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My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1212

Over the years, the killers under him had various aftereffects. Some of them became paralyzed; some of them had an epileptic fit like Sandra, and some of the others’ brains had slowly deteriorated to a primal state. Others even had red rashes erupting all over their bodies before they died without any warning. Since no one knew what their aftereffects were, things spiraled out of control.

Fear and panic spread like wildfire in Phantom Wolf. Ever since the disappearance of their boss, Quinton, Phantom Wolf had no choice but to disband; its remaining members were scattered everywhere. There was also a large number of unused stimulants that were divided among the members of Phantom Wolf.

The sports world loved these stimulants—not only was it undetectable during urine tests, but it also enhanced the body’s ability to its highest potential. Since their useless boss had run away, Phantom Wolf members sold off several million boxes of the stimulants at a discounted price for their retirement fund. No one knew what their next fate would be, so this group of heartless assassins finally got what they deserved.

When Quinton ran away to Cethos, he also secretly brought along a batch of medicine and hid it in his secret hideout. He wanted to show them to Linus to see if the medicine could relieve his symptoms. However, the sales of the stimulant were doing so well that all the sportsmen from different countries were demanding for it; there were even some buyers in Cethos. Quinton also wanted to buy a mink coat for himself—since he didn’t have much money on him and Michael wouldn’t buy it for him, he…

“How dare you sell the stimulants in Bayside City! Are you out of your mind?!” Michael was furious as he questioned and banged Quinton’s door, but there was no reply from the inside.

Michael never expected Quinton to commit crimes right under his nose. By the time he arrived at Quinton’s secret hideout, the stimulants had been completely sold out. Since he couldn’t find any traces of the fake drugs, he couldn’t figure out if Quinton had any other accomplices too. There must be another accomplice. Otherwise, he couldn’t have sold the medicine to Sandra!

However, Quinton wouldn’t confess the whereabouts of his accomplice, nor would he explain where the rest of the stolen money had gone to.

A box of stimulants cost several hundred thousand at the very least; since he had sold seven or eight boxes, he should have a few million by now. Did he spend all that on a mink coat? He doesn’t even have a bank card; where else can all that money go?

Celine huffed and said, “Don’t hit Quinton! Quinton said that he was cold and he wanted to wear a mink coat! You didn’t even buy him one!”

Michael was so angry that his face had turned red. Is it my fault for not buying him a mink coat?

Since he couldn’t hit Quinton anymore, Michael fell into deep thought as he tried to calm himself down. Suddenly, he lifted his head and saw Sophia giving him a pointed look as she stood on top of the stairs. Her big round eyes looked at him warily with a tinge of guilt.

Realization dawned upon Michael—there was a crooked middleman! He used several million from the stolen money in exchange for a mink coat—the rest was swallowed by the middleman!

Carmen used to bring Judge to her kindergarten and ‘sold its body’ for five bucks. In just a single day, she had earned more than a hundred and only shared a small amount with Judge, giving him a piece of ham sausage as payment. It’s in their genes!

Sophia was afraid to speak, so she quietly disappeared and left the depressed Michael alone in the living room.

Quinton was already bankrupt; the man who once had millions was now penniless. He also knew that he had come to the end of the road, so he returned to Cethos and joined Michael. Although Quinton had the goods in his hands, he had no way of selling them. Coincidentally, Sophia had learned of Sandra’s movements through her own connections and decided to team up with Quinton to sell the drugs. After deducting various middleman costs, the two people shared the profit from the goods.

In reality, Sophia had deducted at least 90 percent from Quinton’s share and only gave him money enough for a mink coat. Quinton hadn’t seen the actual amount of money as Sophia just sent him a mink coat that she had allegedly bought with the money. That was payback for him being a jerk back then! He was heading to Africa anyway, so the coat was to be reused.

Since Sophia had sold the medicine herself, she would know if something were to happen to Sandra. In the past, Quinton only took the stimulants once a month to slowly transform his body. That amount was more than sufficient, but Sandra used one every day; even without Sophia doing anything, Sandra was already doomed.

Though Michael was furious with Sophia, he still had to clean after her mess. Much to his surprise, he didn’t have to do so—her tracks were clean as she didn’t use any local channels to sell the drug. Instead, she issued it from Bayside City and sent it around Europe and Africa before arriving in Bayside City once again. After going through so many different hands, she finally exported it back to the country. Quinton, too, was incredibly tight-lipped even after a large amount of money had been swindled from him.

Truthfully, Michael knew that Quinton’s bodily functions were deteriorating; his superhuman strength and agility that came from the stimulants were slowing down. Soon, he would be worse than an ordinary person. Who knew what was going to happen to him? He could become mentally retarded or demented. Perhaps, he’d leave silently one day…

Quinton often complained he was cold lately, and he even had to wrap himself up in a coat with a heater at home; it was probably the aftereffects of the medicine. In the end, Michael decided to forgive him for the time being—he even bought him a new coat and phone so that he wouldn’t fight with Carmen for her tablet and phone all the time.

Ever since getting his new phone, Quinton spent most of his time watching movies and dramas every day. He had recently taken a liking to Harry and watched all of his movies, including the drama Harry was currently acting in; he finished the whole series without missing a single episode.

Quinton was still using Michael’s account to watch these movies, so Michael could see what he had been doing.

‘War Dragon: What a trashy film! I wouldn’t even rate this with half a star.’

‘Doctor Invincible: Trashy film. Give me back my wasted time.’

‘The Winter Breakthrough: Cheap special effects. I heard that they used dyed huskies to impersonate wolves. Trash.’

‘The National Treasury Action: The male lead is too ugly. I refuse to look at ugly things.’

After reading the reviews Quinton had left on his movies, Michael was furious as he picked up the fly swatter again and gave Quinton a good beating. There were slapping sounds accompanied by Michael’s roar. “How dare you rate all the movies I’ve starred in so poorly?!”

Celine jumped out to protect Quinton. “Don’t hit Quinton! Don’t hit him! He is still young, so you can’t hit him!”

Michael was so angry he almost had a stroke. Ever since Quinton came to the house, several fly swatters had been smashed. How could such an unbelievable existence like him exist?! Maybe the stimulants have messed with his brain too.

The fuming Michael went back to his study. When Celine saw him leave, she smiled and comforted Quinton. “Don’t be afraid, Quinton. I will protect you!”

Quinton seemed unfazed as he lay down on the sofa and tinkered with his phone, his legs crossed in the air.

Just then, Cooper came back with his children; he saw Quinton sprawled on the sofa while playing with his phone. Strange sounds were coming out from the device, though.

“Let’s learn how to sound like a cat and meow together…”

“I have crossed mountains and seas, I have also crossed mountains of people…”

“I want to take you to the romantic land of Turkey…”

Apart from Sophia, everyone else in the family treated Cooper with respect; Quinton was the only one who dared to sit crossed-legged in front of Cooper.

“You just can’t use mud to hold the wall,” Cooper said in disgust.

Linus smiled. “It’s better to be a puddle of mud than for him to go out and kill people.”

Sophia nodded. Quinton’s current situation was better now; he stayed at home to watch Tiktok videos and read blogs, which was better than him going out to harm society. Whenever Sophia came back home, the first thing she’d do was to plop on the sofa and turn the television on.

There was another live broadcast of Sandra’s competition today. Sandra had used that medicine to enhance her physique, but the adverse effects were also quite severe; any kind of emotional outburst would induce a variety of adverse effects.

She was foaming at the mouth previously; what will happen this time round?

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1213

Before watching the broadcast, Sophia decided to send out a tweet so that the drama wouldn’t die down.

