After the call ended, Julian sat frozen in place for a long time. The suspicion grew stronger and stronger in his mind until his blood felt like it was boiling.
He gripped his phone, vaulted out of his chair, and sprinted toward the main living room.
It was Evelyn's day off.
She had been peacefully tending to her calligraphy and pruning her flowers, happily keeping herself busy.
When Julian burst in, he found Quentin sitting with her.
The father and son exchanged a look. Julian had no intention of offering a warm greeting, and Quentin was well accustomed to his son's lingering resentment, keeping his expression perfectly neutral.
"Grandma," Julian called out, stepping into the room.
Evelyn set her brush down. "I heard you stomping down the hall. What's the rush?"
Julian's lips parted, the secret practically burning on his tongue.
But he glanced at his father.
He remembered Sebastian's warning that Raelynn's identity was still an unverified theory. It wasn't something to broadcast.
But then again, it was just his father.
"Spit it out," Evelyn said, catching his hesitation. "If it's a decision I need to make, your father doesn't get a say anyway."
She was making it clear that Quentin's presence wouldn't change anything.
Julian glanced around the room.
Noting that Sylvia was nowhere to be seen.
Dropping his guard, he said, "I think I found a lead on my sister."
Evelyn froze.
It was an instinctual fondness she could never quite explain. Now, knowing they might be family, fireworks went off in her mind and she momentarily forgot how to react.
Quentin, however, remained silent.
He sat deep in thought for a long moment.
While he desperately wanted his daughter back, the recent disaster with Seraphina had made him overly cautious.
After all, he had poured genuine emotion into that reunion, only to be humiliated and deceived. He wasn't eager to repeat the experience.
"We need to handle this carefully. What if it's another false alarm?"
He frowned, looking sternly at Julian. "You're being reckless. Your grandmother is getting older; she can't handle these massive emotional rollercoasters. Why upset her with something that isn't even a sure thing?"
Julian's lips curled into a cold smile. "Well, you're busy playing happy families with your new wife. I guess you've conveniently forgotten how much my mother and sister suffered. That's why you can afford to be so 'rational' and unbothered."

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding
I think for as slow as the beginning was, their turning point is just so fast... really hope we actually get to read about R and S and their rekindle.... we did not read 950 pages for their story to be sidelined. Im for this sideline story, but it if it's to separate from the main characters and their story, please make it separate book....
Author please update more chapters...
I really like Zella, she is becoming a good friend to Raelynn. Ian needs to go. The relationship with Chloe is confusing. Some chapters they are cousins, sometimes they're sibling. A little confusing....
Julians role as big brother- I feel comes from a genuine place, but in a relationship thats is just as stained as Raelynns and Sebastians. It hard for me to connect to his big brother role as he too was such a problem before. And while they talked a little bit, the conversation did not give me the believe there was resolution between Raelynn and Julian. For a brute, he should make his feelings clear about the situation to Raelynn and then step back, until there is more foundation for him to stand on....
Knife in my heart. I hurt for Raelynn. She has made it this far, but how much does she have in her, everyone has a breaking point. Some back of me hopes the author is joking to lighten the mood after so many intense chapters, but thats not this kind of story or couple....
My heart cannot take this. This, cannot be how it ends with these too. They need resolution with each other. Raelynn needs to be more humanize with Sebastian. We know she is hurt, but this is the branch. She needs all these answers, if not for them to be together, then for Lily to have both her parents. Stop with the mind games Raelynn!...
Its like the story is just repeating itself...
Timeline is getting lost for me. So many treasured little memories Raelynn has but yet, he was gone for years ? Anyways... still rooting for them! These two need a heart to heart. Lily "forgetting" someone, not possible in this day and age and I hope thats not their storyline....
Sebastian, the man of few words.... needs to find all the words! Needs to fight for her! On note, seven years seems like a long time for this master plan (which I am sure goes back much farther). Rereading this novel, and it seems like everything has played out in a 5-8 month time span. And I feel like all Sebastian's doings/ plan have not been revealed. I hope we get to see the whole picture and have the resolutions we hope. But seven years of mistreatment, I just don't see Raelynn fully coming back. If these was 2-3 years, maybe, and I know it changes some characters around, but it would still work. Rooting for them!...
Literally on edge!...