Olivia withdrew her hand heartlessly and questioned, “You’re telling me you don’t know who their mother is when they’ve already gone to your doorstep?! Whom do you think you’re fooling, Nolan?”
“I’m not lying, Olivia!” Eugene explained anxiously. “I talked to Blake at noon today. Ask him what I asked him!”
With that, he looked toward Blake, who only blinked his big, round eyes like he had nothing to do with the conversation at all. “Godmother, Carter, Terry, and I have discussed, and we don’t want to acknowledge him as our dad.”
Carter and Terry nodded in agreement, rendering Eugene speechless. “I asked you who your mother is, didn’t I?” “Haven’t I given you the answer already?” Blake retorted with a frown, leading Olivia to gaze suspiciously at Eugene. “Who is it?”
Eugene was on the verge of a panic attack at this point. He and Olivia would be over for good if he couldn’t clarify the issue. Worse, the triplets weren’t helping the situation. He suggested desperately, “We’ll do this. I’ll say, and you guys interject if whatever I say doesn’t match up.”
With that, he turned to Olivia and explained, “We’ve had far too many misunderstandings lately. I don’t know if you feel the same, but I can’t shake off the feeling that I’m being played. I was on guard when they came to me, thinking someone sent them to screw with me, so I didn’t believe them. I also threatened to feed them to the sharks if they didn’t tell me who sent them.
That’s why they say they won’t acknowledge me as their father. I was shocked and baffled when they pricked my finger and collected my blood sample on the spot because of my poor attitude toward them. It then occurred to me that they wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t real. As such, I did a DNA test with them.”
Then, he looked toward the triplets, asking. “Does what I say match what happened that day?” The boys looked at each other, then nodded in agreement.
At that, Eugene gazed back at Olivia and related his conversation with Blake at noon to her. “Blake said an elder raised them, and everyone called him Professor Gedding. However, that man lied to them, saying their parents had died. It was after Terry overheard them saying their father was the owner of Promise Island that they traveled far and wide to find me. Olivia, I’m not Alex. You’re the only one I’ve ever given myself to. That’s why I don’t know who their mother is.”
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