Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

The Five Poisons were still at large, shrouded in impenetrable conspiracies. Now was not the time for them to hold their own wedding. Jared understood what Tina meant. Though the weapon factories and virus research bases of GTO had been destroyed, Jared knew that the matter was far from over. As long as the Five Poisons roamed free, they could not rest easy.

"Trust me, I will give Tina the most romantic, grandest wedding in the world!" Jared proclaimed, leaving the listening parties without a word to say. The couple fell silent for a moment before turning to look at Natalie, who was sitting beside them. As Tina's mother, Natalie naturally had a say in her daughter's wedding matters.

Natalie, who had been busy eating, suddenly noticed her father's gaze and quickly swallowed her food. "I think what Tina and he are saying is right. Besides, we're still missing one person for the wedding now."

Everyone was puzzled. Scarlett asked, "Alina, who are we missing? Isn't Angela with you?" Scarlett thought Natalie was referring to Angela. But Natalie shook her head and pointed with her chin at Tina. "Her dad!"

Everyone suddenly realized that they had never asked Natalie where Tina's biological father was. Even Esther, curious as she was, hadn't dared to ask. Everyone assumed that Tina's real father was dead, fearing that asking might bring up painful memories for Natalie.

Unexpectedly, Natalie brought it up herself. Scarlett, unable to contain her curiosity, asked, "Alina, where is Tina's dad, after all?" Natalie smiled, "I don't know yet. I'll have to find him and ask."

This response baffled everyone, but seeing Natalie's happily smiling face, they refrained from asking further.

That evening, Tina and Natalie lay in bed, having not yet had a chance to really talk heart-to-heart since reuniting. The day's events had weighed on Tina. In fact, she too wanted to know who her real father was. From Hugo to Jasper, none were her biological father.

Natalie teased Tina's nose, "Are you wondering where your real dad is?" Tina nodded, moving closer to Natalie. "Mom, you didn't get abandoned by my dad, did you?"

Natalie slapped Tina's forehead lightly, "If anyone was going to do the abandoning, it would be me abandoning him! He doesn't have the guts to leave me!" Tina rubbed her head and continued, "Why did you guys split up? You used to say I was too young to understand, but I'm old enough now."

Natalie pursed her lips, a hint of joy leaking from the corner of her eyes. Her expression alone indicated that the memories she was recalling were too beautiful for words.

After a moment, Natalie slowly said, "Tina, if one day Jared has to leave you because he has an important mission to complete, would you be angry? Would you feel like you are not the most important person in his heart?" Tina thought for a moment. "I wouldn't."

Carrying his mission and fulfilling his duty as a special forces member was the Jared I loved. If he abandoned his mission and responsibilities for love, one day, he too might abandon me. That isn't the man I love," she said.

Natalie nodded, "I feel the same. The man I love is like your father, who adhered to his own sense of honor. He's not the type to abandon me, and he never will."

"Even though we are currently apart, we are both striving towards the same goal. Once the world is at peace, we will naturally come together again."

Tina understood that everyone has their own mission.

Doctors save lives and help the injured; soldiers protect and defend their homeland. Even ordinary people fight for their families.

Her parents, too, had their own honors to uphold and their own battles to fight.

Natalie brushed a stray lock of hair from Tina's forehead and gently caressed her daughter's cheek, "Don't worry, Tina, your dad will be back soon."

Tina acknowledged her mother's words and decided not to bring up the father she had never met again.

"Mom, did you see that old photo of Asher Vance?" Tina asked.

Natalie's gentle gaze darkened, a hint of severity flickering through, "Yes, I was in it."

"Do you remember anything about it?"

"No, I don't recall ever meeting Asher Vance when I was little, nor do I remember that photo."

The photo showed Natalie at about ten years old. The timing of Asher Vance's crackdown on human trafficking was close to when Natalie was abducted. What puzzled Natalie was that the Brookes family was desperate to find her at that time, and the X Bureau should have been the first to know.

Yet, when Natalie was brought to the X Bureau by Asher Vance, no one informed the Brookes family.NôvelDrama.Org owns this.

Perhaps, that information was deliberately suppressed.

00000 The Brookes family missed their daughter because of it.

Tina's eyes narrowed, "Mom, there's another person in the photo."

Natalie looked up, and under the dim light, her eyes, identical to Tina's, flashed an obscure light, "Jasper!"

"Does that mean the Five Poisons weren't there?"

Of the twelve children, aside from Natalie and Jasper, the rest were accounted for. Five Poisons wouldn't be among them.

Natalie shook her head, "Not necessarily. Maybe from the beginning, Five Poisons intended to hide among those ten children."

Five Poisons, cunning and deceitful, were closely pursued by the Brookes family and the X Bureau. Hiding among the victims, a classic case of the changeling, was not out of the question.

"Back then, Five Poisons was a man, right? Pretending to be a child at that age?" Tina asked.

"It was just a disguise. Back then, Five Poisons had already mastered that skill well enough to infiltrate easily and take me away from the Brookes family," Natalie turned over, gently patting Tina, "Sleep now. Tomorrow I'll meet Jasper, and perhaps we'll discover something new."

Tina nodded and then closed her eyes.