It was after 9 o’clock at night.
After tucking the children into bed, Adina returned to her room and dialed Madam Daugherty’s phone number.
Madam Daugherty was in poor health. She slept late every day. When she called, the old lady was watching TV.
“Addy, why are you calling me at this hour?” Madam Daugherty’s voice was tinged with suspicion.
Adina pursed her lips. “Grandma, I need to ask you something.”
She paused and enunciated each word slowly. “Does Dew have two sons?”
Madam Daugherty paused for a second before she sighed. “Yes. Five years ago, she got pregnant out of wedlock. She gave birth to twins. Back then, when your pregnancy caused a big fuss, her pregnancy was covered up by your father and stepmother. Except for the Daugherty family, no one else knows about that.”
Adina clenched her fists and continued, “May I know the names of those two children?”
“It’s the two young masters of the Winters family. One is named George, and the other Harold.” Madam Daugherty sounded unusually old and weary. “Dew gave birth to two children for the Winters family, who took the babies away on the very day they were born. The kids are more than four years old now, but I can count the number of times I have seen them on one hand. Those kids are no longer close to our family. Addy, when you have time, visit me with your son and daughter.”
Little by little, Adina’s heart sank to the bottom.
She took a deep breath and said, “Okay, Grandma. It’s getting late, you should rest early.”
After hanging up, she strolled to the balcony and drew the curtains back. Her cold eyes stared spiritlessly at the dark sky.
She could accept that George was Dew’s son, but she could not accept that George was the son of Dew and Duke.
How could this happen?
Adina let out a deep sigh.
Was it because she got too close to Duke that she started to have some kind of fantasy that she should not have?
He had slept with Dew, yet she still fantasized about a relationship with him.
Had she gone crazy?
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