Chapter 1826:
“Mom!” Kylee’s voice rang out with pure elation as she swung open the door to discover Carola outside.
“Please, come inside.” Her eyes danced with unbridled joy as the words tumbled forth, her arm extending in invitation to clasp Carola’s hand. Yet Carola shifted away with deliberate subtlety, sidestepping Kylee’s outstretched hand before striding into the room. Kylee’s expression froze, her hand suspended awkwardly in the air.
A glimmer of fury flashed through her gaze before she regained her composure, burying her emotion beneath a carefully constructed smile as she shut the door. She then pivoted gracefully and settled onto the plush sofa, angling her body to look at Carola.
“Mom, do you have something to tell me?” she asked.
Carola abandoned any pretense of small talk and cut straight to the heart of the matter.
“Has Elwood paid you a visit recently?”
The question caught Kylee off guard.
Then, realization dawned that Elwood must have already reached out to Carola, sharing every detail of their recent meeting.
Thinking of that, Kylee recognized that she could not feign ignorance anymore.
She caught her lower lip between her teeth, then offered a gentle affirmation.
“Yes.”
Following a brief hesitation, she lifted her gaze, her features taut with nervous energy and brimming with desperate hope as she posed her question to Carola.
“So tell me, Mom—is Elwood truly my biological father?”
Carola remained trapped in contemplative silence before finally inclining her head in acknowledgment.
“Yes, he is.”
Kylee’s voice carried a tremor of uncertainty as she pressed further.
“Then perhaps you and he might consider reconciling?”
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“That will never happen.” Carola’s response emerged without the slightest pause, her tone firm.
“There exists no possibility whatsoever for anything between me and him to be rekindled.”
Kylee’s brow creased with visible confusion.
“But why? Is it because of Zaria? Mom, you’ve completely misunderstood Dad. Zaria is not his biological daughter. She’s just someone he adopted from the orphanage. I’m telling the truth!”
Watching Kylee speak with such unwavering confidence while naturally addressing Elwood as “Dad,” Carola let her eyebrows draw together, her expression growing dark.
She prepared to voice her thoughts when the meaning of Kylee’s declaration suddenly registered.
Kylee said that Zaria had been adopted from an orphanage by Elwood?
How could that be possible?
Wasn’t Zaria the child of Elwood and Tasha?
