Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 68

Granduncle had his hands behind him as he went to the living room.

Grandaunt held the reading glasses in one hand and the watering can in the other as she continued to water the blooming flowers on the windowsill.

The living room had an old cabinet with red lacquer and large peony patterns. Every green leaf that was drawn on looked very realistic.

He opened the cabinet.

There was a stack of newspapers on the left side of the cabinet. Granduncle had a habit of collecting old newspapers.

On the top of the stack, there was a thick photo album.

Granduncle took out the photo album and flipped through it until he found the photo that was bugging him.

There were four people in the photo—granduncle himself when he was young, and three other girls in their 20s.

In that photo, Allison stood in the middle with red trousers that were very popular in that era. However, she did not look as happy as the other two girls.

On the left of Allison was Grandaunt when she was young.

On the right of Allison was her best friend, Queenie Ziegler. She wore a white dress and had two intricate french braids.

Although the photo was taken 28 years ago, Granduncle knew he was not too old to remember a face wrongly.

After staring at the picture for a long time, Granduncle suddenly thought that perhaps he was overthinking.

A woman who became a secretary must just be a child of an ordinary person.

Granduncle thought so deeply about it that he did not notice his wife was done watering the flowers and had entered the house.

When Grandaunt saw the four people in the photo, she looked a little angry. She pointed at Queenie and said to the old man, "You can fix your lovesickness by sneakily looking at other people's photos.”

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Granduncle angrily put away the photos and stuffed the old album back into the cabinet.

"You should admit to looking at other people's photos if you did it. Daniel Tanner, don’t say I didn't remind you. Queenie is the Provincial Committee Secretary’s wife! You should be ashamed of yourself. She told you that she didn’t like you back then. How dare a guy in his late 30s have a crush on a girl who’s 20 years younger than you." Grandaunt was very jealous.

The thought of the old man having liked another woman when he was young pissed her off.

Granduncle did not want to argue with her, so he turned away and left the living room.

Being an old man meant that he did not do petty arguments anymore.

Queenie was Allison's best friend. They grew up together, and Granduncle fell in love with his sister's best friend. Even though she did not reciprocate the feelings, Granduncle was never jealous or resentful.

Queenie married an excellent soldier and lived a happy life. After all those years, her husband had become the Provincial Committee Secretary.

Daniel felt a little sorry for his sister. Compared with the girls who grew up with her, his sister's relationships and life were much more complicated and tough.

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Paramount Hospital.

Luke drove Bianca there.

Bianca got out of the car, closed the door, and said to him, "Drive carefully."

Luke did not say much. He stared at her slim figure entering the hospital before looking away. He picked up the phone and made a call. He said, “Contact Dean Winchester of Paramount Hospital immediately. There’s a lung cancer patient with the surname Rayne that I want to be specially taken care of."

When Bianca entered the hospital, she felt a little uneasy.

Her dad had liver cancer when she was 18 years old, but when she found out about it, her dad was already in the hospital receiving treatment. Therefore, she did not have any experiences going through this.

Paramount Hospital was very big and it took her a long time to make her way through the place. It was an old building left from the Second Sino-Japanese War, so the exterior walls were very thick and strong.

When Bianca went over to the receptionist, the receptionist asked her, "Hello, is your father's surname Rayne?"

Bianca was surprised and nodded. "Yes."