Vivian, too, wanted to get to the bottom of this and followed Harvey voluntarily to his car. Fabian and Rachel also hurried after them.
Harvey and Vivian dashed to the registration counter as soon as they arrived at the hospital. The hospital was less crowded than usual and it would soon be their turn.
As the pair waited impatiently, Fabian and Rachel also arrived at the hospital.
"Vivian, Harvey, I—" Rachel opened her mouth but again, nothing material came out. She was still tearful and at a loss of what to say to both of them.
"Mom, can you please tell me what's going on here? I'm all confused right now," Vivian pleaded with her mother once more. She refused to believe what Emma said was true.
"Just stop asking questions, Vivian. This is all my fault. I'm so sorry." Instead of providing an explanation, the weeping woman still chose to apologize for reasons no one seemed to know.
"So, what Emma said was true?" Vivian was insistent. Rachel had stopped talking altogether. Tears continued to roll down her cheeks and her body began trembling as blood drained from her face. Her mother now looked so frail Vivian could not bring herself to exert more pressure on her.
Vivian took a deep breath and felt that the last ounce of energy left her body as she slumped into a chair.
She was still trying to wrap her head around this unforeseen turn of events at her stepsister's funeral.
Over the years, despite not getting any sort of fatherly love from Harvey, or how awfully he had been treating her, Vivian knew that she had a father.
But now, the father figure she thought she had might not be her biological father all of a sudden. This was such a complicated, yet inexplicable feeling for Vivian.
"I no longer need your answers now. I'll see for myself soon enough," Harvey scoffed coldly.
Soon after, Harvey and Vivian were led into a room for paternity test.
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