Chapter 285 – Ch. 285 His Father’s Secret
"Good evening, Mr. Gonzalez. Nice to et you at last," greeted Declan in a polite tone, and he felt himself a little awkward, but he hid his awkwardness well.
"Why with the formalities? Have you eaten? I just told my head cook to prepare our dinner." replied Mr. Gonzales while inviting Declan to sit with him.
Declan complied, and he couldn't help but find himself imrsed in his father's self-assurance.
Back when he spent ti with his father, the older man seed very high-reaching, and sotis he felt he would never be able to reach his father's hand.
He greatly admired his father and obeyed everything his father said. Declan was even willing to follow his father whenever he invited him to go out with him.
Declan felt amused at how the feelings he once had are now returning to him.
He still admires his father, especially seeing how successful his father was, and beca a victorious person even the na Dario Gonzales spread throughout this country.
Only a few people could move Declan's heart, which was filled with great ambition and strong will. The only person he respected was his adoptive father, and he was willing to do what his adoptive father said as long as it didn't interfere with his golden rule of life.
And now… he feels the sa way toward his biological father.
"Is it just , or is the mood becoming awkward?"
Declan smiled faintly at Dario Gonzales' question. "That makes two of us. Frankly speaking, I don't know what to do or say at a ti like this."
Mr. Gonzales chuckled in amusent in response to his son's comnt. "So you already know who I am?"
"It's not hard to tell by the resemblance of our faces."
"That's undeniable, isn't it? How are you doing?"
"As you can see, I'm doing great, but… now that I see you, I feel much more than great."
Dario Gonzalez's smile widened at that. "My, ti flies so fast, and just you've grown without noticing it. It felt like only yesterday you sat on my lap while I was doing a story-telling."
Declan smiled at that and wished his father didn't ntion his embarrassing mont.
"Not to ntion, you don't have to raise your head, and I don't have to crouch down to talk. Now we can talk one-on-one with the sa eye-level."
"You're right."
"I'm sorry."
Declan was a little surprised to hear his father's apology. Why did the older man suddenly apologize?
"I'm sorry for not preventing your mother from taking you away. And I'm sorry that I haven't been looking for you all this ti. Believe it or not, I was looking for you, and by the ti I found you, you were already under the Black's wing."
"…" Declan didn't expect his father to have found him all this ti, but the man didn't contact him at all.
"I thought you were a lot safer and happier with the Blacks, so I let it go."
"Safer? What threat of danger will haunt if I return to your side?"
"You want to co back to my side?"
Declan felt the older man in front of him was paving a trap and waiting for him to enter the web. Since he was no longer a child who always listened to his father's words, Declan knew his father would not treat him like he used to.
"You want back?" was his counter-back question made Dario Gonzales laugh.
"Didn't you ask why I wanted to see you now?"
"For missing ?" ca his overconfident response made Dario Gonzales blink his eyes before finally laughing out loud.
"You are really my boy. You've never changed." Dario rembered that his son likes to boast about himself.
'I wonder why I was born as a handso and adorable child. It turns out that I inherited my father's good looks!'
"You rember you said that when you were little?"
Declan cleared his throat in awkwardness. "I do not rember." lied Declan. "Why do you even rember it? You should have forgotten about it."
"Why? Are you embarrassed that you are now an adult?" teased Dario while holding back his amused laughter seeing his son feel like a child again.
"You haven't changed either. Still like to pull my leg and make cry."
"Ho? Are you still that crybaby?"
"No." was his short answer. "Ever since mother abandoned that day, I've forgotten how to cry." Declan continued in a serious tone.
Right. Declan had no longer shed tears since his mother dumped him in the orphanage.
Every ti he wanted to cry, he would sorsault and turn the source of his sadness into a focus on not falling. Since then, he didn't know if his tears had dried up or disappeared. Declan was no longer shedding tears.
"I'm so sorry to hear that. I know your mother left because she couldn't stand anymore. I know she doesn't want you to be influenced by my character and take you away. But I didn't expect she would leave you in an orphanage. She shouldn't have taken you away if she did that." Dario clicked his tongue in annoyance, and Declan detected hatred in his father's voice.
Did his father no longer love his mother?
Then whose photo is the woman displayed in the small photo fra? The picture fra looked clean and nice as if the owner took great care of it.
Declan glanced at the small fra he had been looking at curiously. Who is that girl?
"Didn't you say earlier that I found sothing you were hiding? Did you an that photo?"
Dario also turned towards what Declan was looking at.
"If you wanted to hide it, you shouldn't have put it there or had your head servant lead here. It seed to that you wanted to find your secret instead. Isn't that right?"
Dario flashed a crooked smile and turned to his son with a look of nace that Declan had never seen before.
"You are really my son. That's right. I want you to see it, just like when your mother found it."
Declan's brow furrowed at that.
"She was my first love, and I wished you could help to find her."
What? "Why should I?"
"Because she has sothing that belongs to ."
"What is it?"
"My daughter."
"!?"
"In other words, your half-sister."
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