The Amazing Strike Back: Mommy Wants To Revenge!-Chapter 464: No Connection Whatsoever

"Miss Thornton! Anna! Wait a moment!"

Anna Thornton didn’t want to wait, but Marvin Hawthorne insisted on catching up.

She had to stop, trying to avoid making it seem like she and Marvin Hawthorne were in a ’chase and be chased’ situation.

"Uncle Hawthorne, I’m really impressed with you!"

"Since that’s the case, can you listen to a couple more words from me?" Marvin Hawthorne gestured with two fingers, fearing that Anna Thornton would refuse, and kept talking, "Conrad is in great danger right now, be careful of those people from the Ford and Willow Families. I heard he’s good friends with Henry Willow, convey to him not to consider people from the four families as true friends!"

"Why?" Anna Thornton couldn’t help but ask.

"Because many people in the world are like this: having done wicked deeds but not wanting their evil side to be exposed one day, to be unveiled and despised by everyone. So they will find every way to cover up their dirty past, even if it means killing to silence."

"Are you included among the people you mentioned?" Anna Thornton asked him.

"...Yes, including me."

"Then why do you persist in looking for me every day, obsessed with recognizing kinship with Conrad Sterling?"

Anna Thornton’s words made sense; if Conrad Sterling truly had a blood relationship with the Hawthorne Family, it would be unreasonable for only Marvin Hawthorne actively wanting him to recognize his ancestry.

After all, Conrad Sterling is wealthy!

And what is the Hawthorne Family lacking right now? It’s also money!

A bright golden leg is right in front of them, why don’t they grab it?

Clearly, there are things hidden in silence that cannot see the light, and no one wants to uncover them.

Otherwise, they might have done something particularly unforgivable to Conrad Sterling’s mother and son, and lack the face to acknowledge it.

Anna Thornton was just deducing from a logical standpoint, hoping Marvin Hawthorne would stop bothering her.

The latter lowered his head in disappointment, reflecting: "You’re right. Conrad must hate me very much; after all, it was my incompetence that left me unable to protect his mother back then."

Anna could see the genuine emotion in Marvin Hawthorne’s self-blame.

The worst is witnessing an elder with gray hair shedding tears!

Anna Thornton was a bit at a loss for what to do when Conrad Sterling’s phone call saved her.

"Are you with the Hawthorne?"

Anna Thornton looked at Marvin Hawthorne, who was quietly wiping his tears in front of her, and nodded ’yes,’ indeed it was the Hawthorne.

"Tell him, I’m willing to meet him. But tell him to stop bothering you and to leave immediately."

"Ah..." How was Anna Thornton supposed to convey that?

Although she hadn’t intended to become a daughter-in-law of the Hawthorne Family, Marvin Hawthorne was older than Anna Thornton’s father after all, she feared that saying ’leave’ directly would bring bad luck.

She translated Conrad Sterling’s meaning diplomatically, and Marvin Hawthorne, upon hearing Conrad was willing to meet him, happily put everything else aside, without minding anything else.

Anna Thornton couldn’t feel at ease; she went to the hospital with Marvin Hawthorne.

When meeting Conrad Sterling again, Marvin Hawthorne looked even more nervous than last time.

"Conrad, no, President Sterling... Did Anna tell you what I wanted to say?"

"I didn’t say anything," Anna Thornton interjected from behind him.

Conrad Sterling remained silent, waiting for Marvin Hawthorne to speak himself.

The atmosphere made the middle-aged man over fifty unable to decide whether to stand or sit.

"Conrad, I want to talk to you about your lineage. Actually, I..."

"Let’s do a paternity test first; we’ll talk after the results come out."

Marvin Hawthorne finally gathered his courage, yet Conrad Sterling directly interrupted him.

Marvin Hawthorne had no choice but to nod awkwardly: "Okay, that’s necessary."

To be honest, Anna Thornton couldn’t see any likeness between Conrad Sterling and Marvin Hawthorne standing together that suggested they might be father and son.

Whether or not there’s a blood relationship, after all, two strangers over twenty years, it’s hard to get to know and be close to one another overnight.

Once they finish the paternity test, providing them with sufficient reason to enhance his relationship with Conrad might make it better, Marvin Hawthorne thought!

On the night the paternity test was done, it would take at least three days to get the results.

Marvin Hawthorne returned home to wait for the news.

And Anna Thornton certainly had to leave!

Leaving a certain president who needed to pretend to be sick alone in the hospital ward to ’nurture his injuries,’ feeling the night’s solitude and loneliness.

Night deepens—

Anna Thornton already put her two little ones to sleep and was sleeping well in her own room.

Suddenly, she felt shortness of breath, as if her waist and abdomen were tightly bound.

Shocked awake, Anna Thornton turned on the bedside lamp and discovered someone was tightly holding her from behind.

In the middle of the night, such an occurrence would startle the soul out of anyone slightly timid.

Though Anna Thornton was very afraid of ghosts, Conrad Sterling had her courage trained to boldness.

Calmly, she yawned, rubbed her eyes, and indeed saw that it was that man.

"Conrad Sterling, why did you come back from the hospital?"

"Anna, I can’t sleep!"

You said you couldn’t sleep, then you couldn’t sleep; why bother to come back all the way from the hospital and wake others up?

Anna Thornton suspected Conrad Sterling purely wanted to retaliate against society.

However, with her eyes clear, she could see deep sadness on Conrad Sterling’s face.

Anna Thornton swallowed back her critique.

"Is it because you met Marvin Hawthorne today?" Anna Thornton asked.

Conrad Sterling had promised not to hide anything from Anna Thornton; he nodded: "Yes."

"Are you really father and son with him?"

"No, there’s no connection whatsoever," Conrad Sterling assured her.

Actually, a paternity test wasn’t necessary at all!

Conrad Sterling had always clearly known he had no relation to Marvin Hawthorne.

However, he never said it outright.

Maybe Marvin Hawthorne seeing the hexagram on Conrad Sterling’s chest was orchestrated by the latter.

"I thought so!" Anna Thornton remembered Aunt Murray mentioned Conrad Sterling’s biological father was a scientist.

How suddenly did Marvin Hawthorne pop out to recognize a son?

Though the birthmark is real, the biography need not be.

Actually, Anna Thornton still doesn’t know Conrad Sterling’s exact lineage, despite the man’s promise to tell her.

Yet, Anna Thornton didn’t ask.

The reason is simple, nobody likes having their wounds unraveled.

Take Anna Thornton herself: she admitted the fact of having an unwed child.

But she detests journalists always trying to imply during interviews, attempting to unearth about her past, and matters concerning the child.

Nevertheless, Conrad Sterling had insomnia tonight, and seemed eager to share.

"Anna, do you want to know about me?"

"No!"

"..."

How to suffocate a conversation in one sentence, thus ending the topic!

But seeing him quite disappointed, Anna Thornton joked: "You’re not about to say you’re an inspirational young lad from a small fishing village?"

"This time I’ll be more specific."

"How specific?"

"Starting from one person... about my mother."

Anna Thornton remembered Aunt Murray mentioned Conrad Sterling’s mother was a remarkably beautiful and gentle woman.

Anna Thornton had tried to imagine, but she couldn’t picture it.

Because that personality entirely opposed Conrad Sterling’s nature.

"Her name was Mercy Sterling!"

"And then?"

"She was harmed to death by beasts from the elder generation of the four families, along with all the men around her. This includes me!"