Free Web NovelChapter 2927: Chapter 2457
Her face filled with shock, she wondered if she had heard it wrong.
Diana Kinsman was Ashton Heath’s... sister?
Lady Octavia only gave birth to two sons, Ashton Heath and Brandon Heath.
If Diana was Ashton’s sister, then she would be considered Darren Heath’s... illegitimate daughter?
This was truly shocking to her, and fearing that she had misunderstood, she asked specifically, "Like a relative-kind of sister?"
It could be a cousin or a distant cousin, after all.
So it didn’t necessarily mean what she was thinking.
"No." Ashton Heath turned his head to glance at her, "A half-sister with the same father but different mothers."
Joanna Lawrence was dumbfounded, "A half-sister with the same father but different mothers? So, that means..."
Had Darren Heath cheated on another woman post-marriage?
Otherwise, where did this half-sister come from?
But it seemed like Darren Heath adored Lady Octavia.
Even she could see that Darren Heath genuinely cared for Lady Octavia and loved her.
Although Joanna Lawrence didn’t particularly like Lady Octavia, she felt that, in this matter, Darren Heath had treated her unjustly.
"Mmm, Dad did cheat. However, he was not the one to initiate it. Mom knew about this issue at the time, and she also knew that Dad did not truly betray her, so she forgave him." freёweɓnovel.com
"Not the one to initiate it?" Having been cheated on by David Benington, Joanna Lawrence was very sensitive to such issues. She furrowed her brow and asked, "Is there a distinction between initiating an affair and not?"
In her view, betrayal was betrayal.
David had also explained to her that it was Annie Lawrence who actively seduced him, and it wasn’t him who took the initiative to cheat.
But to Joanna Lawrence, the process was not important; if a man didn’t have that kind of heart, he wouldn’t succumb to temptation even when a woman threw herself at him.
After all, if a man wasn’t willing, a woman wouldn’t be able to force him.
"Baby, I’m not making excuses for Dad. Please don’t misunderstand." Fearing that his wife would think too much and assume he would turn into such a person, Ashton Heath promptly tried to clear his name, "Have I ever told you that Dad was once targeted for assassination?"
"Dad was targeted for assassination?" Joanna Lawrence’s face showed shock again.
"Mmm." Ashton Heath nodded, "He went abroad to negotiate a contract and was ambushed in a foreign land. Someone had tampered with the car he was riding in, causing a severe accident."
"Their car crashed off a cliff, and the driver died on the spot. Dad, being rather lucky, was injured but not fatally. You can probably guess what happened next." freewёbnoνel.com
"Someone saved him, and that person was Diana Kinsman’s mother."
"Dad suffered temporary amnesia due to the car accident, and even he couldn’t remember that period. Diana’s mother was a very beautiful and gentle woman, and Dad inevitably fell in love with her during those days of lost memory."
"If Dad hadn’t regained his memory later, they would probably still be together. At that time, everyone at home, including the Heath family, thought he was dead."
Joanna Lawrence now had a rough understanding of what had happened.
"So, after Dad regained his memory, he left Diana’s mother? Was Diana born at that time?"
Ashton Heath shook his head, "No."
"When Dad left, he didn’t know that Diana’s mother was already pregnant. He had given her a lot of compensation, but she refused all of it."
