Chapter 501 – Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel

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In the meantime, Sophia knew what Emily was implying, but despite her rage, she couldn‘t dispute the fact that Emily was the one who was about to become Arthur‘s wife. In order to protect Arthur‘s reputation, she answered, “I fell down from the horse myself and got hurt, but don‘t worry about me, Miss Jennings. I‘ll live.”

“Artie, I could tell Henry to take Miss Goodwin home while I go on a horse ride with you,” Emily said, feeling jealous at the sight of their arms around each other‘s waist and neck.

“No need for that. I‘ll take her back home myself.” For some reason, Arthur felt an urge to take Sophia back home by himself. At the same time, Sophia only looked at him in a stunned manner as she was reminded of the moment he once treated her this well.

While Arthur carried Sophia in his arms and walked toward the car that the person in charge had prepped for him, Emily was left stomping the ground behind her with regret and anger. Why on earth did I bring Sophia here and even end up creating the perfect opportunity for her to run into Arthur?!

Besides the thought of that, she also noticed Arthur‘s sudden change in attitude as he was usually indifferent toward Sophia. Why does he still treat Sophia so well? I thought he‘d already forgotten about her. Didn‘t my father make sure of that? Emily was left behind as she helplessly watched the car he was in left.

Meanwhile, Sophia was stunned as she looked at the man sitting beside her. After all, he just took her away from the turf club and left his fiancée behind. Thus, she was worried that it would undermine the man‘s reputation if anyone knew what he did.

Unwilling to tarnish his image, Sophia decided to force herself to walk without letting Arthur carry her as soon as they arrived at a hospital not far away from the manor. At the same time, Arthur got out of the car from the other side and circled around the vehicle to her. When he saw her holding onto the car door and limping, he frowned and asked, “Are you sure you can walk?”

“Y–Yes, I am.” Sophia nodded, refusing to let Arthur carry her because she didn‘t want to draw attention from the people around her in the hospital. However, as soon as she took two steps forward, she was overwhelmed by the pain in her ankle.

“Say it if you need me to carry you,” Arthur smiled and said.

“No.” Sophia confidently rejected the man. Nevertheless, as she continued to take extra steps further, she suddenly crouched down because she could no longer make herself walk. At that moment, she looked up and asked, “Can you get someone to fetch me a stretcher to carry me? It‘s too painful, and I can‘t walk.”

In response, Arthur grunted and replied, “You‘re asking for it.” He then bent over and carried her to the hospital‘s lobby not long before he took her to the orthopedics department. After some diagnosis and examination, the doctor confirmed that she suffered from a ligament injury, which would heal in a matter of days with enough rest.

After that, Sophia returned to the manor with Arthur, who later carried her all the way to her bedroom. When Sophia finally settled down on the couch, she gazed at the sweat that was covering the man‘s forehead and said in a sympathetic manner, “I‘m sorry for all the trouble that you had to go through.”

Arthur suddenly crouched down and looked at her in a serious manner. “Do we know each other? Who am I to you?”

In the face of the man‘s intimidating gaze, Sophia didn‘t flinch but instead gazed at him gently as she lied. “Y–Yeah, we do know each other. You‘re… my friend.” Knowing Arthur was about to get married, she decided she shouldn‘t create any more unnecessary trouble that could keep him preoccupied and disturbed. For that, she believed it was her destiny to be forgotten by Arthur, although she used to blame him for his heartlessness in abandoning her for another woman. While she realized there was no meaning in discussing the past since his wedding was in three days, Martha‘s words still reverberated in her ears. Therefore, she knew she must suppress her love for him in order not to ruin the marriage that Martha had arranged for her grandson.

“A friend? How did I end up having such a dumb friend like you?” Arthur grunted in an annoyed manner.

Nevertheless, Sophia wasn‘t angry at the man‘s sarcastic reply at all but instead kept her head down with a smile. “You‘re right. It is true that you‘re friends with a dumb lady like me. But, if you don‘t believe in me, you could check your phone and see if there are pictures of me in there.”

“Do you have pictures of me on your phone too?” Arthur asked.