She pondered for a while before name-dropping the person in her tweet.

‘How will our Mermaid Princess perform today? Let’s wait and see what happens!’

Soon enough, the Internet blew up once her tweet was posted.

Everyone knew that Sophia had been sued by Sandra ever since she dissed the latter, and their lawsuit was just around the corner. People thought that she would keep a low profile for a while, yet she sent out another tweet.

After posting it, Sophia ignored her phone and focused on watching television.

As it turned on, the game was already in full swing.

“Allow me to comment on the game for our viewers at home. As you can see, our world champion—Miss Sandra Mitchell—is already in first place at the beginning of the match, putting her in an absolute advantage once again.”

In the live broadcast, Sandra was swimming in the water like a mermaid. This was a big international event held abroad, and Sandra came in first place once again with absolute advantage.

Fans from inside and outside the television gasped in astonishment.

Sandra came out of the water and waved happily at the audience, her exquisite and waterproof makeup making her look as though she had a beauty filter on.

The commentator sounded excited. “Congratulations to Miss Mitchell, who has broken her own world record! Let’s cheer for Miss Mitchell!”

Sophia stared at the television quietly. Quinton, who had been lying down while playing with his phone earlier, sat up to watch the live broadcast attentively.

Cooper had found out from Michael about Quinton and Sophia’s recent partnership which involved selling stolen goods. He lectured Quinton with a cold and stern look while saying, “Stay away from my daughter! If I see you leading my daughter astray again, I will kill you!”

Quinton rolled his eyes. Why would your daughter need me to lead her astray? She’s already bad to her bones.

Even though he was also selling illegal drugs, he still had some conscience in him; he’d instruct his buyers to control their dosage. After all, half a dosage taken once a month was more than enough for women.

Instead, Sophia had informed Sandra to take one every day.

Not only is she taking her money, she’s also taking her life. What a scary businesswoman.

Since Michael didn’t dare to reprimand Sophia, he told Cooper about it and hoped that the latter would teach her a lesson.

True enough, Cooper tried his best to lecture Sophia as he said, “Don’t associate yourself with this person so much in the future!”

Sophia was busy watching the live broadcast as she waved a hand and snapped impatiently. “Okay, okay! I understand.”

It was obvious she wasn’t really paying attention.

Cooper gently reprimanded Sophia because he was afraid that if he came off too strong, she would get too upset.

During the live broadcast, Sandra waved excitedly at the audience from the pool. The high definition camera seemed to only capture her as it zoomed toward her face without missing any of her expressions.

Although the second and third place winners were also Cethosians, they seemed to have become completely invisible to the crowd.

All of a sudden, a shudder passed through Sandra’s body as she climbed out of the pool in a panic, looking as though something was about to happen.

However, it was too late. As soon as she came out of the water, an indescribable color slowly spread out from where she had been positioned before.

There were still two athletes in the pool; when they saw the indescribable colors rippling toward them, they fled the pool like they had just seen a ghost.

The whole scene was in chaos. The camera hurriedly switched scenes, but the audience still saw the circle of indescribable colors spreading out with Sandra in the center.

The family in front of the television were absolutely dumbfounded.

It seems like Sandra wasn’t able to contain her bowel movements in the pool!

As a result, Sandra could not bring herself to receive her trophy and had long fled the scene. Meanwhile, the audience remained stunned by the indescribable scene in front of them.

It was the first time a swimmer had experienced incontinence in the pool during an international competition. Even though Cethos’ national team won all the winning titles in the competition, they had also become the national laughing stock.

That night, no one ate dinner.

The moment anyone closed their eyes, all they could see was the indescribable scene; they might even vomit yesterday’s meal.

Likewise, Quinton had no appetite as he went back to his room and played with his phone. All of a sudden, Michael came in and threw a packet of diapers at him.

“These are Pleiades’ leftovers—you can use it as you like.”

Quinton was speechless.

After Michael left, Quinton stared at the diaper for a long time and decided that it was better to secretly stock it up.

Just in case…

Ever since this incident, Sandra became globally famous. After all, she was the first national athlete to experience incontinence in the pool.

She had an epilepsy episode the last time, and it was incontinence now.

What was going to happen next time?

After the incident, the Mitchell Family was completely silent.

Sandra immediately left the competition and had someone else collect her trophy. She came back to the country with humiliation, not daring to watch the news or even read the comments left on the Internet. Instead, she locked herself in the room as soon as she got back to the Mitchell Family.

That day was the most humiliating day of her life—she had embarrassed herself in front of the world!

Although she won the championship, she still ended up as a global laughing stock.

The reputation that I’ve worked so hard for!

There were many discussions about Sandra being infected with a strange disease. As Sophia had claimed, was it an adverse reaction from the stimulants that Sandra was taking?

In the face of skepticism, the national team publicized Sandra’s urine and blood tests. Soon, everything returned to normal again.

Since the Mitchell Family and national team didn’t clarify what was wrong with Sandra, the public speculated that she had caught a strange disease. However, her hospital results indicated that everything was normal.

Nonetheless, the impact of that particular incident in the pool was so great that the national team was forced to suspend all of Sandra’s upcoming events.

In just a few days, everything turned upside down once more.

The news of her suspension and the discrediting of her status caused Cethos’ mainstream media to shun her as newspapers and magazines published photos of her incontinence during the sports event.

When she heard that Alex had returned, Sandra rushed to Alex’s study to talk to him. She needed to go back to the competition; after all, she had the magic medicine which would allow her to win the championship. The previous two times were just minor accidents, and she was certain that she would not make the same mistake for the third time.

Much to her surprise, she saw a helper leading Alex’s lawyer into his office.

What is he doing here?

Sandra hid outside the door and tried to eavesdrop on their conversation inside. Suddenly, she heard the lawyer’s voice. “I have revised your will according to your wishes, Mr. Mitchell. All the shares and properties are now at the disposal of your son, Albert. Miss Mitchell’s five percent of shares are under Albert’s name as well. Once you have confirmed it, please sign here.”

Alex proceeded to sign the will, complaining as he said, “She really is a shameful and illegitimate daughter. What a useless thing! She only brings disgrace to this family.”

That wasn’t a father feeling exasperated for his daughter, but rather a person’s disgust and annoyance toward a useless tool.

When Sandra heard those words, her whole world turned upside down. She was filled with hatred as she clenched her fists tightly, but there was nothing she could do.

I have done so much for the Mitchell Family. Yet, all I’ve gotten in return is being called a ‘useless tool’! Since you’ve decided to be so heartless, don’t blame me for my disloyalty, Alex! If you won’t give me the inheritance, then I will take it myself! I won’t be a fool and act upon it myself, though… I heard that Albert’s kindergarten will have its year-end performance soon; since Sophia’s daughter also studies at that kindergarten, I’ll just appear at that time!

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1214

The kindergarten’s final year performance was approaching, so Carmen dragged Cooper over to the Yard Family.

“Let’s go, Grandpa! Let’s go get Miss Beautiful to come and see my performance.”

Carmen was known as the prettiest and most ambitious kindergartener. Her whole family would naturally come and watch her performance, but she really wanted to invite Anna over as well.

As Carmen dragged him along, Cooper didn’t seem too enthusiastic about the idea. Nonetheless, his feet moved uncontrollably.

He knew that he still couldn’t forget Anna, but he also knew that they could no longer be together like before.

Yet, he wasn’t able to control the love he felt for her.

The last time Anna was sick, he visited her briefly before he stopped going over. However, he didn’t stop Carmen from stealing her father’s roses and sending them to Anna every day under Cooper’s name.

