Olivia had begun to calm down at this point, and she was now able to think rationally.
It was, indeed, as Eugene said; Azalea would use the boys to blackmail him into marrying her if she was their mother. She was madly in love with Eugene, after all..
Moreover, Sirius would also use the boys to make Eugene help him. Hence, it wouldn’t make sense either for Sirius to still drug Eugene six years later. “Have you tried confirming it with her?”
“Who, Azalea?” Eugene asked with a frown.
“No, Iris. Of course, I’m talking about Azalea!”
Olivia huffed. “No. How are we going to do that?” “We’ll secretly do a DNA test.” “Alright, I can ask Hayes to get me her blood sample,” Eugene said after some thinking, but Olivia thought otherwise. “I think you should do it yourself, lest anything happens in between again.”
“You want me to meet Azalea?” Eugene gazed skeptically at Olivia, who sassed in response, saying, “Aren’t you worried about her injury? You had to rush back the last time. This will give you the perfect excuse to visit her.”
“I’m not worried about her.” Olivia felt beyond exasperated. As if Azalea. wasn’t enough to deal with, three boys that were possibly the princess’ popped up.
“Alright, that’s enough. Save your breath. I’m not mad. You’ve been wanting to repay her kindness, haven’t you? I won’t stop you from befriending her as long as you don’t have any romantic feelings for that woman.”
Seeing that she wasn’t saying it out of anger, Eugene pulled her into his arms and breathed a long sigh of relief. “I don’t. You’re the only one I love. You have no idea what my life has been like lately. I couldn’t eat or sleep, constantly worried that you’ll take it the wrong way. Thank you for trusting me, Olivia.”
However, Olivia pushed him away mercilessly. “Who said anything about trusting you? You’d better give me the perfect explanation for how you have so many children when I’m your only. woman.”
“This is exactly what I don’t get as well,” answered Eugene exasperatedly while holding his forehead. “Olivia, I swear that night with you. was my only time. If I lie to you, hell w-”
Olivia covered his mouth at once, not letting him finish his words. She even slapped him out of exasperation. “What are you doing, cursing yourself?! I dare you to die on me, Nolan!”
Eugene grinned. As merciless as her words were, she still couldn’t bear to see him in misfortune. At that, he pulled her back into his arms. “I’m sorry, Olivia. My incompetence has made you suffer. Nothing that happened lately is worth celebrating.”
Olivia took a deep breath at that. “How ungrateful can you get? Are you saying having three sons all of a sudden is not something worth celebrating?”
“To tell the truth,” Eugene said solemnly while hugging her. “I don’t feel a sliver of happiness from their appearance. If anything, I’m scared. I’m scared North will disown me as his father when he knows I have so many children. I’m scared you’ll mistake me for those licentious men and break up with me. I’ve been reflecting, blaming myself, and investigating, hoping that I can give you a plausible explanation. But it ended up in this sh*tty situation, running into you just like this before I even found anything substantial, putting you and North in a compromising position.”
Perhaps lies would become believable when one told them many enough. Olivia no longer gave Eugene a hard time, for she could tell he was indeed baffled. “Alright, I believe you for now. You’d better hurry up and solve this case.”
Eugene nodded in affirmation. “Go to Nambahd with me, then.” “I’m not going.” Olivia turned around. As if she’d go there to watch them act all lovey- dovey with each other!
“You have to go! You’re my girlfriend. I’m taking you wherever I go from now on!” Eugene said solemnly as he turned her back around.
“I’ve already delayed the production. I can’t keep asking for leaves,” Olivia said. “How long until the production wraps up?”
“In another two weeks, I think.” “We’ll go two weeks later, then. Honestly speaking, I’m 90 percent sure it isn’t Azalea. But to alleviate your doubt, we’ll still do a DNA test. Whether they really are Azalea’s, I will have nothing to do with her. Don’t get upset over this, and I won’t take them home either for the time being. We’ll wait until we have the test results for Azalea to make any decisions, alright?”
