Chapter 161
Chapter 161
Andre knocked on the door, "Dad, can I have a word with you?"
Hansen was a bit miffed and responded with a touch of mischief, "I'm already in bed."
"Please come to my study in five minutes." With that, Andre left. Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
Muttering under his breath, Hansen said, "Who does he think he is, bossing me around? In his
dreams."
Nevertheless, five minutes later, despite his grumpiness, he dutifully trudged to Andre's study, "So, your
brother is here too?"
Bruce was also in Andre's study.
Andre closed the door and seriously said to his father and brother, “Dad, Bruce, I saw Molly.”
At Andre's words, Hansen realized the gravity of the situation. No wonder his son called them to the
study.
Mentioning that sensitive name, the atmosphere in the room instantly turned frosty.
Hansen fell silent.
Bruce asked his younger brother, “Andre, are you sure you didn't mistake her for someone else? It's
been fifteen years, and you may not recognize Molly even if you saw her now.”
Andre shook his head, "I couldn't have mistaken her, after all, only I would recognize the bite mark on
her arm."
Andre looked gravely at his father and brother, emphasizing, “I didn't mistake her, I actually grabbed
her hand. Dad, Bruce, Molly is really still waiting for us.”
Hansen turned serious, his playful demeanor nowhere to be seen. At the mention of that child, his
hands clenched into fists.
“Andre, I hope you can let it go.” This was his fatherly concern for his son.
Andre's gaze was cold, looking at his father who was seated in the main seat, “Dad, you tricked me into
marrying Mia with Molly's information, you know very well whether that information was true or false.”
The information that Hansen gave him back then, he later found out it was all convincingly made-up.
But at that time, he had already accepted Mia in his heart, so he never argued with his father about it.
Because he had found a wife, Andre treated that information as if it didn't exist. But he never gave up
on finding Molly, until that day, at The Silent Ring. He found that child, but she ran away.
“Dad, I plan to go out of town for a few days to look for her.”
Andre had selected 42 people from hundreds of names. These people were in different provinces and
cities, and Andre decided to look for them himself.
Hansen knew that his son would see through the fake information he provided, and he was prepared to
confront his son. “Andre, have you ever thought that Molly might be gone?”
Andre had just insisted that he saw Molly; now he would never believe that his sister was dead!
Andre, "Dad, Molly is your own daughter.”
If his father didn't want to look for her, that was one thing, but to tell him that she might be dead...
Thinking of that adorable child from his past, Hansen's eyes filled with tears. Yes, that was his own
daughter, lost for fifteen years. How much he wished he could find that child, to hold her after work as
he did when she was little, to listen to her coo, to play with her.
Hansen raised his hand to wipe his tears.
Molly, was the Cedillo family's little daughter, always the apple of everyone's eye. She was the younger
sister of Bruce, and the sister of business tycoon Andre.
When she was a child, her mother fell ill due to missing her too much, her condition repeatedly
worsened and ultimately she passed away. This was a permanent pain in Andre's heart.
He lowered his head, recalling the scene from fifteen years ago. That year, he was 13, just started
junior high school. His beloved little sister was only 5, held tightly in his arms.
The abandoned building was overgrown with weeds, the ground littered with bricks and wood, as well
as ropes used for binding.
Andre was covered in wounds and blood. Molly cried out in terror, and she reached out and gently
shook Andre, whose eyes were swollen from the beating. Her cries awakened him. “Andre, Dad and
Bruce will come to find us, open your eyes and look at Molly. If you don't look at me, I'm scared.”
Little Molly also had blood on her body, that was Andre's blood, who was protecting her when those
kidnappers were beating him.
“Molly, don't cry, I'll protect you, I won't let them take you away.” Andre's voice was very weak, but his
hands were unusually strong, protecting his sister from being taken away by the bad guys.
Molly cried and said, "If I get lost, you, dad and mom, big bro and sis-in-law must find me and bring me
home. I'm scared without a home.”
“You won't get lost, you won't, I won't let you get lost.”
Molly was smart, as a child's intuition was always strong. She felt she would not be able to find home,
so she kept crying and couldn't speak.
She couldn't find any birthmarks on her body, and Molly started crying again. She was afraid she would
become ugly, and her brother would not recognize her when they met on the streets. So, she went
harsh on herself.
In front of Andre, she lifted her arm, grabbed the flesh on her arm, and bit down hard. At that moment,
she cried out in pain, her whole body was sweating, but she still left a bite mark on herself.
Andre pulled on her small arm, “Molly, don't bite yourself.”
Molly only let go after she had bitten herself until it bled, then she started crying loudly, “It hurts.”
Andre held his little sister, tears streaming down his face. “You won't get lost, even if I get lost, I won't
let you get lost.”
Later, someone came, picked up a brick from the ground, and hit Andre's head with a heavy blow.
Just before Andre passed out, he could still hear his sister's crying, and he told his sister, “I will
definitely protect you.”
Then, he fell into darkness.
When he woke up, everyone told him, Molly was gone. Andre collapsed and cried bitterly, he ran out
and searched day and night for his sister, but still couldn't find her.
During that time, the Cedillo family was shrouded in gloom.
Bruce fainted from coughing up blood on the road while looking for his sister. He almost died in a car
accident, because he hadn't had a good night's sleep for a month.
Their mom fell ill and couldn't get up, and she needed to rely on oxygen in the hospital to keep the
strength.
Andre would often go MIA, only to resurface at the hospital to visit his mom. He would make promises
to his mom, who was confined to a hospital bed, that he'd surely find Molly.
Then, his mom passed away too.
Andre was shattered. This was his dark phase at the age of 13, where he lost his sister and then his
mom.
Hansen aged overnight. There was no more sparkle in his eyes and no more smiles on his face. Andre
never stopped searching for his sister, not for a single moment over the years. When he saw that kid
with the bite mark on her arm, he decided that he'd find her no matter what. He wouldn't let go of any
shred of a chance, even if it was just wishful thinking, he was willing to take it.
"I can't rest easy until I find Molly."
As a kid, Andre was a real gentleman, like a lad from a rich family, mature, composed and polite. But
after the major catastrophe in his family when he was 13, he started to glorify violence and turned
gloomy. He thought Molly's disappearance was because he wasn't strong enough. If he was stronger,
he could have protected his family.
That was when The Silent Ring was born.