Meanwhile, Anna had been recuperating and rarely went out of the house; her face brightened up when she saw that Cooper had come to visit her.

“You’re here, Mr. Mitchell. Please come and have a seat.”

Anna invited Cooper into the living room as the latter sat down silently while Carmen jumped into Anna’s arms. “Grandpa and I have come to see you, Miss Beautiful!”

Anna kissed Carmen on the cheeks and replied affectionately, “You’re so sweet, Carmen. That is why I like you the most.”

After greeting Anna, Carmen kept winking at Cooper, who was sulking on the sofa.

Cooper felt reluctant but there was a tug at his heartstrings—he wanted to be with Anna and spend time with her.

Finally, he mustered the courage to pull out a pink invitation and handed it to Anna. “Mrs. Yard, this is an invitation to Carmen’s year-end performance at her kindergarten. Carmen hopes that you can go and see her performance.”

Anna took the invitation and read it; it clearly stated that Carmen’s parents were invited to the kindergarten.

Anna teased Carmen and said, “The invitation is for Carmen’s parents and grandparents, so I can’t go.”

Carmen replied innocently, “It’s okay, I’ll just tell the teacher that Miss Beautiful is my grandmother.”

Anna froze for a while, but she smiled as she glanced over and saw Cooper’s embarrassed face.

“Don’t be ridiculous!” Cooper scolded, but his heart was thumping fast.

Anna hugged Carmen and laughed. “I’ll be Carmen’s grandmother for a day, okay?”

“Yes! Yes!” Carmen exclaimed.

Anna hugged and kissed Carmen again with an unusual feeling of happiness in her heart.

…

When Carmen came home, Sophia gave her a long lecture.

“How can Miss Beautiful be your grandmother? Don’t talk nonsense! Don’t simply call her names!”

Carmed pouted. “Miss Beautiful has already agreed to come, so you can’t stop her from coming to the kindergarten!”

Sophia was speechless.

She wanted to say something bad about Anna so that Carmen would stop playing with her, but as soon as the words came to mind, she swallowed them back.

What an ill-fated relationship! At the end of the day, Anna is still my mother.

She was more worried about Cooper.

Many years ago, Annabel had already cheated him once; there was bound to be a second time…

Who knows if she has an ulterior motive now? Is there a hidden purpose for coming back?

She was Anna Yard, the President of the Ronney Group! She was no longer Annabel Johnson!

Despite Sophia’s objections, Anna had arrived together with Callum and Cade.

Other kindergarteners only had one or two parents, but Carmen’s family members came in three cars.

Because they were a star-studded family with Carmen’s famous parents, uncle and grandfather, they were seated in the front row.

Sophia saw many of her acquaintances with their children; Harry and Sarah had come with Hope and Poppy, who were supposed to perform together with Carmen. There was also Hale and Gwen together with Ashton and Audrey.

The one who stole the show was Maisie, the only kindergartener with two dads.

The three babies Sophia had bought back then settled in with their families and were all attending this kindergarten together. The four kids had rehearsed their programs and were ready to go on stage.

Carmen was very happy as she brought over a large group of kindergarteners to show off her parents.

“This is my Daddy. Don’t be fooled by his ordinary appearance—his real identity is actually Superman! He has fought monsters and aliens, so the earth depends on him to protect it!”

Michael was speechless.

“This is my Mommy, and she is a bossy president! She’s a super bossy president of a company!”

Sophia was also speechless.

After that, she introduced Linus and Cooper. “This is my uncle and my grandpa!”

Then when she saw Anna, she proudly introduced her and said, “This is my future grandma!”

Anna pursed her lips and smiled gently. Although she didn’t correct Carmen, Cooper felt quite embarrassed.

Callum and Cade, who were not introduced, protested in defiance. “What about me, eh?”

Carmen pouted and introduced reluctantly, “These two want to be my uncle, but I haven’t agreed to it yet.”

Since the year-end performance hadn’t started yet, children were running around the venue while the parents who arrived sat in the kindergarten auditorium and whispered amongst themselves. Sophia met a few of her business partners and started to talk with them.

Meanwhile, Carmen led a group of children and surrounded Michael; they wanted to take group photos and get hugs from him. Ever since Michael had appeared on ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’, he had become the most popular dad of the year, transitioning from the national husband into the national father of Cethos. He was popular among children, and everyone wanted to be the baby of Taylor Murray’s family.

Sophia spotted a familiar child who had fifty dollars in his hand. The kid probably wanted to take a picture with Michael, but he didn’t dare to go forward because the price of a picture had gone up. Hence, he paced around at a slight distance.

“Aha! It’s you!”

She grabbed the child swiftly, and the child was almost scared to death when he saw her—he even struggled to run away.

“I don’t lift Carmen’s skirt anymore!”

The terrified Albert cried out as he backed away.

Last year, Albert was a bully in the kindergarten. He lifted Carmen’s skirt and was beaten up by her, and Sophia taught him a lesson when she found out about it. Since then, he has been quite a good boy.

Carmen transferred to Riverdale for a while and had just come back this semester. They were attending the same kindergarten together again, but Sophia was more worried about Carmen bullying him than the other way around.

She glanced at the space next to him. As she grabbed onto him, no one was there to stop her. Sophia asked curiously, “Where are your parents and your sister?”

Albert’s little face was covered with sadness. “They’re busy, so they can’t make it.”

Sophia’s heart clenched. Her child was pampered by everyone, yet he didn’t even have a parent there.

All of a sudden, Derek came over and Albert ran up happily toward him. “Derek!”

Derek explained, “I saw him the last time I came to help pick Stanley’s child up; whenever his parents can’t make it, I’d step in during his parent-teacher conference.”

Albert seemed to be close with Derek as they held hands and left together. Although Derek had completely cut off all ties with his father, he wouldn’t hold a grudge from a previous generation against an innocent child.

“Albert, do you want to take a picture together with Carmen’s dad?”

“Will Carmen beat me?”

“No she won’t.”

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1215

Meanwhile, Carmen was using Michael for ‘business’ while children were lining up for a photo with him; each photo op cost 50 bucks.

Michael was reluctant to show his face for ‘business’, but Carmen had become so good at it that her little bag was bulging with all the money she was collecting in secret.

Hope was recording accounts; Ashton was in charge of maintaining order; and Maisie was in charge of taking pictures since she had a good eye for it. This tenacious yet illegal team continued to grow stronger even though they had been banned a few times—they even managed to hire several new employees with very clear internal division of responsibilities.

The kindergarten had turned a blind eye toward their illegal activities since Carmen was the class representative and was very authoritative; ever since her popular dad went on ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’, her popularity grew tremendously. Now, everyone called him ‘Daddy Taylor’.

Hence, no one dared to cause trouble in front of Carmen; they were worried that once they were on her list of troublemakers, they would no longer be able to take pictures with ‘Daddy Taylor’.

The kindergarten teachers had repeatedly told Sophia that her daughter had the potential to be a leader—she was especially good at managing people, and her role as the class representative had the children behaving very obediently. Evidently, she had some strong genes.

Cooper realized that the children would come over to his side after they were done with Michael. He knew the flat fee for a picture was 50 bucks; he thought that he’d be worth 25 bucks at the very least, but he was actually a freebie.

Derek brought the nervous, skittish Albert to Michael as the young boy excitedly asked for a photo with ‘Daddy Taylor’.

He even dreamed of having a father like Taylor; his parents were always so busy with their work that they rarely talked to Albert.

