When their eyes met, Natalie’s eyes were instantly filled with tears. This was her son!
He had constantly been on her mind for more than 20 years, and she had missed him badly. She sat up with tears in her eyes and reached out to touch his face with trembling hands.
Raymond, on the other hand, looked at her in a daze. She had features similar to Valeria, and she looked at him with kindness and care.
On the way here, he had thought of many scenarios, but he still did not know what to expect.
He believed that William was telling the truth, so he didn’t know how to react to the news of his biological mother.
He was afraid and nervous at the same time.
But when he saw her tearful eyes, trembling shoulders, shaking hands, and quivering lips…
His fears and nervousness disappeared instantly. He stood still while he let her touch his face.
Her hand was very warm, and tears were streaming out of her eyes. “Baby! My baby!”
Then, she got up abruptly and hugged him. “I have been thinking about you for more than 20 years… I missed you so much!”
She couldn’t suppress her tears anymore and sobbed loudly. Her tears dampened his back, and his body was stiff in her arms.
He had long passed the age of being called ‘baby’, but he felt warm and at peace when she held him in her arms.
This was what motherly love felt like! This was the kind of love that he had longed for more than 20 years, which Savannah had never once given to him.
He raised his hand to hug her fragile body, and his lips trembled for a long time before he muttered out a word, “Mom!”
Meanwhile, in Gavin’s mansion, Archer visited him again. Both of them had dinner together and even went to the study room to play chess. Gavin was in an extremely good mood.
“I left Oreo and Mocha for Valeria, and she got goosebumps. William had promised to help me…”
“What did you promise William?” Archer interrupted Gavin with a frown.
“I just promised him to persuade Hayden to agree to his relationship with Valeria.”
“Dad, how can you make such a careless promise? According to what I’ve heard, that is absolutely impossible.”
Gavin laughed and said, “I’m just playing around with him. The most important thing right now is for Valeria to come back to the Saunders family. As long as she comes back, everything else will be solved easily. Even if Hayden disapproves then, everything would be find if we give them the green light. What can he do to William anyway? He’s old now. He can’t defeat William, so he could only admit that he has lost.”
Archer shook his head. “If only it were that easy. I’m just worried that…”
Before he could finish his sentence, his cell phone rang. He picked up the phone and Lamont’s voice came through, “Mr. Saunders, Dixie told us something very shocking. She said that Raymond is… is you and President Garcia’s son!”
When he heard this, Archer tightened his grip on the phone and stayed silent. On the other end, Lamont gasped for breath and continued, “That witch was never pregnant since the beginning! She bribed the doctor and used a dead body of a baby to deceive Natalie. Then, they secretly took Raymond away from the hospital, and he ended up being Savannah’s child.”
Archer heard himself breathing heavily as his mind was now in a mess. Natalie and his child were not dead…
He should be extremely happy, but he realized that he had not given Raymond any fatherly love for so many years, and he treated him the same way he treated Savannah because he thought that he was Savannah’s son. He couldn’t believe that he was so cruel and heartless towards the child of him and Natalie! After a while, he forced out merely a sentence, “I will not let that witch off the hook easily!”
Gavin didn’t care about the call at first, and he was just staring at the chessboard, thinking about how to defeat his opponent in one move until he realized that Archer was acting a little strange.
He looked up at Archer and saw that his eyes were red, and his expression had changed.
“What’s wrong, Archer?” He asked in horror as Archer looked terrible. He continued, “Did that witch do anything again?”
Archer gripped his phone tightly and took a few deep breaths. Then, without saying a word, he got up and left.
Gavin got up too and followed him to the door. “Archer! Are we not playing chess anymore? Aren’t you staying here tonight?”
Archer did not answer him, and there was gloom written all over his face. The driver started the car immediately, leaving Gavin in a state of confusion.
What happened? Did Savannah do something horrible again?
Gavin turned around and looked at Arthur, who had followed him out. “What did that shrew do this time?”
Arthur shook his head and said, “I haven’t received any news yet!”
“What about Valeria and Raymond? Are they safe?” He asked again.
“Yes, they are.”
“That’s weird!” Gavin frowned. Needless to say, Archer obviously acted like something was wrong. What on earth had happened?
As Natalie was in a coma and was hospitalized, Lucian was very anxious, but she did not dare to act rashly. In the past few days, she realized that there were more strangers hanging around near her house.
She guessed that these strangers were here to stalk her. All these years, she had been living with a low profile, so she guessed that these people were watching her because of the holiday villa incident.
Was Archer suspecting her?
Thinking that he might have suspected her, she did not dare to act rashly.
She could never let him find out that Natalie was still alive! She would definitely not let that happen.
Since she wanted to be extra careful from now on, she couldn’t do anything else. She had never been this passive before ever since she had started to go in hiding.
If she didn’t want to be so passive, then she had to clear up Archer’s suspicion towards her so he won’t keep an eye on her anymore.
As she pondered in the room in dilemma, she thought about it and picked up her phone to dial a phone number.
“I need your help!”
Meanwhile, as they were leaving the hospital, Raymond was silent. The car was very quiet as William did not speak in the back seat too, while Bobby was driving peacefully.
Soon after, Valeria’s call on William’s phone broke the silence. “Honey, your dad just called me and made an appointment to meet with me tomorrow.”
“I see. Let’s talk about it when I come back!”
After hanging up, he frowned. He had made things clear to Hayden the other day, why had he not given up yet?
Raymond, who had been silent, looked at William and asked, “Does… Valeria know that she’s alive?”
“She doesn’t know!”
“Why didn’t you tell her?”
“She asked me not to tell Valeria for the time being.”
Raymond was silent for a moment. “Does Valeria know that I am her brother?”
“Yes! She just found out.”
“Did she find it unacceptable?”
“A little,” William nodded. “Compared to the news of you being her brother, she has more difficulty accepting that Archer is her father.”
“What are you going to do?” Raymond asked again. He used to regard William as his uncle, but now he realized that William’s identity had changed overnight. He was not his uncle anymore, but his brother-in-law. Raymond suddenly felt a little ashamed when he thought about this.
Compared to William, he was just an amateur.
“Let’s ask your father for his opinion first. If my guess is right, he should be looking for me tomorrow at the latest.”