Filed to story: The Regretful Billionaire: An Unpredicted Reunion
“Danika,” he called out to her.
Danika turned around and looked at him inquisitively.
“I like you, and it has nothing to do with your background.Sometimes I hope you were really an ordinary person, and that would make everything so much easier.”He smiled wryly, with a bit of helplessness.If Danika were an ordinary person, he could like her, and no one could say anything about it.Unfortunately, she wasn’t, so it became much more difficult for them to be together.
Danika looked at him and saw the sincerity in his eyes, but she couldn’t believe in him anymore.
“Maybe.Actually, I don’t really care whose child I am.I just want to find out the truth.”
In her heart, her only family was her grandfather and her two brothers.
As for her biological parents, she couldn’t care less.
Since she had no feelings for them, they naturally didn’t matter.
“I understand.”
Eustace nodded, knowing that Danika must be serious.
“Do you…trust me?”
Eustace looked at her, feeling apprehensive, afraid that Danika could no longer trust him.
Danika smiled and replied, “If you were true to yourself, why would you care whether others believed you? Isn’t it enough as long as you have a clear conscience?”
Eustace smiled bitterly.
What Danika said sounded reasonable, but it was easier said than done.
He felt that he hadn’t come to that point, and there was no way for him to not care what others thought, especially when it concerned the person most important to him.
Unfortunately, Danika had already walked into her condo, leaving Eustace standing outside alone.
Danika lay on the sofa, not wanting to move at all.
The truth she’d been pursuing for a long time finally revealed itself.
However, she wasn’t as happy as she thought.
On the contrary, she kind of hoped it was fake.
She didn’t care about being one of the Zellwegers of Bardoff City.
At that moment, her phone rang.
Danika looked at it, and despite her exhaustion, she still answered the call.
“Gilbert.”
“Danika, I’ll be back soon.What do you want? I’ll make sure to buy it for you.”
Gilbert was still as gentle as ever, but sadly, Danika couldn’t be as carefree as she used to be.She didn’t speak, and Gilbert immediately noticed something was off.
“What’s wrong? Did something happen?”
Are You Going Back to the Zellwegers?
“I’ve found out about everything,” Danika said lightly.
Through the phone, the tone of her voice didn’t seem to carry any emotion.
Gilbert wanted to ask what she knew.
Right when he was about to, he suddenly thought of something, and he couldn’t help but clench his phone a little harder.
“About your background?”
“Yeah.”
She told Gilbert because she wanted to see if she could get some other information that she didn’t know about from him.
This time, it was Gilbert’s turn to be silent.
As he didn’t say anything, it made Danika a little perplexed.
“Gilbert, tell me everything you know.”
After another round of silence, Gilbert sighed and replied a little helplessly, “I knew that once you found out you weren’t Grandpa’s biological granddaughter, you would definitely figure things out.I just didn’t expect you to be so fast.”
He thought it would take a while for Danika to learn the truth, but he didn’t expect it to be that soon.He’d underestimated his sister.
“I just want to figure everything out.Grandpa will always be my grandfather.You and Zack will always be my brothers, too,” Danika said.
Gilbert breathed a sigh of relief —that was the Danika he knew.
After that, he told Danika everything he knew.
However, what he knew was similar to what Old Mr.Quincey had told her, so it didn’t make much of a difference to Danika.
After Gilbert finished speaking, he couldn’t help but ask, “Do you plan to go back to the Zellwegers?”
He didn’t want Danika to go back.
All these years, he’d been paying attention to the Zellwegers.
That family was far from being as peaceful as it seemed to outsiders, especially the woman Danika’s father married—she definitely had some tricks up her sleeve.
If Danika went back, she would suffer at her hands.
“Maybe.I still want to find out what happened back then.I also need to know whether my mom is still alive.”
Although Zachary said her mother had probably died, Danika still held a glimmer of hope.
Plus, her father had asked different teachers to teach her over the years.He must have done it for a reason.
Even if she didn’t go and knock on their door, it might not be long before they come to her instead.
Danika wasn’t one who would sit by and wait like a sitting duck; she preferred to have everything in her control.
Therefore, she decided to settle the matters on her end first, and then she would take the initiative to meet her father, whom she’d never met.
Gilbert wasn’t surprised by her decision.It was even kind of expected.
“Don’t worry, I’ll come back soon.I’ll go with you when the time comes.”
He wouldn’t feel at ease if Danika went alone.
Danika didn’t refuse him since she would feel bad turning down his offer to accompany her.
Given that Gilbert decided to come back, he’d figured everything out.
If that were the case, she would welcome him back as her brother.
She had no reason to turn down her brother, who was standing up for her.
After hanging up the call with Gilbert, Danika lay on her bed.
Her gloomy mood was slightly uplifted.
At the end of the day, it was still better to know everything than to be kept in the dark.
Danika gradually fell asleep.
Downstairs, someone stood under the streetlamp and looked up at the window of her condo.
Parrington Medical University was celebrating its 60th anniversary.
When Danika arrived with her invitation in hand, the university was already very crowded.
Besides outstanding alumni like them who were specifically invited to go back, many graduates also came back spontaneously to participate in the event, in addition to the undergraduate students.
As a result, the number of people who came was huge.
Even Danika was a little surprised that so many people showed up.
Holding her invitation, she found her designated seat.
It was a relatively front seat, and many people were already sitting in that row.
As soon as Danika sat down, someone greeted her.
“Hello, I’m Derrick Clearwater.I was invited to come back as an outstanding alumnus.You too, right?”
Flabbergasted
Danika nodded, guessing that the people sitting in that row should all be excellent alumni.
A few of them were even famous figures that Danika had already known when she was still studying.