When Carmen saw Albert, she pouted and said disapprovingly, “I don’t like him because he lifted my friends’ skirt! Daddy, don’t take pictures with naughty children!”

Albert scurried behind Derek and felt upset. Meanwhile, Sophia quickly chipped in and said, “It’s okay, let him take a picture just this once! Look, Al has already changed and doesn’t lift peoples’ skirts anymore. In the future, you can’t bully Al!”

Albert quickly nodded. He was a good boy and hadn’t caused any trouble lately.

Carmen pouted and said reluctantly, “Well… I won’t give you a discount, though!”

She took Albert’s 50 bucks into her pocket and glowered at him, looking as though Albert had defiled her father.

“Go on.”

Derek picked up Albert and placed him into Michael’s arms while Maisie took their photo.

As soon as the picture was taken, Carmen urged hastily and said, “Hurry down once you are done. There’s extra charges for extra time.”

Albert jumped up in excitement as Derek carried him to Cooper.

Cooper felt that the child seemed familiar when he saw Albert. He asked Derek, “Whose child is this?”

Derek replied straightforwardly, “This is Alex’s only son, Albert.”

He knew that Cooper would never take out his anger on Albert because of who his father was.

Sure enough, Cooper did not and even carried Albert into his arms for a photo.

After getting his photo taken with Cooper, he left happily together with Derek.

Meanwhile, Cooper stared at Albert and sighed.

“What are you sighing about?”

All of a sudden, Anna spoke up as she sat beside Cooper.

Cooper replied, “I’m just lamenting at how the once glorious Mitchell Family has fallen apart and I’m mostly responsible for it.”

If he hadn’t faked his death to escape, the Michell Family wouldn’t be in this current state.

That fateful year, he didn’t leave because the Michel Family was rich—it was just a way for him to escape reality.

Now, the decision he regretted twenty years ago had finally come back to haunt him; he suddenly realized that he had missed out on so many things.

Anna smiled and kept quiet. She was dressed in a low-profile manner with sunglasses and a scarf as she sat beside Cooper in silence.

She knew what Cooper was worried about; she had heard about the downfall of the Mitchell Family, but what did Cooper have to do with it? It was all fate!

However, she admired Cooper’s commitment and sense of responsibility.

The closer she got to Cooper, the more she realized that this man was a treasure. There were countless glittering lights around him, looking like fireflies that couldn’t be captured.

Callum and Cade were sitting behind them as they watched Cooper and Anna whispering to each other; it seemed like things were looking pretty good for them.

Callum seemed to be in a deep thought as his eyes took on a faraway look.

The three of them were dependent on each other. To the public, Anna seemed to be cold and distant; she looked like a mother who didn’t care for her own sons.

Truthfully, Anna cared about them more than anyone. She was actually a gentle and loving mother! Although they did not come from her body, they were her own flesh and blood.

Her cold, distant demeanor was just a camouflage to protect them and herself.

She was still young and had a life of her own, so the Yard brothers hoped that she would find her true love. Cooper seemed to be a great choice…

Soon, Carmen’s performance began. She was dressed up as a flower fairy as she sang and danced on stage. Her performance was very successful, and she even gave a speech as the most outstanding student of the kindergarten at the end.

After the performance ended, everyone wanted to take their families over to Michael’s house for a big meal. Stanley asked around and found out that Michael had prepared several big fishes—they were going to have a feast.

Carmen’s performance was successful and she even received flowers from the kindergarten. She jumped around in joy and said, “Miss Beautiful, come to our home for dinner tonight!”

Sophia was about to discourage her but Anna immediately agreed. “That sounds great. Let’s go to Carmen’s house for dinner tonight!”

Cooper didn’t say anything but smiled gently. Then, Sophia turned to look at Michael.

Michael also felt that it was dangerous to let Anna close to his house, but Carmen just liked her company.

What a sinful fate…

Anna was certainly not coming alone and would bring her sons. Stanley, Harry and their families all seemed like they were harped on eating Michael’s supply of food.

Michael frowned. He bred a few fishes that were only taken out during big events—these people were too shameless.

While the group of people drove away from the kindergarten, they saw Derek and Albert at the entrance of the kindergarten, looking as though they were waiting for someone.

Sophia stopped the car and rolled down the window. “Let’s go, Derek. Come over to my house and have some fish!”

Derek looked embarrassed. “I will wait for someone to pick Albert up before I head over.”

Sophia glanced over at Albert’s sad face as he carried his small school bag while waiting under the rain and getting soaked all over.

“Why don’t you come over and have a meal at our house, Al? Get Derek to leave a phone number for the kindergarten teacher. When your family arrives, they can come to our house to pick you up.”

Although tension between them and Alex were high, she could not be so cold-hearted to such a young child.

Albert was overjoyed as he nodded. “Alright!”

Derek carried him into Sophia’s car and left his phone number with the kindergarten teacher.

An expressionless man in black was in the car across the street. He dialed a number. “The Young Master has gone to the Mitchell Family’s house. The plan was successful.”

My Dreamy Old Husband Chapter 1216

Shortly after, they arrived at Villa No. 8 of The Imperial.

“Wow, only big families would have so much cured meat!”

Whenever Stanley came to visit during this time each year, he’d lament about the amount of cured meat in Sophia’s house—they could practically eat it as rice.

Anna had also arrived; it was her second visit, but she hadn’t expected Sophia to make so much cured meat at home.

She felt an unusual sense of familiarity in this place as she looked up at the bright red meat that hung above her. Then, she closed her eyes and smelled the air as her mind was filled with this unknown familiarity.

What a strange feeling…

She opened her eyes. With a composed demeanor, she smiled and asked, “Why does your family make so much cured meat?”

Cooper replied, “When my wife was alive, cured meat was her favorite.”

After that, he looked up at the hung cured meat and smiled, looking as if he had seen the person who lived in his memory through the cured meat in front of him.

Anna turned to look at Cooper. There was a soft glow that outlined the side of his face, making him look like a gentle soul.

She knew that Cooper had been widowed for many years and was still nostalgic about his late wife.

There is rarely such an infatuation in this world….

As the group walked in the door, Michael felt a throbbing headache.

They’re all here for the free food!

The last time Anna came to Cooper’s house, she hadn’t had the time to look around. This time, she decided to take a good look.

“Have you always lived here?” she asked Cooper.

Copper replied, “Yes, I’ve been living with my daughter and son-in-law.”

Cooper took Anna around the house and even brought her to visit her favorite Villa No. 1. Meanwhile, in order to stall the Yard brothers from disturbing them, Carmen was making small talk with them.

“This is my own royal cup. It has my name on it.” She took out her own cups, plates and bottles and shared them with Callum and Cade.

Callum also took out his own ‘royal’ cup enthusiastically. “This is my royal cup. Look, it has my name on it too.”

“Your cup is so ugly!” Carmen pouted and said discontentedly.

Suddenly, she caught sight of something and rushed over like a little beast.

“Daddy, don’t hug Al! Al is a naughty boy!”

It turned out that Michael was carrying Albert. Even though he was Alex’s son, he was nothing similar to his father. As soon as they reached home, Albert ran after Michael and asked Daddy Taylor for a hug.

Michael had just carried him before he was discovered by Carmen.

Michael frowned. Why weren’t you this protective earlier on when it was 50 bucks for a hug? Where has the gusto to betray me for 50 bucks gone?

“Al is our guest, so let him stay for a little longer,” answered Michael.

Meanwhile, Albert cowered fearfully in Michael’s arms as his big round eyes stared at Carmen; it reminded him of the fear he felt when he was beaten to the ground by Carmen.

