Yvonne hesitated once again. Layne had instructed her not to tell Cheyenne about this matter. With that in mind, she suddenly covered her own lips with her hand and prepared to leave. A muffled voice sounded in front of Cheyenne.
"Mmm... No, I can't tell you."
Cheyenne grabbed her sleeve, wide-eyed, with her watery eyes looking at Yvonne. Her gaze was pitiful, like a small deer in the forest, ethereal and helpless.
She pleaded, "Yvonne, Yvonne, please, tell me the reason. I really want to know how my mother died."
She had long suspected that her grandfather, a highly skilled doctor, would never let her mother die from childbirth. The medical skills of the Edwards family could easily save a pregnant woman from excessive bleeding.
Yvonne turned her head and saw the shimmering brightness in Cheyenne's eyes. She let out a long sigh and answered her question.
"I only know that your father is not George. Years ago, Onistead formed a team to visit and study in Jostrana. After they returned, an unprecedented plague broke out. In order to find the source of the plague, they entered the Dead Forest together."
"After coming out of the Dead Forest, Selah became pregnant. But she suddenly said she didn't want to stay in Onistead anymore, so Layne took her back to Akloit."
"Soon after, news came that she gave birth, but... she also disappeared forever."
Calculating the time from Selah's departure to Akloit to giving birth to Cheyenne, she should have conceived Cheyenne when she returned from the Dead Forest.
The Dead Forest!
Cheyenne couldn't be more familiar with it. It was filled with corpses, graves, and the ever-present deadly miasma. It was home to terrifying demons that could take lives at any moment.
What did her mother experience inside?
Cheyenne's voice trembled involuntarily as a new wave of confusion surfaced, still shrouded in her mind. No wonder Nora and Sean had some resemblance to George in their features, but she couldn't find a trace of George in her own face.
No wonder George didn't care about her.
No wonder Malaya always called her a "bastard" behind her back. It turns out she was the outsider.
No, that's not right!
This villa belonged to her. The real outsiders should be George and his family.
"Yvonne, do you know who my biological father is?"
Upon mentioning this, Yvonne shook her head in confusion and softly replied, "I truly don't know. Selah never mentioned a word about your biological father after she returned."
"But she often held a necklace and looked at it, lost in thought for a long time."
A necklace?
Cheyenne immediately straightened herself up, revealing her slender and fair legs with well-proportioned muscles. Tied around her delicate ankle was a red rope.
She lowered her head and untied the anklet, revealing a peculiar pattern on the pendant of the anklet. She handed the anklet to Yvonne eagerly and asked, "Is it this one?"
Yvonne's eyes lit up. She took the anklet, carefully examined it in her hand for a while, and gave her a definite answer.
"Yes, that's it. But it seemed to be a necklace back then."
"I found it too eye-catching, so I turned it into an anklet."
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