NovelEnglishGrabbing the beer bottle from the table, Marianne took a swig, her throat working furiously as the cold liquid rushed down. She whipped out her phone and dialed Quentin's number with determination. “I'll never return to Starfall City. Dream on if you think I'm donating a kidney to your son. Frankly, | can’t wait to see that bastard kid kick the bucket.” Without waiting for a response, she ended the call, a sense of vindictive pleasure washing over her, leaving her feeling wickedly elated.
Leah and Avery exchanged a glance before Leah asked, “Marianne, someone has asked you to donate a kidney?” Marianne curled her lip in disdain. “My deadbeat dad and his mistress had a son who's down with renal failure.
They're trying to trickinto returning to Starfall City to give him a kidney.” Leah mentally exclaimed, “Holy crap.” “That man is a piece of work, a real bottom-feeder,” Leah added, shaking her head in disbelief.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAvery spoke earnestly, “They'll surely cafter you again if they can’t find a match, trying to guilt-trip you into it. You better brace yourself.” Marianne scoffed. “I've changed my last name. I'm not part of the Clark family anymore. | have nothing to do with the Clark family, so their guilt-tripping won't work.” She wouldn't shed a tear if the whole Clark family disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Avery said, “If you need help, just letknow. There's nothing | can't handle here in Elysium.” “Thanks, Avery,” Marianne replied with a grateful smile.
At the entrance of the party hall, a familiar figure appeared. It was Megan.
Fresh out of her postnatal phase, she cto unwind, but a flicker of malice crossed her gaze when she saw Aurelia.
Aurelia had been staying at the Stirling family lately and knew about her baby stealthily switched at birth. Megan bet Aurelia was silently gloating and resolved not to let her have the last laugh.
Megan approached with a dark cloud hanging over her.
Lisa, ever polite, greeted her, “Hey Megan, your baby must be a month old by now, right? Why didn’t you throw a baptism?” The comment was innocent, but Megan heard it as a sharp barb.
Both women were out of favor, yet the Stirling family had made it big for Lisa's daughter's baptism and had never cared about Megan's child as if she didn’t exist.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmAurelia whispered, “Lisa, you don’t know the Stirling family’s tradition. A paternity test is required after the child’s birth to prove he’s the blood of the Stirling family. Megan's child hasn’t had the test yet, so he’s not recognized.” Megan clenched her teeth in a fury. “I've done the paternity test. The child is mine and Leopold's. How could it have been switched when | gave birth in a hospital?” Aurelia suspected she was lying, probably brainwashed by the AK Group, and hadn't done the paternity test.
“What matters isn’t whether the child is yours, but whether it's the Stirling family’s. You'd better get that paternity test with Leopold done soon,” Aurelia said pointedly.
Lisa nodded in agreement. “Yeah, Megan, why the delay? It's keeping the kid from having a proper baptism.” Megan was seething, forced to swallow her rage.
Cursed with a useless daughter, she could still enjoy the Stirling family's wealth and status, but without inheritance rights, it was all for naught to her.
“I can wait. The Stirling family will accept the child in the end. There's no rush,” Megan retorted stubbornly.
Aurelia admired Megan's faux composure. The child looked nothing like her, and how cshe didn’t have the slightest doubt? Then, something crossed her mind. The AK Group must know the Stirling family’s rules designed to prevent imposters and mix-ups. They needed Megan's child to get the test, but their hesitation suggested a complication.
“You had a daughter, didn’t you?” Aurelia probed, watching closely.
Megan's mouth twitched, her hand trembling so hard that her drink sloshed out of the glass.
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