He used to be a three-year-old child that did some inappropriate things, but he had changed for the better. I’m a good boy now, and Daddy Taylor likes to hug good boys.

Carmen burst into tears all of a sudden, so Michael hastily put Albert down to coax her.

But when he put Albert down, the latter also burst into tears.

Hearing the cries of both children, Harry’s daughter—Poppy—also started crying. This triggered Maisie and Audrey as they cried; even Celine’s daughter, who had just fallen asleep, woke up crying.

The children were crying, the dogs and cats were howling, and even the big rooster was roaring outside the door.

The living room felt like it was going to explode.

Quinton rolled his eyes. Damn, it’s noisy!

The kids cried so loud that they almost blew the roof off. Seeing this, the parents rushed over to console their kids.

While Sophia comforted Carmen, she realized that Carmen wouldn’t let Albert hug Michael even if the latter wanted to pay for it. Albert tried to ask for a hug again and the two kids started to cry—it seemed as though they wanted to compare who could cry louder.

“Alright, come to me.” Linus reached out to hug Albert. Although Linus’ reputation was not as famous as Michael’s, the show had come to the house and showed a few scenes with his face. The Internet loved him so much that the third season of ‘Where Are We Going, Dad?’ had been asking him to come on the show with Carmen, but he refused. He didn’t mind hugging Albert.

Unexpectedly, Carmen rushed over again as she wailed loudly and said, “Albert is not allowed to hug you, uncle!”

Linus quickly withdrew his hands. Soon, Cooper and Anna came back from their walk to find that the house was in chaos. Cooper quickly rushed over and carried the crying Albert.

When she noticed that Carmen was about to cry again, Sophia took out her phone and pretended to take a picture of Carmen. “If you cry again, I’ll post a picture of your face without makeup on Twitter!”

Carmen immediately stopped crying and looked over at Sophia’s phone. “Where is it?”

Sophia threatened her and said, “You can’t bully Al! If you bully him again, I won’t delete the picture!”

Carmen was forced to agree as she pouted with tears flowing from her eyes.

As Sophia carried her away, the rest of the crying children were also comforted by their own parents.

Soon, the world was finally quiet; the adults were rubbing their ears to soothe their eardrums.

Raising a child is like raising a group of ducklings—any time they get upset, they will start quacking together…

After the chaos finally died down, Sophia separated Albert and Carmen from each other. Albert was left alone, but he was satisfied that he had Cooper carrying him.

Cooper seemed to enjoy carrying Albert. He actually liked all of the children in the Mitchell Family; no matter how they were born or who their parents were, they were still a part of the Mitchell Family and represented the hope of the family’s future. The nature of a human being had always been good in the beginning, and Albert was still such a young boy.

Albert sat in Cooper’s arms and didn’t want to leave. His small hands clung tightly on Cooper’s shoulder as he glanced at him with his wide eyes. Albert giggled happily when Cooper held his little hands to touch the husky, and the man watched the young boy with a tender smile.

Anna shook her head. “I’ve never met someone like you.”

Someone who is able to treat his enemy’s son with such kindness.

Cooper rubbed Albert’s head and said, “They are all children from the Mitchell Family, they’re all the same…”

To Cooper, children of the Mitchell Family like Sophia and Linus ranked first; the ones who had unknown origins always came in second.

Derek kept checking his phone and even called the kindergarten several times, but there was no news of the Mitchell Family picking Albert up.

What’s going on?

Even though the Mitchell Family had fallen from its former glory, Alex was still a billionaire and the president of Mitchell’s Technology. Albert is his only son, so why is no one picking him up?

Derek felt uneasy and just wanted to quickly send Albert back to Alex after dinner.

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After everyone had finished their meal, Carmen and Albert finally decided to reconcile with each other.

“Come here and shake hands with Al. From now on, both of you are good friends, so you can’t bully Al at the kindergarten anymore!” Sophia carried Carmen over and made her shake hands with Albert.

Carmen pouted while she shook Albert’s hand. “I am your leader now. In the future, you’ll have to listen to me and not be a naughty boy anymore! Otherwise, I will never befriend you.”

Albert nodded shyly.

He had always wanted to be friends with Carmen, but he was afraid of her little fists; he was excited that he was now Carmen’s friend.

When Derek saw that they had reconciled, he picked Albert up and was prepared to send him back home. But as soon as he carried Albert, the little boy suddenly started coughing violently.

“Al, what’s wrong with you?” Derek was startled.

Albert’s cute little face crumpled in pain as he couldn’t speak from all the coughing; it seemed as though his lungs were about to be coughed out.

Albert cried loudly as he opened his mouth and looked at Derek with a pained expression. He looked like he wanted to say something, but a gurgling sound came from his throat.

Derek was terrified. “What’s wrong with you, Al? Don’t freak me out!”

Albert’s mouth opened wide as his legs stiffened and his fingernails dug deeply onto Derek’s neck and drew blood. Tears kept streaming down from his face when all of a sudden, Albert spat a mouthful of blood all over Derek’s clothes.

Albert is vomiting blood!

Everyone was taken aback by the sudden scene as Michael urged Sophia to take the children away. Meanwhile, Carmen glanced back with concern.

“Get the doctor and Quinton!”

Michael yelled at Linus while carrying Albert. Linus rushed toward the doghouse to get Quinton, who was busy playing with his phone.

Cooper watched Michael carry Albert into the infirmary as he and Derek paced anxiously in front of the door.

When Sophia left the children inside the house and came out, she saw the private doctor rushing in and out of the infirmary.

On the other hand, Cooper was walking the Yard Family out.

Anna looked at Cooper worriedly and said, “It’s not a coincidence that something happened to this child in your house. You have to be careful.”

Cooper’s face was expressionless. “I know.”

That would explain why no one was there to pick up the president of Mitchell Technology’s son from kindergarten—they were waiting for him here.

If Alex’s only son died on Cooper’s turf, there was no way he would be able to get away with it.

“I will take care of it,” Cooper replied calmly.

He sent Anna to the entrance and hastily went back. With that, Anna left with her sons.

On the way, Callum spoke up. “If Alex really intended to drag Cooper down, this move is particularly dangerous.”

He actually risked his own son’s life!

Anna remained silent.

No matter what, Cooper is more than capable of solving this matter.

At Villa No. 8, Quinton came out of the infirmary that was filled with a lot of basic equipment and was able to run some tests.

Although Quinton had a doctorate in medicine, he was a physician. Obviously, Albert was experiencing an internal medical issue.

He took off his mask with hands covered in blood and said gruffly, “Multiple internal organs are bleeding profusely and multiple organs are going into failure. I conclude that he has only less than two hours to live.”

Everyone was shocked.

This child was just here for a meal; how did it become like this?

Albert was fine when he was eating earlier—he could even talk, dance and cry loudly. He also seemed fine when he was in the kindergarten for a whole day, so why would he suddenly vomit blood and die?

Everyone was in deep thought as Derek yelled out anxiously, “Send him to the hospital now!”

Quinton shook his head. “He was injected with a deadly kind of acute toxin which is causing his internal organs to corrode very quickly. Moreover, in order to cover up the symptoms, they even injected a stimulant so that Albert wouldn’t feel any different. Once he starts to vomit blood, the chances of saving him are very slim. Even if you send him to the hospital now, I’m afraid it’s too late.”

Everyone took in a sharp breath.

What a cruel way to inflict harm on such a young child!

What kind of person would do this?!

The veins on Cooper’s forehead twitched as he quivered with anger.

