Sophia was testing her.
Ellinor, in her summer dress, looked somewhat surprised. "Three at once? Ms. Sophia, you seem to have a faulty memory. I do have three children, but I only birthed twins. The eldest, Baber, was adopted due to unique circumstances. Have you forgotten?"
Sophia stared into her eyes. "Is that so? I heard that you had triplets."
Could it be that Ellinor knew about the mix-up?
When she saw Ellinor talking softly to Tristan, she couldn't clearly hear their conversation.
Ellinor knew what Sophia was getting at and looked at her in shock. "What? You heard about that too?
I remember clearly during one of my prenatal checkups that the doctor told me I was carrying triplets, but only twins were born.
I kept telling myself that I must have misremembered, but now you're telling me you heard the same rumor.
Ms. Sophia, who told you this? Are they informed? Did someone steal one of my babies?"
Sophia, taken aback by Ellinor's frantic demeanor, distanced herself from her. "Ahem, I forgot who mentioned it. They just said you had three children. Maybe they were including the adopted one."
Ellinor looked disappointed. "I see… I thought you knew something that could prove I really was pregnant with triplets."
Sophia was suspicious as she watched Ellinor's current state.
Through their conversation, Sophia gained a rough understanding of the situation. Ellinor didn't seem to know about the triplets, and everyone around her was concealing it.
She had a vague memory of a doctor telling her she was pregnant with triplets.
Right now, it was highly likely she didn't know about the mix-up because she didn't know or wasn't sure that she had another child.
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