Chapter 420: Chapter 420

But Mrs. Hawthorne still remembers the scene when Alisa was taken away by those men. She didn’t dare to openly cause trouble for Paige Sterling, but she managed to bring some to Paige’s door.

Mrs. Hawthorne brought back a female servant, Nanny Sawyer, who had been caring for her before.

Nanny Sawyer previously worked for the Upton Family. She watched Mrs. Hawthorne grow up and was said to regard Mrs. Hawthorne as her own daughter, having no children of her own.

So when Mrs. Hawthorne married into The Hawthorne Family, she brought Nanny Sawyer along. Later, when Mrs. Hawthorne went abroad, Nanny Sawyer followed her, remaining loyal all these years.

However, after Mrs. Hawthorne returned to the country, Nanny Sawyer didn’t follow her back this time. It was only after Mrs. Hawthorne made a special phone call that she returned.

Mrs. Hawthorne arranged for Nanny Sawyer to be placed with Paige Sterling and Julian Hawthorne, on the pretext that both of them were busy with work and couldn’t take care of themselves, thus assigning Nanny Sawyer as a housekeeper at Silverstream Bay to look after them.

Julian Hawthorne refused, citing that they had domestic robots at home, but Mrs. Hawthorne countered by saying that robots couldn’t care as attentively as a human could.

Julian Hawthorne’s face immediately darkened; he and Paige Sterling were doing well, why insist on placing a ticking time bomb by his side? Did he have nothing better to do?

Seeing Julian Hawthorne react this way, Mrs. Hawthorne’s expression also turned sour.

"As your mother, I’m wholeheartedly concerned for you, yet you show no gratitude? What, do you think I’m sending Nanny Sawyer to harm you both?"

Julian Hawthorne’s expression remained indifferent, "You should know in your heart whether you’re truly doing this for us."

Mrs. Hawthorne looked angrily at Julian Hawthorne; even if she no longer treated Julian as her son, she couldn’t tolerate Julian dismissing her as his mother or disrespecting her.

She was indeed double-standard, wanting everything without putting anything in, yet demanding everything she was entitled to, even things she wasn’t.

And her justification for demanding all of this was simply that she was Julian Hawthorne’s mother, the lady of The Hawthorne Family.

Seeing the relationship between his older brother and mother heading toward a collapse once again, Simon Hawthorne quickly intervened.

"Big brother, Mom is just concerned for you and sister-in-law. Nanny Sawyer has been with her for so many years, and she specially called her back to take care of you. Why don’t you just take Nanny Sawyer and avoid making Mom angry..."

Ah, he’s forever caught between his biological mom and brother, hardly fortunate.

Julian Hawthorne chuckled coldly, "Concerned for me? Ms. Upton, you want me to reveal all that you’ve done?"

Mrs. Hawthorne’s face froze, "How dare you!"

Julian Hawthorne looked at Simon Hawthorne, "Do you know why our father died?"

Simon Hawthorne appeared puzzled, "Didn’t Dad die in a car accident?"

Julian Hawthorne smiled, "It was indeed a car accident, but..."

Mrs. Hawthorne panicked and shouted, "Shut up! Shut up! You’re not allowed to speak!"

If Simon Hawthorne came to know what she had done in the past, if he discovered the cause of his father’s death, even this only son who still showed her affection would abandon her...

Previously, Mrs. Hawthorne only had revenge in her eyes, so she didn’t care about losing everything.

But now, facing real loss, she was scared. She couldn’t bear losing anything more.

Simon Hawthorne was the only person she could hold on to; she couldn’t allow Julian Hawthorne to ruin the relationship between her and her son.

"You unfilial child, you can’t stand seeing me do well, can you? You wish to destroy everything I have, don’t you?"

Julian Hawthorne merely looked serenely at the agitated Mrs. Hawthorne.

Simon Hawthorne quelled the uncertainty in his heart and quickly comforted Mrs. Hawthorne, "Mom, big brother didn’t mean that. Don’t be angry, calm down..."

Nanny Sawyer also advised from the side, "Young master, after all, the madam is your birth mother. Isn’t your treatment of the madam too excessive? Aren’t you afraid of being blamed if this spreads?"

Julian Hawthorne’s icy gaze fell upon Nanny Sawyer, startling her.

Nanny Sawyer turned to Paige Sterling, "Young madam, aren’t you going to persuade the young master? He used to be filial to the madam, but after you married into The Hawthorne Family, the young master’s attitude toward the madam changed. If word gets out, others might say you’re being unreasonable and stirring trouble."

Paige Sterling smiled and said to Nanny Sawyer, "You’re right."

Then she looked at Mrs. Hawthorne, whose face was livid with anger, and said: "Isn’t Auntie just wanting Nanny Sawyer to take care of us? We’ll listen to you."

Mrs. Hawthorne was momentarily stunned, looking at Paige Sterling.

Julian Hawthorne gazed at her disapprovingly, but Paige Sterling squeezed his hand and said: "Auntie’s already thought about it for us so thoroughly. If we reject her goodwill, she’ll be upset, and others might say we’re ungrateful as juniors."

Seeing Paige Sterling suddenly become so understanding and indeed taking Nanny Sawyer away, Mrs. Hawthorne instead felt uneasy.

What’s Paige Sterling planning now?

But thinking that Nanny Sawyer was so astute, surely Paige Sterling wouldn’t be her match, Mrs. Hawthorne calmed down.

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At night, Julian Hawthorne asked Paige Sterling, "What are you planning?"

Paige just wanted to avoid confrontations with Mrs. Hawthorne, so accepting Nanny Sawyer as a housekeeper suddenly was clearly not just to avoid rejecting Mrs. Hawthorne’s kindness.

Paige lay on the bed, facing Julian Hawthorne.

"You previously visited the neighboring province to investigate Ms. Upton’s first love, didn’t you find his parents were divorced?"

Julian Hawthorne responded, "His father died when he was seven or eight years old; his mother hasn’t appeared since the divorce."

"Why did his parents divorce?"

"It was said his mother had relations with another man, and when his father caught them together, he couldn’t end things with the other."

However, Julian Hawthorne wasn’t sure this had any relevance. He leaned towards Paige Sterling, nose to nose with her.

Paige Sterling touched Julian Hawthorne’s ear, smiled, and said: "Previously, I heard Dora Upton talking about one thing."

Paige said: "She mentioned Auntie treasured a small box, often holding it for an entire day. Later, she inadvertently found the box contained two intertwined locks of hair. It was said that woven hair symbolizes a couple’s unfaltering love. Among those two locks, one should belong to that first love, right?"

Julian Hawthorne held her waist, focused entirely on Paige Sterling, not wanting to think, simply asking, "And then?"

Paige said: "Then, when Auntie wasn’t paying attention, I took a few strands of hair from the small box. I previously thought these strands were useless, but when I saw Nanny Sawyer today, and scanned her face with an image detector, I noticed her face had a fifty percent resemblance to Ms. Upton’s first love. It’s impossible for such coincidence to exist; someone around Ms. Upton having such high facial resemblance to her first love suggests they might be relatives. Given your investigation findings, and extracting some details about Nanny Sawyer from Ms. Upton, I suspected Nanny Sawyer might be the mother of the social youth. Just now, I took a hair sample from Nanny Sawyer and detected it using a DNA analyzer. Nanny Sawyer’s DNA matches ninety-nine percent with the strands from the box; they are indeed mother and son."

It means that social youth is Nanny Sawyer’s biological son.

Originally, without this connection, Mrs. Hawthorne being with a social youth and even going mad for him, torturing her son, could have simply been perceived as her being madly in love.