He looked a totally different person.
The difference was night and day.
It was clear as day that Davin had allowed his men to act against him.
After all, it was a life they’re talking about. It would be natural for them to punish him.
Looking at Nicole, he showed some signs of excitement, as if he had just seen his savior descending from the heavens.
“Nicole, I knew that you won’t ignore me just like that. Davin is barbaric. Look at how he lets others torture me! I had really suffered. Quick! Get me out of here this instance!”
Even after seeing Zane pled in such a manner, Nicole still felt indifferent.
After all, when she was being tortured by Sylvia and Sylphiette, Zane himself had stood by indifferently without saying a word.
As the saying went, what goes around comes around. She felt that Zane was heartless. Therefore she couldn’t care less too.
“The reason I drop by to see you today is to ask you a few questions.”
Zane was a little surprised to hear that.
“Nicole, let’s leave here first. After leaving here I’ll answer whatever questions you’ll have.”
“No! You will answer my questions here!” Nicole bellowed resolutely as both her furious eyes were fixed on him.
Witnessing the frustration, Zane secretly tried to guess what she wanted to ask.
In the current unfavorable situation, it would be wise not to provoke her. Instead, it was imperative that he let her have her way then gently coaxed her to take him out of here.
“Okay, Nicole. Ask away,” said Zane with feigned resignation.
“Am I your biological daughter?”
Hearing these words, Zane’s expression changed drastically. He did not understand why Nicole would suddenly come up with this question.
Only a few knew about the incident back then, and years had passed since. How did she find out?
At this moment, it was more prudent to convince her of their father-daughter blood relation to get her to help him escape this place.
If he had told her the truth, on what basis would she help him get away?
“Oh my, Nicole. What are you talking about? Of course you are my daughter!” he pleaded.
“Really? Then why did Sylphiette said otherwise?” She shot back.
Sylphiette, that damned idiot! Is she trying to get me killed?
How could she say such a thing? Especially to Nicole?
He was cursing Sylphiette in his heart and slapping her viciously in his mind. The moment I manage to get out, I’ll be teaching that big mouth a lesson!
“Nicole, how can you believe Sylphiette’s words so easily? She has been mirroring her mother since young, full of gossips and nonsense, provoking and sowing discord in the family. You can’t listen to anything she said.” Zane reasoned.
“…”
Nicole carefully observed Zane, trying to read his mind through his facial expressions. He knew Sylphiette’s character after all.
Whether his words were true or otherwise, she still could not tell.
However…
Nicole adamantly declared, “Since you said that her words are not credible, then to prove that yours are credible, we shall do a paternity test! Let the result speaks for itself!”
“What? Nicole, you… How can you propose a paternity test merely based on Sylphiette’s words? You, you…”
His impassive look thus far suspiciously changed. Seeing the panic in Zane’s eyes, Nicole suddenly felt that Sylphiette’s words contained some grains of truth in them after all.
“I sense that you’re scared,” prodded Nicole as she stared at Zane intently.
Zane quickly defended himself, trying to reason that he was not scared, but rather he just felt that the procedure was unnecessary. According to him, this lack of trust would hurt the father-daughter relationship between them.
Nicole ignored his nonsensical excuse and called for someone to take a sample of his blood for testing.
“Nicole, get me out from here. You can’t simply leave your father here alone. This is a living hell, Nicole!” Zane pleaded as desperation set in. With each passing moment, his flaming hope for escape seemed dimmer and dimmer.
“A person like you deserves to be thrown straight into hell!”
Having uttered such vehement words, Nicole turned and walked away, turning a deaf ear to Zane’s yelling behind her. Soon, his shouts and pleas were out of her earshot.
She went off in a car and sped towards the nearest paternity testing center.
No matter what, she was determined to get to the bottom of the matter.
After having her blood sample taken, she walked out of the testing center, feeling a heavy weight on her chest.
She was eager to know the result, but at the same time afraid of the truth.
If she was really not Zane’s daughter, then what was her mother trying to hide from her?
What was the secret that kept Mother from ever mentioning anything about my biological father? Throughout her life, she had not uttered a single word about this matter.
As the night fell, she drove back to Imperial Garden.
As soon as she walked in through the door, she saw Yoda and her four children playing games.
She stared stupefyingly at the scene before her.
Is there something wrong with her eyes?
