Chapter 27: Digging Deeper

“Found you," he smirked while looking down on Adriel.

"Uncle twin!" Zenon shouted excitedly. Adriel's eyes widened in surprise, and she quickly covered Zenon's mouth just in case other people, especially Zeth, would hear his voice.

"I knew I saw someone familiar when we first came in," Cedric smiled. "It turns out it was you," he then looked down at Zenon. "With your child."

Adriel is at a loss. Her mind is running about a million miles per second, and all she can think about is that Cedric would divulge her long-kept secret to Zeth.

Cedric chuckled while looking at the nervous Adriel. "Relax, I'm not going to tell him. Instead, I'm going to help you."

Adriel looked up at his eyes to see if he was joking but could only see sincerity among them. "How?" she softly asked.

He raised his hand, signaling for her to wait. He then brought out his phone and called someone.

"Hey," he said when the other person on the phone picked up. Cedric placed the phone on the loudspeaker so she co