartnt? It was then—you and that woman had relations… I… My heart was nearly broken, but to stay with you, I had no choice…”
Tara’s crying skills were impeccable, and at this point, she was so choked by her sobs that she couldn’t speak further, only clinging to Theodore as she wept.
anwhile, upon learning that his biological mother had abandoned him for money after serving as a surrogate, Nolan felt a deep and indescribable resentnt toward the woman he had never t.
Unable to bear her brother’s pain, Evelyn stepped forward to hug him.
The family embraced, creating a deeply emotional scene.
But at that very mont, Aidan Lucas, who had remained silent throughout, poured a taphorical bucket of cold water over them.
“Nolan Lucas, I know where your biological mother is. As luck would have it, I brought her here today.”
[Chapter 6 complete. See you tomorrow night~]
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