All of a sudden, Maria ran over anxiously. “This is bad—many of the Mitchell Family members are in front of the gate asking for the child.”

A cold shiver ran down their backs as realization dawned over them.

The Mitchell Family were not there to pick up the child earlier, but they had coincidentally picked such a time to take Albert home.

However, Albert’s situation was not optimistic and there was a possibility that Cooper would be carrying a dead child back to Alex…

Alex’s only son had come over to Cooper’s house to play and ended up dead—that would further complicate the hostile relationship between Alex and Cooper!

Derek looked blankly at Albert through the half-opened infirmary door and sat down helplessly on the ground. Although the boy had fallen into a coma, he was still coughing up blood.

“I’m sorry. It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault…”

He was too naive and thought that the battle between adults wouldn’t involve the children; he thought that Alex would just give him a call and reprimand him after finding out.

He didn’t expect that they would treat a child like this—Albert was only four years old!

Regardless if Cooper ended up with a murder charge or Albert dying in a tragic death, he could never forgive himself.

Derek was filled with sadness, regret and anger as he cried. Meanwhile, Sean patted his shoulder and tried to comfort him.

Albert’s life was withering away, and there was nothing the doctor could do. On the surveillance video, Alex and the Mitchell Family were banging against the gate, threatening to call the police.

The white-haired Alex was like a red-eyed beast as he bellowed, “Give me back my son, Cooper! Give me back my son!”

His voice was laced with grief; no one knew whether he was truly anxious or faking his anger.

On the contrary, Cooper laughed instead of being angry when he saw that scene.

No matter what happens to Albert today, his father is the most guilty of them all!

Sophia, on the other hand, started to tremble when she saw the bright red blood.

How can this happen…

Michael held her when a sudden thought came to his mind. He yelled at Quinton, “Quick—freeze Albert now!”

Everyone regained their senses as they hurriedly pushed Albert to the basement. There was a special machine which could freeze people, and it had just been shipped from Africa two days ago. Although they had only tested it a few times, it seemed as though Albert was not fated to die.

At least, the freezing process could buy him some time.

Albert was moved to the basement and kept frozen in the machine. Cooper took one look at the poor child and left the basement.

At the entrance, Alex and the Mitchell Family were still banging the gate and tried to force their way in. The police brought Alex over to the door and asked Cooper to hand over the child.

Cooper turned to Alex and the police. “Get out.”

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Alex charged forward with bloodshot eyes and grabbed Cooper’s collar. “Give me back my son! Give me back my son!”

Cooper instantly punched Alex in front of the police. “You don’t deserve to have a son!”

How could you, as a father, not know that your son was fed with such a deadly drug? Why didn’t you ask questions when no one was there to pick up the child? Did you only remember you had a son at such a late hour?

Every child of the Mitchell Family was the future of the family, so that was why Cooper never gave up on any child. Even though Alex and his lineage had been removed from the family’s genealogy, he made a rule that this did not apply to any child until they were eighteen, and they were welcomed to return if they wanted to return to the Mitchell Family.

Alex had gone mad as he jumped on Cooper and tried to wrestle the latter.

His hair had turned white from worrying about the poor performance of the Mitchell Family’s business. By the time he had gotten back to the Mitchell Family, he learned that Albert was missing.

The person who was sent to pick up the child came back and reported that Albert had been snatched by Cooper, and there were already people on the way to take the child back.

He grew more anxious when he realized the child had not come home, so he personally came to ask for his son.

Alex’s suspicions were confirmed when he saw Cooper’s attitude. He knew that Cooper had taken Albert to blackmail him!

“Give me back my son! My son!” Alex yelled out raspily. He was like an enraged monster who had just lost his only son.

Meanwhile, both Sandra and Mrs. Mitchell were screaming and crying by the side. “Give me back my brother!”

She cried sadly, but it just seemed false and malicious in Sophia’s eyes.

Judging by Alex’s reaction, it probably wasn’t him. After all, Albert was his only direct descendant, so Alex would never harm him.

Cooper and Sophia unanimously glanced toward Sandra, who was desperately crying on the side…

Some people have a history with such incidents…

The policemen also felt that Cooper was at fault, but Cooper was a powerful man in the spotlight and in the field of energy, so it would seem inappropriate to arrest him directly.

“Mr. Mitchell, about this…”

Cooper glanced at the police officer and said considerately, “This is a matter of the Mitchell Family.”

The policeman felt goosebumps all over him. He was afraid to deal with rich families and their inner conflicts.

Sandra jumped out and yelled, “This is no longer considered a family matter—he kidnapped my brother!”

Sophia immediately snapped back and said, “Why are you so sure that it was my dad who kidnapped your brother and not your brother who came over to play by himself?”

It was as though she knew that her plan had worked; Sandra replied with confidence, “In that case, you should just hand my brother over!”

Albert had been transported out of the house through the back door by Quinton and Derek, so it was impossible to bring him out now. Sandra was even more certain that Albert was dead and that there was no way Cooper could get away with it.

Sophia said, “What are you nervous about? Don’t worry, your brother is fine. Derek took him out to play, so they should be back in a couple of days.”

Sandra clearly knew whether Albert was fine or not.

That medicine was more poisonous than paraquat, so Albert must be dead by now.

As long as Albert’s dead body was carried out, there was no way Cooper could escape from this.

“I’d know if my brother is okay or not if you just let him out!”

Sandra knew that they couldn’t hand over Albert, so she said gloomily, “You’re not handing over my brother… Did you guys kill him?!”

Mrs. Mitchell fainted as soon as she heard that.

After all, a son from a woman of her age was considered to be their treasure.

Meanwhile, Sophia rolled her eyes and snickered.

“That’s right, we’ve poisoned your brother. What are you going to do about it?”

She glanced at Alex and Sandra. “Are you going to do what you did the last time and pose with your brother’s urn under the office’s building for us to pay with our lives?”

All of a sudden, everyone remembered clearly; previously, Sandra and Alex had bombarded the downstairs of the office building with their prayers.

Back then, the live broadcast clearly showed that Derek was standing outside the crowd as he watched Sandra and Alex holding some prayers for him; Sandra even tried to blackmail Derek.

This time, it was the same recipe with the same flavor—the plot was pretty much the same.

Even the police grew suspicious about it.

Sandra and Alex might be doing the same thing again!

The police had given high priority to that last case because it caused a big stir on the Internet and everyone was waiting for the truth. The group of police officers stayed up late working overtime to investigate the case and didn’t find anything from it. After that, Alex even made a big fuss at the police station and ended up as a laughing stock.

The police closed the case by comparing Derek’s DNA and confirmed that he was indeed Alex’s son—he wasn’t dead at all. However, Sandra and Alex refused to admit it and claimed that it was all Cooper’s conspiracy. They insisted that Derek had long been killed by them.

The police were so exasperated that they wanted to throw the DNA samples at their faces!

Not wanting to get involved with the matter this time, the police felt that rich families were really complicated.

However, Sandra knew that this was different than the last time.

She was humiliated when she had missed the last time and let Derek slip away.

This time, she had fed the medicine herself! She had personally controlled every aspect of the plan.

This plan was designated like this because she knew that Derek visited Albert often.

She picked the right time to feed Albert and sent the person who was supposed to fetch him away. Hence, Albert could only go with Derek.

She had calculated everything perfectly; by the time they realized Albert had been poisoned, it was already too late.

If everything goes according to plan, Albert has become a corpse.

We just need to see the corpse, and Cooper will not be able to escape this!

Sandra said with conviction, “We will know how he is if you hand him over right now! If you can’t hand over my brother, that only means that you have harmed him!”

