SWNOVELS Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Dante's POV.
There wasn't much that bothered me about pretty much any thing. The reality of
my life was that I was either too busy to worry about what ever was secondary
going on around me or I simply could not be bothered by any thing else enough
to show greater interest in it
But this was different.
After spending about over an hour with Sophia and her interesting daughter,
Hayley, some thing just did not sit right with me. The child bore no resemblance
to Adam Huxley what so ever and the bull shit excuse fed to me defending that
was just as laughable.
Sophia may have taken me for a fool but I was familiar with Adams family. Many
people were. They were influential in their time and managed to keep one of the
most profitable companies running. Adam's mother’s side possessed looks on
the lighter side. From the hair to the eye colour and even their features.
I tried to get a hold of Frederick. There were things that I needed him to find out
for me before 1 made a proper approach or confrontation but I was still waiting
for him to give me a call back.
“Dante, sweetheart.” The voice called me as it approached and I immediately
became irritated.
I was yet to confront her about the lies and deceit that she kept up for years. The
timing wasn't right and I needed to figure out bigger things at present.
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I reluctantly shifted my attention from the phone in my hand to find Pheobe stand
in front of my. sitting figure. The bright red wrap dress she wore used to be one of
my favourites until she started wearing it at every turn she could when we were
alone at home causing it lose its luster.
“There you are. I thought you'd left already. She settled herself in my lap and I
quickly turned my phone over and gently placed it to my thigh.
“My mother called last night when you were out on your meeting. She thinks that
we should have dinner this weekend at the Lamshire estate.” Phoebe pressed
her I*ps against my jaw and I resisted. the urge to turn away.
“You can go if you'd life. I don't think I'll make it.” I responded not being able to
keep the impatience out of my tone.
Her eyes immediately stared me up and down before her I*ps contorted in to a
disapproving line. Here we go.
“Now that is unfair. You don't ever attend any gatherings with my family! She
whined but her eyes. were slanted in a fiesty angle.
“Exactly so they won't be disappointed when they know that I can’t make it to this
one, too.” Pheobe’s family were not people I liked being around.
They pretended to be sophisticated around me but I knew better. Her father was
known to be an avid gambler that was so engrossed in his filthy habit that he
thought nothing to gamble away his
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entire lifes earnings until he had become a pauper. As for her mother, the woman
looked at me as if I was a walking gold mine. Their pretense was feeble and I
could see right through it, more clearly so, now that I knew the truth.
“You are being such a brute recently and I have some idea as to why that is.” She
leaned away from me until she was at the edge of my knee.
“It is just work, Pheobe. Things are changing and require my full attention. I
simply have no time at present to relish in social gatherings when I could occupy
myself with more beneficial matters.” I tried to diffuse the situation before she ran
with her wild assumption.
Knowing Pheobe, Sophia was already a problem in her mind. Regardless of what
I did, she would use her as the reason should it not be favourable for her.
“And these changes don’t have anything to do with the reappearance of your ex—
wife frolicking about in the arms on Adam Huxley?” My jaw tightened
immediately, almost like an instinct that was triggered by the imagery her words
illicited.
My hands gripped the side of her waist and moved her until she was of of me and
back on to her
feet.
“I will see you in the evening, Pheobe.” I muttered sternly before leaving the living
room and house. altogether.
My phone buzzed just before I reached my car and I looked at it to see an
incoming call from Frederick. We agreed to meet at his offices in about thirty
minutes and I didn’t make any other stops. instead, I went straight to him.
His office was nothing fancy let alone up to date with modern interior and colour
schemes and, had I not known first hand how good he was at what he did, I
wouldn't have even considered his services at all based on his location.
The chair beneath my weight creaked but it felt secure. There was no desk but a
medium sized coffee table between where he had sat and I. I didn’t care if it got
me the answers I was looking for.
“I hadn't been expecting to see you so soon again, Mr Crawford.” He crossed his
one leg over the opposite knee.
“I need to know if you have any more information about Sophia's daughter? Any
DNA samples or paternity proof. I clarified cutting right to it.
I didn’t come here to waste any time and I didn’t want my time to be wasted.
Frederick looked at me blankly before shaking his head. “That is information I
don’t have access to because those are documents that do not exist for me to
get my hands on.” He explained but I didn’t want to hear it.
“Well, I need it and I want you to get it for me. I'll pay you double what I normally
do.” His brows lifted knowing that was a hefty sum but they fell slowly and back
on to place.
“Tempting as that is, I can’t do it. Unless I have access to the child or Sophia
actually agrees to a paternity test, I'm afraid I can’t do a thing for you in this
regard.” He said with finality not event
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giving me any hope.
I swore under my breath before running a hand through my hair. I couldn't ask
Sophia for a paternity test urider the current circumstances. She wouldn't agree
and it would be a challenging ordeal trying to request such a thing with no
evidence or reasoning.
“Unless...” Frederick rose from his chair and paced the boundaries of the carpet.
“What?” I persisted.
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He stopped pacing and tapped his
fingers against his cleanly shaven
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jaw. “Unless you br Me some Sort
ose kid. I could
run the necessary tests and you
Seay
would have an answer. Frederick's
I*ps spread in to a satisfied smile,
proud at what he had just thought of
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“It could be hair or saliva.” He spoke and I knew that I needed to force another
encounter which could p
get me close enough to Hayley for me to get a sample.
“I think hair would be easier to retract.” He suggested but I already blocked him
out.
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Barging in to her home may not be
the easiest of tasks yet again. Sophia
was protective of bd gapghten and it
MESEIRED HidEsh did not want me
any where near the kid but something
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didn’t sit right with me. If Adam was
not the father based on genetical
appearance, then who the hell is? The
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Did Sophia have more than just one lover during the time we had been married?
Is that the reason. why it was so easy for her to walk away and leave me all
these years ago?
My hands balled in to fists and I sprung up and out of the chair. I needed to think
of some thing. I needed to get that DNA sample to prove just who Sophia had
thought she was toying with.
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Regardless of my refusal to attend
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dinner with Pheobe’s family this
weekend, I might fred make Use of
oe (dggamna terest and like in
chocolate as mine. I knew the owner
of a luxury chocolate store and
securing a private tour and tasting
would be a piece of cake. The
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I hopped in to my car and immediately worked on setting up the plan for this
weekend. Sophia will
be furious but I can handle her. As
for the kid, she was fond of me in an acquaintance level way and that was
enough.
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