“Yeah.‘ Sophia had a lot of pictures of them on her phone. In fact, she even had videos of them, as well as their flirtatious chat history, that could indicate that they used to be lovers.

“Show them to me.” Arthur extended his arm and asked Sophia for the pictures.

Panicky, Sophia hid her phone behind her back. “No can do. There are too many secrets in my phone that I can‘t show to you.”

Arthur curled his lips upward and asked, “What secrets? Why can‘t I see them?”

“There are… many pictures of me and my boyfriend, and I don‘t want to show them.” Sophia kept her head down, tears welling up in her eyes.

At the same time, Arthur felt a stab of pain in his chest that overwhelmed him all of a sudden as he asked with a deep voice, “Did you have a boyfriend?”

Sophia‘s eyes were filled with tears as she kept her head low. “Yes, I did, and he loved me very much.”

Arthur stood up with a glacial look. “I guess I shall make a move now. Just call the maid if you need anything.”

Sophia looked up and saw the door shut in dismay. He is gone. I can‘t believe he is gone. At the thought of that, she felt suffocated, wondering why he would forget about her. What happened to him after he returned to his family? What has he been through that traumatized him so much that he would forget a memory? What kind of suffering did he go through? The thought of that left Sophia with a sharp sting in her heart.

Meanwhile, there were two more men who wanted to know about Sophia‘s confusion more than anybody else–Elliot and Richard—as they had started to make their move. In the meantime, Richard had brought along a lot of military gear, including eavesdropping devices that he could use wherever he went. After all, he had a set of extraordinary skills that allowed him to sneak into any place without being noticed. In fact, even Johnny‘s lab, which was heavily guarded, didn‘t prove to be enough to stop Richard, who was able to infiltrate the place stealthily. At that moment, Richard was in the room with Elliot as they appeared to be standing in front of the computer.

With a pair of firm eyes that appeared on his face, Richard had been sitting there the whole day because he didn‘t want to miss any single piece of information that could prove useful. Having planted his eavesdropping devices all over the place, he reckoned nothing should escape his ear, including the maids‘ murmurs. Soon, he squinted the moment he heard a lady‘s voice in his earpiece.

“Mom, is Dad back? I have something important to ask him.”

Richard immediately tuned into the source of the voice, realizing it was coming from Johnny‘s house. Therefore, he squinted and carefully listened in on their conversation.

“Why are you looking for Dad, Emily? You shouldn‘t be running here and there because there is still a lot that you have to do for your wedding. Don‘t forget. You‘re going to become the prettiest bride ever.”

“Mom, do you know why Artie is treating everyone else so coldly? I‘m about to be his wife, but he treats me so indifferently. He won‘t even hold my hand. What‘s wrong with him?”

“Come on, silly girl. As soon as he marries you, I‘m sure he will be much closer to you than he is now. Thus, all we have to do now is make sure the wedding goes on successfully.”

“B–But… Sophia is here. She got injured at the turf club today, but Artie carried her in his arms right in front of me like I didn‘t exist. Do you know how mad I was to see that? I thought he would treat everybody coldly, but it looked like that was not the case with Sophia. Mom, it seems that he hasn‘t completely forgotten about her. He still loves Sophia.”

“What? No way. I thought he forgot about that lady a long time ago?” Vera responded in a surprised manner.

“Exactly. That‘s why I wanted to ask Dad how I could make Artie forget about Sophia. I don‘t want him to be thinking about Sophia after we get married.”

On the other hand, Richard knitted his eyebrows when he heard that through his eavesdropping device. Well, it appears that I just found something useful. So, it was Johnny who did something to Arthur‘s memory, which he erased with some sort of biotechnology. The drug‘s side effect is exactly the reason that explains why Arthur treats everybody so coldly.

“Elliot, Johnny did something to Artie‘s memory. He erased his memory about a girl for the sake of his daughter‘s happiness. Now, Artie is suffering from neurological damage, which explains his indifferent and temperamental attitude.”

“Johnny is controlling Artie to make him marry his daughter against his will. If this goes on, Artie will end up as one of his guinea pigs and pawns.

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