Sophia laughed. “Unfortunately, your brother is really not with me! He’s been taken away by Derek! We really can’t hand him over even if we wanted to! You should just look for Derek if you need anything!”

They would never be able to find Derek anyway.

Sandra cried as she stomped her feet and looked like a desperate sister. “You’re lying! Derek is one of you—even the surveillance cameras in the kindergarten showed that Derek took Albert into your car!”

Then, she pointed at Cooper and cried. “Cooper, you’re the head of the Mitchell Family! If something happens to my brother, you’ll be held responsible!”

Cooper hadn’t spoken for a while, but at that moment, he looked at Sandra and replied, “Since I am the head of the Mitchell Family, I have to be responsible for the family members. Albert is also a member of the Mitchell Family; if something happens on my turf, I will not shrink from any responsibility.”

Sandra was secretly overjoyed. With Cooper’s words, there was no way he could wiggle his way out of this one! She said coldly, “I hope that you will do as you say! I want all the Mitchell Family members to witness your words!”

She didn’t think there was anything wrong with her words until Cooper turned to Alex and said coldly, “Since you have acknowledged me as the head of the Mitchell Family, let me put down this order today—Alex, you have been deprived of Albert’s guardianship. From now on, I will raise him with the Mitchell Family!”

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Alex froze and spoke through gritted teeth, “Don’t you even dare think about it—I will never give you my son! I won’t let you take away my son and leave me without a successor!”

He thought that Cooper was trying to steal his son so that he would be left without a successor.

However, Cooper had already seen through everything.

Alex is unable to protect his son because someone around him wants that young boy dead!

He didn’t care about Alex’s family matters, but he definitely wanted to protect Albert.

After Cooper finished, he said coldly without waiting for Alex’s response, “It’s late at night, so please leave now.”

Sophia chipped in and said, “The child was taken away by Derek. You should go and look for him instead. Goodbye, officers!”

The policemen felt embarrassed as they quickly dragged Alex’s family out.

Meanwhile, Alex was still wailing and Sandra was still cursing.

There was no peace at The Imperial that night.

Sophia had dumped everything on Derek and temporarily held off Alex’s lineage. However, she and Cooper both knew that if Albert was really dead, they wouldn’t run away from their responsibilities.

Although it was late at night, all the lights were still on at Villa No. 8; Derek, Michael, Linus and Quinton had not returned from the hospital.

Meanwhile, Sean and Stanley stayed behind to wait for news.

In the middle of the night, Carmen suddenly came downstairs and sat down quietly next to Sophia, looking at her pitifully.

“What’s wrong, darling? Why aren’t you sleeping?” Sophia hugged her and whispered.

Carmen started to blame herself. “Mommy, is it because of the fight I had with Al that caused him to bleed?”

Albert’s sudden episode today had frightened the children to tears.

Sophia quickly reassured her. “It’s not your fault. Albert was sick—that’s why he was bleeding earlier. Now, he’s gone to the hospital.”

Carmen curled up in Sophia’s arms as she looked around sluggishly before she asked, “Mommy, is Albert going to die?”

Sophia didn’t answer and had no idea how to.

He’s just a four-year-old boy…

Sean, who was also sitting next to them, gently said, “Al will be fine. Don’t worry about it.”

Carmen’s eyes were wide open; she was so worried that she couldn’t sleep.

Sophia held her as they lay down on the sofa. Eventually, Carmen fell asleep in the wee hours of the morning.

Sophia carried Carmen upstairs and came back down to find Stanley and Sean huddled on the sofa. Sean was still awake while Stanley was sleeping soundly with Cash in his arms.

“You should get some sleep in the guest room, Sean.”

Sean opened his eyes and said, “I can’t sleep. Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is Albert vomiting blood.”

Sophia sighed and sat next to him. “If I hadn’t brought him back, maybe none of this would’ve happened.”

Sean laughed at her strange thoughts. “You should stop blaming yourself. You weren’t the one who harmed him.”

However, Sophia could neither laugh nor sleep; whenever she closed her eyes, all she could see was Albert vomiting blood…

It was almost dawn when Michael got home.

Since Albert’s situation was too serious and many hospitals were afraid to accept him, Linus had to send him to Michel Town in Africa. Fortunately, the freezing process had prevented his body from deteriorating any further, so there was a ray of hope for Albert.

Now, it all depended on Albert’s personal will power.

The special plane departed early in the morning with Linus, Quinton and Derek.

Meanwhile, Sophia was so worried about them that she had no energy to work.

Sandra had begun to cause trouble by spreading rumors about how Sophia and Cooper had harmed her brother all over the Internet.

Seeing Sandra on the Internet as she neared the point of madness, Sophia’s face darkened. She sent out the live broadcast of when Sandra tried to blackmail them by carrying out prayers for Derek to annoy the woman.

After that, she made a phone call to Gemma.

“How is the information coming along?”

Gemma replied, “There’s still an interesting part that hasn’t been collected.”

Sophia answered, “Send it to me.”

Gemma quickly sent the information over. Sophia looked at it and went to Cethos’ Sports Federation the next day to make a report with the information.

She had started to collect evidence of Sandra’s previous usage of stimulants.

After Sandra had won the championship back then, she was so engrossed in making money from the endorsements that she neglected training and her performance declined. In order to maintain her position, she used the stimulants.

Soon, Sophia’s report regarding Sandra—the world champion—was pushed to frontline news.

When Sandra learned about it, she was taken by surprise. However, she wasn’t bothered by it when she realized that it had happened a few years ago.

Since they couldn’t find anything about it back then, it was even more impossible now!

Besides, what can they possibly do about it if it’s true?

I am a holder of several world records—someone is bound to step in and protect me!

Furthermore, Sophia’s move had further confirmed her suspicions that Albert was already dead; Sophia was trying to divert attention.

I have to step up my game and put the blame on Albert’s death on Sophia and Cooper as soon as possible. Just like the last time, I want Cooper and Sophia to pay with their lives!

Alex, on the other hand, wanted nothing like that.

After the loss of his son, Alex seemed to have aged ten more years. His hair had gone all white, and even Mrs. Mitchell was bedridden.

Alex had three children—Natasha, Albert and a son who had been strangled by that ungrateful b*tch, Natasha.

Now, Alex could no longer bear the loss of his last son.

All of a sudden, Alex arrived downstairs at Mitchell Energy and Technology. He found Copper and kneeled down in front of him. “Cooper, I beg you—please let my son go. I’m almost 60 years old and I only have one son! Please, I’m begging you! No matter what conditions you want, I will fulfil them! If you want my property, I will give it to you!”

He knew Cooper’s nature. He wouldn’t harm a child for no reason, and he just wanted to use Albert to force Alex into submission.

However, Cooper didn’t even spare him a glance and walked away from him.

Alex chased after him and said, “I know you hate me for hurting you! The car accident back then was actually orchestrated by Jordan!”

However, Cooper pretended not to hear him despite uncovering the fact that Jordan was the actual mastermind back then.

Alex watched Cooper walk away as he was covered in tears. “My son… Where are you, Albert…”

When Sandra found out that Alex had gone to Cooper and even kneeled in front of the latter, she felt angry and humiliated with a burning sense of jealousy.

Alex had actually gone to kneel for someone else just for the sake of Albert!

It seems that this son is really important to him! At least, he’s more important than his illegitimate daughter who is not getting any of his inheritance!

However, Alex doesn’t know that his precious son is already dead!

All the riches from the Mitchell Family will belong to me!

