Chapter 284 - Home In Molave 30

I had some blood drawn out to me. I was scared, but teacher Jane said I should be a brave boy like you."

Dr.Charles jolted from his seat. Why would Jane had his son's blood drawn? Was he sick? Or, had Markus found out about Kyle? The primary reason why he adopted Kristian was because he wanted to mislead Markus about his son. He didn't want him to use Kyle in his revenge against him.

"Did teacher Jane told you why?" 

"Yeah, she said it's a routine medical checkup."

Dr. Charles sighed in relief and sank back to his seat. It was only a routine checkup. Dr. Jane was a pediatrician, and probably, she wanted to make sure that the children were in good health. Yet, he still felt uneasy about it. He stood up and strode towards his chopper, and in a couple of minutes, he was already in his house in the city.

Once he stepped down from the aircraft, he went directly to his car and drove towards the laboratory, where he sent Kristian's specimen for the DNA paternity test. While he tried to find a better parking location, he saw a familiar figure emerging from his car. He moved slowly, and once the man walked toward the entrance of the building with his back on him, he stepped on his brakes abruptly, making a screeching sound. Just as he intended, the man turned in his direction and he froze for a moment. It was Hayri.

He consoled himself and diverted his suspicion. Perhaps, Hayri is here on another purpose, he thought. Perhaps, he is not here to send Kyle's specimen for a DNA testing as per Markus' demand. Perhaps, he is just too paranoid to think that Markus finally located Kyle. These were among the questions that kept playing in his mind.

However, when he passed by the door of a cafeteria, he quickly jumped to hide in a corner. They may be some distance apart from him, but he could see it clearly! Hayri was talking to Markus!

Dr. Charles retraced his steps and went to another corridor that would lead him directly to the releasing window. Once the result was released, he hurried back to his car and turned on his spy app. Watching Hayri and Markus from the spy app monitor he installed in his car, he opened the envelope that contained the paternity testing result.

"Based on the testing result obtained from the analyses of the DNA loci listed, the probability of the paternity is 99.99998%."

Dr. Charles felt his heart suddenly dropped, and his mind went blank for a moment. Kristian is his biological son? What about Kyle? Did it mean that Rona got pregnant indeed and left their child at that orphanage with all that instruction? How could she have the heart to leave him and be in the care of another for eight years? What would happen if he did not adopt his son? Was she sick with a fatal disease? Is she still alive? Another set of questions racked his mind again.

A lump formed in Charles' throat as he thought about how Kristian lived throughout those years when he could afford a decent home? Even if he left Kyle in the care of a relative in a foreign country, Kyle grew up knowing him. Every time he was around, he went home to him while he only gave Kristian a short visit each time. He even put him at risk in his intention to mislead Markus in tracking Kyle.

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"Hayri!"

"Markus!"

The two men called out in unison. Markus chuckled and continued to speak first. "Why are you here?"

"Just doing some laboratory test," Hayri replied, but his shocked expression did not escape the sharp senses of Markus.

There must be something this man was hiding, Markus thought. Was he betraying him?  Was he the one who uploaded the video that went viral despite his means to stop it? Did he have an accomplice in the organization, giving him the recorded evidence of their crime?

"I see."

"What about you?" Hayri countered his question.

Markus thought about trapping him further. He would see his reaction after reading the result. If his actions were suspicious, it could mean he was right. He was spying on him. 

"I come here for this," Markus replied, handing him the envelope. "Open it up."

Hayri lifted his brows in a puzzled expression. Why would Markus allow him to a confidential record?

Markus understood his reaction, and so he pulled it out himself and handed it to him. "Hayri, we are friends. I just want to share it with you."

Hayri opened up the folded sheet of paper, and his eyes widened in surprise!

"According to our analyses, the percentage of the probability excluded Markus Madani as the father of the child named Kristian Madani."

Markus tried to note Hayri's tiny reaction, but Hayri gathered his brows instead, confused.

"I don't understand. You lost a child?"

Markus laughed at his apparent innocence. "You're right, Hayri. I was in love with a cousin named Riza, the wife of my paternal cousin, Charles Madani. Before their wedding, Riza gave herself to me, and lately, I learned that the baby she carried on her w.o.m.b was mine. However, Charles hides him from me, and until now, I don't know where he is. A few days ago, I followed him as he went to see his son in a somewhat boarding school. I was happy that finally, I discovered where he hides the child. I presumed he is mine, only to see this result."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't understand why Riza did this to me. She asked me to donate blood to our ailing relative before, only to know that she took a blood sample from it. Just lately, I learned that she used the sample for a fetal cell analysis via a non-invasive prenatal paternity test, I then knew that the father was me."

"With this result, I don't know anymore, Hayri, if she was fooling me, or Charles influenced her to do so. I'm sure he wouldn't be happy to know that despite his condition to marry a v.i.r.g.i.n bride, I broke it a few days before their wedding. I even accompanied her to do a v.i.r.g.i.nity restoration surgery."

Staring at him, Hayri got lost in his thoughts. This was too much of an information. Could it mean that Kyle is his son and that child Charles left in that school is Rona's son?"

Markus watched Hayri while he seemed to be absorbing everything he confessed. All of a sudden, he remembered the child he saw at Molave. No matter how he tried to shake off his suspicion, he still could not put it off his mind that the child had the strong features of a Madani child.