Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride

Chapter 1413 - 1407: The Couple’s Conversation

Returning to their residence, handing over Little Bao to the nanny and letting him sleep in the room, Robert Lancaster and his wife also returned to their room.After closing the door, Robert Lancaster grabbed his wife’s hand and they sat on the bed together.

"Robert, what’s wrong? Did something happen?" Mina Drake for the first time saw such a serious expression on her husband’s face. Although he was usually meticulous at work, he never showed such a cold solemnity.

"Mina, remember you once told me you heard my uncle laughing and joking with my mom in her room."

Robert Lancaster directly brought up the topic, and Mina Drake nodded, not quite understanding.

"I remember." It was something she accidentally overheard when she passed her mother-in-law’s room after putting her son to sleep.

"Mina, there’s something I’ve always wanted to tell you but was worried you’d overthink." Robert Lancaster held his wife’s shoulder, showing a clear sign of tension.

Mina Drake brushed his hand down, clasping it with hers, and firmly said, "Go ahead, I won’t overthink. No matter what, I’ll always stand by your side!"

Mina Drake’s words brought comfort to Robert Lancaster, who forced a smile. "Actually... my uncle is my biological father."

Mina Drake...

"How could that be?" If his uncle was Robert Lancaster’s biological father, wouldn’t that be scandalous?

Seemingly perceiving Mina Drake’s thoughts, Robert Lancaster helplessly said, "It’s not what you’re thinking."

"Then what is it?" Mina Drake instinctively asked, and Robert Lancaster began explaining patiently.

"Dad is the head of the Lancaster Family. Because Uncle wasn’t older, back then, Uncle desperately wanted my great-grandfather to pass down the Family Head position to his son. However, the Lancaster Family has its own rules. Regardless of age, the successor to the Family Head must be the legitimate eldest son...

"Uncle never gave up on becoming the Family Head, both openly and covertly trying to oust Dad from his position, even marrying early so his son could be born before Dad’s, to continue contending for the head position.

"However, Dad was infertile and didn’t want to relinquish the Family Head position, so he had Uncle ’substitute the plum for the peach,’ officially marrying Mom, but it was actually Uncle who had a marital relationship with her..."

"Wait, let me interrupt," Robert Lancaster was interrupted by Mina Drake as he was speaking.

Robert Lancaster then stopped, "Go ahead."

"I want to ask, when your Dad passed Mom to Uncle, was she willing?"

Robert Lancaster lowered his eyes and let out a bitter smile, "Of course, Mom wouldn’t agree to it. Later, Dad used extreme measures, leaving Mom with no choice but to comply."

He had heard from Mom, and no matter what, he couldn’t imagine how the usually kind and gentle father could be so ruthless to them.

"Extreme measures? What kind of measures?" Mina Drake curiously asked, unable to fathom what a man would do to force his wife to have a relationship with his brother.

Robert Lancaster let out another bitter smile, brushing his wife’s hair with his other hand and said helplessly, "Don’t ask anymore. For Mom, it’s an unbearable memory."

"Then that means..." Mina Drake hesitated slightly, "Evander is also Uncle’s son? Does he know?"

"He didn’t know before, but he found out a few days ago." Robert Lancaster truthfully said, recalling how his brother Evander Lancaster even had a fight with Dad, which was both infuriating and amusing. If the outside world knew, it would be a total joke!

"What do you mean?" That night, Mina Drake became full of questions.

"Isn’t he seeing some girl outside? Mom disapproved, so he came back and talked back to her, said some nasty things, and later had a fight with Uncle."