A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 212 To Finally Understand

“You don’t want to know where your son is?” Peter raised his eyebrows.

“Of course I want! But I hope that you can tell me in person!” William answered very calmly.

“If you go to the police station, tell the authority that you have bribed the high officials, then I will tell you where your child is!” Peter said.

“Do you actually have any evidence?”

“There is too much evidence!” Peter smiled coldly, “Any of the pieces of evidence I have is enough for you to go to jail for at least 10 years.”

“Peter, you are not my opponent, do you know what you are now?” William chuckled.

“Just wait and see!”

“You really are such a fool!” William shook his head helplessly. “If it wasn’t for our relationship as close friends for many years, I wouldn’t have spared you! What if that villa is in my name? I’m ok with them living there, and so what if the bank account has more money? Then how wouldn’t the mayor’s sister in law be allowed to make money?”

“William, you don’t need to lecture me, you are an enemy of mine, and I harbour a deep and irreconcilable hatred for the Rowland Family! This is what the Rowland Family owes my mother!” Peter was infuriated.

“All the evidence that you possess have their sources, if I bribed in some businesses, how can I let outsiders grasp this evidence? The so-called 100 million yuan deficit cannot be traced anywhere. Let me tell you, I just left it deliberately, and as for the sum of money that has not been found in the many tax investigations, it has already been returned to The Rowland Group’s account’s, the invoices are all there!” William displayed a faint smile.

Peter was stunned, as if he had been rattled.

“And one more thing I need to tell you, mine and Liam’s son have both already been found! Are you surprised by this?”

“Impossible!” Peter was shocked.

“Dan is my son, I really thought that you were a smart person, but I never expected that you are such a fool!” William really was even a little disappointed. “My father has gone to see your mother; so I think we will be finding out the truth very soon. I’m now starting to feel unconvinced that you are still even my close friend since you really are too dumb! Although what you did with Dan was very clever, everything else you did was rather average.”

“Well you will still be going to jail!” Peter wasn’t listening to anything that William was saying, he was still surprised that William knew those things about the child.

William words were very contemptuous, “If you give up and stop what you’re doing then I will act as if nothing has happened. But if you refuse, then you can go to the police and report me, but I advise you, all of your efforts in the end will only make yourself look like even more of a fool, and make yourself be the middleman who has helped to promote the good image of The Rowland Group! Also, regarding the case of the corpse that was stolen 6 years ago, no one has been found yet! The doctor at the G City clinic Kaitlyn, who was the one who helped Sarah give birth, do you want her to come forward and be a witness?”

“You...” Peter was stunned to the spot. “So it turns out you had been preparing for this for a very long time now?”

“It is always best to plan ahead in case for the worse, however I never wanted to have to do this! Just give up,Peter!” William stood up. “As for how to do, it’s up to you, but I will be going home now to accompany my wife and children! Thank you for returning my son back to Sherry!”

Peter looked utterly defeated with his head down, “It wasn’t me who did that!”

***

John had returned with a middle aged woman of about 50 years old. He took her directly to the company president’s office.

However inside the company president’s office.

William and Peter were still there.

Alice came and knocked on the door to report, “President, the chairman of the board of directors is here!”

“Alright!” William put down the phone.

The door was opened.

Peter turned his head and looked at John and his mother Ava who had walked in, he was shocked, “Mother, why have you come back?”

“Peter, didn’t you promise your mother? You promise that you wouldn’t do anything to harm the Rowland Family anymore.” Ava couldn’t help stop the tears from falling when she saw her son, “How could you break your promise?”

“Mother, why? I can’t understand why? Why do you still speak for him even though he abandoned you?” Peter pointed at John and filled with grief.

John turned his gaze to William, who was feeling a little convoluted, but then turned back to Peter.

“No! He didn’t abandon me, he didn’t!” Ava shook her head. “Son, you are wrong, you truly are gravely mistaken! It is not like what you are imagining at all!”

“Then what happened?” Peter didn’t understand why his mother had always defended John. “Why do you always protect him? Have you forgotten all the hardships you faced during your life?”

“Ava, don’t say anything. Peter, it’s true I owe you. In my heart you are a son to me, I just didn’t expect it was you!” John walked over to him.

Peter said coldly, “Don’t pretend to be so kind.”

John was taken aback.

“No! Peter, he is not your father, he really is not!” Ava shook her head, “John, thank you for still saying that he is your child until now, but I cannot allow him to hurt you anymore!”

William and Peter were both surprised, but William was even more confused, why was Ava saying he wasn’t but his father was saying he was?

“Mother, you don’t need to defend him, I don’t believe it!” Peter shook his head.

“Regardless if you believe it or not, he is not your father. I’m sorry, it’s my fault, and to be honest not even I know who your father is!”

“Ava, don’t say anymore!” John wanted to stop her.

“No, John, I really do want to thank you and Nicole. Thank you for your kindness but my child has hurt your child and I really am sorry to you all! Today I have returned home to explain everything! Otherwise for the rest of my life I will be left with a guilty conscience.” Ava wiped her tears away with her handkerchief and began to explain Peter’s life story.

