From the time he came in until now, he has seen five or six maids going about their business constantly.
All signs point to the fact that Adriana is not living here alone at all.
“I called you over to talk to you about this.”
Adriana crossed her fingers in front of the table, looked sideways at the distance, sighed despondently and said, “If I were with Peter, would you object?”
Bang–
As her words fell, Harlee thumped the table heavily, “How many times have I told you that I don’t want you to be with Peter, why can’t you change your old thoughts?”
He really thinks Adriana is in over her head.
Peter is not worthy of her, not worthy of Adriana at all, and certainly will not support the two together.
“I …”
Adriana was about to say something when the phone in her pocket rang.
Pulling out his phone, he glanced at the caller ID on the screen and it was Giovanny’s.
“Hold on a second, I’ll take a call.”
Giovanny would rarely call Adriana, and if he did it was bound to be important and Adriana was very discreet.
Getting up and walking aside, he answered the phone and asked, “What is it?”
“I have checked the relationship between Archie and Harlee that you asked me to check. According to the DNA results, the two of them are … father and son.”
“What …?”
Adriana was stunned in place for a moment, pupils wide, the phone instantly slipped from her hand.
The breeze came with the warmth of early summer, but Adriana felt a little cold.
Archie is Peter’s third uncle, and if he is Harlee’s father, he is also his real father!
The sudden result was a bit overwhelming for Adriana.
Her heart suddenly ached, and she subconsciously gulped.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Harlee suddenly walked over and picked up the phone off the floor and handed it to Adriana, “Is everything okay?”
Adriana snapped back to her senses and took the phone, “It’s okay , my hands are too slippery.”
She took the phone and pursed her lips.
Because of her recent weakness and pale lips, Adriana wears some lipstick to hide the haggard and sickly look on her face.
When I picked up the phone, the other party had already hung up.
“Did something big happen, don’t hide everything from me, okay?”
As an older brother, Harlee has seen Adriana transform from a weak little woman to a big woman with an independent personality now.
He is angry and helpless to do everything himself.
“I said, it’s really okay. Can’t you expect anything better?”
Adriana smiled and took her phone and went to sit under the sunshade, her mind a muddle and a mess.
“Adriana, I’m your brother, there are things you can’t hide from me.”
Harlee stood in front of her, hands propped up on the table, looking down at her with a bit of glare in her eyes.
“I said, it’s really okay.”
The little woman with a confused brain was a little annoyed by Harlee’s question, cold eyes, “I came here today to tell you that you are Obren’s people. No, our family is all Obren’s people, understand?”
I was going to tell Harlee about it a little later.
But when she said she had something to discuss with Harlee, what she wanted to say was that she wanted to be with Peter.
But a phone call from Giovanny interrupted all her hopes.
How could Adriana continue to bring this up in front of Harlee?
“What? You’re saying we’re Obren’s?”
Harlee was diverted by Adriana and sat across from her, tilting her head to look at her and couldn’t help but draw a breath back, “Really? How do you know that, who told you that?”
“Old Mr. Soto said it himself. Why do you think he gave me all the FE’s last time? Because we were Obren’s people, but didn’t know who the real mother was at the time, so we didn’t tell you.”
“Obren’s people? You are the daughter of the former patriarch of Obren back then?”
“It’s us!”
“Yes, we. But the Obren patriarch is only meant to be passed down to women, not men, which means you are the heir to the Obren future patriarch?”
It’s something Harlee is interested in, “Is it reliable, really?”
“You’re looking forward to it?”
Adriana is really speechless about Harlee and thinks that Harlee has a problem with her brain circuit.
“That is not very much to look forward to, but if it is really Obren young master, then we can go back to Obren, is not it better?”
“You are right, we are the children of the last Obren matriarch, because she capriciously fled, everyone thought she was unaccounted for, and in desperation the last matriarch, our maternal grandmother, is still holding the position of Obren matriarch.”
Adriana is not at all interested in mentioning these things, but she knows in her heart that these things must be faced squarely.
“Where is she?”
“Who?”
“Who else could it be, the patriarch of course.”
“Ruth is missing, her whereabouts are unknown, and I have sent many people without finding her.”
Adriana told Harlee the situation truthfully, and instead felt in her heart that the biggest suspect should be Brenden.
But how could Ruth, a person who could hide for over twenty years without any trace being found, be taken by Brenden?
Adriana finds it unlikely at all.
“How could a person that big go missing? It must not have been a good effort to find out the whereabouts.”
Adriana shook her head, “I used FE’s people, Raylan’s people, and none of them found any leads.”
Adriana wanted to send Giovanny to look for Ruth many times, but the situation of the two children was very dangerous, and Adriana could not disregard the safety of the two children.
Harlee lifted her hand and lifted her short hair, leaning back in her chair and looking into the distance, not saying anything for a long time.
Before always want to know their true identity, now suddenly know who they really are, but Harlee simply can not be happy.
It even feels like everything is a bit ridiculous.
“Old Mr. Soto told you things, and I’m curious how he knew so much? Or is Old Mr. Soto one of Obren’s people?”
Excluding all possibilities, Harlee thinks Old Mr. Soto is the Obren matriarch’s subordinate or very likely.
“Yes, as you say.”
Adriana nodded and added: “Back then Ruth old left Obren to bring out many people, she was kind by nature, many people should have died after leaving Obren according to Obren’s rules, but she released many people privately, that’s why she was respected by so many people.”
In this way, it is what makes many people willingly follow Ruth.
“I’ll say it.”
Other questions even if no longer asked Adriana, Harlee can vaguely guess the problem.
Only now though knowing the identity of the two, the pressure in Harlee’s heart is even greater, “Are you going back to Obren or what do you do?”
“Why should I go back? It’s fine here, I don’t want to go back.”
Obren circled the land as a prison, the pedantic concept is too old-fashioned, Adriana does not want to be a bird in a cage.
She yearns for freedom even more.
“That’s true. But you should be clear that your identity has been exposed now, even if you don’t go back to Obren, Obren will have people coming to you. The point is, your identity as Obren’s heir will lead to a lot of trouble, and it’s not good.”