Chapter 399 The Reason She Can't Marry Him

Day Forty-Five...

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"So, are we setting up the engagement?" Madam Priyanshi teasingly said to both Abigail and Nathan.

"No!" Abigail promptly responded with an exaggerated look on her face. It seemed like she didn't want the idea of getting engaged nor marrying Nathan Sparks.

The members of the Yan Family wondered why she reacted that way. Even Old Master Yan could figure out Abigail refused Madam Priyanshi's suggestion.

Furthermore, Nathan's face also contorted as he gazed at Abigail intently. He was displeased by the way Abigail reacted to the engagement and marriage.

"Why are you refusing, Mom? Don't you want to marry my Dad?" Little Ethan tugged her hand while putting on a pitiful look. The young boy even pouted his lips with his puppy eyes.

Abigail bit her lower lip. She wasn't thinking when she blurted out a firm "No".

'I can't marry him... I mean this is Abigail's body, not mine. I won't let Nathan marry Abigail. I don't want it!' Phantomflake thought to herself. She couldn't bear to see Nathan marrying Abigail's identity. This wasn't right! And it didn't make sense at all.

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Now she was being questioned by Nathan's sharp gaze. He was upset because Abigail blatantly rejected the idea of setting the engagement. Although he wasn't thinking beyond that, Nathan's ego and pride were hurt because of Abigail's response.

However, she couldn't tell him the true reason why she refused to be engaged to him while she was in Abigail's body. She had so many reasons.

First, the real Abigail was in love with her boyfriend, Dave, not Nathan. Things would become more complicated among the four of them. Second, she didn't know how long she would be staying in this body since she could feel some signs her soul was returning to her original body.

If she accomplished her mission, it only meant Nathan fell for her... for her soul that was possessing Abigail's body. Once she left, she didn't know if the real Abigail would remember what she did. She hoped not. Those memories belonged to her. She didn't want the real Abigail to remember those memories.

When the lunch gathering was done, Abigail and Old Master Yan went to the garden together with Ethan. Nathan and Madam Priyanshi stayed in the living room to talk about business collaboration. On the other hand, the other members of the Yan family already left. Only Amara and Madam Lu decided to stay behind for their respective personal reasons.

While Little Ethan was picking up some flowers for Old Master Yan and Abigail, the two were able to talk privately.

"Master Yan..." Abigail mumbled but Old Master Yan interrupted her.

"Grandpa... call me Grandpa."

Abigail was taken aback for a moment. She thought Old Master Yan hadn't accepted her yet as his missing granddaughter.

"Am I allowed to call you that? We haven't conducted the second DNA test result yet."

Without a second thought, Old Master Yan extended his two hands, open wide as he was asking her for a hug.

"You're my granddaughter... my instinct is telling me already. Come here, Abi. Give this sick old man a hug."

Abigail gladly complied as she bent over and hugged Old Master Yan. The old man had mixed emotions. He was tearing up but he was smiling.

"I thought I would die without seeing you... without finding you... I thought the heaven had already forsaken me because of my sin... my sin to your mother." Old Master Yan burst out, opening his heart to Abigail.

"I want to ask for your forgiveness, my granddaughter... I failed to protect your mother... I failed to save your sister. I lost both of them... and I lost you too." The old man's voice was trembling. His voice croaked as he tried to suppress his sob.

Abigail could feel his guilt and anxiety. He had so many regrets.

"I and the Yan Family should have been the ones to raise you... but you ended up being alone... and lived in an orphanage. But I feel grateful that you survived... you were alive." The old man continued to pour his heart out. Abigail just stayed silent as she listened to him.

"Your mother didn't abandon you. She might have left you somewhere but failed to return because of her accident. Your mother and sister died in a car crash. You got separated from them. I think your mother and sister protected you, not abandoned you." Old Master Yan corrected her wrong assumption of being abandoned by her family.

"How about my father? Who is my father, grandpa?"