I will even use Albert’s death to drag Cooper down!

After three days of resuscitation, Albert finally woke up in Michel Town, Africa. However, his kidneys were damaged and he needed a kidney transplant as soon as possible. It was as though he was fated to survive, for there was an organ that he could be paired with it. The transplant would start as soon as his body recovered.

Carmen had brought along her friends as they came all the way to visit him. She saw Albert through the window with tubes all over his body.

Carmen leaned against the window and said, “Al, hurry up and get better. The next time I won’t charge you money when you take a picture with my dad.”

Albert suddenly tried to open his eyes with great difficulty as they were half closed, but he looked toward Sophia and smiled. “I want Daddy Taylor.”

Sophia’s heart sank. He didn’t want his real father when he woke up, but rather someone else’s father from the television.

How neglectful has his father been to him!

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Michael—who was also here on this day to visit Albert—was saddened to see the 1-meter tall boy lying in the intensive care unit with tubes all over his body.

Upon hearing Albert’s words, he comforted him and said, “I’ll hug you every day once you get well, alright?”

Albert blinked his eyes as if he were nodding.

Even though he had barely escaped death, he suffered severe damage to many organs, especially his digestive system. It would take him a long time to be slowly nursed back to health.

He wouldn’t be able to look after himself for a long time. Not only was he required to be on a ventilator at all times, he also needed the help of medical equipment to fulfill his basic needs.

Albert couldn’t move at all, and his voice was faint and hoarse because his vocal cords were hurt by the poison. He was fed a new type of pesticide that was comparable to paraquat due to its acute toxicity. Luckily, he was put into cryogenic sleep in time, which saved his life.

His eyes rolled about as he looked at everyone before his gaze settled on Derek, who was standing to one side. His lips quivered for a moment before tears welled up in his round eyes; he then whispered, “I’m in pain, Derek…”

Holding back his tears, Derek leaned on the glass, hoping to get even closer to Derek. He clenched his teeth and said tearfully, “Don’t cry, Al… You’ll get well very soon if you don’t cry.”

Albert blinked his eyes slightly, and tears streamed down his face.

Just then, Quinton came out to chase the visitors out of the ward. “Alright, visiting hours are over. He has just been out of danger, so let’s visit him a few days later.”

Having visited Albert, everyone left with a heavy heart, and none of them spoke. Even Carmen, who was usually the most talkative, also hung her head and looked at her feet.

Michael held Carmen in one hand and Sophia in the other, wrapping his large hand around hers to pass on his warmth to her.

With a heavy heart, Michael said nothing as well.

It wasn’t until they left the inpatient ward that Sophia saw the bright sunshine outside. As a gentle breeze blew in her face, her mood improved a little.

Suddenly recalling something, she asked Michael next to her, “By the way… What’s that cryogenic chamber for? Why do we have it in our basement?”

She didn’t notice the hint of sadness and sorrow that flashed across Michael’s lowered eyes when she asked the question.

Not daring to look Sophia in the eye, he pretended to subconsciously look somewhere else and answered, “That’s for Quinton.”

Sophia stopped asking questions upon hearing this.

Quinton’s health problems were very obvious, and nobody knew what would happen to him in the future. What if he suddenly collapsed like Albert one day?

No one had expected the cryogenic equipment to come in handy only a few days after its arrival this time. After a soul-stirring fight against death, the equipment finally gained some time for Albert, so it seemed that this cryogenic equipment was quite useful.

Perhaps it could be used to extend Quinton’s life as much as possible when Quinton was at death’s door!

Sophia couldn’t describe what she felt about Quinton; she couldn’t say that she hated him since he had repented. However, she couldn’t say that she didn’t hate him, for the best years of her life—including all the sadness and sweetness—were gone just like that because of him.

She couldn’t say that she would be happy when he died, but she probably wouldn’t be too sad…

After all, he deserved his punishment; God wouldn’t forgive him once and for all just because he repented.

However, what was on Michael’s mind was completely different from Sophia’s.

In reality, the cryogenic equipment had been prepared for him. He never expected the equipment to come in handy this time, so he felt gratified and sad at the same time.

He was afraid that he would become the next person to be put into cryogenic sleep one day. However, he also feared that it might be too late for him by then…

Meanwhile, Sophia had already let go of his hand and took Carmen out for a sunbath before he even realized it. Then, he put his hand on his heart.

This drug-maintained heartbeat and body temperature worried him to the core!

No one knew when his heart would suddenly stop beating for good.

The little house in his chest was dancing on a rhythm that sounded so peaceful. How nice would it be if it could keep dancing like this? He and Sophia would spend the rest of their lives together, and they still had a long way ahead of them…

Albert was settled in Africa, whereas Derek stayed behind to look after him. Quinton also stayed behind since he was already here; he had wanted to come to Africa, and the original plan was for him to come after celebrating the New Year in Cethos.

Sophia took a bunch of kids home on the day of her departure. This time, Lorelei & Co. came along to visit Albert before Sophia took them back to the country to celebrate the New Year.

Sophia and Michael took the kids to board the plane as Quinton and Derek saw them off.

Sophia asked again, “Are you really not going to take Quinton back with you? At the very least, you should let him come after the New Year celebrations!”

Boarding the plane with Carmen in his arms, Michael replied without looking back, “We’re not taking him with us. Let him stay here to conduct research on how to treat his health problems.”

Sophia looked confused as she followed Michael closely with Poppy in her arms. After entering the passenger cabin, she saw Michael sitting quietly with Carmen in his arms; he seemed to be contemplating something while looking out of the window.

Quinton, who was here to see them off, had already driven off. The car slowly receded from Michael’s sight until it disappeared; only then did he withdraw his gaze.

Quinton had a feeling that his time was running out. He was aware of his health condition, and his aversion to cold wasn’t his only health problem.

Instead of living out the last days of his life peacefully in the bustling Bayside City, he chose to stay in Michel Town. He was planning to enter the laboratory and develop the antidote for Michael as soon as possible.

If everything went according to plan, he would spend the rest of his life here.

He didn’t know where else he could go if Michael was cured. On the other hand, if Michael was incurable and passed away before he did, he would stay here and live as a ‘widower’ for Michael’s sake!

The plane had taken off, but Michael still looked out of the window alone with tons of things weighing on his mind.

Meanwhile, Carmen had dozed off in his arms. He held Carmen in his arms, yet his mind was preoccupied with what Quinton said to him before he departed.

“I was the one who spotted her first, so I’ve always thought that she should be my woman. Also, I delivered Carmen myself; she wasn’t breathing when she was born, and I was the one who saved her life. I think I’m more cut out to be her father than you. Both of them are mine, but I’m now leaving them in your care, Michael. You must take good care of them for me!”

…

Now that things had come to this point, Michael didn’t even have the strength to refute him.

At this moment, it was no longer necessary to look into all the rights and wrongs.

All he wanted was to stay alive and live on!

He took a breath despite his heavy heart as he looked at his wife and daughter.

He must live well!

It was already evening when Sophia reached her home in Bayside City. Many came to her home to pick up their children.

Cooper and Linus had gone overseas for a meeting; they wanted to finish the last meeting before the New Year. Carmen went to Anna’s home to give her some local specialties she had dug up in Africa. Before Sophia could sit down and catch her breath, she learned that Sandra and Alex were holding a memorial service down at Dragon Technology’s premises again.

This day was the seventh day since Albert’s ‘death’.

Albert’s family impatiently held a memorial service for him when he had just been out of danger!

This time, Sophia’s decision was extremely simple. “Guys, catch the father and daughter!”