Chapter 2814 - 4: Harrison Lucas’s Secret

Chapter 2814: Chapter 4: Harrison Lucas’s Secret

Harrison Lucas is a person with many secrets.

Her secrets go beyond gender; they delve into her family lineage.

Everyone thinks she is a child of the Ninth Branch of the Lucas family. Now, the head of the Ninth Branch, Benjamin Lucas IX, is her brother; the previous one, Old Benjamin, is her father. When she returns to the branch, others respectfully address her as ’Young Master’.

But actually, Harrison Lucas is not Old Benjamin’s child at all.

The so-called late-born child is just a facade. Her... unique lineage was fabricated by Old Benjamin, whom she sees as a father, to protect her.

In the entire Lucas family, besides the late Old Benjamin, only Benjamin Lucas IX, who is now far away in A City with Mr. Lucas, knows her secret. He is her nominal brother.

The ’young man’ in the mirror thought about this and shook her head—

She is Harrison Lucas, and Harrison Lucas is her. She should abandon her identity and forget her gender to stay beside the eldest son.

This is her mission.

Harrison Lucas lifted her eyes and looked again at the person she saw in the mirror.

Her black bangs were wet with water, clinging strand by strand to her face, revealing her smooth, full forehead.

Without the bangs to cover them, her eyes appeared larger than usual, typically narrow and indifferent like a boy’s, but now they seemed much rounder.

Her pitch-black eyes, devoid of their usual narrow, aloof look, exuded a feminine charm.

Harrison Lucas couldn’t stand this aspect of herself and habitually squinted at the mirror, emanating a calm coldness.

This was right; this was ’him’—a youth, though exquisite, yet indifferent.

Cute softness was completely unfit for her current identity.

...

Harrison Lucas wiped her face with her hand, disrupted the black hair on her forehead, and her eyes returned to their indifferent shade.

She came out of the bathroom and went to the kitchen to guard the stove, ’struggling’ to continue preparing hangover soup.

She didn’t know if, without her blocking or reminding him at the dinner table tonight, the young master would be drinking on an empty stomach.

To prevent Ben Lucas from returning without anything to fill his stomach, Harrison Lucas wanted to prepare an extra late-night meal for the young master.

"If I had known the young master hadn’t come back by now, I shouldn’t have let the nanny Auntie leave." Harrison Lucas frowned at the stove, her expression serious.

Due to Ben Lucas’s preference for quiet, this standalone small building, situated somewhat remotely within the military compound, usually housed only Harrison Lucas and Ben Lucas on all three stories.

The nanny who stays until after dinner leaves; Harrison Lucas sent her away today in the afternoon.

She didn’t know when the eldest son would return or if he would show any signs of intoxication upon arrival.

But Harrison Lucas has been by Ben Lucas’s side since childhood, always having to consider everything on his behalf.

To prevent outsiders from witnessing the eldest son’s drunken state, it was best for the nanny Auntie to leave as soon as possible.

However, after sending her away, Harrison Lucas became perplexed in the kitchen in front of the stove.

She has been with the eldest son since childhood, attending the Military Academy when he did, entering the military when he did.

While she’s good at shooting and combat, it’s harder than killing her to get her to cook with a spatula.

Luckily, the hangover soup was prepared by the nanny Auntie before she left; it just needed to be heated on the stove to be ready to drink.

However, the porridge and side dishes Harrison Lucas fantasized about preparing for Ben Lucas became a real challenge for her.

"Bang—Clang—Boom—"

At ten-thirty at night, when it was supposed to be quiet, loud bangs of pots and pans colliding echoed from a particular small building in the military compound.

"Failed again..." Harrison Lucas, with a frying pan in her right hand, protected herself—fortunately, she wasn’t splashed with hot oil.