Filed to story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
After Director Ferguson left, Jared heaved a faint sight. The matter involved a huge misunderstanding, and since he failed to talk some sense into Ellen, he could only be there for her as a temporary fix to make up for her.
At the Aguirre Residence, the family was looking bitter. Connor had just shamelessly. contacted Benjamin, wanting to know if Jared intended to give him some money. However, Benjamin’s attitude took a turn, and he asked Connor to wait for his news.
At that moment, Connor was walking around the room anxiously. When he thought about his future life, he was filled with sorrow. Meanwhile, Selena shared the same worry as she initially thought her father could get some compensation. Now that Jared found out the truth, there was no way he would not return the saving grace to Ellen!
Nonetheless, she was good at scheming and succeeded at sowing discord between the couple. Otherwise, he would have spoiled Ellen to the extreme!
“Mr. Presgrave is such an ungrateful man! Doesn’t he know the person who suggested. signing the papers to save his life? It was me. I was the one who asked your dad to sign the papers. Would he have survived if it weren’t for my insistence?”
“Really? Selena felt like that was the best. decision her mom had ever made. She would not have enjoyed such a good life had it not been for her mom’s decision.
“Of course. Your dad was even reluctant to sign the papers, so it’s naturally because of me.” “Mom, you’re so kind!”
“Do you know why I agreed so quickly? Kevin was about to get unplugged anyway, and I saw those people wearing expensive clothes, so I assumed they had to be rich. That’s why I did that! Since they’re rich, they would certainly pay us heftily if we donated Kevin’s heart.” Everything Olivia did was for profit.
“I told you we shouldn’t have lied to him. We should’ve told him that Kevin is Ellen’s older brother because if we did, he wouldn’t think that we lied to him. I can’t even bear to go outside now.” Connor glared at her.
“No one made you do it. I was just giving my suggestion, and you’re the one who took it. seriously. She refused to admit her mistakes. “You’re… You’re a doom.”
“I’m a doom? Would you have decided to sign the papers without this ‘doom’ right here?”
When Connor heard that, he was immediately enraged. “Had we pushed that matter back at little, perhaps we would’ve gotten more money. from the Presgraves!”
Stunned, Olivia realized that her husband was right. At that time, Kevin’s heart was Jared’s only hope! Maybe we could have gotten a better deal! Gosh, was I too eager?
“H-How would I have known that they were the richest family in the city?” She pouted.
On the side-lines, Selena grew frustrated while watching her parents argue, so she brought her phone back to her room. After closing the door, she wondered about Ellen and Jared’s current status, prompting her to call her enemy.
Ellen had just finished her shower when her phone rang. When she saw it was a call from Selena, she hesitated before answering, “Hey.”
“Ellie, it’s me. How are you? Don’t you think of doing anything reckless!”
“I’m fine.” “How’s your relationship with Mr. Presgrave? Do you hate him?” Selena probed. The frowning Ellen remained silent.
Selena eagerly added, ‘Ellie, we’re your only family. If you’re down, you can always come by and stay at our house. We can help you get through this.”
Faced with Selena’s sudden enthusiasm, Ellen finally recalled what Connor and his family had been doing all these years. She had been too preoccupied with the matter of Kevin’s heart, so Selena’s fake kindness triggered her realization of how selfish and greedy their family was.
“I’ll pass, but I heard that the Presgraves had given your family fifteen million as compensation. So, can you ask your dad where my share of the money is and why he hasn’t given me any of that?” Ellen’s voice was cold as ice.
“What? Ellen, what are you insinuating? Do you think my dad deliberately kept your share away from you? You were a kid back then! Also, money comes and goes! My family is broke now.” Selena’s face instantly turned gloomy.
“Why did you guys keep me in the dark for so long? Why are you only telling me now that Kevin’s heart was donated? As his sister, why don’t I know anything about that?” Ellen continued to question Selena.
“That… It wasn’t that my parents refused to tell you. They were just trying to look out for you! They didn’t want you to feel sad because of that matter, but we told you now, didn’t we?”
“Oh? Are you saying I should be grateful to you?” Ellen asked through gritted teeth.
