Filed to story: The Disguised Billionaire and His Accidental Wife Novel
As Mr. Stone and his daughter were busy tending to Mrs. Stone, only then Alice remembered to bring. back the DNA report.
Alice handed the DNA test results to Serenity so that the latter could have a look herself.
After reading the outcome, Serenity fell silent for a while before putting the paper on the table.
“You’re my niece, Serenity. Call me Aunt Audrey.”
Although fate had separated her from her sister, it was sort of a consolation for Mrs. Stone to have found two nieces in return.
Holding Serenity’s hand, Mrs. Stone asked the girl for a more intimate form of address.
“Where’s Liberty and Sonny?”
Her other niece was not forgotten.
“My sister won’t be here for lunch. She’ll be here once she gets off work at half–past five in the evening.”
Serenity explained while looking at Jasmine. With Jasmine carrying Sonny over, Serenity took her nephew from her best friend.
“Maram…”
Mrs. Stone interrupted Serenity mid–sentence. “It’s Aunt Audrey to you, Seren. I’ve been dreaming of finding you. Now that I’ve found you, please don’t be a stranger to me.”
After a brief silence, Serenity complied with the new form of address.
With the DNA test results out, it was proven that she and Mrs. Stone were related by blood. Mrs. Stone was her aunt.
Talk about a dramatic plot twist.
Mrs. Stone’s eyes welled up at her new–found role as an aunt. Elisa said, “Don’t cry, Mom. Sonny’s here. You’ll scare Sonny if you start crying.”
Jasmine and Mrs. Lane poured everybody a glass of water and served fruits.
Mrs. Stone wanted to hug Sonny, but Sonny rejected her and turned around to cling to Serenity by the nape of her neck.
“Sonny, I’m your great–aunt.”
Getting up, Mrs. Stone tried to win Sonny over. “Come, let me hold you, okay?”
Sonny slapped her hand away and cried, “No! No! I want Ant Swer.”
Seeing that Sonny reacted strongly against it, Mrs. Stone had to drop the matter. Still, the thought of what Sonny went through made her blood boil. “That family of scums will pay for what they did to Sonny!”
Since her niece had divorced Hank and she had a familial relationship with the Hunt sisters, Mrs. Stone. believed she should do something to do right by her departed sister.
The notorious Hunt family was on her hit list too.
After her sister died, the Hunts seized much of the insurance payment and occupied the estate, kicking
her nieces out.
The family had done a lot to her nieces over the years.
Mrs. Stone planned to settle the scores for each and everything they had done to Serenity and Liberty.
“Sonny has been doing better in the last few days. The bruises on his body have gone away. He’d only let me and my sister hold him the first two days.”
He even refused Zachary.
“That was a nasty shock for a young boy, so of course, he’s going to cry nonstop and refuse anyone else. It’s normal. Give him time, and everything will get better.”
Although Mrs. Stone was not able to hold Sonny, she did not take it personally. She stroked Sonny’s head as Serenity carried him. Sonny was quite receptive to the caress.
“Seren, I hope your sister didn’t get the shorter end of the stick on the divorce settlement. Elisa said that you could seek her help for anything at all, but you never gave her a call.”
Mrs. Stone remarked with concern, planning to demand what her niece deserved from the Browns.
Elisa jumped in and whined, “That’s right. I kept telling you to come to me for any help. I’d give you all the help in the world, but you didn’t even call me when you went to demolish the house.”
Elisa only discovered later that she missed out on great fun.
She took a dig at Jasmine and Serenity.
Jasmine had mentioned and warned Serenity about including Elisa, but Serenity did not want to expose the young heiress to such crudeness.
Sure, Elisa was born into privilege, but she was Elisa Stone, a well–known unreasonable and rude brat in Wiltspoon’s higher society. No crudeness could scare her.
In fact, Elisa would be the sh*t–stirrer if people caught her at the wrong time.
“My sister got what she was owed. It was just the renovation costs that the Browns refused to return. So, my sister called me to bring some men and trashed the furnishings.”
Mrs. Stone commended the act. “That’s the way to do it. Why should the Browns have it easy?”
She added regrettably, “I’d have brought a bunch of people and demanded the money back from the Browns as your family member had I known.”
It dawned on Serenity that Elisa got her personality from her mother.
“Seren, come home with us when you close the shop later. Have dinner with us. That reminds me, does your husband have time? Get him to join us too.”
Serenity replied, “My husband is away on business today. It’d probably be some time before he returns. I’ll visit you with him when he comes back.”
“Oh, he’s away on business. I guess I’ll have to wait until I get to meet him.”
Mrs. Stone was not bothered that she could not meet her niece’s husband as her full attention was on her nieces.
Now that she had found her nieces, Mrs. Stone had the girls‘ backs all the way. She needed to check out if Serenity’s husband was worth spending the rest of her time with.
“So your sister gets off work at half–past five?”
“Yeah.”
Mrs. Stone looked at the time. “Where is your sister working?”
“Lewis & Co.”
“Okay.” Mrs. Stone remarked, “There’s a lot of potential to grow in Lewis & Co. Duncan has a knack in business. He built the company from the ground up without help from his family, and now he’s worth billions. His brothers are not worth as much if they only count their inheritance from the family.”
Duncan made it out on his own, and Mrs. Stone had a great appreciation for young independent professionals.
“We can wait at Lewis & Co. for your sister to clock out later before heading to my place for dinner. I’ll call your cousins to join us too.”
Mrs. Stone then told her daughter–in–law, “Alice, let Clive know for him to cancel his social dinner tonight and come home for dinner.”
“Sure.”
“That reminds me, Seren. This is your oldest cousin’s wife, Alice Lafayette.”
slipped Mrs. Stone’s mind to introduce her niece to the family.
Elisa was older than Serenity by a year which made her the older cousin.
Serenity greeted her newfound family.
Mr. Stone, her uncle, was a gentle giant while Alice, her cousin–in–law, was a straight shooter like Elisa. It was no wonder Alice and Elisa hit it off, birds of a feather flocked together.