“You think I’d lie to you about this?”
Eliana sneered.
“You could very well take me to the hospital to verify this. I donated the bone marrow to you, and the same blood is flowing inside us now. If you’d just test for it, you’d know if I was telling the truth!”
Eliana said that very confidently, and Robert frowned.
Milton couldn’t resist speaking up.
“I didn’t know about that. If you keep lying, Eliana, Robert won’t need to deal with you. I’ll take care of you myself!”
As Milton said that, Eliana cackled madly, her voice full of derision.
“When Robert was ten, Dad, you married my mother. Don’t you remember? You abandoned your original wife for the one hundred million my mother had. Where do you think that money came from?”
Milton recalled it right away. Twenty years ago, the Warner family only ran a small-scale operation. They had some wealth, but their yearly profits were only about eight figures or so. They had several hundred millions put together in properties, but they still owed a lot to the banks.
That year, because they’d taken a large contract, the money had been cut off, and the other side had run off. Seeing that the company was about to go broke, Eliana’s mother actively suggested that if he’d just marry her officially, she’d bring a dowry of one hundred million.
Milton had been curious then. Eliana’s mother was just a bastard daughter, so where’d her money come from?
He still didn’t understand when that one hundred million had come from, but since he was about to go broke, it didn’t matter.
One hundred million was enough to expand his company. The loophole and the money lost from cutting off the chain didn’t even matter.
So he booted the wife who’d started the business with him and married Eliana’s mother. That one hundred million allowed the Warner family to shoot up the rungs. Now, they’d made it back several dozen times over.
Milton remained silent.
He was mostly thinking of how Eliana’s mother had come in with one hundred million, and how now, he was being utterly merciless in chasing Eliana out of the Warner family.
But if he didn’t, and Robert stopped cooperating with the Warner family, even with the billions that the Warners had now, so long as the companies aligned with them stopped cooperating, they’d still end up going broke and becoming worthless.
He couldn’t take the risk, but he didn’t want to go back on a favor, either.
Eliana scoffed and looked at a silent Robert, and Georgia standing at the side.
Eliana turned to Georgia and mocked her.
“All you had was luck. I saved Robert’s life. I was supposed to end up with him. I made all those preparations but you just had to come in at the end. What gives you the right? You only ever got Robert hurt time and time again. Have you ever saved him? What have you ever done for him? You don’t deserve to stand at his side!”
Georgia’s face changed at that. She hadn’t guessed that Eliana was the one who donated bone marrow to Robert. She really was his savior, then.
And she herself really hadn’t done that much for Robert. In fact, he’d gotten hurt twice because of her before.
Georgia fell silent, while Robert squeezed her hand and turned to Eliana.
“This is all just what you’re saying right now. If you really were my savior, why have you remained silent all these years? With your personality, why did you stay quiet for twenty years without speaking about about this?”
As Robert said that, Eliana’s face changed. She bit her lip, looking at Robert coldly.
“There’s a reason for that, of course. I don’t want to say it now. If you don’t believe me, wait until the hospital checkup results come out, and I’ll tell you why that is.”
Robert and Georgia finally brought Eliana to the hospital under the Simpson name to test for it.
It was simple enough. They just had to get blood from both Robert and Eliana.
The only problem was, Robert’s blood might be a target by others.
So before heading to the hospital, the two gave Ivan a call and had him wait inside.
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