The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me

"You... How do you know it?"

After a long time, Joey got her mind. She asked and quivered in a flurry.

"Remember that day when I confessed you and you refused me with some words. Those words were too strange and intriguing. What's more, every time Vivian appeared, you looked quite different and so did Vivian. I don't know what happened between you two people. Out of curiosity, I asked someone to look for some information. I was startled at knowing the truth. Vivian turned out to be your sister but she completely wiped out your presence towards my mother. She told lies about age and pretended to be you."

As Martin was speaking, his eyes were burning with anger. He was too furious as being cheated.

Martin hated Vivian at the beginning with no reasons. Maybe he just couldn't bear it to see her.

He wouldn't have been so patient with her if she didn't have relationship with his mom.

Now Martin knew that Vivian was a fake. He was both furious and glad. But at the same time, he had a mixed feeling about the fact that Joey was his halfblooded sister.

After listening to Martin, Joey nodded convincingly. The way in which Vivian pretended to be her had lots of loopholes. So she could check out the truth easily and so did observant person such as Martin.

After pondering for a moment, Joey said, "I won't be surprised as you find out the truth. All of the observant people can find it out. But... Why are you so sure that I have blood relationship with Allen? Does your mother tell you that her elder daughter's father is George?" Joey didn't believe Samantha would tell it to Martin as it was the toughest past Samantha wanted to bury. She didn't want to tell her beloved son, Martin, most. So Joey felt sure that Samantha had never told it. Then, the only possibility was that Martin was cheating her! Martin shook his head. He had always been clever that he had known Joey's mind from her speech.

"Just give up struggling. I can tell you with certainty that I'm not cheating you. I have proofs. My mother has never talked about uncle in front of me. Oh. I should call him George directly. Everything has its own clues. One day I was in my mother's bedroom and found a lane which was full of tobacco and illegal tools for making cigarettes. And I found a lot of pictures which George was in. From the perspective of photos, I could figure out that they were taken secretly. Then there was also news, newspapers and so on concerning Allen."

"After seeing these stuffs, I will be really stupid if I still can't guess some key questions. But my doubt may not be the truth. In order to figure it out, I have quietly collected you and George's personal belongings. I take them to verify DNA. The result reveals that the similarity is as high as 99.9%! If you still don't believe me, I can show you the reports. Or you can go and check it out by yourself."

Hearing it, Joey only felt her brain buzzing and her face turned pale. She feebly leaned onto the wall in the corridor.

Although she hid in the closet on that day and heard the truth, she had kept the last glimmer of hope for a long time. She found many reasons in her mind. Maybe that truth was the way Samantha wanted to revenge. Or her father was another man so that she had no blood relationship with Allen. With the last hope, she had never taken his personal belonging to verify DNA because she was afraid of the truth as Martin had said.

However, Martin did what Joey didn't want to do. Her last hope was completely shattered.

Seeing Joey getting pale without any words, Martin continued, "I was not sure whether you knew Allen is your brother. I actually cheated you when asking you before. But I looked at your face and found that you have already known it. In that case, why do you continue to make mistakes? Don't you know what exposure might be when the truth is revealed to the public?"

Listening to Martin's persuasion, Joey slowly lifted her eyes. Her eyes slowly turned into a kind of resolution. She said, "Well. I've already known it early but I ... I really can't help thinking of Allen. And now he is likely to face the biggest blow in his life. He can't leave me and I also can't lose him. Only you and I know it. As long as you don't tell anyone, no one else will know. Just keep it secret, please."

Speaking till the end, Joey was almost pleading.

Joey had never kept a low file since she came back from foreign countries. It was worthwhile for her to withdraw pride for someone or something.☐☐☐☐