Chapter 17 The Shameful Stepsister and Stepmother (2/2)

”Yes, I know... Sheila, how about we do a paternity test? I had consulted a doctor two days ago. You have been pregnant for months and we can do this test now. As long as we get the result, they won't have any excuse to oppose.”

Paternity test?! Ashley widened her eyes. Sheila was not pregnant at all. How could she do such a test?

Sheila had thought of this, too. She thought for a while and said, ”Ok, I agree to a paternity test as long as it can put your parents mind at rest. Well, Francis, give me your sample, I'll go to hospital to do the test.”

”Let's go together. How can I let you go alone? People in the hospital will gossip about you when they see you alone.”

Ashley sneered. How considerate he was!

Sheila didn't want Francis to go with her to do the DNA test. If he was with her, how could she screwed up the test?

”Francis, you are so busy. I can ask my mother to go with me. It will be more awkward if you go with me.” People must think that you suspect my baby isn't yours, and they are bound to gossip.”

After pondering for a second, Francis agreed with her and said, ”Ok, it's up to you, baby!”

Sheila grinned happily in Francis' arms.

”Can I kiss you now, baby!” While saying that, he lowered his head to kiss the beauty, with intermittent the voice came out between their lips, ”after we get married... It would be better. We don't need to... sneak around.”

Ashley slowly released the leaves in her hand and walked outside. She pushed the door open and the scorching sunshine came in.

”You can't wait to marry Sheila, so does Sheila likewise. Am I the third person in this relationship? So our love in university disappeared just like an illusion. You and Sheila are true love, aren't you? Am I the truly wicked one?

However, she lowered her head and deprecated herself, 'so what? I will be the wicked one.'

After that, Gloria asked someone to make a fake report for the paternity test. Ashley had preserved all the evidence.

She hoped that these evidences would not be used in the future, and she wished Francis mother Belinda would be alert to stop Sheila from marrying Francis.

Perhaps that paternity test pacified the hearts of Francis' parents. The two families finally agreed to dine together in United Hotel and discuss about their marriage. It was not proper for Ashley to show up, so she disguised herself, pretended to make a phone call, and walked around in the corridor to pry into news.

Ashley thought that the paparazzi skills she had learned in the past half year had given full play to this issue. She hadn't followed any news recently, and she wondered whether Leona would scold her.

While she was thinking of this, a voice suddenly burst out from the originally harmonious room. Then she heard Sheila shouted, ”It's not true! Someone is setting me up!”

Belinda cried indignantly, ”Don't argue any more. My secretary followed you and your mother. She shot these evidences. What kind of hatred does my secretary have on you to set you up? You forged the paternity test report. Tell me, whose baby are you pregnant with?”

Ashley stopped pacing back and forth. 'Did Belinda commission someone to follow Sheila?' But she had a feeling that it would not be so simple. Maybe the paternity test was just a roundabout tactics of Belinda whose aim was to force Sheila tell the truth. If so, Belinda was really a scheming woman.

There was a moment of silence in the room. At this moment, Sheila was standing in front of the table. Her face was pale and she couldn't say anything.

”Anyway, it's not Francis'.” Francis' father Simon added, ”Francis, this is the woman you are going to marry. Do you see her clearly?”

Francis was still in shock and disbelief. He didn't expect that Sheila would cheat on him. The reason why he made up his mind to marry Sheila was that he believed that Sheila would not betray him since she had been with him wholeheartedly for so many years.

But now, evidences proved he was wrong.

Samuel was also in the dark about this case. He felt ashamed that he had scolded Francis for not being responsible.

”Gloria, what the hell is it?”

Normally, Gloria was a slick talker, but now she got caught lying, so she didn't know how to respond. Should she cry or apologize?

Standing outside the door, Ashley thought her father was really pitiful. He had brought up two daughters. One of them had an affair before marriage, and the other had been a mistress who pretended to be pregnant and forged a paternity test. Even a TV drama was not as brilliant as her family.

”Francis, that's not the case.” Sheila's panic voice came out of the room, as if she had fallen next to Francis.

Ashley really wanted to see how awkward Sheila was now. 'Sheila, you can't stand just because you were being debunked. The pain I suffered when my mother and son were dead, when I was betrayed by Francis and when I was forced to relinquish marital properties to divorce were ten times more than what you suffered now!'

”I'm not pregnant at all!” Finally, Sheila couldn't help telling the truth, ”I didn't betray you, Francis. I really didn't, I am too afraid. Ashley was back. I am afraid you fall in love with her again. That's why I come up with this idea to marry you so that I can keep you by my side.”

The whole room fell into silence. After a long time, Francis struggled to say, ”You didn't cheat on me?”