"My adoptive family doesn't treat me as well as the outside world believes. Also, the woman who took me away from the orphanage-well, she makes it clear how sick she is of me. My adoptive mother often expresses how helpless she is when I get picked on by everyone else, but I can tell she, too, doesn't like me," Maurice revealed, testing the waters as he cautiously looked at Lorenzo. Yet, disappointment soon tightened his chest to know the answer he wanted never came. Lorenzo continued to stare at Maurice, knowing what the latter was thinking. He secretly found it funny how the boy reacted. While everyone was still stunned by the sudden turn of events, he raised his hand, hovering it over Maurice's head. That caused Maurice to stiffen, holding his breath until the former's hand rested on his head. Only then did he calm down. Lorenzo quirked a brow but kept his opinions to himself. All he did was calmly point out, "You were hoping to see if I knew your birth parents and whether I co

Even Austin Veyron's broken ribs did not hinder him from loudly voicing the shock in his heart. He gradually dropped his hand, widening his eyes and clenching his teeth at Maurice. "That's impossible!" Lorenzo shrugged but did not speak anymore. That was when a woman's voice rang out from a nearby car. Apart from Lorenzo, no one else had noticed it arriving at the scene. Moments later, Clara descended from the car, her arms crossed and her chin held high as she looked at Austin Veyron. "Today is the first time I've ever heard your name. I know my father secretly had more than one family and how he fathered many bastards." "However." A corner of her lip curled as she sneered, "I don't care. What concerns me more is that your mother—my aunt—had been plotting to inherit the Veyron family wealth many years ago. "She even used the despicable method of switching yours and Maurice's places without us knowing."<