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She quickly took the phone, found Joaquin’s number, pressed the call button, and then handed the phone back to Hayden.
“Sir Bowman, are you looking for me?”
Not long after, a man’s deep and magnetic voice suddenly reached Romina’s ears.
Hayden said sternly, “Come back immediately, I have something very important to ask you.”
“I have a meeting tonight. If you have something to say, just tell me over the phone.”
“No, you must come back… cough, cough…”
Hayden seemed to be getting angry, coughing repeatedly as he spoke.
Romina worried that this matter would affect Hayden’s recovery; at this moment, she absolutely couldn’t let him get upset.
Romina gave Joaquin a heads–up, speaking calmly: “Mr. Bowman, Grandpa already knows about Lina.”
As soon as she said this, the man on the other end fell silent for a
moment.
After a while, Joaquin’s deep voice came through: “Alright, I’ll come back right away.”
After his voice faded, Jericho, who was standing at the door, looked at Romina in disbelief.
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Every time Hayden asked Joaquin to come back, it usually took a lot of persuasion before he agreed.
But Romina had only said one sentence, and Joaquin agreed to return?
After ending the call, Romina continued tidying up the medicine box, without saying a word.
“Jericho, help me downstairs. I want to wait for him in the living room. Everyone is staying for dinner tonight; no one is leaving.”
Romina’s hand, holding the medical instruments, paused slightly.
Actually, that sentence was probably meant for her.
But Romina guessed that since Joaquin had said such a thing, he must have already come up with a plan; otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone along with admitting Lina was his daughter.
After arriving in the living room, Romina accompanied Hayden, waiting for Joaquin to return.
Half an hour later, the familiar sound of an engine came from outside
the door.
Accompanied by the sound of leather shoes, Romina slowly lifted her gaze and met those dazzling eyes.
After just a brief glance, the man quickly looked away, fixing his gaze on Hayden: “Who told you about this?”
Jericho, sitting beside Hayden, instinctively looked up.
Feeling Jericho’s intense gaze, Joaquin’s eyes suddenly darkened: “Was it you?”
He walked over to the sofa and sat down next to Romina.
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Seeing this scene, Jericho couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of discomfort.
After the man sat down, the corners of his long eyes lifted slightly, his gaze burning as he stared at Jericho across from him.
It seemed he was waiting for a reasonable explanation…
“It was me,” Jericho said seriously. “I heard your daughter was living at Breeze Vista, but that’s Romina’s place. Everyone knows that. She often brings the child in and out, which isn’t appropriate, so I told Grandpa.”
Seeing Joaquin remain silent, Jericho continued, “Rather than letting Grandpa hear gossip from outsiders, it’s better for family to tell him. What do you think, Joaquin?”
Romina shifted her gaze from Jericho’s face to Joaquin.
The man’s originally cold profile, under the warm light, appeared somewhat gentle.
His thin lips moved, curving into a captivating arc: “Is a goddaughter really worth all this fuss from your grandfather?”
“What?” Jericho’s eyes filled with disbelief. “Goddaughter?”
As soon as he said this, the heavy weight pressing on Romina’s heart finally eased.
It seemed he really had a plan all along.
Goddaughter.
Undoubtedly, it was the best solution to the current situation.
“What else could it be?” Joaquin’s lips curled into a cool, fleeting
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smile. “Did you really think she was my biological daughter? I haven’t even married, don’t have a woman, so where would a daughter come
from?”
“But I clearly heard her call you ‘dad‘…”
“Isn’t ‘godfather‘ also ‘dad“?” Joaquin’s eyes grew chillingly cold.. “Jericho, you’re being so aggressive that it’s almost incomprehensible.”
“Enough.”
Jericho wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Hayden, who had been silent until now.
He looked up at Joaquin across from him: “When did you take on a goddaughter? Even if she’s not your biological child, this is still important. You should have told me.”
“What’s there to say? If you want to meet her, I’ll bring her over another day.”
Joaquin’s tone was indifferent as he leaned back in his chair, his voice deep.
Hayden cleared his throat: “Since she’s a goddaughter, she must have parents. Why has Romina always been the one taking care of her?”
Just as Romina was about to speak, the man beside her spoke first: “She no longer has parents.”
Romina was stunned for a moment, not expecting Joaquin to say that.
But thinking about it, it wasn’t wrong.
The child’s father had already abandoned her, and her mother would soon be executed…
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She was, in essence, no different from an orphan.
