Chapter 7 Are You our Daddy?
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George saw the photo as well. He limped over excitedly to Mike's side to see his mobile phone.
"Wow, Mike! When did you have a son? You bastard. I always thought you were impotent. I didn't even know you had a son."
"He's not my son," he said coldly.
"Not your son? Are you kidding me? You look so alike, how could he not be your son?"
George touched Logan’s small face on the screen. Then he turned towards Mike and said, "Please, tell me the truth. Who is his mother?"
"I don't think it's Susan. Susan has been acting these years. I didn't hear that she was pregnant and had a baby."
Remembering something, George suddenly said, "Mike, did your wife give birth to a child? You have been hiding her for so many years. No one saw her. By the way, isn’t her family name Stuart? Mike, what is the full name of your wife? "
"I forgot." Mike's face did not change most slightly. It was as if George had said nothing to him.
"What! You can't even remember your wife's name? That's heartless. You are so cruel.”
He then cleared his throat and asked, "But who gave birth to this kid? You've got someone pregnant and you say you don't even know anything? Mike, you're completely a bastard. Your wife must be devastated."
Paying no mind to his chattering, Mike took his mobile phone and sent a message to ‘Bring daddy home’.
"Where are you? I will pick you up for the paternity test."
Bring daddy home: “Bayview. My sister and I will be waiting for you at the entrance to the neighbourhood.”
He frowned. Bayview neighbourhood seemed to be a very old place. He wondered why they lived there.
Mike became perplexed thinking that the child who bore a striking resemblance to him might be living in poverty.
But George's focus was completely different from that of Mike. After seeing Logan’s picture on Mike’s phone, his eyes were glued to it.
The word ‘sister’ almost made his eyes pop out from the sockets.
Did Mike have twins? He is quite fertile.
He was so eager and curious to see Mike’s children. So when he saw Mike leaving the villa, he limped behind him. But his broken leg made him lag behind and he could not catch up with Mike as he left.
As soon as Mike got in the car, he called Steven's cell. His words were brief and simple. "You need to come to the city hospital to take a paternity test."
Steven was confused after he received the call from Mike. But because of the urgency in his tone, he rushed to the hospital. However, he was wondering why he would need to have a paternity test?
Mike didn’t need to pick up those children. But somehow he was eager to see the little boy who looked just like himself.
By the time he reached there, Logan and Laurel were already waiting outside the neighborhood.
Laurel took Logan's hand. "Logan, do you think he is our father? I am so nervous. I feel like eating chocolate."
Logan’s lips twitched. He said, “If you want to eat the chocolate, just say it. You don’t have to find reasons to lie.”
So he took out a bar of chocolate from his pocket and passed it to Laurel. Though his face seemed cold, there was tenderness in his eyes that could not be hidden.
Laurel was very satisfied that her brother gave her the chocolate. As she ate it, her eyes formed into two crescents filled with joy.
Mike saw the exchange happening between the brother and the sister. The little boy in the small black dress stood coldly. But when he looked at the little girl, his eyes filled with love and warmth.
She was wearing a pink fluffy skirt and was holding the boy around his arm. Her smile was like that of a flower, enjoyable and peaceful.
Mike's chest quivered slightly. He felt something in his cold heart. A strange feeling started to overflow from his chest.
Logan and Laurel also noticed the black Lamborghini. Pointing her chubby little finger at the car she asked, "Is it daddy’s car?"
"Yeah." Logan looked at the registration number and saw that the car was indeed his. It is one of the many famous sports cars he owned.
Laurel's smile got even brighter when she got a positive answer from her brother. She rushed towards Mike's car and waved her arm hard.
Mike opened the car door and stepped out of the car with his long legs. His eyes were focused on the smaller version of him.
Laurel kept looking back and forth at Mike and her brother. The man who might be her father was a copy to her brother. ‘No’, she thought. Her brother was a copy of the man standing in front of her. They were so alike. He must be their father.
Even Logan, who was usually so indifferent, was stunned as well. In real life, the similarity between them was even higher than what he saw in the photograph. He was almost certain that he was their father.
Logan walked up to him and asked, "Are you our father?"
Before Mike answered, Laurel excitedly said, "Of course! He looks so much like you, he must be our father."
She jumped into his arms and said, "Daddy, my brother and I missed you so much. We finally found you."
"Daddy, Mommy works so hard. You have to help her. And buy me many things. I want a lot of chocolate."
Logan’s lips twitched. Laurel is indeed a foodie. She never forgets eating.
“Laurel, if you eat so much chocolate, aren’t you afraid that you will become too fat and that no one will marry you in the future?
What Mike hated the most was someone touching him. He thought as a habit, he would push Laurel away when she threw herself into his arms. But he felt a little warm when she hugged him.
She made his cold and hard heart a bit softer. He didn’t even want to tell her that he might not be their father.
Logan who was only a four and a half-year-old child could not remain indifferent seeing the face of the man who was most likely his father.
He stepped forward and asked with obvious excitement in his voice, "Are you our dad? Were you at ‘Hotel North Beach’ on the night of June 8, 2012?"
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