“Shouldn’t you? Otherwise, what do you expect us to do? Our family is broke now anyway, so you can’t get any money even if you want to.” At the mention of finances, Selena remained undeniably sour.
“But you guys still have a house, a car, and investments. Regardless, your family has to give me half of the compensation!” By now, Ellen’s eyes were red. She did not need the money; all she needed was justice.
Connor’s family felt no guilt while spending the money they received from Kevin’s heart and had been living a glorious life for sixteen years, yet they never thought to visit his grave once. How could such animals have the right to spend that fund?
She would rather donate that sum to charity. than let those ungrateful idiots take it.
“Ellen, do not try anything! I’m telling you to stop having any ideas about my family. We’re poor as beggars! If you need someone to blame, you have the Presgraves for that! They didn’t even give us much back then! There were only fifteen million, and it’s been almost twenty years. Do you think that’s a lot of money?” Selena was flustered as she did not expect Ellen would blame her family.
Originally, she thought Ellen would amount to no threat without Jared’s backup, but she did not expect Ellen to list her demand.
“Can you swear that every word you say today is true? Did your parents not get tempted by the Presgraves’ money and agree to sign the papers?” Ellen had regained her reasoning. With her uncle and aunt’s personalities, how could they not agree to surrender Kevin’s heart when the Presgraves promised them fifteen million?
“Of course, it’s real! The Presgrave Family has power and wealth, and they had their eyes set on Kevin’s heart because he was the only one who could save Mr. Presgrave! Where are you now? Is he still with you?”
“No.” “Atta girl! I’d say, you should stay as far away from him as possible. He’s the one who stole your brother’s heart, after all.”
As soon as Ellen heard that, she immediately reprimanded Selena silently, Jared was seriously injured and bedridden back then, and his life was also at risk. If Kevin learned about that before he passed away and knew he could save a life, I believe he would certainly agree to it. He was a kind soul, after all.
However, all she desperately wanted to know was whether Kevin’s heart was donated out of Presgraves’ threat or an amicable agreement with Connor and Olivia. That, to her, was extremely important.
“Ellen, if I were you, I would hate Jared and the Presgrave Family to death. Also, I wouldn’t want. anything to do with them anymore in my life. Would you agree?” Selena asked.
She wanted to hear Ellen utter anything to imply that they had the same enemy and that she did not want anything to do with the Presgraves anymore.
“Why should I hate him? He was only ten back then and doesn’t know anything,’ Ellen retorted.
Stunned, Selena was not expecting Ellen to be so rational, let alone hate Jared. “Ellen, you’re too kind and foolish. How can you still speak up for him? Yes, he has done nothing wrong, but his family is the culprit who stole your brother’s heart.”
“Please don’t say any nonsense that you can’t prove.” “M-My mom told me that,” Selena quickly explained.
“If your parents were forced to agree, they shouldn’t have accepted the compensation, and they wouldn’t have sent me to Grandma after getting the money.”
Selena choked and said, “Anyway, I can’t do anything about it if that’s what you’re thinking.” After that, she hung up.
On the other hand, Ellen sat inside her room, re- evaluating the things she could not comprehend in her unreasonable state that afternoon. Now that she had calmed down, her thought process became more rational.
Selena didn’t tell me those things out of kindness. Her goal is to make me hate Jared. Also, Uncle Connor’s call was targeted to push the blame onto the Presgraves so that he could justify swallowing the fifteen million.
It was as though they had been forced to take the money rather than deliberately sell her brother’s heart out of greed for the cash. Ellen came out to the balcony and saw the RV outside with its lights on; a tall figure could be vaguely seen moving around in it. At the sight. of this, she felt a knot in her stomach. He’s really staying here.
Hearing the sound of a text message on her phone in the room, she involuntarily got back to her bed and saw the text message sent by Jared. It read, ‘Aren’t you gonna sleep yet?’
She let out a sigh and texted him back, ‘You should go back.” The man was quite stubborn, though. I’m not leaving. I’ll stay where you are! ‘I don’t need you to care about me.’
‘I just want to care about my girlfriend’ Ellen bit her lip. Not knowing how to define their relationship, she decided not to reply to the text message.
Just then, another text message beeped in. It read, ‘I’m watching you.”
