The CEO's Mischievous Little Bride
Chapter 211 We Are Always a Family

Mia wiped her tears, saying, "The recent climate change has triggered my rhinitis, and I got the trachoma because of the wind. Sorry about that."

She looked at Cindy, wiping away tears that seemed endless.

"Vera, I came to see you."

She stood up, walked over to Vera, and grabbed her hand, saying, "Take me around, will you?"

Vera felt that Mia had changed so much that she was somewhat uncomfortable, even thinking this wasn't the real Mia.

She turned her head to look at Patrick.

Patrick nodded to her gently.

Vera led Mia out of the living room.

The Olteran family had lived here for generations. Mia went to the backyard and saw a vast green field. Her memory drifted back to a blurry childhood, where a patterned blanket lay on the lawn, and she played with sand using a small shovel alongside a little boy.

Two gentle women accompanied them, and not far away stood her brother, looking like a gentleman.

"Mia, you're daydreaming again."

Mia snapped out of it, walking in a place both familiar and strange.

By the window stood a man, Patrick, watching Mia and Vera as they walked in the backyard, his mind racing.

Randall walked over. "Uncle Patrick, do you have a special attachment to this window?"

Back when he and Vera played outside, Patrick would stand here, glaring at him.

Now, as Vera and Mia walked on the lawn, Patrick stood here, staring at Mia.

"Did you bring Mia to our house today?" Patrick asked.

Randall shook his head. "She wanted to come on her own."

Patrick frowned.

In the evening, the Olteran family tried to persuade Mia to stay for dinner, but she declined.

Soon, Sebastian arrived to pick her up.

Shawn, with his excellent memory, pointed at Sebastian and said, "This young man is the police captain who insisted on arresting people when Vera got into a fight last time." Sebastian nodded awkwardly and introduced himself to Shawn, "Hello, Mr. Shawn Olteran. I'm Mia's brother, Sebastian."

"I remember you now," Shawn said, looking at him with admiration. He liked the sense of justice that Sebastian exuded.

After picking up Mia, they left.

Shawn still felt regretful. "I really like Mia. I think she would make a good wife for Randall."

Vera looked tense.

"Shawn, please don't!"

That was his biological daughter!

Shawn turned his head in confusion, looking at the agitated Vera. "What's wrong? Is Mia dating someone at school?" Patrick's frown had not relaxed since seeing Mia, and after she left, he ordered Shawn, "Come to the study with me." Shawn turned his head away arrogantly, as if to say, "I'm not going."

Vera pushed Shawn. "Shawn, you have to go today."

"I'm not going. I won't indulge Patrick's bad temper. Vera, stop pushing me!"

Patrick looked at Vincent and said, "Vincent, you come up too."

Vincent was more cooperative and went up voluntarily.

In Patrick's study.

They sat on the sofa.

The more Shawn looked at Patrick, the more he disliked him. Patrick always spoke to him in a commanding tone.

Anyone who didn't know better would think Patrick was Shawn's father.

"Speak quickly. You're so annoying."

Patrick said, "Molly has been found."

Vincent was momentarily shocked, then remembered that every time they met, Patrick would say Molly had been found, then disappear for a few days, only to return and say she hadn't been found. "Where is she this time?"

"Right in front of us." Patrick leaned forward, interlacing his fingers, and looked at them, saying, "Today."

Vincent said, "Patrick, are you saying she's in our house?"

Shawn added, "The only one in our family who could match Molly's age is Vera."

Shawn shot Patrick a skeptical look, thinking he was talking nonsense.

Patrick insisted, saying, "The girl ;you met today."

"Patrick, have you been deceived?" Vincent asked, knowing that the real Molly was supposedly dead.

Shawn had also lost hope.

Patrick said excitedly, "It's Mia. She is Molly. She was a child picked up by the Olteran family, and the real Mia is dead. Our sister has been living as Mia."

Shawn thought of Mia, who had visited today, and looked at the excited Patrick.

"Did you do a paternity test? Does she have the bite mark you mentioned?"

Vera pushed the door open and entered. "Shawn, I did the kinship test, and Mia does have the bite mark."

"Vera?" Vincent and Shawn both looked at the suddenly appearing Vera.

She had been eavesdropping at the door.

Only she could testify about the bite mark for Patrick.

Vera's appearance instantly made the atmosphere in the study tense.

Shawn straightened up, no longer acting on impulse, and looked at them. "What's going on exactly?"

Vincent recalled the girl he had seen that day, the child he had liked at first sight.

Patrick's study fell silent, so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.

Shawn and Vincent held their breath, waiting for an explanation.

Meanwhile, in the car.

Sebastian, after picking up Mia, didn't drive home but took a quiet road.

Winter had arrived, and there were no hurried pedestrians on this road. Occasionally, a car would pass by quickly, leaving no trace and not disturbing the night's silence. Sebastian stopped the car and asked Mia, "Mia, when did you find out?"

Mia replied, "Brother, I don't know what you're talking about."

"I'm not your brother. Patrick is. And you're not a child of the Chase family. You are..."

"Shut up!" Mia yelled at Sebastian in the car.

She didn't want her family to tell her; she could pretend she didn't know anything.

"You were a child found by the sea. You belong to the Olteran family."

"Shut up, Sebastian. You can't say that." Mia cried in the car, covering Sebastian's mouth with her hand, not wanting to hear what he was saying.

"Sebastian, you can't say that. I'm your sister, not a daughter of the Olteran family."

Mia cried bitterly in the car, her words choked with sobs, unable to accept her identity.

Sebastian's eyes reddened too. He turned off the car lights, letting his tears be swallowed by the darkness. "You knew after that time you fell into the water, didn't you?"

"Sebastian, I beg you; don't say it. I don't want to be someone else's child. I'm your sister."

Sebastian reached out and hugged the crying Mia, patting her shoulder. "I don't want to lose you either, but I can't hide it from you. I also want to keep you as my sister forever." But he couldn't hide it anymore. "Sebastian, I'm scared," Mia said, crying in Sebastian's arms.

She was really afraid of facing this huge change. Her parents had always arranged everything smoothly for her, without any hardships.

Suddenly, at the age of twenty, she learned about her identity, and she couldn't accept it.

No matter how good the Olteran family was, it couldn't compare to the Chase family, where she had lived for so many years.

Sebastian's tears fell on her back, and he comforted her, saying, "Mia, don't be afraid. Whether you're Mia or Molly, you'll always be my sister. I'll protect you and always be by your side. Mom and Dad will always love you. We will always be a family."