At Aston’s question, his parents’ faces changed.
Georgia recalled the boy she’d seen only once, then turned to Aston.
“Have you still not found Lucas yet?”
Aston nodded.
“Lucas went missing, and now Wesley’s age is the same as Lucas’. You say that he spent the last year with Sierra, and the timeframe matches. Moreover, you said that Wesley’s head hurt last time he saw us, and it could be because of seeing someone familiar. Isn’t that too many to be a coincidence?”
Aston said that, while Robert grew dubious.
“Who’s Lucas? And if he was Wesley, wouldn’t you recognize him?”
To be honest, Georgia didn’t know what kind of identity Lucas had within the Powells.
She didn’t understand what Aston had said, either.
She’d seen Lucas before, after all, and they didn’t look the same. They were only similar in age.
Carr looked at his son, frowning.
“Why are you making such a guess? There’s a lot of coincidences, but your mother and I wouldn’t misremember how Lucas looked like. Wesley doesn’t look the same as Lucas at all. You say they look alike, but I don’t see it.”
“I know you think this is a long stretch, but it’s not that people have never given kids plastic surgery, or added on drugs. The plastic surgery hospital under the Powell family has done cases like this. You should know that.”
Father and son’s conversation was getting in a stranger and stranger direction.
Georgia could see Carr’s face changing.
“Who is Lucas in the Powell family? If you speculate that Lucas is Wesley, we can do a DNA test, right? Who’s his mother? Get them over to test with Wesley, and the truth should come out.”
Georgia said that, while Robert also chimed in.
“It’s an unconventional thing, even cruel, to give a child plastic surgery, but if you suspect it, then get Lucas’ mother over or his relatives to do a DNA test at the hospital. The truth would come out then.”
“That’s the issue…”
Aston suddenly spoke.
“My parents and I don’t know who Lucas is. I don’t even know if he’s a descendant of the Powell family, because Lucas was brought back by my grandfather as a kid. He was raised by the Powells, but with my parents being home often and how much they liked kids, Lucas got closer with them and Emilia. We tried asking my grandfather who Lucas’ parents were, but he never replied to our questions. If we want to clear up the truth, we might need to head back to the Powell family.”
If that was the case, they had to see old man Powell either way.
Georgia, though, still felt like it was too incredible of a speculation. The kids didn’t look the same, after all.
“If his face has gone under the knife, we can go check his facial skeleton in the hospital and see if his features have been altered.”
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