“You’re right! The world is such a small place!”
Robyn nodded. “Not only that, but since they’re cousins by marriage, she’s also related to the man you saved last night.
I think his name is…”
Bethan’s heart leaped to her throat when she heard this.
She had committed a foolish mistake. She would have never mentioned Gwen’s name if only she had known John was the man who had rescued Gwen’s father!
They were so close to blowing their cover!
At the thought of this, she could not help glancing at Tara with a frown.
Tara was also at fault. If she had come clean about John and Andy earlier, Bethan would not have revealed so much information to Robyn accidentally!
It was too late; she already revealed the identity of the man whom John had saved to Robyn.
All she could hope for was that Robyn misheard or could not remember Gwen and Andy’s names properly.
“I can’t remember, but his surname is Lar…Lar…something?”
Robyn furrowed her brow in concentration.
John could not help chuckling as he watched her struggle with her memory. “It’s okay if you don’t remember. It doesn’t really matter anyway.”
Bethan let out a sigh of relief. Thank God John did not seem too bothered to know Andy’s name.
“I’ve got it!”
Robyn exclaimed all of a sudden. “I don’t know the man’s name, but I remember the name of the man’s daughter!”
John raised his brow at her. “What’s her name, then?”
Bethan’s breath caught in her throat.
If John found out Gwen was also in Sharnwick City, everything would be ruined!
Tara closed her eyes as a chill ran down her spine.
If John were to find out about everything. Brettley and Luke would be furious, and she would have a hard time explaining herself. They would surely blame her for messing everything up, and she would get in trouble with her father, too…
At the thought of this, Tara felt like she was about to burst into tears.
“Andie Larson!”
Robyn exclaimed.
Tara and Bethan both froze.
John, too, froze in shock when he heard this. “Andie Larson? ” he repeated with a frown. “Why does it sound like a man’s name?”
“No, it doesn’t.”
Tara pursed her lips. “A-n-d-i-e, probably. I think maybe it’s short for something else. Yes, that’s her name. I’m sure of it! I remember them saying this!”
Tara, with her eyes still fixated on the two people in the room, inched closer to Bethan and whispered, Does John… know Gwen’s father’s name?”
Bethan shook her head. “I don’t think so.”
John was from Banyan City, whereas Andy and Gwen lived in Sea City their whole lives. Thus, John was not too close to Gwen and probably did not know her father’s name.
“Well, you should probably get something ready,”
John said to Robyn. “Once I can start walking again, we should go visit this Andie woman and thank her. Although she’s given us money in return for saving her father, we should still thank her in person and visit her father, too, as a sign of respect.”
Bethan furrowed her brow when she heard this.
She would have to keep Gwen out of sight when John visited them. At the same time, she had to get someone else to impersonate this so-called Andie Larson’.
At the thought of this, Bethan sighed and glanced meaningfully at Tara.
Tara nodded in understanding, then turned and walked back toward the elevator with Bethan.
As the doors shut, Tara sighed and said in a rather exhausted tone, “Thank God Robyn’s memory failed her. Otherwise, all our plans would be ruined.”
Bethan nodded. Then, she glanced at Tara and asked, “By the way, how did John even end up with Gwen’s father in the first place?’
Andy had been brought to Sharnwick City by Tyson’s men, who kidnapped him. How did John end up kept in the same room as Andy and even took a bullet for him?
Did John also get kidnapped by the same people somehow? If so, why did they do this?
At the mention of this, Tara sighed and began to explain,”
Well, here’s what happened. Last night, held hostage in an apartment complex, so our men searched every unit in an attempt to find him.
“However, since we were conducting the search in the middle of the night and would severely inconvenience the residents, we offered all of the residents some money to compensate for their trouble.
“Although we’re only offering ten thousand dollars, this is still a substantial amount to most of the residents there, and they were delighted by this. John just so happens to live in the apartment complex right across. He and some of the other residents overheard this news and snuck into some of the empty units, trying to pass off as residents to get the money.
“Unfortunately for him, he just so happened to sneak right into the unit Andy was imprisoned in.”
Bethan was so stunned by this that she fell silent.
She was not so much surprised by Tara’s generosity in offering so much money to the residents of the apartment complex, but…
She could not believe John would do something like this for money.
One could argue that 10000 dollars was a hefty sum, but from what Bethan remembered, John was never a greedy person. He would never have resorted to such desperate measures for money.
She always thought he was just stingy and egoistic, but after witnessing John’s determination to start his company and refusal to receive help from other people, including the connections that Anne had to offer, she understood that
John was just a hardworking and down-to-earth man.
He had principles that he lived by, and someone like this would never attempt to cheat their way into 10000 dollars unless they were truly desperate.
“Well, we can’t blame him for doing this.”
Tara shrugged when she saw the look on Bethan’s face. “He’s certainly having a hard time right now. Not only does he have a child to feed, but there’s someone gravely ill relying on him too. From what I found, he had spent all of his savings on medical bills, and now, he’s barely scraping a living.1′ This shocked Bethan. “Who’s ill?”
“Yes, there is.”
Tara remained silent for a while, but eventually decided she shouldn’t keep it from John. “The girl we just bumped into, Robyn… she was adopted by John’s parents in the past.”
Bethan frowned and paused for a moment before nodding. “I know.”
When Anne married, she told her about John’s family. During his childhood, John’s elderly parents adopted a little girl. Her biological family, however, took her away when she was in her teens, and she never returned. Even after John’s elderly parents died, this daughter never returned.
Anne had previously lamented that John’s parents were good people who had adopted an ungrateful daughter. She ignored her adoptive parents as soon as she returned to her wealthy family.
“I’ve investigated the information about Robyn from when she was with John’s family,”
Tara sighed. ‘ Robyn comes from a prominent family in Sharnwick City; she is the Hughes family’s daughter.”
“When she was young, an accident switched her with the nanny’s daughter. The nanny’s daughter was treated as the Hughes family’s heiress, and she was abandoned in Banyan City.”
“Later, she was picked up by the Young family and raised by them.”
“For some reason, when she was around fourteen or fifteen, the Hughes family discovered that the heiress they had was an imposter and brought her back.”
“However, when Robyn returned to Sharnwick City, her life was no easier. Her family had lavished love on the girl named Abby for over a decade, and despite the fact that she was their biological child, there was no way they could give her more.”
“A year later, after the grandmother who had advocated for bringing Robyn back to Sharnwick City passed away, Robyn was kicked out of the Hughes family and forced to live on her own.”
Tara couldn’t help but think after she finished her explanation, “When Robyn was kicked out of the Hughes family, she was only fifteen or sixteen, with no source of income.”
She could only rely on the assistance of others in society.”
Bethan’s heart sank slightly as she heard the woman’s words.
It’s no surprise Robyn hasn’t kept in touch with the Youngs for so long. Perhaps she didn’t want the Youngs to feel sorry for her. Furthermore, Robyn was fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, with no financial means, and she would not have been able to travel hundreds of kilometers back to Banyan City on her own.
Bethan’s preconceived notions about Robyn gradually faded as she reflected on this.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.