Bonnie felt her heart leap into her chest upon hearing the butler's words.
She was willing to bet that Shelly was not Charlotte's daughter at all, but despite that, she still wanted to know the results of the DNA test.
What if...what if things were not as she thought?
After all, Jim had never told her the identity of Shelly’s mother.
The butler did not intend to hide the results from Bonnie either. Instead, he put the call on speaker, and a man’s voice rang out," After Assistant Clark left the DNA Diagnostic Center, I returned and convinced them to give me a copy of the DNA test results by telling them he had lost
the original copy."
The man's voice was filled with excitement as he added, "There's an interesting discovery!"
Bonnie bit her lip.
Even the butler was excited to know the truth.
"There were five DNA samples sent for testing; one of an adult man, two adult women, one of a six-year-old boy, and one of an infant.
"Among these five samples, the man and one of the women were found to be directly related to the six-year-old boy, whereas the man and the same boy were found to be distantly related to the baby, but they could not find anything more conclusive than that."
Bonnie's entire body froze when she heard
this.
The butler was a little confused too.
Who would have thought it would end up this way?
Not only had they failed to find out who was Shelly's parents, but instead, they had managed to confirm Harvey's identity.
However, the most shocking discovery of all...was that Shelly was not even Jim's daughter.
They were only distantly related!
Bonnie was frozen in shock.
A split second later, she, biting her lip nervously, clenched her fists. "So .does this mean that Charlotte is Harvey's mother?"
To her, this news was harder to accept than the prospect of Charlotte being
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