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Another two hours passed.
Even though it was already three in the morning, Justin didn’t tell Xander to go to bed or anything like that.
At six o’clock in the morning.
The sky was starting to light up.
At last, Nora came out of the operating room.
She looked exhausted. The moment she came out, Xander stood up abruptly.
The little boy looked at her hesitantly, wanting to ask something yet also too scared to do it.
“He’ll live.”
Nora’s two-worded reply put Xander at ease immediately.
The next moment, a nurse wheeled Caleb, whose head was bandaged with gauze, out of the operating room on a gurney to the ward for observation.
Xander followed behind the nurse and entered the ward.
Justin walked over to Nora, and the two went to the ward together.
Caleb’s injury was very serious—after all, he had been struck by a huge rock… Although he was out of danger, he was still admitted to the intensive care unit.
Xander stood outside the glass door of the intensive care unit and looked inside.
Nora walked over and stroked his hair. “Get some sleep.”
“But Daddy Trueman…”
“I’ll be watching over him here. Trust me, he won’t die.”
Xander looked at Nora for a long while before he finally nodded and said, “Okay.”
Lawrence and Sean took him to a nearby hotel to rest.
Justin and Nora stayed outside the ward.
For a while, neither of them spoke, mainly because they didn’t know what to say at a time like this. Neither of them felt any joy at beating Trueman and obtaining the V16.
In the middle of the night, the equipment in the intensive care unit suddenly started to beep.
Nora stood up abruptly and rushed into the ward.
But after a while, she suddenly staggered out of the ward…
“What’s wrong?” Justin was shocked at her behavior.
Was Caleb dying?
As soon as the thought formed in his mind, Nora said, “His time is up.”
“What time?”
“The time for him to take the V16. If the V16 is not administered to him right away, he will die.”
Immediately after Nora spoke, a group of people suddenly walked over.
There were two bodyguards with another person in the middle.
The bodyguards were both members of the Assassin Alliance while the person they had brought with them turned out to be someone familiar!
The person’s face was full of burn scars—it was Old Maddy who had run away without telling her the truth back then!
Nora still remembered what Old Maddy had said back then. If they couldn’t get the support of King from the Imperial League, they would never be able to defeat the mysterious organization…
Thinking about it again, Old Maddy must have already known at that time that the Imperial League was the one backing up the mysterious organization, right?
Therefore, Old Maddy hadn’t believed that she could get King’s support at all, so he had escaped with the truth to avoid provoking her into becoming enemies with the mysterious organization.
Nora hadn’t stayed idle after Old Maddy’s escape. She had gone straight to Karl to help find him. Once found, they were to bring him to her immediately.
Old Maddy stood in front of Nora and let out a small sigh. He said, “Ms. Nora.”
Nora was not in a good mood. Her mind was preoccupied with thoughts of Caleb’s condition, so she only nodded and said, “I finally found you. I’d like to inform you that King…”
But before she could finish, Old Maddy interrupted her. “I know.”
A smiling Old Maddy looked at her and said, “I told you, I will naturally appear when the time comes. And now, I’m here.”
Nora: “…”
So, the bodyguards hadn’t found Old Maddy at all? Rather, Old Maddy had allowed himself to be caught on his own initiative?
Old Maddy looked at Justin. He said, “I’d been looking for clues about King all this time, and I finally found out that you’re King. If I had known, I wouldn’t have had to run away in the first place… I could have just told you two the truth.”
Nora gave him a wry smile. “We know the truth now.”
But when Old Maddy heard her, he looked into the ward. After a moment’s hesitation, he said, “No, there may still be something that you don’t know yet.”
“What?”
Old Maddy sighed. “I don’t know if I should say it, because telling you will only give you more trouble.”
“Say it.” Nora looked at him. “Actually, if you had told us the truth from the beginning, we might have been able to avoid all the detours we took after that.”
The old man nodded in agreement, and then said, “It’s about Trueman Yale.”
Nora was taken aback.
Old Maddy sighed. “I was crazy back then, but after I regained my senses, I started investigating the events back then. I knew about you giving birth to triplets back then.”
He said slowly, “I also saw with my own eyes Henry Smith taking your baby and handing him to the bodyguard to get rid of…”
Old Maddy clenched his jaw. “At that time, when the first baby was abandoned, they were going to drown him. I rushed forward to save him, but Henry got someone to stop me. Later, someone came forward and single-handedly saved the baby.”
Nora thought of what Caleb had once said, and it took her slightly by surprise. “Who was it?”
“It was Trueman.”
Old Maddy paused for a while and then went on. “Or maybe Caleb Gray. I didn’t know who he was at the time and he had shown up alone. A few bodyguards stopped us. When he rushed over, he was stabbed trying to save Xander. The stab he took from the back almost struck his heart and killed him on the spot. To be honest, he could have dodged the attack, but if he did, Xander would have fallen into the water…”
Nora stood frozen hearing those words.
Old Maddy looked at Justin again. “At that time, he became seriously injured trying to save Xander. He wanted to save Pete too, but he simply couldn’t walk or move anymore, so he called Mr. Hunt… To be honest, be it Xander or Pete, it didn’t matter even if they had died back then because having one child alive was enough. You can say that it’s all thanks to Caleb that both of them survived…”
Old Maddy lowered his head. “I didn’t know that he was Trueman at that time; I thought he was just a young man with a crush on Ms. Nora. It was only after I recovered my memory that I realized that he used to hang around Ms. Nora in the past.”
Nora was a little stunned. “Really?”
Old Maddy nodded. “I was under orders to protect you at that time, so I had been observing you the whole time. The young Ms. Nora was round and chubby. He often came over to play with you and also occasionally gave you food…”
Nora had fallen ill and started to gain weight when she was five years old.
She vaguely remembered that she did meet a little boy when she was eight or nine years old…
The little boy, who was about twelve or thirteen years old, had stood outside the villa and mocked her for being a little fatty.
But occasionally, when her stepmother didn’t cook for her, he would give her something to eat… He had liked teasing her.
However, he had stopped visiting her after a while…
So, she and Caleb had already met in the past?
And…
Caleb didn’t only save Xander this time; he had already saved Xander and Pete once back then!
One could say that without Caleb, the two children would have been killed by Henry long ago!
Nora stared blankly ahead.
There was only one V16 left now. To be honest, after hearing what Old Maddy said, she was now even more at a loss as to what to do.
However, she had always been hard-hearted.
And people were selfish.
Though Caleb had helped her a lot, Xander was her son. The degree of her closeness with them was of utmost importance at this moment. Besides, she had never been the traditional definition of a “good person”.
She wasn’t capable of abandoning her son to save Caleb.
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