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Feeling dazed, Shaun thought it over for a while before he stammered, “You’re my aunt… The person I love…”
Cate forced a smile. “Shaun, I’m not your aunt. Fine, you won’t understand even if I explain to you. Let’s sleep.”
She tilted her body to face the window.
Deep down, she grumbled at herself for asking that question. She clearly knew that he was just a child who could not possibly love her. At most, he only liked her.
At the sight of her slender silhouette, Shaun felt as though something was clenching his heart and causing him pain. At the same time, he felt anxious.
Somehow, he felt that Cate was feeling bitter. Was it because he had said something wrong?
Shaun found himself losing sleep for the first time.
When he woke up the next morning, he seemed listless with two dark circles under his eyes.
After Cate was done helping Lucas and Suzie wash up, he silently came to her. “Cate, help me too.”
“Brush your teeth on your own.” Cate kindly squeezed the toothpaste for him before saying with a somber voice, “You can’t possibly rely on me forever. You need to learn to do it yourself.”
At the sight of her grave expression, Shaun reluctantly took the toothbrush from her.
After Lucas and Suzie finished their breakfasts, they headed to preschool. Shaun looked glum while clumsily eating the food in his bowl.
Cate said, ” I’ve hired three teachers to teach you. After you finish your breakfast, you’ll learn some vocabulary and attend an English class. Then, you’ll learn about financial management in the afternoon.”
Lea was dumbfounded. “That’s a bit too much, isn’t it?”
“Aunty Lea, he can absorb knowledge much better than any other ordinary person. I’m guessing that the knowledge is still in his mind. The teachers might be able to awaken his acquired knowledge. I think that it’s worth a try. If it doesn’t work, we can change to another method.”
Cate was serious. “He can’t possibly learn everything bit by bit like Lucas. If he learns at that kind of pace, he’ll be in his 4o or 5os by then.”
Lea instantly went silent. Indeed, what Cate said made sense.
“I don’t want to.” Shaun suddenly furrowed his brows deeply, signaling his resistance. “I don’t want strangers to teach me. I want Cate to be my teacher.”
“I don’ t know some of the topics. Plus, I’m not a professional, ” Cate said, “Lucas and Suzie have gone to preschool and made friends. I think you need to interact with more people. It can’t be just me and you all the time.”
“I don’t want to learn, then. I don’t want other people to teach me.” Shaun’s eyes turned red all of a sudden. “Don’t think I don’t know that you’re angry with me and you hate me. You’re just trying to get rid of me as soon as you can.”
With that, he tossed the spoon and headed upstairs in a rage.
Complete silence descended upon the dining room.
Lea and Brennan looked at Cate in embarrassment. Brennan had been staying here these few days because of Shaun’s illness. However, it was plain to see that his son did not need him at all.
“Ahem.” Brennan coughed softly while clenching his fist. With a mature voice, he said, “Cate, if you’re busy, go ahead with your work. After all, you’re not married to Shaun. Although he has ended up in this state, it’s not reasonable to have you take full responsibility for him. Conversely, I think you’ve done a wonderful job.”
“Yeah.” Lea agreed with Brennan. “You’re not obligated to take care of him.”
Cate tightened her grasp on the fork, knowing that Lea and Brennan had misunderstood her.
Perhaps they thought that she had started to lose patience with him.
“Uncle Brennan, Aunty Lea, I actually hardly slept last night because I was contemplating my future with Shaun.”
Cate’s voice was slightly hoarse. “All babies cling to the people who look after them the most, so it’s normal that Shaun is clinging to me now. His intellect is slowly developing. Given that he has forgotten about what happened between us, he might be different from how we remember him.
“At this point, he’s like a blank slate. Little by little, there’ll be people stepping into his life. Although he used to love me, what about in the future? Are his feelings for me mainly affection, love, or reliance?
You’re both right. We’ re not married, so he’s not obligated to take full responsibility for me. I don’t wish for him to assume responsibility for what had happened in the past either.”
