Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen novel Chapter 87

Three in the morning.

Around the bonfire.

Burton was staring at his sister in a daze, obviously not fully grasping this pile of information.

Elaine sat next to him, whispering, "Did you really get it?"

Burton nodded, "I heard it, but why did our aunt grow up somewhere else instead of coming home?"

"You still don't get it!" Elaine thought her brother was a bit slow on the uptake.

She explained again, "Our aunt was originally a kid from the Howard family. She was taken away from our home for some reason and was adopted by the Howard family. She always thought that she was a Howard until her foster father died and her foster mother remarried. The man she married happened to be someone from our Lopez family. After moving with her foster mother, she changed her last name. You should get it now!"

Scratching his head, Burton still didn't get it.

He asked, "So, have grandpa and uncle confirmed that she's our aunt now?"

"Not completely." Elaine lowered her voice to avoid being recorded by the drone. "That's why I came back. I need to get our aunt's blood for a DNA test."

"Are you gonna make her bleed?" Burton frowned, asking, "How?"

Elaine shook her head, "I don't know."

Burton looked at his sister, asking, "Don't you have a plan?"

Elaine shook her head, "No."

Elaine said, "That's why I told you. Let's think about it together."

Burton was silent for a while, then delicately refused, "Actually, this is yours mission, it has nothing to do with me. Your job, your responsibility..."

Elaine suddenly reached out and tightly grabbed her brother's hand, her eyes wide, "We're siblings!"

Burton reluctantly withdrew his hand and said awkwardly, "You know how good she is at fighting, right? If I make her bleed, she might beat me half to death, and then you won't have a brother!"

Elaine was silent for a moment, then lowered her head and mumbled, "I know, it could be dangerous, so... let's think it through?"

Burton stroked his chin, pondered for a moment and said, "How about hair? Or saliva?"

Elaine shook her head, "The doctor said blood is the most accurate."

After thinking for more than ten minutes, they still had no ideas. Elaine was really sleepy, and said through a yawn, "Let's call it a day, I'm going to sleep." She stood up to leave.

Burton grabbed her, "Where are you going?"

Elaine pointed to the tent behind her, "I'm going to sleep."

Burton shook his head, "We can't sleep in the tent. We only prepared two tents, one for Mr. Reed and one for Eileen. We don't have any, we can only sleep in sleeping bags."

Elaine asked incredulously, "Aren't there many tents? I saw it last night, even the monkeys could sleep in tents!"

Burton explained, "We took away the previous tents this morning. They were from the bandits, so it's a bit difficult to set up new tents tonight. We only set up two. They got one each, but we didn't get any."

"I'm injured!" Elaine said angrily.

Burton nodded, stood up and generously said, "Then I'll give you my spot. There aren't many rocks here, but be careful not to roll into the fire when you turn over. It's okay if you get burned, but if your clothes catch fire, you don't have any to change into. Aunt won't give you any clothes. She always thinks that having you around is a burden."

In the end, Elaine had no choice but to sleep on the ground.