Chapter 304 The Truth (2/2)

As his mind reached the subject of Moore, there flashed a look of satisfaction in his eyes. 'I hope you don't disappoint me, ' Zed warned Moore inside his head.

-----”What did you just say?” asked surprised Jean. The information Moore gave was hard for Jean to digest. Puzzled look remained on Jean's face and her eyes widened. ”Why do you say that you are not a skeleton in the closet? I don't get it. Or did I hear you wrong?” There was confusion written all over Jean's face.

'As an illegitimate child, shouldn't he be sorry about his own identity?

Or have I been misled by Hanley all this time?'

”So, you are not the bastard of

When her sister ran away from the wedding, Autumn was forced to marry Charles.

His name had been linked to innumerable ladies.

He had different girlfriends for every day of a year.

Autumn had never thought that she would fall in love with him.

profile in any orphanages. I was quite worried that the kind couple would find out that I was lying to them, so I nervously took them to one of the largest welfare houses. And to my surprise......”

Once again, Moore faltered in his speech but this time he looked more disappointed than nostalgic.

Judging from his facial expression, Jean formed an idea about what was coming next.

”To my surprise, after learning about the reason why my adoptive parents came with me, the dean gave them my profile. At that time, I had the biggest surprise of my life. There clearly was my name on the orphans list,”

Moore stated with anger evident.

”How come?” Jean shouted looked horrified.

”It's incredible, isn't it? I became a homeless orphan only after I had been away from home for a few days.” As he was saying this, Moore looked up and laughed for a second. Then he suddenly stared Jean straight into her eyes and asked,”Is such a person qualified to be a father? No, he is not! Ever since he chose to give up upon me, I stopped to consider him my father.”

”Moore, would it be possible that there are some misunderstandings?” Jean asked with a frown, still finding it hard to believe.

”What kind of misunderstanding would that be? He did this because he was about to marry Edna Huang at that time, the Mrs. Bai now. In truth, he badly wished to send me away. Or else I would become an eyesore in his perfect life. Under the circumstance, it was understandable that my name appeared on the list of the welfare house, right?” Seeing Moore's angry face, Jean was scared to say anything in Gary's defense.

'It is obvious that he really is sad about the past and there isn't much I can do to change that, ' thought Jean while she stood there with a helpless look.