The CEO's Lovely Twins novel Chapter 88

When she heard that, Hayden felt every drop of blood in her body freeze over.

Nanking was so sparse and massive, how could it be him?

However, upon digging deeper into the vaults of her memory, he probably betted on this necklace using the future of the ST Group. Besides the Beckham family, she couldn’t think of anyone else who would be able to do something like this.

At that moment, Joseph was no longer lying on the chair. He seemed to have returned to the hotel due to some matters.

When she realized that, she stared at a spot not far away, at a tiny frame who was building a sandcastle with her daughter. She was entranced. She could feel his tender features registering something deep in her memory.

Besides getting seized by a rush of terror, she didn’t have any problems believing this fact.

It turned out that the son she had been missing dearly for the past five years was right in front of her eyes. As his mother, she couldn’t even recognize her own son.

The waves were sweeping her feet, but it was as if she had been rooted to the spot, with her legs no longer obeying her brain. She mustered all of her strength to take a step forward, yet she couldn’t push back a kind of bitterness in her heart. All of a sudden, tears broke free of her eyes.

“Mummy!”

Stella came flying over, “Come look at the castle we have built…”

Hayden wanted to wipe away her budding tears, yet nothing could escape Stella’s inquisitive eyes. She asked worriedly, “Mummy, why are you crying?”

“Mummy is not crying.”

Hayden was stammering now, “It’s just the wind. Yes, the wind is too strong, so some sand has gotten into my eyes.”

Noah was jogging over too, and when he saw her expression, he also revealed a worried look on his face. He held her hand and looked at her worriedly, and from near, his eyes seemed to be one and the same as Stella’s. They were really alike, yet she never even considered the fact that they might be related. When she thought of this, she couldn’t stop her tears from rolling down her cheeks.

She slowly squatted down and took a good look at this child who never had the chance to grow up by her side. Her heart was wrenching and seized by complications, and that massive pressure was threatening to tear her apart.

Noah was really anxious about her as she tried to wipe away Hayden’s tears messily. He almost cried himself too.

“I’m fine, I’m fine. Don’t you worry, Noah.”

Hayden held his little hand in her palms, “Mummy is just feeling happy.”

When Noah heard the word “mummy”, he was stunned for a second. Nevertheless, Stella didn’t notice any difference, she simply blinked while explaining, “Noah, mummy told me that her eyes are painful because of sand getting into them. Let’s help to blow it away.”

Noah hesitated for a little before nodding. The two children carefully blew air into Hayden’s left and right eyes, their warm and moist breath could be felt on her face. Hayden finally couldn’t hold it in any longer, so she hugged the two of them tightly while forming somewhat a smile on her face despite tears streaking her cheeks.

“Mummy, what’s wrong?”

Stella was a pretty oblivious girl, and she only understood that Hayden wasn’t crying because of her eyes feeling painful due to the wind getting sand into her eyes.

Hayden let the two children go, and after deliberating for a long time and swallowing some words she had intended to say, she forced a brisk response, “I’m fine.”

Noah was Joseph’s son, so even though she could tell Noah the truth now and she might get accepted by him, what about Joseph?

From the way he had sent his men to entice and threaten her and the dynamics of their relationship, it seemed that he prioritised this son even more so that she had thought. It was impossible that she would be able to reclaim her own son by just telling him that she was his mother.

When worse came to worst, once Joseph knew that Noah was not his only child, and once he learnt that Stella was his daughter too, would he snatch her away from Hayden’s side too?

When she mulled over such possibility, she immediately felt a chill run through her body. She was more than terrified about that prospect.

The chances of that happening was too huge, and she was not going to shoulder that kind of risk just yet.

After wiping away her tears, Hayden picked up a spade while squeezing a smile on her face, “Stella, Noah, let me join you in building that sandcastle.”

In the end, they were still nothing more than a child. When they heard that Hayden claimed that she was fine, and that she was going to join them in their fun, they were immediately distracted. They quickly pulled her in their half-constructed sandcastle’s direction.

At dinner time, Joseph saw that Hayden’s eyes were a little reddish, so he couldn’t help frowning at her, “What happened to your eyes?”