Hearing this, Yolanda immediately stopped.
“What did you say?”
Serina immediately covered her mouth. “Nothing.”
As Serina spoke, she was ready to sneak away.
“Come back! Are you pregnant?”
Serina turned around and smiled at Yolanda. “Mom, are you kidding? How can I be pregnant? You heard wrong.”
“Sit down!” Yolanda growled.
Serina could only sit on the chair.
“Go call Mr. Ryker over.” Yolanda turned to the servant beside her.
“Mom! Don’t. Don’t let Mr. Ryker over.” Serina knew very well that Ryker had studied Chinese medicine before. He would know whether she was pregnant or not when he tested her pulse.
“Then tell me about it.”
Serina had to take out the test paper from her bag and slam it on the table. “I am pregnant!”
“Derek’s?”
“What else?”
“You damned girl!” Yolanda raised her hand, about to clutch Serina’s ear. But she stopped in mid-air and poked Serina on the forehead. “You troublesome girl!”
“Alright, Mom. Derek and I are going to divorce. Then I will abort this baby.”
“What? Divorce? Didn’t you just publicize your relationship? You showed others your affection days ago, but now you want to divorce?”
How could young people nowadays be so unreliable? They treated marriage as a joke!
Yolanda couldn’t understand it.
She grabbed Serina’s hand, “Serina, I won’t scold you. But tell me everything about Derek and you..”
Serina looked at Yolanda’s eyes and relented. She nodded.
Next, Serina spent more than an hour explaining how she knew Derek and developed a relationship with him.
Yolanda narrowed her eyes. “Serina, are you saying that Derek treats you like someone else? Another girl looks exactly like you?”
Serina nodded. “Yes, I feel it quite depressing. I can’t stand it.”
“What about that girl?” Yolanda asked eagerly.
“Who are you talking about?”
“The girl who fell in love with Derek before!”
“Mom, I’ve suffered so much. But you’re caring about someone else!” Serina pouted, unable to understand why her mother mentioned that.
Yolanda suddenly sighed deeply. “Serina, there’s something I haven’t told you. Even your father doesn’t know about it.”
“What is it?”
“You have a twin sister.”
“What?” Serina cleared her ears. Did she hear it right?
“It started from when I was going to give birth. Your grandfather passed away when I was pregnant. No one took care of Benevolence and Justice Society. So, despite the opposition from your father and grandparents, I still came to take care of it.”
Yolanda’s eyes suddenly became gentle.
“That day, I went to the countryside for something. Mr. Ryker originally planned to go, and suddenly he got something more urgent matter to deal with. So, I went there. But I suddenly had an early birth on my way to the countryside.”
“I know about this.”
“That’s not the end of it. They sent me to the nearest small hospital. That hospital was under poor conditions. But I had no choice. When I gave birth to the two of you, I was exhausted and passed out.”
“What about my sister?” Serina asked eagerly.
“When I woke up, the doctor carried you over, only you. The doctor told me that it was a twin when I checked in advance. So, I asked the doctor about the other baby. But the doctor told me she died when she was born.”
Serina blinked, a little confused.
“I was quite guilty at that time. If I hadn’t insisted on going to the countryside, I wouldn’t have had a premature birth. And that baby would not die. I wanted to see the dead baby, but the doctor told me that she had been buried as it was a custom there.”
“This is too unreasonable!”
“Yes, I thought so. I argued with doctors in the hospital. Later, your father came. Your grandparents took a good poke at me when they knew you were a gild and another baby was dead.”
“They value men more than women! Fortunately, they don’t have a grandson. Otherwise, it would be hard for me.” Serina could know this very well.
“I said that we should take a look at that baby. After all, she was my daughter. But your grandparents and your father all said since she was dead, there was no need to do that. I had to give up.”
Yolanda sighed. She still felt sad when bringing up what happened back then.
“I can’t get over this. It was my fault. I insisted on going back to S City and gave birth early. Your grandparents treated me differently from that time. Later, I felt that I was responsible for that baby’s death. So, I followed them and didn’t go to see that baby…”
…
“When you were ten, I had the chance to go there again. I went to that hospital. I asked them where they had buried that baby. I still wanted to have a look. But many people either didn’t know about it or had forgotten it.”
“And then?”
“I stayed there for three days, hoping to find that baby. Then an old nurse of the hospital found me and told me the truth. The baby was not dead at all. She was secretly sold.”
“They sold her?” Serina looked at Yolanda in shock.
Yolanda nodded, “Yes. Seeing that I was a stranger and no one was with me, they sold that baby and told me she was dead.”
“How ruthless it was!”
“Yes! I was also very angry at that time. I was ready to sue them. But the nurse told me that the doctors and nurses at that time were fired when the hospital knew it. The most important thing was to find the child. So, knowing that the child was still alive, I couldn’t concentrate on anything else. I could only ask around where they sold the child.”
“Did you find her?”
“No, the doctors and nurses were all fired. It was difficult to find them, let alone find the child. I didn’t tell your father about this. I’m afraid that I can’t find her at all. After all, it has been so many years.”
Serina slammed the table. “Mom, are you saying that Marco might be my sister?”
Yolanda nodded, “I just suspect it. The nurse told me that you were exactly the same. They sold her because she looked a little bigger and could bring more money for them.”