By evening, Caron Spencer sat on the large flat balcony he had bought for Brooke Osborne.
The outdoor wicker chair was very comfortable, and on the marble table in front of him lay five paternity test reports from different testing agencies.
To protect client privacy, they were all sealed in black plastic bags.
Caron Spencer opened the paternity test report that he had sent his private secretary to test first.
Then the second, third, and fourth.
The last one was the fifth paternity test report, which he personally delivered, personally waited for, and personally retrieved.
All five paternity tests, despite their different formats, stated the sa result.
"Test Opinion: Based on DNA analysis results, the evidence supports that the individual of sample 1 is the biological father of the individual of sample 2."
Caron Spencer knew that sample 1 was his hair.
Sample 2 was Nick Zeller’s hair.
Thus, Nick Zeller was his son, his true eldest son.
Staring at the results, Caron Spencer initially showed no expression, but after a while, an uncontrollable bitterness rose in his eyes, forcing him to look up at the sky.
It was near dusk, the evening sky of spring in the Capital City, filled with a sunset like a vividly colored western oil painting.
His hand trembled as he finally collected the five paternity test reports, placing them in a sealable paper bag, clutching it as he returned to his residence.
There was a room here, a private room, that belonged only to him.
In the closet of this room was a highly discreet safe, unknown even to Brooke Osborne.
Caron Spencer placed his notarized testant here, and now there was also a stack of paternity test reports next to it.
Caron Spencer erged alone from the closet, sat behind his desk, and frowned at several other reports.
These were the findings he had soone investigate after seeing the unique knot tied on a peach wood sword.
Nick Zeller, originally surnad Winters, nad Nick Winters, with parents from River City, and three younger sisters.
Could it be that Eleanor married another man with the surna Winters after their divorce?
Caron Spencer, impatient for answers, had soone investigate Gabrielle Winters and her sisters’ parents, the Winters couple.
The information he found made his heart skip a beat.
Nick Zeller’s parents’ information showed that his mother was nad Florence Armstrong. Though not nad Eleanor Armstrong, her looks and age didn’t match, but they both had the surna Armstrong...
"Armstrong" isn’t a common surna with millions of people; what if his ex-wife changed her na?
Unfortunately, too much ti had passed, and Florence Armstrong had died over ten years ago, making it hard to conduct DNA tests now.
Caron Spencer pondered for a while, then suddenly had a bright idea.
He couldn’t test whether Nick Zeller’s mother, Florence Armstrong, was his ex-wife, Eleanor, but he could test if Nick Zeller and his sisters were related!
The first he wanted to test was undoubtedly Gabrielle Winters!
Gabrielle Winters rarely went out, except to the nearby supermarket for groceries.
The person Caron Spencer arranged soon managed to get Gabrielle Winters’ hair when she went to a local store for breakfast.
Caron Spencer conducted five tests as well.
The test results were astonishing.
Gabrielle Winters and Nick Zeller had no familial relationship!
They weren’t siblings!
Seeing this result, Caron Spencer’s hands began to uncontrollably shake.
What on earth was going on?
To be thorough, Caron Spencer had soone else go to River City to secretly obtain hair from Nick Zeller’s other two sisters, for another DNA kinship test.
This ti, the results were reassuring; the tests confird Gabrielle Winters and her two sisters were indeed biological sisters.
And her two sisters also had no familial relationship with Nick Zeller.
At this point, Caron Spencer had virtually deduced half of the truth.
Nick Zeller was not the biological son of the Winters couple.
The Winters couple only had three biological daughters.
Moreover, they discovered another thing in River City, that Florence Armstrong, Gabrielle and her sisters’ mother, was distantly related to Eleanor Armstrong.
Then, where on earth did Eleanor go?
Why would she give her child to her distant cousin’s family for adoption?
Did Nick Zeller and his three sisters know about this?
From Caron Spencer’s investigation, the Winters sisters seed unaware, still treating Nick Zeller like a real elder brother.
But as for Nick Zeller, that might not be certain...
Otherwise, why would he tie that very special knot?
What if that knot was a knot that all the Armstrongs could tie and that he had learned it from his aunt, Florence?
Of course, this was only Caron Spencer’s speculation, with no evidence to prove the knot was Eleanor Armstrong’s specialty, nor any evidence to prove that all Armstrongs knew it.
However, Caron Spencer no longer doubted Nick Zeller’s identity.
He felt guiltier for Eleanor Armstrong and Nick Zeller for the events of that year.
But at the ti he proposed the divorce, they had no children, and Eleanor Armstrong hadn’t told him she was pregnant.
If he had known she was pregnant, he’d surely have found another way to keep her.
Caron Spencer sat at his desk, recalling those events, alternately smiling with uncontrollable joy and feeling sadness.
She had endured their toughest, most impoverished days with him, but when he beca wealthy, she could no longer be found.
Caron Spencer knew he had a particularly hard heart, but the first person he loved in his youth remained his softest spot inside.
He felt he owed the mother and child, and now it was ti to repay that debt.
Moreover, his eyes brightened as he suddenly realized, he did have a son!
He wasn’t just the father of the infant son, Winter!
Caron Spencer had a son in his pri, vigorous and full of vitality!
And this son also inherited his talents in the Celestial Path Sect, with Nick the Great Heavenly Master now a prominent figure in the nation’s Geomantic World!
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This is the first update, the second update will be at 7 pm.
Kisses to everyone in the group!
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