The father and son left the ward and went straight to the study.
“Don't worry, Dad. It takes time for Bay to accept you. She was just terribly set up by her adoptive father. That's why she's somewhat repulsed by it. I'm sure it will fade away in time.”
Steven waved his hand and sighed, “I've never fulfilled my role as a father. It's only natural for her not to accept me. Tell me, how do you plan to resolve this?”
Zeke didn't answer. Instead, he posed another question. “What do you think I should do? We already know Bay's identity. We can't just let everyone insult her. Calling her an illegitimate child is the same as calling everyone in the Shurmer family an illegitimate child.”
Steven sighed and suggested, “Zoey lived with the Shurmer family for several years. She's already part of the family. We can't hurt her.”
Zeke scoffed and said coldly, “But she'll kill your daughter. You must decide for yourself.”
Steven was taken aback for a moment. After some thought, he finally understood the situation. “Does this matter have something to do with her? Is she also a part of this?”
“Yes. She invited all those reporters. Oh, by the way, Sophia isn't dead yet. She disguised herself as Sofie and had already met Zoey and her mother. Here you are, caring so much about the relationship between father and daughter, yet she plunged into her mother's arms without looking back.”
Steven was shocked. “Sophia is all right? She even met Zoey?”
“That's conceivable. However, even if she didn't, what then?” Bay is the daughter of the Shurmer family. She used to be kind-hearted and wanted to help Zoey assume her role as an heiress. That's why she tampered with the data of her blood check, which caused the paternity test to show that she wasn't my daughter.
Now that I've discovered her true identity, I can't let the public criticize her. When she recovers after a few days, I will hold a press conference to announce her true identity to the world.
Steven seemed to want to say something, but he brushed it away in the end. “Okay, I'll have a talk with Zoey. I'll confront her and persuade her to try to accept Bay and also the fact that she was adopted. If she ends up unwilling, then I have no choice but to give her up for my own biological daughter.”
“All right.”
At the Revelle residence.
Olivia stomped over and got very angry in front of Bill.
The man sat on the couch and listened to her in silence. Although his face was devoid of expressions, his palms on the armrests slowly clenched into a fist.
“Mr. Revelle, I think I have made myself clear. As rude as it sounds, please discipline your daughter properly and don't let her trouble my son anymore. How dare a dying person drag my son down to the grave together? If it were you, would you let your son marry a woman who couldn't conceive?”
“That's enough.” As her words became more and more outrageous and ill-mannered, Bill couldn't help but stop her.
His daughter inherited his legacy and achieved notable milestones in the medicinal industry. She was his pride. He couldn't just watch an outsider insult her as such.
“Mrs. Xuereb, I will advise my daughter. Also, you have to keep your son in check. If he can't take responsibility, then tell him not to screw around. That sort of sc*mbag behavior will ruin his family's reputation.”
“Why you—”
“Mrs. Xuereb, don't be too focused on criticizing my daughter. If you have the time, look at what kind of person your son is. Getting hung up on the fact that he is marrying a dying person instead of a number-one socialite is just foolish.”
“You—”
“I'll pick up my daughter from the medical base and take her back to the Revelle residence later in the afternoon. If your son insists on coming, I'll let him be my live-in son-in-law. Otherwise, he can forget about seeing my daughter.”
“You—”
Olivia wanted to assert her dominance over Bill but didn't expect him to turn the tables.
“Fine. Mr. Revelle, you better remember what you said. If you don't take your daughter away this afternoon, I will send someone to throw her out of the medical base.”
Bill snorted coldly. “By all means. You keep your son in check. Otherwise, the Xuereb family will be humiliated if he becomes the live-in son-in-law of the Revelle family.”
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