Upon seeing the sincere look in Francis’ bright eyes, Christina suppressed her doubts.
l'll trust him one more time! Around twenty minutes later, the minivan came to a halt in a quiet alley. This is a secluded place.
If something were to happen to us, no one would hear or see us.
Nathaniel, who was always vigilant, tugged on Christina's shirt right when she was about to exit the car.
After that, he threw Francis a wary look with his darkened eyes.
“There's a private detective agency here. I got all my information from this agency,” Francis explained.
Seeing that Nathaniel was still doubtful, Francis got out of the car and led the way.
The private detective agency was located on the second floor, deep inside the alley.
It was a room with a space of less than eighty square meters.
As soon as the door was pushed open, the people inside turned around warily at once.
Seeing that it was Francis, Joel Gallagher, the private detective, smiled brightly and greeted, “What brings you here?”
As soon as he finished his sentence, he saw Nathaniel and Christina walking in.
Evidently, the atmosphere in the room became tense the moment Nathaniel and Christina entered the room.
The smile on Joel's face froze when he saw them.
In fact, he subconsciously wanted to hide himself.
Nathaniel and Christina noticed it right away.
It seems that this is the private detective who has been secretly taking photos of us.
“Let's talk business.” As the instigator, Francis had an awkward look on his face.
However, that wasn't the time to be bothered by that.
“Bring out all the information I gave you over the phone. Let Mr. Hadley and Ms. Steele take a look at them.”
“Sure.” Joel didn't know why Francis had suddenly buried the hatchet with Nathaniel, but he knew he didn't have the right to raise any questions.
I'm getting paid, so I should do as I was told.
Moments later, the long desk in the room was filled with numerous stacks of documents.
Christina, who was sitting on the couch, was stunned.
“That's a lot of information.” Nathaniel narrowed his eyes.
I started my investigation ever since I found out Christina wasn't the Steele family's biological daughter.
Yet, I couldn't even gather as much information.
As a matter of fact, due to various reasons, I had to give up on some of the investigations I initiated.
Francis, who was standing nearby, handed Christina a document and explained, “This is because most of the investigations here are about the daily lives of your biological parents.”
Christina was puzzled at first when she heard that.
After flipping through the documents, however, she understood what Francis meant.
Most of the information here consists of the trivial things my parents did back then, such as their vacations and the friends they made.
Nathaniel raised his brows slightly when he flipped through the documents.
J see...
J almost thought I wasn't as good as Francis! Christina lifted her head and asked in bafflement, “The events in the documents happened forty years ago. H-How did you get your hands on this?”
Francis turned toward Joel when he heard that. Joel smiled and answered, “Well, I interviewed the people they met up with and went to the places they had been. Humans tend to leave footprints wherever they go.”
Upon hearing that, Christina knew how good Joel was, and he merely made it sound simple. Joel is so meticulous.
She thought so because there was even a photo of Timothy with his friend, and Timothy was smiling brightly in the photo.
Now, Dad is always hiding in the room.
It breaks my heart to see how he’s doing now.
Christina became even more eager to find out what had happened back then.
There's so much information here.
I'll need a long time to finish going through all the documents.
Suddenly, Christina's phone rang, and she whipped it out to see that it was a call from the kindergarten.
“Ms. Steele, are you coming to fetch Lucas and Camila today?” Christina grabbed Nathaniel’s wrist to look at the time on his watch.
It's past five o'clock! Classes have ended at the kindergarten.
“We're on our way.
Please help us look after Lucas and Camila for a while,”
Christina said.
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This is chapter 63, it got reupload as 64, can you please fix it?...