“Peter, I really did love John before, however he didn’t love me. He was the most infatuated and dedicated man in the world, and has only ever loved one woman before, and that is Nicole. Nicole and I were classmates; I have made mistakes before, even done as extreme things before as you have

done. I used every possible means to try and make John mine, however in the end he only loved Nicole. So even though I tried my best to seduce him, I never succeeded.”

“Mother, this can’t be true!” How was Peter able to believe this? “You said before that he was my father!”

Ava shook her head, “No, this was due to John and Nicole’s kindness, in the past they promised me that if I was unable to locate your father then they would be willing to put your household registration under their home, and allow you to become a member of the Rowland Family. However how could I let that happen? You are not John’s child!”

“Then who is my father?” Peter was completely shocked.

“Ava, stop speaking!” John tried again to get her to stop.

“No, I must tell him, I cannot allow him to keep on believing a lie! Peter, I really do not know who your father is. One night thirty one years ago, I was raped by three men, then I was pregnant, and I have you. Therefore I really was not able to tell you the truth for that is the most painful and hard experience I have ever faced. Eight years ago you asked me who your father was and I had no other choice but to tell you that John was your father, however I never expected that you would begin to hate them!” Ava began to feel ashamed as she thought about it.

“How can this be?” Peter had never dreamed that he would just be a product of gang violence, and that not even his mother knew who his real father was!

He had been scheming all these years, but in the end he found out that all this time he had believed a lie. He staggered and fell into his chair, losing all strength.

William was also shocked to hear this information.

John sighed, “Peter, your mother is a very strong person. She never came to see me all this time so therefore I never knew that you were her child.”

“Peter, I’m sorry. I don’t know whose child you are!” Tears fell from Ava’s eyes again.

Peter was silent, now that he had found out the truth, what on earth had he done?

“Didn’t you promise me that you wouldn’t do stupid things to harm others? But you still did, John, I thought that he would have told William five years ago! That it was he that took the child away!” As Ava said this she walked over to William and looked at him gently and asked, “Are you Will?”

“Yes!” William nodded his head.

“I really am very sorry to you and to your mother. If I had told Sherry in person that that child was her child then everything would have been ok!”

“You were the one that put the child by the river?” William asked in surprise.

“Yes, the child that Peter brought back one day was just five days old, and he said he picked it up and wanted me to help look after it for a period of time. I took care of the child for a short time, but I soon realized that this wasn’t right. When I asked him about the child he told me that this was the child of you and a surrogate mother. Peter said that he wanted to get revenge, and therefore swapped the child, so at the time I was scared and didn’t dare to go find the Rowland Family. I also was told that if I kept the child then you could marry another woman who was unable to conceive a child! He also said that since that girl knew that the child was born from you and another person, therefore she would treat the child poorly and thus I was worried that I would be causing the child great harm if I returned it.”

“I am also a mother, and therefore I know how it feels for a mother and a child to be separated. I found the child’s birth certificate in Peter’s bag with Sherry’s name written on it. I paid someone to find Sherry for me and that person gave me a photograph so I hurriedly wrote a letter and took the child to the

riverside. I didn’t dare to come forward for I was afraid that Peter would be implicated and suffer some consequences. So I could only hide nearby and secretly observe. I never expected that day Sherry was going to jump into the river, she had walked into the river while the child was crying. And perhaps it was the connection between a mother and child that made Sherry come back and pick up the child, and in the end once she had the child in her arms she was unable to let go, both crying and smiling. I watched from the sidelines feeling very reassured… and thought that she would understand the situation once she read the letter and then realize that this child really was hers.”

“But Sherry doesn’t know!” William felt very upset that Sherry had tried to commit suicide before, and he felt he really was bad.

“Yes, when I got home I found that the letter had fallen out and was left in my home, I picked it up and wanted to find her again but Peter said that he would give it to Sherry.”

“I never gave it to her!” Peter said painfully, “Mother, why didn’t you tell me all this earlier?”

“So, everything is my fault, John, I’m sorry for letting you and Nicole down!” Ava walked towards John with guilt, “I really have so much that is my fault, I was the one that taught and raised Peter and in the end I didn’t teach him well, so it’s all my fault! We are both sorry to you all and have really caused you so much pain, and to be honest I really don’t know how to make it up to you.” Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

“It’s all in the past now! The child has been brought back! So don’t blame yourself!” John shook his head, “Will, arrange a hotel for Ava, she came back with me in a hurry and hasn’t had so much time for rest!”

“Ok!” William immediately called the secretary to set it up.

Once William finished the call he looked at Peter again, he was slumped down without saying a word for a long time.

“Peter, the past is the past! What happened has happened and no one will mention it again, you are still my close friend!” William was being very forgiving.

Peter stood up, glanced at William with a complicated expression and then hurriedly said “I’m sorry” before he pulled Ava up and left.

“Peter…” William called him in a low voice.