At that moment, Olivia was quite surprised. “Lara was Gerald’s mistress in the past?!” “I think so, Eugene quipped. Olivia then made a wild guess. “Do you think that she was with Gerald during those two years when your parents were still married to each other? Then Gerald decided to break up with her, so perhaps she had no choice but to go back to your father?”
In response, Eugene nodded. “That’s quite possible. I think that we’ll be able to find out the truth fairly soon.” She continued, “Well, if that’s the case, then your father’s quite pitiful. He’s been so protective of Lara and yet, she merely sees him as a second option.”
Just then, Eugene snorted. “Is he pitiful? Even if he was duped by her, he still enjoyed twenty years of a happy life. My mother’s the one who suffered the most.”
Olivia agreed upon hearing his words but she no longer wanted to comment about his parents behind their backs, so she chose to remain silent.
She turned to look at the tightly shut door of North’s room and spoke casually. “Is North fast asleep? I’ve been back for ages but he hasn’t come out to greet me at all. I think he doesn’t miss me at all.”
Eugene ruffled her hair and asked, “Why are you being so petty with a child? It’s alright. I’ll go and wake him up.” He got up as he spoke and went into North’s room.
Meanwhile, Olivia continued to browse on her cell phone and planned to check the comments of the people on the Internet. Somehow, she didn’t feel confident enough, so she didn’t dare, to click on them.
Just as she was debating whether to take a look or not, Eugene suddenly came out of North’s room with a frantic expression. “Olivia, hurry up and go inside to take a look at North. Something’s wrong with him and I can’t wake him up!”
She got a fright and stood up abruptly, thereafter quickly rushing toward the direction of North’s room. While walking toward the room, she asked, “What’s wrong? Is he running a fever?”
Eugene responded, “I felt his temperature and he doesn’t feel warm. Take a look.” At that moment, she had already entered the room. She saw the little fellow with his eyes shut as he lay there quietly. Anyone would have assumed that he was merely fast asleep. Out of instinct, she called out to him, “Baby, Mommy’s back. It’s time to wake up.”
“Baby? North?” She called out his name while gently pushing him, but the child gave no response at all. At that point, she was completely terrified. She took a seat and lifted his arm to place it over her thigh as she carefully examined him.
She noticed that his heart rate was unusually fast and it was irregular too, so she pulled up his eyelid to check his pupil. Indeed, she found that his pupil had shrunk. She quickly lifted his shirt to examine him. His body temperature wasn’t warm as usual, but it felt quite cold to the touch.
It felt as if he had broken out in a sweat and then the sweat had been evaporated by the cool breeze, so his skin felt clammy and cold to the touch. At that point, Eugene was quite frantic as he stood there looking on. “How is it? How’s North?”
Meanwhile, Olivia had a solemn look on her face. “Did he eat something wrong?”
Instantly, Eugene’s heart raced and he said, “He didn’t eat anything today. I made breakfast for him this morning and then I sent him back before I went to pick you. He hasn’t even had lunch yet!”
Olivia responded, “His current condition looks like he’s been poisoned, and it looks like the slow-release kind. Try and recall whether you had anything special recently?”
Eugene was significantly startled. “Poison? How could he have been poisoned? I was worried for his safety, so I stayed by his side the whole time all this while and we ate the same food so he can’t have been poisoned, right?”
As soon as Eugene mentioned this, he suddenly realized that when he interrogated those beggars, he had entrusted North to Curtis. Could it be that Curtis gave North something to eat then?
Instantly, Eugene took out his phone and called Curtis as soon as he thought of this. The former went straight to the point, “Today when you took care of North, did you give him anything to eat?”
