Chapter 687

Kendra's words struck like a bolt from the blue! Everyone who heard them was stunned... Except for Earl, every face in the room registered shock—including Nathan's. Nathan glanced at Irene, whose expression had frozen in place, then at his adoptive mother's icy countenance, his mind momentarily blank. When he finally regained his composure, he almost wanted to laugh. Irene wasn't their mother's biological daughter after all? She was adopted from an orphanage? Nathan turned to his adoptive father—his biological uncle. Earl's expression remained impassive, as though he'd known all along. Of course, he had. How else could his adoptive mother have suddenly produced a daughter without his uncle's consent? So all these years... he'd been tiptoeing around Irene, trying to please this so-called sister of his? And she wasn't even a blood relative of the Harper family? She wasn't even his equal? Irene stood completely paralyzed. She took an unconscious step backward, shaking her head as she murm