Chapter 538 - The Moment Of Truth (1/2)

Alaric's answer made Lauriel feel relieved.

”Do you really believe me?” he asked in a shaky voice. His face showed relief and he began to smile when he saw Alaric nodded reluctantly. ”I really want you both. I didn't know about any of you for almost a hundred years ...”

Alaric frowned at his father's last sentence. He did not understand what Lauriel meant just now. Both?

Aleksis immediately realized, just as Lauriel did not know Alaric was his son, Alaric did not know that when he was born, he had a twin brother.

”My mother died after giving birth to me ... What do you mean - both?” Alaric asked in confusion. ”Did anyone claim to be my mother's child to you?”

Aleksis and Lauriel looked at each other. They didn't understand either. What was clear was DNA testing had been done and Nicolae had been proven to be Lauriel's flesh and blood.

”Nicolae ... met Uncle Rory in Singapore ten years ago and the DNA tests showed that he is Uncle Rory's son. Nobody knew Uncle Rory had a child before the incident until Nicolae got injured and needed a blood transfusion ...” Aleksis explained. ”He didn't claim anything...”

Alaric shook his head. ”This is impossible. My mother died after giving birth to me, no other child was born. I have proof. She asked the midwife to cut her hair so she could give it to me ... I also often visited her grave.”

Aleksis remembered the locket Alaric had given her. It contained his mother's hair. She subconsciously touched her neck. Unfortunately, the locket was long gone.

Lauriel was stunned. Long ago, he had taken a leather string necklace from Aleksis' neck which he later passed to Marion. He indeed remembered that there were a few strands of purple hair inside the locket...

He just realized that he actually had held Luna's hair in his hand.

Oh God ... he was close to finding out his son's existence!

”The necklace is gone,” Lauriel said in a very apologetic voice. ”But even without Luna's hair, I believe you. We don't need a DNA test to know you're my son.”

Alaric was silent. He still could not digest Lauriel's words, that there was another man acknowledged as his father's son. And this person was allegedly not the son of another woman.

Apparently, there was never any other woman ...

Did he really have a brother? If that's the case ... it meant that his brother also had lived for almost a hundred years alone, without knowing who he was.

He remembered the loneliness and confusion he experienced at the early stage of his life. Everyone else he knew grew old and died ... while he alone remained the same, appearance-wise, unchanging. But deep within, he was falling into darkness.

Alaric finally took a deep breath. He did not know what happened which led to his mother giving birth to two children. It was also a puzzle how these two children ended up living separately, but he could see from Lauriel's eyes that his father was not lying about this.