At that moment, the dining room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop Lea and Brennan exchanged glances. The two of them had grasped the point of Cate’s message.
Indeed, they had to admit that Cate’s viewpoint was right.
“Cate, I’m really sorry.” Lea took pity on her and felt very guilty. “Shaun owes you too much.
You’ve been with him for so long, and you’ re the one who has sacrificed the most and tolerated him the most.”
“Aunty Lea, we don’t owe each other. Perhaps God feels there’s a need to set obstacles between us.
Sometimes, it might be easy to love each other, but it’s difficult for our lives to work out smoothly.”
The more Cate spoke, the more upset she felt. Whenever she thought that she would be able to get her happily ever after, she would end up facing a major obstacle.
She rose to her feet. With her head lowered, she left.
Lea and Brennan were stunned.
Loving each other was easy, but having smooth- sailing lives was difficult.
Cate was referring to them as well, was she not?
Compared to Cate and Shaun, Lea and Brennan were slightly more fortunate than them. A t least, they could sit down and eat together.
“What do you think?” Lea looked at Brennan in agony.
“Just do as Cate said. Come to think of it, it’s really unfair to her. Shaun has hurt her more than he has made her happy. He might be a fool now, but what about Cate? Not only does she need to help him manage his company, but she also has to look after the kids and him as well. Even though Wesley and Sarah are targeting her, no one can come to her assistance. It’s not easy for a young woman like her to keep going.” Brennan lit up a cigarette, his handsome face expressing helplessness.
“Judging from Shaun’s character, he probably won’t agree with it.” Lea’s head hurt.
“He has no choice but to agree with it. He can’t possibly make Cate take care of him forever.” Brennan was resolute.
In Militaire Hospital.
Sheryl kept screaming hysterically through the iron door separating Titus and her, “Titus Costner, how dare you lock me up, you b*stard?! Why didn’t I recognize earlier that you’ve been a beast in disguise?
“I want to divorce you. Let me go!
“I want to meet Rosabella. What have you done to Rosabella? Are you planning to kill me so that Cate can replace me?
“You shameless couple will be cursed with horrible deaths! “
Titus stood at the door with a sorrowful and grave expression on his handsome face.
His fingers were curled into fists, and the pain in his heart grew intense.
At the sight of Sheryl’s hysterical appearance, he wished he could take Rosabella’s corpse out and whip it several times.
His dark eyes revealed sorrow.
He did not even know how he walked out of the hospital with such a heavy heart.
“President Costner, didn’t you ask your subordinate to take Madam Costner and Suzie’s hair back to Neah Bay for DNA testing?”
Titus’ assistant, Warren, rushed over. “The test report is already out. Please have a look at it.”
Titus took the phone from him to look at the report, which indicated that Suzie and Sheryl were not related. Given that the DNA grand parentage test was performed between them, the percentage surely would not reach 99%. However, after the medical staff in the Costners’ top hospital analyzed Suzie and Sheryl’s DNA samples based on genetics and biology, they discovered that the two of them shared 50% of their DNA.
As such, Suzie must be Sheryl’s granddaughter.
If Suzie was Jeffery’s biological granddaughter, Sheryl would just be Suzie’s grandaunt.
The DNA between Suzie and Sheryl would be practically identical.
Warren said furiously, “We’ve been tricked by Rosabella. Apparently, the hair that Young Master Costner used for the paternity test before belonged to Cate. I asked someone to check the hotel that Rosabella stayed in when she just arrived in Neah Bay. The hotel staff claimed that he got the hair from her comb when he cleaned Rosabella’s room, so they didn’t actually get the hair from her head.”
“It wasn’t Matthew’s fault. Who would’ve expected that?”
Titus narrowed his grim eyes. What a schemer Rosabella was.
“President Costner, should I let Madam know about this matter…” Warren asked in hesitation.
