Chapter 389
In an instant, Helen got pushed into the eye of the storm, but she was still very bewildered.
‘I never told anyone about the result since I got it back. I should be the only person who’s being haunted by it day and night, considering it and weighing the pros and cons repeatedly. So how did Simon come to know about it?’
“Helen, what exactly do you have in your possession?”
When Arthur opened his mouth, Helen knew that even if she did not want to show the result at this moment, she had to do so, as it was better to just bring the result up openly. That was the only way to help Hesper maintain the image that she had been keeping all this while.
“It’s a paternity test.” Helen took out a paternity test result that had been folded multiple times from her coat pocket. It looked as if she had been keeping it for quite some time. “I must admit that I once doubted Hesper’s identity, so I secretly collected some of her hair when I went to her room not long ago.”
Hesper had not known about this at all.
“When I first came to the Lanes’ ancestral manor, I was indeed very careful in handling everything that can be collected and used for a paternity test, but as time went by, I lowered my guard. I didn’t think that Aunt Helen would set me up from the shadows.
‘Looking back at my trips back and forth between Genecity and Emperion, it must have happened during New Year’s Eve, the day when Rickard set off fireworks for me, right?’
“The paternity test shows that…” Hesper closed her eyes, as she knew better than anyone else what the results would look like. “It shows that Hesper and Father are indeed related.”
“What?”
Wilfred was the first one to get shocked by the announcement. He stepped forward and snatched the paternity test result from Helen’s hand, but the result were exactly as Helen said. The official logo of the hospital was clearly stamped on the results, so it was impossible for Helen to fake it.
Hesper stared at Matthew in astonishment, but he was also staring fixedly at the paternity test and couldn’t even clear his mind up to look at Hesper.
“Huh? Are you kidding me? Then what’s with that girl? Is her paternity test fake then?” Wilfred strode to the corner of the hall and pulled Twiggy out.
Twiggy, who just regained her intellect and cognition, had been directly brought back to the Lanes without having the chance to learn anything about the family beforehand, so she shrank back in fear when she was suddenly jerked forward by Wilfred.
“Can someone tell me what’s going on here?!” Arthur coughed vigorously.
Simon immediately explained, “I know everything about this incident. I can tell everybody that Twiggy is one of the Lanes and so is Hesper.”
“What?”
Hesper was completely perplexed. She stared at Simon in a daze, trying her best to understand what he was talking about.
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