Chapter 280: Chapter 280

In fact, the moment Anna saw Conrad Sterling, she already understood.

Holly Sutton indeed was no pushover. She just got out of the detention center and had already started snitching.

Earlier, outside the door, Holly voluntarily suggested going with the director to bring that child over to meet Anna Thornton.

Anna didn’t stop her, thinking to see what tricks she had up her sleeve and let her finish them all at once.

"By the way, Conrad Sterling, didn’t the doctor say you should be resting properly in the hospital bed for this period? If you go out , your wounds that have just healed might open up again."

"Are you worried about me?"

"I can’t be bothered to worry about you. Your body is your own business. What does it have to do with me? I’m just afraid you’ll harm yourself, stay long-term in Veridia, and make me take care of you. Please hurry up and find Ethan, I don’t have that much time next."

Anna complained about Conrad Sterling being hospitalized during this period, making her exhausted, but the man just smiled.

Anna couldn’t help but kick his foot: "Speak up!"

"Weren’t you hoping that child was still alive? I also want to come and see if that’s possible."

After sitting for a while, Holly Sutton finally returned to the VIP room with the director.

A small timid figure was hiding behind the director.

Seeing Conrad Sterling there, Holly cunningly curled her lips and deliberately stepped forward to emphasize loudly: "Anna, I’ve brought the child you gave birth to three years ago."

"President Sterling, you probably don’t know, do you? Anna is truly capable. At the age of eighteen, she ran off to fool around and got pregnant with a bastard of some random man, and even gave birth to the bastard. Look, this is the child!" Holly dragged the little guy hiding behind the director out, not pushing him towards Anna but directly in front of Conrad Sterling.

Perhaps Holly figured Anna was only able to stand up to her because of Conrad Sterling and that Conrad only liked Anna for her beauty.

As long as she destroyed the good impression Anna made on Conrad, making President Sterling abandon her, she saw a hope for her own release.

However, Holly probably never imagined that the ’random man’ she constantly mentioned sitting right in front of her was none other than Conrad Sterling.

And the so-called ’bastard’ was actually President Sterling’s child!

Anna wasn’t bothered by these unpleasant remarks and didn’t care to observe the reaction of Conrad being pointed at and called a random man.

Her gaze was fixed on the child brought in by the director.

Hmm... a bit chubbier than Anna had imagined, with a chubby, cute face, showing no similarities to her or Conrad Sterling.

The chubby little boy was quite shy, probably being his first time pushed in front of two strangers and stared at, mainly made nervous by Conrad Sterling’s overly imposing gaze, causing him to nervously suck his fingers.

This bad habit of sucking fingers was somewhat like Pop’s.

But unlike Pop, who didn’t suck his fingers , individually drooling all over his ten fingers, and then grinning foolishly.

"What’s going on here?" Anna asked the director.

"Uh... the chubby boy had a severe illness during infancy. The poor treatment environment at that time caused a cognitive impairment," the director explained.

Afraid Anna wouldn’t believe it, Holly interjected, "Because he was a difficult birth, his body is weaker and he often has fever and illnesses. But this is indeed the other child you gave birth to; if you don’t believe it, you can ask the director about the day the child was brought to the orphanage, whether it matches the day of your childbirth; I was the one who personally brought him."

"Yes, the chubby boy was indeed brought to the orphanage by Mrs. Thornton."

The director was an honest person, and Anna believed she wouldn’t lie.

The director also brought hospital records, proving that the chubby boy was indeed born on the day Anna gave birth, and he even shared the same blood type as Anna.

"Chubby, come, call Mommy!" the director taught him.

Although the chubby boy had cognitive issues, he could still say "Mommy."

The chubby boy looked at Anna with a silly smile, seemingly about to rush towards her and get her covered in drool and snot.

But when passing Conrad Sterling, he was blocked by President Sterling’s long legs.

Seeing President Sterling with a stern face, Holly thought it was his anger towards Anna and eagerly wanted to add fuel to the fire and stir the pot.

"President Sterling, I can’t bear to see you being deceived. Even if it means spending my lifetime in prison, I must seize today’s opportunity to reveal the truth. Anna’s indiscretions didn’t stop there; there was the former company’s legal advisor and her high school senior who had improper relations with her too, and she even brought them home." Orıginal content can be found at NoveI[F]ire.net

"She loved bringing men home, and that’s how she angered her father to the point of a stroke. Didn’t she ever tell you she was locked in a mental hospital by me? Yes, I restricted her freedom for a while, but it was for her own good. After she angered her father to death, she soon became pregnant, not knowing which man’s bastard it was. Isn’t this a sign of audacity without remorse? I confined her to teach her. Her father’s final wish was to raise Anna to be obedient and sensible."

"Being her stepmother wasn’t easy; fulfilling my late husband’s wishes was beyond my ability to manage Anna. Anna later severed ties with me, and there was no more news about her at home. Now meeting President Sterling, I believed Anna must appreciate a good man like you, one that’s hard to find. That’s why she slandered me for harming her father, turning white to black, to prevent you from seeing her true colors."

Holly Sutton was indeed turning black into white!

If Conrad Sterling weren’t exactly that random man, anyone else might have believed her story.

Not to mention others, seeing Holly make her performance so emotionally charged, Anna almost fell into the role of Holly portraying herself as a hard-done-by stepmother while casting herself as the rebellious teenager.

Thankfully, Conrad was firmer than her: "Have you said enough?"

"President Sterling..."

"Even if you haven’t, just shut up, you’re giving me a headache! Get out!"

Holly was driven out by Conrad Sterling, and the director looked around, wanting to take the chubby boy out.

However, the chubby boy was stopped by Conrad just now from going to hug Anna. So, he held onto Conrad’s long leg, smearing snot and saliva on President Sterling, still calling out "Mommy~"

To Conrad’s disdain, his face was filled with lines, he asked Anna: "You don’t really believe it, do you? Holly is playing us!"

Upon hearing this, Anna’s scrutinizing gaze shifted from Conrad back to the chubby boy hanging on his leg, then from the silly look of the crooked-nosed, cross-eyed little fellow back again.

"Before coming, I wasn’t quite convinced. But after meeting this child... I found you two quite similar."