President’s Twins: Buy One, Get One Free novel Chapter 48

“Okay,” Joseph answered softly and looked outside the window. A look of success flashed across his eyes. He thought through it for the entire night and felt that he had figured it out. He just needed some time to confirm it. Initially, he thought that it would be rather smooth but after Hayden obviously avoided him yesterday, he felt that he needed to look for a good excuse and Noah was that excuse.

From that day onwards, Joseph would bring his son regularly to Hayden’s place. Even on the weekends Hayden and Stella would go to their villa. At times they would go for picnics in the garden or play at amusement parks. As time went by, they became very comfortable with each other.

Hayden felt that it was her culinary skills that attracted the father and son. During their time together, Joseph would seek her opinion on his plans for the centennial celebrations so that he would not be embarrassed during meetings.

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“Sorry to keep you waiting, Ms. Kidman.” Inside the private room at the Green Bay café, a young man placed down his briefcase and sat opposite Viola.

Viola waited impatiently and showed her displeasure when the man came.

“You’re the private investigator recommended by Jason, Lachlan Kelly?”

The man nodded and was calm when he saw the doubt in Viola’s eyes, “I am.”

Viola was frustrated and took her handbag and was about to leave and scoffed, “Jason must be mad. Where did he find you? Are you even an adult? Someone may mistake you for a high school student! My matters cannot be handled by a kid!”

The man looked barely twenty and had a baby face. Although he couldn’t be a minor, he was definitely not more than twenty five years old. No one would believe that he was the most famous private investigator in the entire Nanking.

Lachlan sat and calmly said, “Once Ms. Kidman leaves, I will erase whatever I’ve investigated. So you don’t have to worry about me leaking anything. This is my professional ethics.”

When Viola heard this, she stopped, frowned, and asked, “What have you found out?”

“Weren’t you disinterested?”

Viola hesitated before returning to her seat and said, “Go ahead. What have you found out? If you really found out something useful, then I’ll believe that you can work for me.”

Lachlan took out a document nonchalantly, placed his fingertips on the document, and slid it slowly towards her.

“Regarding what Ms. Kidman wanted to check on this lady called Hayden and her child. I’ve found out that six years ago, Hayden was last seen a night after her eighteenth birthday. That was the last time she was seen by her friends before she left the country.

“Six years ago…” Viola looked at the date on the datasheet. Her frown became tighter, “Why was it that night?”

“Although Ms. Kidman didn’t say what you wanted me to investigate, I felt that you must be very curious about why Hayden didn’t go to the room arranged by her sister Chelsea after she was drugged. Instead, she was taken away and during the same day, Joseph Beckham was also in the same hotel.”

“What do you mean?”

“I felt that there are sufficient reasons to suspect that the surrogate mother that Joseph looked for was Hayden.”

Viola’s face turned pale as her hands trembled holding onto the datasheet. How could it be so coincidental?

When she was trying to figure out how Noah came about, she spent a lot of effort finding out that he was born by a surrogate. So if it was a surrogate, Joseph must not continue to be in contact with that woman. That was why she was relieved over these years but now unexpectedly this surrogate could be Hayden.

How could the second daughter of the Downey family become a surrogate?

“Impossible.” Viola immediately refuted this possibility, “She was the second daughter of the Downey family and didn’t lack anything. How could she do such a thing?”

“Ms. Kidman, you were the one who said that Hayden was drugged by her elder sister. Anything is possible. I’m just telling you my train of thought. If you don’t agree with this, I can stop right here and not pursue this any further.”