The Contracted Ever After (Cordelia and Ronan) novel Chapter 294

"I haven't been in touch with them for a while. Today Sienna, that's Samantha's mom, also my aunt, called me. She asked me to check on my grandmother, who's not doing so well. They've all moved to Millstone now. Not quite sure how they suddenly got the money. I'm a bit worried."

"Worried about what?" Ronan didn't take it too seriously.

They had already entered the garage. Ronan opened the car door, and they both got in.

"I guess I'm worried about Samantha, afraid I might fall into another one of her schemes. But my grandmother is getting on in years, and every meeting with her could be the last. I don't have many family members left in this world." Cordelia suddenly felt a lump in her throat. She thought of Barney’s and her mother's death.

"Don't I count as your family?" A moment later, Ronan asked her.

Cordelia suddenly looked up at him, took a glance, and then lowered her head again. "I meant blood-related family."

"So am I your family in your eyes?" Ronan asked again.

Cordelia nodded solemnly, "I guess so."

"What kind of family am I to you?" Ronan was giving Cordelia a way out, hoping she would admit he was the biological father of their child.

But Cordelia, for some reason, remained silent. Her lips opened and closed several times, but in the end, they stayed shut. She was afraid that if she admitted it, she would lose control, and Ronan would stop her from going abroad.

"What kind of blood ties do you have with them?" Ronan suddenly said.

Prompted by Ronan's words, Cordelia suddenly remembered something Shelley had once said – that she may not be Shelley's biological daughter.

Cordelia’s head was buried even lower; she was feeling extremely downcast, just fiddling with her fingers. She felt like a piece of driftwood in the world, not knowing where she came from, or where she was going.

"Why bring this up?" Cordelia's voice was filled with resentment and deflation, "Just come with me." She raised her doe-like eyes, misty and pleading, looking at Ronan.

"Now?" Ronan got back to the point, not mentioning her origins anymore.