Hearing that it was about Winnie, Brian became anxious.
"Winnie has never been married. She had a nominal husband."
What Albert said was just like a flash of lightning in the darkness, giving people light.
And he was the person who waited for the light in the darkness.
He was secretly pleased first. Then he asked.
"What happened?"
"I heard that she married someone temporarily to register for kid. That man is her classmate and is now abroad. Mr. Bennet, shall I find him to confirm it?"
It took Albert great effort to find these pieces of information out. He was very puzzled and wondered why Winnie's messages were deliberately hidden.
Brian pondered for a moment.
"You don't have to. I'll find a way to confirm it."
Brian had a way to do that and he would get the truest and most convincing information. However, he was in a better mood after hearing the news.
"Anything else?"
Brian went on asking. For the first time, he expected that Albert would have more news.
"I haven't found out anything more about Winnie. Mrs. Bennet threw away..."
Albert was reporting seriously, but he suddenly interrupted by Brian. He was somewhat puzzled.
"Don't call Penny Mrs. Bennet in my presence in the future. She doesn't deserve it."
Brian was agitated when Albert mentioned the word "Mrs. Bennet", so he directly forbad Albert from calling Penny "Mrs. Bennet".
"Yes, Mr. Bennet...But what should I call her?"
Albert didn't know what to do and was afraid that Brian would become annoyed when he called Penny in the wrong way.
"Just call her Penny."
"The cell phone threw away by Penny has been restored. Some data was deleted and cannot be restored. The rest of the data has been restored."
As Albert spoke, he put Winnie's mobile phone on Brian's desk.
Brian frowned and stared at the phone with sullen eyes.
Then he picked it up, turned it on and began to search for what Penny wanted.
There wasn't nothing but the photos of Megan in it. However, Brian was puzzled the moment he saw the picture taken when Megan was just born.
He enlarged the photo. The child was very thin. Although he was not sure whether the kid in the photo was a boy or a girl, he found that this picture was obviously different from the previous one. It meant that the kid in the photo wasn't Megan.
But who would the kid be if the kid wasn't Megan? If the kid wasn't Winnie's child, why did she keep this photo all the time? Could it be that she just liked other people's kids?
Brian became even more shocked when he saw the next photo. It was a picture of two kids who were thin and weak and looked a lot smaller than normal kids.
One of the kids was Megan and the other one was the kid in the previous picture. In this picture, it was obvious that this kid was a boy.
Brian looked at these photos repeatedly in doubt. He felt that there was something wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.
In fact, it was just a photo and couldn't prove anything, but Brian was upset for no reason.
No longer looking at the picture, Brian began to search for video. But there wasn't any video in the cell phone. It seemed that videos had all been deleted, just like Albert said.
At this moment, the secretary called in. Albert ended his report and Brian put away the mobile phone which he hadn't seen all the information in it.
After getting off work in the evening, Brian canceled his appointment and came to Winnie's house with an excuse.
He entered the password himself and went in the house as he usually do, which surprised Vanessa who was sitting on the sofa in the living room.
Could bosses of companies enter their employees' houses as they wished? Would bosses remember the passwords of the doors of their employees' house?
"Brother, you come here!"
Vanessa stopped thinking about the doubts, stood up and greeted Brian with a light smile.
"Hmm. Did you go to attend the tutoring class?"
Brian asked in a low voice.
"Yes. Albert went there with me. There aren't many people in the class. There are about seven or eight students in the class. Brother, I've asked Winnie to express my thanks to you. I can follow this tutoring class."
Vanessa thanked Brian politely. She would never forget that Brian had helped her.
"You're welcome. Winnie performs well in the company. She deserves these benefits."
As a matter of fact, he did it out of his concern for Winnie. However, he told Vanessa that it was a reward for Winnie's work. In this way, it was possible that Vanessa wouldn't think too much and therefore Winnie wouldn't be put in a difficult position. However, he didn't realized that Vanessa had become suspicious when he opened the door by entering password.
"Brother, sit down please. What do you want to drink? I'll get some for you."
Vanessa led Brian into the living room and asked him to sit down.
"I don't want to drink anything. Where's Winnie?"
Brian looked around, but he didn't saw Winnie.
"She goes out to buy some food. The kids are doing their homework upstairs. Shall I ask Luke to come downstairs?"
Vanessa asked.
"No, you don't have to. I don't want to disturb them."
Coming out of Winnie's home, Brian suddenly didn't know where to go. There was not a place that felt homey. He sat in the car with the air conditioner on, listening to soothing music to relax himself. However, he happened to see Winnie walk to the door of the building with Leo, talking and laughing.
In an instant, Brian became angry and had the impulse to get off the car to blame them for "having an affair".
However, he still restrained himself. Now, his mind was also in a turmoil, being unable to tell what was true and what was false. If Leo was Megan's father, how could he question Winnie?
If Megan was Leo's daughter, how long could the relationship between him and Winnie last? Would they end their relationship before Wendy Yup came back?
He didn't even dare think about ending the relationship with Winnie. Therefore, he must find out who Megan's father was.
Thinking of this, Brian made a phone call to Albert.
"Winnie gave birth to twins. No matter what means you have to use, find out the identity of Megan's father."
After putting down the phone, Brian took a deep breath and watched Winnie entered the door of the building with Leo.
Back in home, Winnie began to cook dinner. When Vanessa was here, life was much easier for her. That's because Vanessa could take care of kids and cook for her.
"You're going to attend tutoring class tomorrow. Is everything ready?"
Winnie chatted with Vanessa while cooking.
"Yes. Don't worry. I can deal with it."
Vanessa was very confident. As a matter of fact, she was originally very confident in study. Now, she became even more confident because she could attend such a good tutoring class.
"Sister, thank Mr. Bennet for me. He helped us, so we can't act as if nothing had happened."
Vanessa spoke in a sensible manner, but there was a hidden purpose behind what she said.
"Oh, you've really grown up and become grateful. Well, I'll thank him for you."
She was happy that Vanessa's being sensible. As long as there wasn't any difficulty in Vanessa's life and as long as she was kind and sensible, Winnie wouldn't feel guilty when she thought of her parents in the future.
"I've grown up. How can I be not sensible? You underestimate me too much. Sister, I'm not talking about just saying thank you to him. We should show some sincerity, right?"
Vanessa asked tentatively.
"Sincerity? What sincerity?"
Winnie didn't think much about it and paid most of her attention to cooking, not noticing the weird expression in Vanessa's eyes.
"We can't say that we have sincerity unless we invite him to have dinner at our home. Today, I asked the students of the tutoring class in private about the cost. I'm told that it'll cost 100000 dollar to study in the class with less than 10 people for a month. Mr. Bennet had paid the tuition fee for us and therefore we owe him a favor. We must invite him to have a meal."
Vanessa really wanted to thank Brian, but she also wanted to ask Brian to come to their home and know what the relationship between him and Winnie was by observing.
Although she hadn't begun to work, she had never heard that a boss would care about and spend so much money on the younger sister of an employee.
Her instinct told her that there was something wrong, but she didn't know what was wrong.
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