A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 208 All He Wanted Was Justice

Alexis gave him a call, “Are you in the office? I'll personally deliver the results to your office in ten minutes!”

Ten minutes later, Alexis arrived.

Alexis, dressed in a trim suit, his face as cold as ever, handed the document in his hand to William. "Here's his entire profile, but there are parts that are too old to investigate clearly."

William froze for a moment, "There are still things your men can't find out?"

"You should read the information first!" Alexis said, "My men are also human, not gods!"

William flipped through the papers, his eyes sinking and growing shocked. "Is this true?"

"The details are all there!" Alexis said, "By the way, is Daniel your son?"

William nodded, "Yes, Daniel is my son! Alexis, if it weren't for you, I think I might not know when I would have found my son, thank you!"

Alexis shook his head. "You are really slow on the uptake! Your own son has grown up so much and you still can't tell if he's your son or not."

"Yes! I am really too stupid." William let out a sigh. After another look at the report, he knitted his brows and said, "If Peter is really my half-brother, there's no way Dad doesn't know about it! And he was only born a month before me, how could Dad not know?"

The identity of Peter on the investigation report - he was actually his half-brother. This was what the report said.

Alexis nodded and said, "Will, his mother is Ava Mollison, and she is currently living in Switzerland! She moved to Switzerland five years ago and has never married in her life. It appears from the records that she only had a relationship with Mr. Rowland, but the records may not be completely correct, as there is a gap of about three months. That's when Mr. Rowland and Mrs. Rowland got married.

"Ava?" William was stunned, he seemed to have heard this name somewhere before.

"She's Mrs. Rowland's bestie! Best friend from the same class and dormitory."

He thought to himself, 'Umm! Yes, Mrs. Howe did talk about this woman! But how did Ava get pregnant with Dad's child?'

William fell into a trance, "The report also doesn't mention that Dad had fallen in love with Peter's mother before he met Mom. How could this be?"

"They were never together, Mr. Rowland never even looked her in the eye, but she loved Mr. Rowland. We have investigated from other roommates in Mrs. Rowland's dormitory and all have confirmed that the woman Mr. Rowland always loved was Mrs. Rowland. About this, you'd better ask Mr. Rowland! I think he'll remember who Ava is! You can also determine if he and Ava ever had sex. Thirty-one years ago, he did spend a night with Ava in a hotel. It's mentioned in the records, but we don't know what the ending is."

William nodded in confusion. "I'll go back and ask Dad!"

'How did this happen?'

'Peter is his brother?'

'How did this happen?'

At that moment, there was a knock on the office door.

Alexis got up from his seat, "I'm leaving, let's talk on the phone."

"All right!" William nodded.

The door was opened, and the person standing at the door was Peter. William didn't expect the comer to be him, while Alexis's sharp eyes swept over Peter's face and strode away.

William kept the report in the drawer, raised his head, his expression returning to calm, and looked steadily at Peter, "Peter, anything wrong?"

Peter had one hand in the pocket of his suit pants, being so indifferent and calm. He narrowed his eyes slightly, which were meaningful under the short black hair.

"Yes!" Peter walked in and sat down opposite William, crossing his arms and looking at William calmly. "There are some things that need your approval."

The two men's vision intersected. William was calm, looking carefully at Peter's face, the intention of gauging was not obvious.

Peter noticed William's expression and was a little shocked inside. He didn't expect that within these few years, William had been so calm that he actually couldn't read his mind.

He didn't know how much William had held in hand, and he came to him this time to confirm how much he had in his possession. He felt that it was not yet the time to have a falling-out with William. Therefore, Peter didn't dare to speculate, but he had long since learned to maintain his composure.

For more than thirty years, Ava had worn a woebegone look every day, yet she didn't allow him to come to John in any way. All these years, only he knew how hard Ava had been, and he just couldn't understand why Ava chose to live this way? Why did she let John who gave him life, but ruined her life

at the same time, be irresponsible to them? Why was Ava always in tears every time he mentioned John?

He wanted to do justice to Ava's loneliness and isolation all these years, and that was why he lurked in the Rowland Group for eight years until he was now the department manager, William's trusted subordinate and best friend.

After all, they were real brothers.

He didn't care about the Rowland Group, all he wanted was justice.

The two men exchanged greetings and looked at each other, as if they were secretly testing each other's reality.

Peter paid attention to William's face, which was calm and with a faint smile, except that his eyes were sharp. "I'm here to discuss the overseas investment project with you, when can we allocate funds?"

William's heart sank, but there were no fluctuations on his face, "How's the inspection?"

"Everything has been approved, we're just waiting for your instructions!" Peter said.

"All right!" William nodded, "Then send me the documents and I'll ask the chairman for instructions!"

He speculated that Peter might have a hidden agenda and didn't grant him on the spot, but fearing that he might get suspicious, William continued, "I'll get back to you this afternoon!"

"Okay! I'll go first then!" Peter nodded and said.

"Okay!" William followed suit.

In the study of the Rowland residence.

