Chapter 419

Donovan answered impatiently, "It's that foster kid of his, Gideon." "His foster son? The one with the Grayson name?" Dorothea asked. She vaguely recalled hearing that Ethan had taken in a child seven or eight years ago. At the time, she hadn't paid much attention to it. She assumed Ethan was just throwing money at sponsoring an orphan or raising a friend's child. Moreover, his story about Gideon's origin was full of inconsistencies. He claimed that the child was adopted in Usna, but in the next breath, he insisted he was from Solbourne. Dorothea never pressed further. Not once did it cross her mind that the child might be Ethan's bastard. Ethan had covered his tracks well. He never allowed Gideon to have any contact with the Kanes and made sure that no one around him breathed a word. Even Grace had remained completely in the dark until today. Now that the truth was out, Dorothea struggled to believe it. "How old is this bastard of his? Where is his mother?" she asked, clearly c