As time gradually passed, Thomas eventually gave up...until a week ago.
He received a call from Malcolm who said he found his daughter.
The first thought that appeared in his mind when he heard that news was Malcolm was a liar. He had bedded only one woman in his lifetime, and he could not possibly have had a child.
However, when Malcolm told him the baby's age and date of birth, Thomas fell silent. As he recalled everything, he noted that the timeline of the baby's date of birth matched with the time he slept with the woman when he was drugged.
That shameless woman took advantage of him when he was at his weakest and left without saying anything. Eventually, she secretly delivered his baby.
That was not all, however. That woman even carelessly misplaced the baby!
With these thoughts in mind, Thomas failed to find a place to vent his anger.
There were three things that he needed to do in Merchant City. One, he was going to bring his daughter Riley back with him. Secondly, he wanted to punish Luna and Joshua for putting his child through anguish. Lastly, he needed to teach that shameless, irresponsible woman a lesson she would not forget!
"Sir?" Xander, furrowing his brow, called out to Thomas upon noticing that he did not respond.
Thomas quickly snapped out of it, furrowing his brow to look at the information and turning to look at Xander afterward. "You said I met Yannie before? Last year? What other evidence do you have to prove it? For example, when did I see her?"
Hundreds of people were on the production team when he was filming in the village, not to mention the hundreds of villagers residing there as well. If Yannie was at the village when he was there, he might not have noticed nor known her before. After all, Yannie was just like any regular girl that Thomas could not bother to remember her.
"That night." Xander squinted. "The night you were drugged, someone saw Yannie running out of a church, flustered and with clothes in disarray. Since the church is a religious place, people would normally dress up prudently, so the villager remembered this very clearly. Also, there was one thing your assistant missed out on while investigating that woman...
"If that opportunistic woman was an irresponsible person who escaped through the window, villagers who woke up early in the morning would've seen her. The investigation mainly investigated those women from the production team ;d+>YIT? the villagers.
"In fact, there is another possibility. What if the girl you were with isn't someone living in the village? She could be there just to pay her last respect and bumped into you."
Thomas furrowed his brow tightly.
He squinted and looked at Xander's face with his deep, dark, and cold eyes.
"What are you trying to say?" he demanded, voice huskily monotonous. "Are you saying Yannie is that woman?"
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