William was sullen all the way home as he didn't know how to ask John about Ava. If the reports were true, he really didn't know how to handle it.

Forgot it, he still decided to tell John about it. Originally, there were only a few members of the Rowland family, and if Peter was really one of the Rowland family, he wouldn't mind him acknowledging his biological father.

"Dad..." William opened his mouth to call out to John, but shut it again.

John puzzled, looked up and frowned, "What are you stammering about? That doesn't sound like you."

William gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you know Ava?"

Sure enough, as soon as William spat out the words, John's countenance instantly sank.

William then passed the investigation report to John and said, "Dad, Peter is Ava's son, and if the report is correct, he should be your son."

John just looked at the report in shock and didn't say anything. When William saw that John remained silent, he knew that this matter might be true.

He added, "Anyway, I hope you can keep my retrieval of Daniel a secret for now. I still can't figure out what Peter's hidden agenda is. He has swapped Daniel and Samuel before, and after all these years in the Rowland Group, I'm just afraid he's planning a bigger conspiracy. I don't want any harm to come to Daniel and Sherry, so please keep Daniel's identity a secret for now!"

"You go out first, I want to be alone." John said.

"Alright!" William turned around and walked out.

At the end of the corridor, William stood on the rooftop, took out a cigarette, lit it with annoyance and began to smoke it.

From John's reaction, Peter was indeed his brother, and for a moment, he was caught up in melancholy thoughts.

"Don't move!" Suddenly a boyish voice with a threat came from behind, and then William felt something against his waist.

When William turned around, he found it was his son, Daniel, who was holding a gun against his waist, "Mommy said you can't smoke anymore, it's bad for your health."

William pursed his lips and looked at his son's face with much comfort in his heart. "Okay! No more smoking!"

With that, he extinguished his cigarette butt.

"Mr. Rowland is so obedient!" Daniel withdrew his gun, placed it on the table on the rooftop, and lifted his face to look at him.

"Mr. Rowland, is something on your mind?"

"Baby, don't you not play with guns? Don't you think playing with guns is childish?"

"I installed this gun myself!" Daniel replied, "Mr. Rowland, is something bothering you?"

Daniel asked again.

William sighed, was this the affinity between father and son? His son could even sense that he was in a bad mood. "You see I have something on my mind?"

Daniel nodded. "Don't you always like to smoke when you have something on your mind?"

"Yeah! You're so smart!" William scooped Daniel up in his arms, and their eyes became parallel.

Daniel looked into William's eyes and frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"Mr. Rowland, your eyes look like mine!" Daniel suddenly saw the light and shouted.

"Yeah, since we're so much alike, how about you call me Daddy?" William had always wanted to hear Daniel call him Daddy. He failed to coax Daniel in the morning, and he continued to coax him now.

"No!" Daniel shook his head with a bright smile. Content is © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

"Why?" William just couldn't understand why Daniel kept refusing to call him Daddy.

"Because you're not Daddy!" Daniel's face put on a 'you're so stupid' look.

"I'm Daddy!"

"That's only after you and Mommy get married!"

"Then I'm marrying Sherry now!" William pinched his son's cheek and said, "Sherry and I have gotten our marriage certificate today, and with it, you can call me Daddy, right?"

Daniel still shook his head. "No!"

"Why?"

"You haven't passed my test yet!" Daniel pursed his lips, smirked and whispered in William's ears, "Mr. Rowland, I'll call you Daddy when I'm older, and I don't want a daddy right now!"

William was stunned. "Brat, you don't want a daddy? Why?"

"I'm having a great time with Mommy without Daddy. What's the point of having a daddy? Other than being able to make a sister with Mommy, I can't think of any benefit of having a daddy. The most difficult time is over, I have grown up and I don't need something like a Daddy anymore." Daniel smiled and looked at William. "Mommy needs to have a husband, that's all!"

William was rendered speechless, what did he mean he didn't need something like a daddy?

Thinking of Daniel's words, his heart tightened and he could only embrace him tightly. "It's my fault for making you and Sherry suffer so much, it's my fault."

"Mr. Rowland, you're not Daddy. My daddy and mommy have abandoned me, I don't want them either!" Daniel said with a flash of hurt in his eyes.

"No, it's not that they don't want you, no one doesn't want you. Baby, it's my fault, it's all my fault!" William's heart ached to its maximum limit, Daniel knew he had been abandoned by the river, and he didn't know when the trauma in his son's heart would be removed.

He wanted to make up for his mistake as soon as possible and let Daniel know that he had a dad and a mom and that no one didn't want him.

Sherry took Samuel's hand and walked up the second floor hallway. From a distance, she saw William holding Daniel on the rooftop. Looking at such a scene, her heart was touched and warm.

Then she looked at Samuel, who was equally well-behaved, and actually felt some regret in her heart, thinking that it would be great if Samuel was her son too! But then she shook her head, how could she be so greedy? She already felt very satisfied now, and the next thing she should do was to let Samuel back to the Brooks family without suffering any harm.