She had always guessed that her biological parents were in the Folsom family, and that they might be people in the Folsom family or underlings of the Folsom family.
She didn’t really care about it, but after seeing so many bodyguards and servants with the Folsom family crest today, she couldn’t help but ask.
Upon hearing this, Jasper’s hand holding the teacup paused, his expression on his face frozen, and his eyes darkened.
“What’s wrong? Shouldn’t I have asked?” Paige sensed his unusual mood.
“No, you shouldn’t have.”
Jasper set down the teacup, and his fingertips trembled slightly. ‘Paige, you said that when the Folsom family’s blood feud is avenged, I wonder how many lives will be burdened with new hatred. I understand this, but do you know how much the Folsom family has sacrificed for this day?’
“…”
Paige looked at him in silence, listening quietly.
“Have you met my eldest daughter?” Jasper asked her.
Paige nodded, thinking of the silly Brangelina.
“Silly, like a child, isn’t she? Not at all like the smartest woman people used to say she was.”
Jasper gave a bitter smile and turned his head to look out the window at the fine snow. ‘And the price I paid was not just her.’
“What do you mean?” Paige didn’t understand.
“More than twenty years ago, after my eldest daughter Brangelina lost her memory, my youngest daughter Blanca took up the burden and went to work in Country A. As a result, she lost her newborn daughter.”
Jasper said leisurely, ‘The Folsom family sent many people to look for her, and Mr. and Mrs. Beinice even went in person to search for her. In the end, they couldn’t find her, and they lost another child. Their youngest daughter was also lost.’
“…”
Paige sat there, listening to this story, her eyelashes trembled fiercely, her fingers curled up unconsciously, and her face gradually turned pale.
Jasper looked out the window and didn’t notice her changing face.
She swallowed dryly and asked in a flat voice, “You mean you lost a granddaughter and a granddaughter within a year? How old were they?”
Jasper withdrew his gaze.
Paige lowered her head and tried her best to calm her emotions, not letting her shock show on her face.
“The two children were born in the same year, and if they are still alive, they are about your age.”
Jasper’s words were like dropping another heavy bomb on Paige, causing her to feel a little dizzy.
She steadied her breathing, “And you still haven’t found them?”
Upon hearing this, Jasper’s eyes darkened even more. After a long while, he shook his head, “At the time, the clothes of the two children were prepared by the Folsom family, and the buttons were also gold-threaded buttons that would be found in the Folsom family lineage. Since the children were lost, I have given all the subordinates of the Folsom family gold-threaded buttons. They searched everywhere, and maybe one day, the two children will come to the door with these special buttons.”
“…” Paige’s breathing became a little unsteady as she listened.
She had long suspected that she might be a member of the Folsom family, but she had never imagined that Jasper was her grandfather or great-grandfather, so closely related.
“You said that the price I paid was such that I could not afford to stop,”
Jasper said with a wry smile, lifted his teacup and gulped down the already-cooled tea.
Paige sat there, her back almost rigid.
For the first time, she was so close to learning her true identity, so close that… her relatives were right in front of her.
She looked up at Jasper. Who was she, the daughter of Beatrice or Blanca?
Was it a sign that Brangelina had mistaken her for Blanca?
Paige’s mind was racing with so many thoughts that she almost blurted them out, until Jasper looked at her again. “In fact, when I found out that you were a foundling, I doubted whether you were the child of the Folsom family.”
“Me?” Paige looked at him.
“But according to the information, you were born at the Marian Hospital, which is different from my granddaughter. My granddaughter was already six months old when she disappeared, so I dismissed that idea,” Jasper said.
“Granddaughter?” Paige looked at him, ‘Isn’t there also a granddaughter?’
Why did he only mention a granddaughter?
The Clarkes had a photo of her and Molly together when she was just born, not six months old when she was lost. It seems that she really wasn’t the granddaughter of the Folsom family.
On hearing this, Jasper tightened his grip on the teacup and said after a long pause, “Blanca was so focused on her career that after giving birth in a private hospital, she went to work despite her condition. When she returned, she found that someone had taken the baby. A few years after the incident, she finally tracked down the person who took the baby.”
“What do you mean?” Paige asked.
Jasper was so immersed in this sad past that he didn’t notice the urgency in Paige’s words. He said, “He was a habitual child abductor. He took the child and sold it, but the child was not in good health and died on the way to the countryside.”
“Were the child’s bones found?” Paige asked again.
“It is said that they were burned to ashes. The habitual criminal saw that the Folsom family’s clothes were exquisite, and the little clothes had not burned and were still there. Only two of the three gold-threaded buttons were left, and the gold thread was all gone. He took them and sold them,” Jasper said.
Only two of the three buttons were left.
The other one is in her hand.
“So, do you think your granddaughter is already dead?”
At this point, Paige could almost be certain that she was Blanca’s daughter. Otherwise, there was no way to explain so many coincidences.
She just didn’t know why she had gone from a private hospital to Marian Hospital and then been taken back by the Clarkes.
“Think?” Jasper shook his head. “There’s no way to think about this. As long as we don’t see the body, the Folsom family will consider her alive.”
“But you have already decided mentally that she is dead,” said Paige, who had been looking for her granddaughter, not her grandchild, for all these years, and had had her men wear clothes with gold-thread buttons for that purpose.
Jasper frowned. It was only then that he felt that there was something wrong with Paige. He looked up at her and said, ‘You seem to be very interested in these matters.’
Paige looked at him. After a long while, she said, ‘I was just asking casually.’
She did not say that she also had a button like that.
She didn’t think that she would really be a member of the Folsom family or Jasper’s granddaughter.
In an instant, she thought about a lot of things. She wondered if the Folsom family would happily hand over the ultimatum if she revealed her identity, or if they would force her to stand on the Folsom family’s side once again and mess with the situation in Country A…
If she acknowledged this relationship, what would it matter if Temple in Heaven died in River Town?
Even if it wasn’t Jasper who told Emery to massacre the city, it was still an indirect result.
Forget it.
We’ll talk about it later.
The matter of the adoption is not important to her now. What is important is the letter of renunciation and returning to the country to find Enrico.
Paige looked at the time on the wall clock. A long time had passed again, and Beatrice should have finished beating her son by now.
Thinking this, Paige stood up from her seat and bowed low to Jasper, “You rest well.”
After saying this, she was about to leave.
Jasper called out to her, “Paige.”
Paige stopped in her tracks.
Jasper looked at her and said, “I’ll ask you one last time, are you really unwilling to work for the Folsom family?”