Chapter 647 She Dared Not Defy Joseph Any Longer
Nathan’s face sank. “I’m sorry.”
Ava had to stay in the hospital for observation, and Nathan needed to work. He went home to pick
up his laptop before heading back to the hospital to accompany her.
When no one was around, Ava sent a text to an unknown number. [Chloe has discovered my
identity. What should I do?]
The reply came swiftly. [What do Nathan and the others think?]
Ava replied, [Everyone else believes me.]
The response came, [Then there’s no need to panic.]
Joseph arrived home in the early hours of the morning. He had matters to handle at the Whitman Group, so he went to Docwood
after leaving the hospital. After resting briefly in the living room, he headed to the office for a meeting just as the sky began to
brighten.
After the meeting, Lucas brought breakfast and placed it on the coffee table. “Sir, please eat.”
There were two black circles around Joseph’s eyes, and he sounded weary as he said, “I’m fine.
Has Chloe contacted me?”
Lucas took out his phone and checked if there were any unread messages. However, there were
none. He shook his head slowly. “No...”
Joseph gazed at the ceiling above and said, “Yesterday, she insisted that Nathan’s fiancee is Ava,
her half-sister.”
“What? That’s impossible! They look nothing alike,” Lucas said.
He had met Amelia and could not find any resemblance between her and Ava.
“What if she had plastic surgery?” Joseph asked.
“Seriously?!” Lucas replied, his voice thick with disbelief. But after considering the current technology in the beauty industry, he
cautiously added, “Well, it’s not entirely impossible. Many people change their appearance drastically through plastic surgery...”
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Joseph took a deep breath. “Go to the prison and get some blood or hair samples from Karen
Fingernails will do too. Just get whatever you can.”
“Sir, are you planning to do a maternity DNA test between Karen and Mr. Nathan’s fiancee? Will he agree to it?”
“Who said we’re asking him? Just find the right timing to get what we need.”
“Okay.”
However, Joseph underestimated Nathan’s protectiveness over Amelia. He could not arrange a meeting with him for the next
half a month. He knew it was because Nathan was still upset about what happened.
In reality, Nathan’s protectiveness was not because of Amelia, but because of his lingering regret of losing Serenity who had died
in a car accident right before his eyes.
After returning from the hospital, Chloe became extremely obedient. She no longer sarcastically confronted Joseph and behaved
like an emotionless doll. He thought she had realized her mistakes and regretted her impulsive actions, so he planned to take
her out to brighten her mood.
But as Christmas approached, his work piled up. Numerous tasks from Docwood and Aesper that required his attention came
knocking. He was so busy that he had to put the matter regarding Amelia to the back of his mind.
On Christmas Day, Chloe found herself alone at the dining table, surrounded by a feast of dishes. As she looked at the empty
chairs around her, a self-deprecating smile tugged at her lips.
Time flew by, and three months passed in the blink of an eye. Xavia was about to give birth, and Chloe was nine months along.
The hospital determined Chloe’s due date to be on the tenth of the
next month.
In recent days, Chloe pretended to follow the prescribed schedule for the herbal medicine. As soon as the maid left, she secretly
poured the medicine into a flower pot. She did not dare to let her body recover fully, fearing that she might wake up one day to
find herself on the operating table.
On this particular afternoon, she had arranged to meet with Emily at Joseph’s house to share her plan with her. But before Emily
arrived, chaos erupted outside the house. It was as if more than a hundred people had flooded in at once, chattering incessantly
and creating a ruckus with their non-stop talking.