’If Marlon and Dahlia have brown hair, how could he get his blond hair?’ Kate pondered. She continued pondering and ca up with a few answers, but only two stood out in her mind.
1. Just like Mai said, maybe Henry’s grandparents were bright blonde like him. The blond gene didn’t fall to his parents but to him instead.
2. Dahlia was NOT Henry’s real mother.
...
Kate swallowed her saliva hard. She felt a lump of dough stuck in her throat as she kept thinking about the second possibility.
If soone told her that Dahlia was Jas’ mother, then Kate wouldn’t even think twice to say yes. They looked very similar and even had similar eyes and smiles.
But Henry, on the other hand.
He looked so much like his father except for the hair, so there was no doubt Henry was his father’s son.
’But what about the mother? What if... Henry and Jas were born from different mothers? Maybe the mistress he told about is actually his real mother?’
After all, there was no shortage of won for powerful and rich n like Marlon, Jas, or Henry. It didn’t help that both Marlon and Henry were very handso on top of their power.
So, keeping one mistress or two could be a norm for Marlon. Henry could be born from one of Marlon’s mistresses.
’Saddening, but not surprising,’ Kate thought. She wondered if there would be a ti when Henry started to find a mistress after they got married.
But if that happened, then Kate would swiftly leave him.
She had too much on her plate that no man was ever worth the ntal abuse and unhappy marriage.
...
Kate took a deep breath at the possibility of Henry being an illegitimate child.
Her heart felt heavy, and she sympathized with Henry if he was truly an illegitimate son from a mistress.
Because that ant his life would be in constant danger, and Jas and Dahlia might’ve bullied him as the real wife and son.
’Good thing Jas and Dahlia seem to spoil him so much. They are indeed good people,’ Kate thought. ’But how am I supposed to ask him about this? I’m sure he must be ashad of his status, even though I see nothing wrong with it.’
’After all, the parents did a terrible thing, not the son. Henry didn’t ask to be born from an affair...’
Kate understood that Henry hid this fact from other people because he was ashad of it.
But they were a couple and already planned an engagent and marriage. Why didn’t Henry open up to her when she told him everything in her life?
’Does he not believe ? Do I look like a cunning and cruel woman?’ Kate asked herself. ’Maybe he found untrustworthy after the plan I concocted to trap Erin in a frozen wasteland and annul the prenup between Matt and I.’
’But I was just doing whatever it took to survive. My family was out to get . They wanted to squeeze dry because to them, I was nothing but a cash cow...’
Kate knew that was unlikely to be the real problem. Henry’s love for her was real, she could feel it with all the fiber in her body.
But she was still concerned...
Mai glanced at her boss as she drove near Mr. Grant’s apartnt. After driving around downtown Los Angeles aimlessly, she decided to drive her boss to her ho to have peace of mind.
"Ma’am, we’ve arrived in the apartnt. Do you want to go sowhere else?" Mai asked politely.
"Hm, you can just drop here. I have nothing else to do," Kate said. She opened the door and, before leaving, turned around to face Mai again, "Mai, do you think Henry is a good man?"
Mai was caught off guard by such a heavy question.
She wasn’t close to Mr. Grant. They only kept everything strictly professional. They were nothing but a boss and secretary.
But Mai noticed that Mr. Grant was so different when Kate was around him.
When Kate wasn’t around, he was very serious, even downright intimidating. He was a no-nonsense type that got the job done. He was a professional despite so staff calling him a trust fund boy.
But when Kate was around, he beca an entirely different man.
Henry wasn’t as strict and intimidating around Kate. He could also not get any work done around her because he’d focus everything on her and her needs.
It might sound an, but Mai preferred to work with Mr. Grant when Mrs. Woods wasn’t around, solely because he got the job done much faster.
But that was also proof that Henry was hopelessly in love with Kate.
"Mai?"
"Um, I don’t know much about him, Ma’am," Mai replied. "I don’t know if he is a good man or not. "After all, for soone like Mr. Grant, he must be under so much pressure from his family. Who knows what happen behind closed door? But I know for sure that he is very much in love with you. It’s obvious from how he stares at you when you aren’t looking."
"And I know that he will treat you right if you give him a chance," Mai said.
"Give him a chance..."
That sentence stuck in her mind as she pondered, ’Did I ever give him a chance to talk? Or maybe I’ve been pushing him too much without a marriage and proposal agenda. That’s why he doesn’t get the right ti to tell everything?’
Kate wasn’t sure if she was in the wrong here, but Mai’s opinion was enough of a wake-up slap for her to care more about Henry and his condition.
He must’ve been under trendous pressure because of his family.
"Thanks, Mai. You’re such a great help."
"I am? What did I do?" Mai asked back, feeling that all she did was tell sothing that Mrs. Woods already knew.
"You told that I should give him a chance. So I will," Kate said. "I will give him a chance to prove he is a good man."
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