Heartless flirtation, but Zac’s eyes swirled with water, it was very difficult.
After all, Peter is his brother since childhood, better than family, how can it not be difficult?
“I’ll talk about it when I get a chance.”
Peter finished smoking a cigarette, held the butt down in the ashtray and twisted it out, got up and said, “Give me the medicine, I’ll go first, there are still a lot of things to deal with at hand.”
“Deal with what ah, you are a person who is dying, so busy for what? No, no give. Unless about a few of us brothers to eat together. In the past, it was a few of us together for New Year’s Eve, today for the sake of Adriana’s return let’s not bother. But you have to make it up to us.”
Zac was adamant.
Peter thought about it and thought he had a point, so he agreed.
On this day, the two children played with Anne.
Adriana had an appointment with Hayley this afternoon.
Still at the same coffee shop as the last one.
Adriana sat there and ordered a cup of coffee and waited quietly for Hayley, but in ten minutes or so the familiar figure walked in.
She walked in wearing a mink fur coat and sat across from her, dressed up like a broad lady.
“Lawson, good New Year.”
She smiled sweetly and blushed when she faced Adriana.
I think I thought I had slept with ‘Lawson’ and that’s why I was so shy.
“Well, have you had a DNA test?”
Adriana got right to the point and asked directly.
At the mention of this, Hayley’s smiling face instantly tightened up and she said to the waiter, “A latte.”
Turned his head, looked across at the ‘man’ and nodded, “You’re right, the child … is not his.”
“In that case, I’m curious, who from The Alston family have you still been with?”
Adriana sat up straight and stared at her without blinking.
“I don’t know.”
Hayley seems at ease with ‘Lawson’ and tells it like it is, “There was just one time when I got drunk and said I had sex, and that was the first time. In Los Angeles. But I clearly remember being with him, so how could I have someone else’s baby?”
She was aggrieved in her heart.
Adriana is not 100% trust Hayley’s words, but from the change in her facial expression, it should not be a lie.
Think carefully.
I think Brenden is really scary.
“I called you here today to tell you something.”
Adriana drank a glass of water and was adjusting herself, not forgetting to say, “You’d better be a bit prepared, it may … be hard for you to accept.”
“Hmm? What? You … you … want to marry me?”
Unrealistic ideas floated in Hayley’s head.
That thought made Adriana’s eyes flicker, and she felt even more like if she were to tell the truth later, Hayley would blow up and be so angry she would want to kill her.
“Madam, your latte, be careful of the heat.”
The waiter came over, put down the latte, and left.
Hayley’s expectant eyes looked straight at her and never moved away.
The hot gaze stared at Adriana a little uneasy, swallowed and said, “Actually … I am not any Lawson, nor am I a man. I …”
“It’s not Lawson? It’s not a man either? Then … that … is what?”
“Adriana! I am Adriana!”
Taking a deep breath, Adriana plucked up the courage to tell Hayley directly.
Bang–
As expected, Hayley was furious.
The eyes as big as copper bells stared at her unblinkingly, reaching out and pointing at her face, his hands shivering with anger.
“Say that again? Who … are you?”
Her anger was all expected by Adriana.
“Adriana, I’m Adriana, but in disguise. That day at Floedan, you were drunk and nothing happened to us. I knew you would be angry … can …”
“Well … well …”
As Adriana continued to explain, Hayley suddenly fell into the card table, covered her face with her hands and cried.
The crying was so sudden that it broke Adriana a little.
“Hey, you … what are you crying about? I know it was wrong of me to lie to you, but Hayley I really did it for your own good. Many years ago I told you that Brenden is not worthy of your reliance, but you refused to listen to me. Look at it now …”
“You shut up!”
Adriana was only halfway through her sentence when Hayley growled, interrupting her.
Drawing a tissue to wipe the tears on his face, wailing and crying for a long time.
Adriana wanted to explain a few times, but didn’t say anything when she saw how much she was crying.
It took her a long time to collect her tears and stop choking.
The coffee was sipped at the end, and as she drank, she glared at Adriana, the sharp eyes with a touch of grief and exasperation.
Bang–
The coffee cup was placed heavily on the table and the cup spilled out.
“Adriana, how can you do this? And, what were you doing at my mom’s house that day?”
questioned indignantly.
When it came down to it, Adriana felt she had nothing to hide, “I was an orphan back then, and your mother adopted me. Recently I was confused about my identity and the Soto family got involved, saying that I was a member of the Soto family. I went to your mother’s house that day to get a long-life lock that I carried around with me as a child, which had ‘Gu’ engraved on it, but even that didn’t prove that I was from the Soto family. So I had a DNA test done with Harlee and the results …”
She didn’t say it very bluntly, perhaps not wanting to face the issue of her birth.
Shrugged and didn’t say anything more.
“You’re from the Soto family?”
Hayley looked at her with red eyes and was puzzled, “Really?”
“On the sixteenth day the Soto family will hold a banquet, and you will understand then. I am willing to tell you because I have never treated you as an outsider, otherwise I wouldn’t have told you about Brenden.”
With Hayley, Adriana’s attitude was straightforward.
After all, we grew up together as children, Hayley bullied her or scolded her, that is all in the past.
“Then what do you mean by giving me five million? Don’t think I don’t know what you have in mind, don’t you just want me to work undercover for you, do you really think five million can buy me? Adriana, you also underestimate me too much, huh?”
She stood up in a flash, huffed, picked up her handbag and glared at her, “I won’t forgive you.”
Then the people left.
Adriana raised an eyebrow, skimmed her lips and smiled faintly.
I thought that was the end of it, but I received a call from Jenkins the next day.
Two people made an appointment to meet.
Still in the same cafe where she met Hayley yesterday, Adriana booked a booth and sat inside, waiting quietly for Jenkins.
After a while, he finally came.
Knocked on the door and walked in.
Jenkins a formal dress, jacket black tweed coat, carrying a briefcase, with black rimmed glasses, just like a professional barrister’s aura.
He stood there, staring blankly at Adriana, examining her carefully up and down, then stepped in, leaned over and looked again.