Chapter 384

"Darcy, someone has kidnapped my mother from Island Electronics' hospital. Was it you?" Lawrence asked directly, his chilling aura permeating his words.

"What? Isn't Madam Rodriguez at the villa? How could she be at Island Electronics' hospital? Mr. Rodriguez, I've been staying at the hospital to receive treatment lately. You didn't visit me, so I don't know what happened. Did my godmother's condition worsen? What kidnapping?" Darcy's weak voice was filled with concern and innocence.

Lawrence narrowed his eyes, shooting Winnie a cold stare. The call ended, and Lawrence was not one to act impulsively, he refrained from confronting Winnie as he had done earlier. He immediately instructed Bryan, "Go check the surveillance footage in the corridor outside Darcy's ward. I want to see if she left her room from 1 PM till now."

This would directly prove whether there was any connection between Darcy and Madam Rodriguez's kidnapping. However, Bryan quickly reviewed the footage and found that from 1 PM until now, he didn't see Darcy leaving her room. "Lawrence, Darcy was wearing a red outfit. From the surveillance, you can see her legs passing by the doorway occasionally. She didn't leave. However, at 2:30, there was a nurse wearing a mask who went in and out of Darcy's room."

Winnie leaned in, she was certain that Darcy had definitely visited Madam Rodriguez's room and most likely had a confrontation with Oscar, eventually taking him hostage. Therefore, the masked figure who walked out of Darcy's room could only meant that it was Darcy in disguise. Winnie squinted her eyes tightly, trying to confirm her own suspicion.

Meanwhile, Lawrence had already made up his mind, his icy gaze fixed on Winnie. "Darcy never left the hospital. What else is there for you to say?"

Jeremy interjected, "There must be something fishy about this Darcy."

"Then explain what's fishy! Sidney helped Winnie pass the phone from my mother. She contacted her and threatened her with something. Mother had no choice but to leave the ward and was kidnapped in the direction of the staircase! Isn't that what happened?" Lawrence interrogated Winnie.

"It's not like that. The phone was not given to Madam Rodriguez by Sidney." Winnie felt awful, as now Oscar and Madam Rodriguez were both kidnapped. She was certain that Oscar had witnessed Darcy attacking Madam Rodriguez in the ward, and he unfortunately got caught up in the commotion. Now, his situation doesn't look good.

"Then who gave it to my mother? What scheme did you set up in the ward, making my mother willingly leave and get kidnapped?" Lawrence squeezed her neck again, almost wishing to strangle the woman in front of him.

Winnie struggled to breathe, coughing intensely, her face turning pale. Tears welled up in the corner of her eyes as she looked at this heartless and furious man. Under her gaze, there lurked an icy chill, tinged with the fervor of unresolved battles.

"Mother's health hasn't recovered, and she can't leave the ward. Winnie, I really want to kill you! Will you tell me where she is?" Lawrence tightened his grip.

"Lawrence, let her go! Let her go!" Olivia ran over, knowing that Winnie was trying to avoid exposing Oscar's identity and cannot speak.

"Someone, lock her up!" Lawrence lost hope and shouted, throwing Winnie to the bodyguard.

"You can't treat her like this, Lawrence! You scum! You will regret it!" Olivia was desperate, watching the bodyguards drag Winnie away.

Lawrence trembled as he lit a cigarette with cold hands, tightening his nerves before turning to Bryan. "Did the hospital start checking the surveillance in all areas? Did you call the police? Hurry up, thoroughly investigate! We must find my mother tonight."

The man's sculpted figure stood up to leave.

In the corner, Olivia helplessly held onto Winnie, whose face was numb. "Winnie, are you really not going to tell him about Oscar's existence? If you don't, he won't look for Oscar. Once Darcy gets hold of him, it's highly unlikely he'll survive. Moreover, if you don't clarify that Oscar was present in the ward at that time, it becomes a dead end. Lawrence doesn't know that you had good intentions, wanting Oscar to assist Madam Rodriguez with her diagnosis. If you don't, he will forever insist that you influenced Madam Rodriguez to go out from her room and consequently kidnapped her."

Olivia tried her best to reason with Winnie. "At this moment, for the safety of the child I know that Oscar is your bottom line and you can't reveal him. Once it's spoken, that jerk will try to take the child away. But, but..." Olivia's eyes reddened.

Winnie's face was silently covered in tears. In the depths of her heart, it felt like a heavy weight was pressing down, as if a deep wound had been reopened, causing immense pain.

To tell or not to tell, it all rested on a whim. On one hand, she wished to protect her son, but on the other, Lawrence's repeated lack of trust left her disheartened. If he found out about Oscar, with his domineering power, he would definitely take him away. But if she didn't say anything, she would be misunderstood, imprisoned, and it would delay Oscar's chance of survival.

Winnie tightly clenched her fists, tears streaming down her cheeks and chilling her heart. She suddenly turned her head and called out to that cold and heartless man, "Lawrence!"

Lawrence paused his footsteps, perhaps because the woman's voice was too hoarse, he turned around.

Winnie resolutely walked toward him, closing her eyes and weakly saying, "At that time, in your mother's ward, our other son was there. His name is Oscar. He wanted to use a cellphone to connect me and your mother, so I could diagnose her. Since you disagreed, in order to treat her, I could only come up with this method. Lawrence, at this moment, you're the one without a heart!"

With much difficulty, Winnie explained to Lawrence, "Now our Oscar has been kidnapped, and Darcy was in the sickroom at the time. Do you even know, do you?!" The woman grabbed his shirt and started pounding uncontrollably.

Lawrence was completely stunned. Only one piece of information seemed to register in his mind: "Another son." He doubted his ears, thinking that he had misheard her talking about their other son, Oscar, whose identity was non-existent to Lawrence before.

His heart pounded heavily, momentarily halting before resuming its frantic rhythm. He looked at the woman in front of him and his mind buzzed.

After those voices faded away, he also regained a sliver of consciousness. His large hand forcefully grabbed the woman.

Winnie was forcibly dragged to the side by him.

Listening to his rapidly pounding heart, Lawrence felt a touch of shock reverberating in his mind, making him so cautious, making him so unbelieving. He licked his dry lips and pressed the woman, "What are you talking about? Who is Oscar?"

"Your youngest son! He didn't actually die three years ago." Winnie tightly closed her eyes. At this point, she had no choice but to reveal everything. "I risked my life three years ago to give birth to the child. I didn't know it was two, but you hid it from me, starting from the pregnancy! That night, the one left there and picked up by you was Sidney. And I thought there was only one. When I jumped into the sea, I was consumed by despair, willing to die, and I took Oscar with me! But our fate wasn't supposed to end there... By chance, Alan's yacht spotted us. He secretly saved us. Come, let's go into hiding overseas...It took Oscar three years to recover his small body, but he ended up with asthma.

"Three years later, I returned with Oscar, unaware that I had given birth to two children. It was not until Darcy discovered it first, and she and Mars planned to kidnap Sidney. That night, it was our two sons who were kidnapped! It was you who saved Sidney in the cave, and I thought he was Oscar."

Winnie recalled that night with lingering fear, tears welling up in her eyes. "Thankfully, Olivia also sensed something was wrong and took me down to the sealed cave, where we found Oscar, barely alive, struggling with an asthma attack."

Speaking of these things, Winnie couldn't help but feel hatred.