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Let's Get Married novel Chapter 375

As Lily crouches down to hold him, Adair jumps into her arms. If it wasn’t for Rex, she would have fallen onto the ground.

Adair has never been a child who cries, but now he can’t help but sob in her arms. “Mom, I missed you so much.”

His soft voice filled with fear and grief is like a dagger through Lily’s heart. She raises her hand to dry his tears, “Don’t cry. Don’t cry, mom is here to pick you up.”

Adair isn’t a child who makes trouble, and soon he stops crying. When he raises his hand and touches his little face, Lily notices a band aid on his thumb.

“What happened? Did you get hurt?” she asks as she clutches his hand tenderly.

Hearing this, Rex frowns and leans over. But this time, Adair, who has never shown guard against him, shuns his touch and hides himself in Lily’s arms. “Father’s Grandmother and Grandfather pricked it.” He says in a low voice.

Lily’s tenderness caused by seeing her child becomes harder again upon hearing the sentence. Her eyes are red and she blows on his finger. “Mom is here. Don’t be afraid.”

Adair doesn’t want her to worry, and cleverly shakes his head. “Mom, I’m okay.”

Lily stands up and holds her child against her. She doesn’t want to get entangled with Rex’s family, but what she’d just seen and heard is as if a bucket of gasoline that has been poured over her, setting everything on fire.

She isn’t an uneducated person, but now it is obvious that all reason has evaded her. “Who pricked him?”

Listening to her, the old couple looks at each other. Deep in their eyes one can see the presence of a guilty conscience and a lack of confidence. After two seconds of silence, Rex’s grandfather coughs, “It was done by a family doctor. When the child was brought here, we had to confirm it.”

His answer isn’t what Lily expects.

Family Doctor, confirm, pricking his finger.

By using their brains one can see what is going one once you put these words together. It is a paternity test. They were not sure if the child is Rex’ or not. So they did a DNA test.

Lily’s eyes widen as she tries to control her strength so she doesn’t hurt her child. “You…did it in front of the child?” she asks, suddenly feeling flustered, fearing that Adair will now know who his father is without any precaution. She also feels afraid that he will not accept it, and that it will leave an indelible impact on his young mind.

“Isn’t this normal? We can’t just randomly have outsiders claim that they’ve given birth to a child of our family. But if he’s really our offspring, then we will bring him back.” Rex’s grandfather doesn’t know if it is the guilt that is making his voice so high.

“But in the end, we saw that the child is indeed yours and Rex’. Afterwards he’s our descendant.”

This sentence undoubtedly causes an explosion in Lily’s heart. She can’t imagine that the patriarch of Rex’s Family, who is also a cultured man, would say and do things like this.

Over the past five years, she’s been very careful with her relationships, but Rex’s grandfather presented through those relationships and feelings in front of her child, forcing him to accept and face it.

Lily looks down at Adair, who is also looking up at her. Their eyes meet in the air. She can clearly see the loss and cowardice in the child’s eyes.

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