Chapter 98 A Shopping Voucher for Blood Donation
In the small tent, there was an atmosphere of embarrassment.
Ebony curiously looked at the two strange men.
A stunned old man.
An excited middle-aged man.
Ebony grabbed the curtain of the tent and said to Lloyd, "You're busy now? I'll ask them myself."
Then Ebony was about to leave.
"Wait!" the middle-aged man said suddenly.
Ebony was shocked for a moment and then turned around to look at him.
"You..."
Lloyd took a step forward and grabbed Jon's shoulders to prevent him from speaking.
Lloyd turned back and said to Ebony, "Just go by yourself."
Ebony didn't know what they were doing. She said vaguely, "Oh." Then she left the tent.
Ebony's footsteps faded away.
Then Jon came to his senses.
He closed his eyes and pressed his forehead with his hands.
"Llo." Stewart sat on an uncomfortable folding military chair and said in a deep voice, "Give me an explanation."
Lloyd glanced at Stewart. Then he patted Jon on the shoulder and asked him to sit down.
After Jon sat down, Lloyd pulled a chair and sat down.
This was a story that happened at earlier time.
Lloyd started investigating it after Virginia insisted on calling Ebony "aunt".
He checked it for a long time and knew most of the information.
During an arrest, a Chinese woman was killed by a stray bullet while escaping. She then was holding a little baby girl in her arms who was just one month old.
"April." Jon said immediately, "That's right. My youngest sister was stolen in March!"
At that time Roxanne was seven months pregnant.
Due to intense sexual intercourse during pregnancy, Roxanne's endometrium was injured. As a result, her water was broken and she went into labor early. Roxanne hemorrhaged badly.
Obviously, Roxanne cheated on her husband.
Roxanne was lucky and survived. But the baby was dying because of congenital deficiency.
The baby slept in the intensive care unit. The doctor said that the baby would die in these two days.
The next day, the baby died at three o'clock in the morning.
He sent the little baby girl he brought back to a welfare institution. The welfare institution told him that young children were easy to be adopted, but it may be difficult to find their biological parents.
A month later, the two elders of the Judith family had finished their confidential tasks and returned home.
But they didn't see their daughter-in-law who was "about to give birth".
Daughter-in-law cheated and granddaughter died.
The two elders could not bear such a blow.
The baby girl's age was similar with his daughter's.
He went to the welfare institution again and knew that the baby had not been adopted. So he went through the formalities and officially adopted the little baby he saved.
That was what he had named his own daughter before.
And he was the only one who knew the truth.
It took Lloyd's a lot of efforts to find the veteran and get this information.
Stewart pursed his lips.
His look became glum.
"As Ebs' biological father, I am very grateful to him. But Ebs has the right to know the truth." Stewart said in a deep voice.
Ron asked, "Have you done a DNA test? What is the result? Are they the same?"
Lloyd looked up and said, "I did the kinship test by using the blood of Ebony and Virginia. It's not accurate but it's basically the same."
Paternity test was different from kinship test.
A paternity test was done based on the genetic markers of the children and their parents.
The kinship test was done based on the genetic markers of brothers and sisters, or close relatives such as uncles and nephews or aunts and nephews.
Ron said in a deep voice, "Father is right. She has the right to know the truth. And we also need a formal report of paternity test. Only by telling her the truth can we get her blood sample. This is unavoidable."
Lloyd was silent for a while and said, "I have her blood samples."
Jon was stunned and then said, "Yeah, you just said that you matched her blood sample with Virginia's. So how did you get her blood sample?"
Stewart's face darkened. "Did you hurt her?"
"No." Lloyd pursed his lips and eventually told them.
"I arranged a blood donation car and parked it at the gate of her hotel. It proclaimed that if one donated 200ml of blood, one would get a supermarket shopping voucher worth 300 dollars. She instantly donated 400ml."
Stewart was speechless.
Jon was so puzzled.
Lloyd added. "The blood samples are well preserved. There is still much left. I will send them to you when I return to Clarida."
Both Stewart and Jon fell silent.
After a while, Jon asked, "So even if the paternity test result shows the blood matches, you still don't want us to recognize her, right?"
"You can recognize her. But you'd better take it slowly?"
"How?" Stewart frowned.
Lloyd said, "First let her acquaint you. Do not frighten her. She has father and she loves her father very much. You're only strangers to her."
Stewart inhaled deeply and lowered his head to meditate.
Jon looked at his father and then Lloyd.
He said to Lloyd jealously, "We should take it slowly but you can stay together with her all the time?"
"Um." Lloyd didn't deny it. "I'm on her side."
Jon felt speechless.
Lloyd said calmly, "It's said by her."