Chapter 215: Meet the Mother

Julius had immediately noticed her when she got within his skill’s influence. She had been watching them silently for the past several minutes, ever since Frank took them back here.

Julius didn’t know for sure that it was this Lady Rebecca, but he was pretty certain that it was. She was wearing a fancy dress and had all of the signs of a noble lady. Also, he didn’t see a reason why someone like her would be just hanging around this area at this specific moment unless there was a reason.

Therefore, he speculated that this woman was Lady Rebecca or at least someone who was related to Cory. He didn’t know how they managed to get wind of his drop off but the fact remained that she was here.

She also knew that it was Julius and Reinera who brought Cory back. That could potentially be a problem for the two of them.

Danny whipped around as did Frank. Reinera was thankfully a little more reserved, however, she also knew about Julius’s perception ability. So she probably wasn’t that surprised that Julius was able to notice her intrusion.

Well, not intrusion exactly. This is probably her home to be fair. More like snooping, he decided.

“Who’s here?” Frank asked confused.

Julius didn’t respond, he just continued to look exactly at the spot where the lady was hiding.

Eventually, the lady seemed to understand that Julius had noticed her and slowly removed whatever stealth skill she had active, appearing in front of them.

“I thought you said you had to help out with gate duties today, Frank,” she said accusingly.

Frank seemed to both simultaneously relax and tense up. He was probably glad that it wasn’t some enemy but was also nervous at being caught red-handed.

“I’m sorry, Lady Rebecca. As you can see, I-I had good reason to,” he said with a small stutter.

Ah, so it was Lady Rebecca, Julius mentally noted, giving himself a small pat on his back for his deduction skills. She even had the same bright blue eyes as Cory as well as sharing some of his facial features.

“Yes Frank, that is the only reason why I am not upset with you or the fact that you were totally willing to lie to my face,” she said meaningfully before turning to Danny. “Hello, Mr. Hollins. Rest assured, I will also be having words with you regarding your continued services at a later date.”

Danny didn’t dare to look her in the eyes and suddenly found a smudge on the floor very interesting. Then there was Frank who was practically shaking in his boots and was about to say something but she waved her hand, interrupting whatever he had planned to tell her. Instead, she quickly crossed the room, moving in the blink of an eye.

In fact, she did. Julius didn’t sense her moving, she had used some sort of teleportation skill to move. One moment she was across the room and the next she had Cory in her arms drowning the poor boy in kisses.

Cory was obviously happy to see his mother, but on the other hand, he looked like he was trying to escape as well. He was clawing his way out of her arms with such fierceness, that it was like seeing a totally different boy. He gave Julius a look that was a clear plea for help, but Julius, the smart man he was, purposefully ignored the boy.

He was not getting in the middle of a mom and her reunion with her precious baby.

Once the mother seemed to get her fill and Cory was gasping for air, she turned to them with a dangerous glint in her eyes.

“I heard most of your guys’ talk, but I noticed you failed to mention the details of my son’s kidnappers,” she said.

Julius gave Reinera a look, letting her know that he would take care of it. He didn’t want her accidentally saying something that might endanger them or even worse, Elder Han and the orphanage.

“I’m sorry, it is Lady Rebecca correct?”

She nodded.

He took a deep breath. “I wish I could tell you everything, but honestly, I can’t,” he could immediately tell that she didn’t like hearing that, so he put a placating hand up. “But… I can tell you that a group of men from a town we visited had your son imprisoned and had plans to ransom him back to you. We ended up running across them and saving them,” he explained as carefully as he could.

He probably could have told her more, but he didn’t want the remote chance of someone figuring out that the orphanage had anything to do with saving them. That group was able to hire a Tier 4 like Dustin to protect the place, which meant there were undoubtedly more Tier 4s or those even stronger involved. He didn’t want them looking for trouble and then ended up having the orphanage directly in their scope.

Then again, Elder Han was protecting the orphanage, so it might have been one of the most protected places in the region.

I am kind of interested to see what Elder Han would do if they tried, he thought humorously to himself.

He only had sympathies for anyone who dared to attack the orphanage. He doubted that there would be anything left of them if they did.

Stolen story; please report.

Still, there was no need to tempt fate. Who knew what could happen outside of Elder Han’s control? It’s not like the children stayed inside the orphanage forever.

This was just overall safer for everyone involved. He didn’t really care if the lady didn’t like it. They had saved her son, so that should be enough for her. If she couldn’t accept that, then that said enough about what type of person she was.

“We are already aware of the group that kidnapped my son. They messaged us a while ago. I am asking you if there are any details that you could share with us that could help us get some retribution against these scumbags,” she said murderously while also covering Cory’s ears with some mana, ensuring the little boy didn’t hear her curse.

“They’re all dead. I am not sure you are going to get much revenge on them any time soon,” he said semi-truthfully. He didn’t include Dustin with them because the man had been the reason they had even been saved. So according to Julius, Dustin was a new man and had no relation to this group anymore.