Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

As soon as Tina finished speaking, the entire Reed family fell silent. The silence was so profound that even the drop of a pin could be heard. At the entrance of Whispering Pines, Jasper had just stepped inside when he froze. After a moment, he regained his composure and walked towards Tina, scolding her in a low voice, “Tina! What nonsense are you talking about? How could Miss Ward possibly be my daughter?”

Since bringing Tina back to the Reed family, he had never raised his voice at her. But this time, he was genuinely angry. How could such a matter be taken lightly? He had never had any relationship with Willow, so how could there be a child?

Lily and Willow were both stunned for a long time. Lily was the first to recover, shouting hoarsely, “You’re lying! Tina, I know you hate me, but how can you slander me like this?” She was Jasper’s daughter? What a joke! She wished she were Jasper’s daughter; with the Reed family’s prestige, it would be easier for her to marry Jared. But she wasn’t; she was Ethan Ward’s daughter.

Willow remained silent, a flicker of panic in her eyes. She had no idea what to say at that moment. Annabelle quickly recovered and hurriedly said, “Yes, Tina, how can you joke about such a thing? Your father and Willow have nothing between them. All these years, his heart has always been with your mother!”

The rest of the Reed family were dumbfounded by Tina’s revelation, staring blankly at each other without saying a word. Mainly because they didn’t know what to say. Because when they looked closely, Lily did resemble Jasper a bit!

Juliet looked at Lily in astonishment and then at Jasper before exclaiming in disbelief, “This is absolutely absurd!” On the other side, Ethan Ward was equally shocked, staring at Tina in disbelief. He knew Tina well enough to know she wouldn’t joke about something like this!

He turned his head and glared at Willow with a murderous expression, shouting angrily, “Willow! You lied to me!” Willow snapped back to reality with his shout and shivered involuntarily. Quickly suppressing her fear, she retorted righteously, “Who lied to you? Stop listening to her nonsense! Lily is your daughter!”

“You dare lie!” Ethan Ward glared at her furiously. “If you hadn’t done it, Master wouldn’t say so! Tell me what’s going on!” Ridiculous! He had raised someone else’s daughter for over twenty years!

“Stop shouting!” Willow struggled to stand up despite the pain and yelled back loudly, “I told you! It’s all Tina’s nonsense! You don’t believe me but believe this little girl?”

“She is my master! You are my ex-wife!” Ethan Ward roared. “I shouldn’t trust her but trust you? What makes you trustworthy? Don’t forget it was you who schemed to have relations with me just once and then got pregnant!”

The more Ethan spoke, the angrier he became. “Now I understand! No wonder you were so eager to marry me back then; you were already planning to cuckold me! Willow and Jasper, you two are shameless! Carrying on behind my back while making me raise your child?”

“I…” Willow was speechless for a moment.

Jasper frowned deeply and said in a low voice, “Dr. Ward, watch your words!”

“Watch my words?” Even with his usual composure, Ethan was now furious. “I had someone I loved dearly back then but broke up because of Willow’s scheme and had to marry her. And now I find out I’ve been covering up your affair and raising your child!”

“Jasper! You are from the prestigious Reed family, second only in the capital’s elite circles. This is utterly shameless!”

Ethan then turned to glare at Willow again. “And you! Your family is also reputable; how could you do such a thing?”

Willow was infuriated and shouted back, “I said Lily is not Jasper’s daughter! It’s all Tina’s nonsense! Stop acting crazy and making us look like fools!”

“You are the fool!” Ethan retorted angrily. “You say my master is talking nonsense? Fine! Let’s do a paternity test! We’ll know if Lily is my daughter.”

With that said, Ethan grabbed Lily and started dragging her out.

Lily had been beaten by Tina earlier; her bones felt like they were falling apart. She wanted to struggle but had no strength left and could only be dragged along by Ethan.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Seeing this, Willow hurriedly stepped forward to block them. “No! We won’t do the test!” She pulled Ethan’s hand away and protected Lily in her arms while crying out loud, “Ethan, you’re heartless! Your daughter has been so filial to you yet just because of some outsider’s words you want to drag her for a test? You’re breaking our hearts!”

She then turned to glare at Tina without caring about her image anymore and shouted like a shrew, “Tina! What grudge do you have against me and Lily that you’re doing this?”

“I know you’re uncomfortable with my relationship with your father but isn’t this too selfish? Your father has kept his promise to your mother all these years; can’t he have his own new family? You’re targeting us just so he can’t form a new family? You’re truly vicious!”

Hearing this made Jasper’s face darken further. “Mrs. Ward,” he said coldly, “watch your words. Apart from our families being old friends there’s nothing else between us.”

Willow felt an inexplicable pain in her chest as she cried out desperately, “Jasper why are you pretending not to understand? Everyone knows my feelings for you; everyone knows it’s only a matter of time before we get married! Why won’t you admit it?”

She gritted her teeth as she looked at Tina again. “It’s all because of you! See now? Your father won’t even acknowledge our relationship.”

Tina leaned back in her chair lazily glancing at Willow before standing up and walking upstairs.

Soon she came back down holding an envelope which she threw in front of Ethan coldly saying “See for yourself.”

Ethan opened it revealing documents labeled ‘Paternity Test.’ The last line stated clearly that there was no parent-child relationship between him and Lily which deeply stung Ethan’s eyes.

There were two documents inside; opening another one revealed Jasper’s paternity test with Lily showing 99. 99% match confirming their relationship.

Ethan flew into rage throwing papers towards Willow “Still denying? Look closely; Jasper is indeed Lily’s father!”