Chapter 70 Another Illegitimate Child
Benjamin chucked his phone into his pocket after the meeting. He made his way back to his office, where Kingsley had already been waiting for him inside.
With a grim look on his face, an unmistakable aura of tension emanated bleakly off Benjamin. When Kingsley noticed that, he tensed up with anxiety.
“Listen to me, Boss. Let me explain!” uttered Kingsley.
With his dark, brooding gaze, Benjamin cast a piercing side-eye at him that shot shivers right down Kingsley’s spine.
Without haste, Kingsley cleared his throat and explained, “Boss, how can you still take it lying down after your precious Sweetheart was mistreated? Even if you can take it under your stride, I can’t hold back any longer!” Even though he was agitated, Kingsley did not expose Gavin and the reason he was here, which was to see if Benjamin’s paternal love would surmount feelings over an old flame.
“Who gave you the picture?” asked Benjamin, glaring from the corners of his eyes. The answer to that was obvious, but he wanted to hear it from Kingsley.
“Well, I saw it on Gavin’s phone!” replied Kingsley.
As Benjamin’s somber face remained emotionless, Kingsley could not fathom what was on his mind.
Meanwhile, Danna was still trying to get Benjamin on the phone. With his gaze darkened, Benjamin felt the wrath of fury rage through him as he retrieved his phone.
Kingsley sensed that and extended his head out with a glance. “Hah! To think she has the cheek to call you up now. I’m sure she is going to plead for her innocence. Don’t forget how she threatened me earlier on.”
“She threatened you?” Benjamin rolled his eyes up in a curious gaze at Kingsley.
Kingsley handed over a recording and said, “I think you already know about it. Danna is still adamant that she didn’t do it. She sure is cruel. How can she bear to do that to her own child, especially when Gavin is so adorable?”
Continuing on, Kingsley said, “She thought you would marry her because of Gavin. When you refused, she vented her anger on the poor kid. How inhumane! Are you aware that Danna had mistreated Gavin in the past?”
Benjamin’s dashing face turned sullenly grim after he heard that.
In a split second, Kingsley shot a forceful glance at him. “You are his father. I’m asking you if you are aware!”
“If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have let her mistreat my son,” fumed Benjamin as he glared back at Kingsley vehemently.
Kingsley pursed his lips in reaction to Benjamin’s response. In fact, it relieved him to know that Benjamin was livid, as this meant Gavin mattered to him after all.
“Stay far away from a vicious woman like that. Nothing good can come out of a woman who mistreats her own child,” advised Kingsley.
With a glint in his eyes, Benjamin wondered if Shaun had the DNA test results ready over at the hospital. Without further ado, he called Shaun personally. “Hey, are the test results out yet?”
“Not yet. It’s going to take a while,” replied Shaun as he nuzzled his nose. As it turned out, the test machine stalled after he dozed off the night before. He fixed the test machine in a frenzy after he woke up from his slumber. Hence, that inevitably resulted in a delay with the test results.
“You are waning in inefficiency these days, Shaun. It’s getting from bad to worse!” grumbled Benjamin.
Faced with Benjamin’s criticism, Shaun tried to laugh it off awkwardly. “Well, you can’t blame me for the broken machine. What’s the hurry, anyway? By the way, whose DNA test is this? Please don’t tell me you have another illegitimate child somewhere out there again?”
With a dour look written all over his face, Benjamin hung up the phone without another word.
Kingsley, who listened on to the conversation, peered momentarily at Benjamin. Treading on thin ice, he asked Benjamin cautiously, “Is it true that you have an illegitimate child?” Good gracious, this guy is something indeed. He looks like he’s disinterested in women, yet he has an illegitimate child on the side. I can’t even catch up with his moves at the rate he’s going. Since he already has Gavin, I really wonder whose child it is.
Benjamin caught sight of Kingsley’s inquisitive face. Even though he knew what went on in the latter’s mind, he couldn’t be bothered to explain himself.
Notwithstanding his curiosity, Kingsley pressed on, “So, whose child is it?”
Benjamin glowered at him without answering his question. “Next time, give me a heads up before releasing any news publicly!”
With his eyebrows raised, Kingsley was miffed. Hey, it wasn’t me.
“Are you feeling sorry for that woman? My heart aches for Gavin the Sweetheart. What tough luck for him to be borne to a callous pair of parents. No one loves him in this world!” Kingsley lamented sarcastically.
With his upturned eyes narrowed, cold-blooded hostility crept up all over Benjamin when he heard that.
Kingsley quivered slightly and stopped short, biting his tongue in apprehension when he noticed that. With an awkward chuckle, he muttered, “Tell me the truth. Doesn’t it break your heart to see Gavin like this? What are you going to do about it?”
“Since you unearthed the news, handle the aftermath yourself! Just stop the excessive exposure of Gavin from now,” warned Benjamin coldly. He did not want the current events to do more harm than good to Gavin in his formative years.
“Then, let me get the internet ghostwriters to divert public attention by changing the tides,” cajoled Kingsley carefully.
The netizens were torn between two opposing camps for now. While one camp gravitated toward sympathy for Gavin, the other camp were mainly internet ghostwriters hired by Danna to back her up. Hence, it was necessary to shift the focus away from Gavin in order for the public to redirect their attention to Danna.
