After lunch, Jane went to find Mr. Berger to learn how to take care of Vivian's health. Just after she left, Louis received a call from his guard.
"Mr. Caesar."
"Speak."
Louis absentmindedly watched as his daughter played with her doll, his eyes full of indulgence.
On the other end of the phone, the guard heard the man's cold voice and tightened his grip on his phone before speaking hesitantly, "Mr. Caesar, the paternity test results are in."
Upon hearing this news, Louis' eyes darkened and his heart rate increased slightly.
"And?" he asked.
"Mr. Caesar... that child..."
The guard looked at the paternity test report in his hand with furrowed brows and didn't know whether or not he should continue speaking.
He had been by Mr. Caesar's side since childhood and was always someone that Mr. Caesar trusted implicitly. Therefore, he naturally knew how important Jane was to him.
At first, when Jane was around them, there wasn't anything different about her relationship with Mr. Caesar, but ever since she left, it seemed like Mr. Caesar had completely changed into another person - locking himself up in a room, drinking and becoming apathetic towards everything.
It wasn't until much later that he slowly moved on but also became much more ruthless.
As these thoughts ran through the guard's mind, he lowered his head gravely while looking at report that he had just got.
If Mr. Caesar knew that this child wasn't biologically related to him, but rather born out of wedlock between Jane and another man...
Louis waited for a moment on the phone before realizing there wouldn't be an answer coming anytime soon. His eyebrows furrowed slightly as an uneasy feeling began creeping up inside him.
"Speak," he repeated sternly into the receiver.
Soon enough, the trembling, nervous voice came through over on the other end, "Mr. Caesar, the paternity test results show... you're not biologically related."
Upon hearing this news, Louis threw down his phone onto ground with all force possible causing it shatter upon impact.
The sound echoed loudly throughout the room, startling Vivian who had been playing happily moments ago and now was looking fearfully towards Louis.
At this moment, Louis' face was gloomy and he stared at her as if he wanted to devour her.
Vivian trembled and cried out in fear, "Daddy."
"Shut up!"
I am not your father!
Louis' eyes were bloodshot as he glared at Vivian, who was sitting on the hospital bed, and he only felt like there was a hot flame burning in his heart that was about to burn him out.
The existence of this child is a constant reminder to him that Jane betrayed him!
Jane has fallen in love with another man before and they also have a child together.
This realization made Louis' blue eyes suddenly turn scarlet, making him want to make this child disappear from the world right now.
When Jane returned, she happened to see Vivian looking nervous and glancing around.
She walked quickly over and picked up Vivian in her arms.
"Vivian, why did you come out?"
Vivian hugged his mommy's neck tightly and anxiously said, "Mommy, where's Daddy?"
Jane furrowed her brows in confusion upon hearing this and patted Vivian's back soothingly. "It's okay. Daddy just had some important business to attend to at the company. He'll be back soon."
Although Jane didn't know why Louis suddenly left because of something urgent, she chose to kindly deceive Vivian so as not to worry her.
She knew that Vivian had always wanted a daddy and since she had married Louis and Vivian had lost her memory, it wouldn't hurt for Vivian to continue believing that Louis was her father.
Jane saw everything that Louis did last night. She believed he wasn't a bad person and would treat both herself and Vivian well.
Vivian nervously grabbed onto her mommy's collar with a worried expression on her face. "When will Daddy come back?"
"He should be back soon," Jane replied as she carried Vivian into the hospital room.
After placing Vivian on the bed, she gently coaxed her into taking a nap while still muttering about when Daddy would come back before falling asleep. Jane smiled reassuringly and said, "Your daddy will be here when you wake up."
Vivian slowly closed her eyes upon hearing this and drifted off into dreamland.
In reality though, Jane didn't know when Louis would return either but given how urgently he left it must have been something important.
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