They were hugging each other. William said, “Thank you for your tolerance, thank you for your kindness. Sherry, let’s go to the hospital now so we can see the result earlier!”
“Ok! I want to see it too!” She could not wait to go as well.
The hospital.
There was still one hour left when they arrived at the hospital.
They were on the edge of their seat while waiting outside the authentication room.
Sherry’s hand was full of her sweat, her heart was pounding insanely fast. She kept intertwining her hands together while pacing back and forth anxiously.
“Sherry!” William held her small palms. She then realized his palms were also sweaty.
“You are nervous too?” She was surprised as she realized both of them were very nervous.
William nodded awkwardly but he was nervous too, “I am quite worried, I hope Daniel Murray is my son. It is because I have a special feeling towards this kid at the beginning. I will get carried away every time I see him. I like this kid uncontrollably!”
He recalled the first time he met Dan in the airport. When they went to the toilet together, he surprisingly yelled, “William, your dick is so big!”
He could not help but laugh out loud, then he saw him selling condoms, which made him heartbroken. He thought of all these years Sherry and Dan had been tough, they must have suffered a lot. He felt like he was guilty of everything that happened to them.
They were hugging together tightly, Sherry was stuffed in William’s arms. Suddenly, the door of the authentication room was opened. Doctor Simpson walked out with a smile on his face, “Mr. and Mrs. Rowland, I bet you could not bear the misery in waiting for the result. That is why I let my assistant finish it 50 minutes earlier.”
William and Sherry raised their heads immediately, they could not stop trembling. They asked anxiously at the same time, “What is the result?”
They were holding their breath as this was the moment they had been waiting for.
“Dan is your biological son!” Doctor Simpson was holding an authentication report. “I got 5 drops of blood each from the blood samples of the three of you, and Dan’s DNA matches with your DNA by 99.9%. He is your child!”
“It is true!” said William as he took the report.
The only thing he saw was the 99.99% similarities, a great sense of joy rushed through his mind. He then looked down at Sherry, she was stuffing her hand into her mouth and was biting her finger. She was already covered in tears. Ecstasy was all over their faces, Sherry was so excited that tears were falling off her cheeks.
“Sherry!” William hugged her. “He is our son, Dan is our son!”
Doctor Simpson smiled and said, “Yes, Mr. Rowland, if you have any problems, feel free to contact me, here is the report.”
“Thank you so much, Doctor Simpson!” William was so excited and shook Doctor Simpson’s hand. After that, Doctor Simpson left.
At this moment, Sherry finally realized everything. She grabbed the report from William and read the result. She was crying and smiling at the same time when she read it, "William, it is Dan. It is Dan, he is our son. He is always with me but I do not even know he is my biological son. I do not even know..."
William sighed deeply and hugged her, “Luckily he is. No matter what happens, you witnessed his childhood and was part of his childhood. At least God is fair. It let us rejoin with our son. Sherry, let’s go home!”
“Yes, let’s go back home! I want to tell Dan that he is our son!” Sherry was so excited that she hugged William’s son. She was jumping and laughing while still crying.
William also wanted to cheer so badly.
When they arrived home, they quickly woke up John Rowland. Sherry immediately ran to Dan’s room. As she was watching her son sleeping, her heart clenched tightly. It was her precious son. Her baby boy was always by her side all this time.
She touched Dan’s forehead gently and affectionately. Dan’s eyebrows were extremely similar to William’s sharp eyebrows. His eyes were closed at the moment while the long eyelashes were covering the eyelids.
When Dan was sleeping peacefully, he suddenly chirped his mouth and muttered, “Mommy...”
Sherry was startled. She thought Dan was awake, then sobbed, “Dan?”
But Dan just turned over, this young fellow was having a dream.
Sherry held Dan’s tiny palm as she did not want to let it go for even one split second.
At that moment, the memories of all these years suddenly flashed back in her mind. Her heart was filled with happiness. He was her son.
William woke John up and handed him the report. Besides, he also showed him the report of Samuel and Liam.
After reading the report closely, John experienced an emotional roller-coaster. After a long and awkward silence, John suddenly sighed and shed a drop of tear.
He quickly concealed and looked sidelong at the picture on the table. It was a picture of William’s mother, “No wonder he was so approachable the moment I saw him. No wonder I just could not help but like him. No wonder he is so smart, he is the descendants of Rowland’s family.”
“Father! Will you blame me?” William asked, “Blame me for making mistakes and let Sherry and Dan suffer for years!”
“Then pay for your mistake!” John rarely said any gentle words, but at this moment he could not help but be gentle with his words, “I am not worried about Dan, I am worried about Samuel. How do you plan to tell him the truth?”
“I was thinking to plan a family gathering, then invite Liam’s family and others including dad-in-law. Then we can get Samuel to talk to Liam and Sarah Brooks. After he builds up trust with them then only we tell him, does that sound good?”
“Deal, then invite Liam and Sarah to come over tomorrow. After losing a child, we should be more sensitive about their feelings. We should let Samuel know his origin as early as possible.” John nodded, “Let me go check on Dan!”
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...