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Unexpected Love: The Chief Auctioneer's Decision

Chapter 182: Do You Dare Touch the Sterling Family’s People?

Author: Lexi
updatedAt: 2026-01-21

CHAPTER 182: CHAPTER 182: DO YOU DARE TOUCH THE STERLING FAMILY’S PEOPLE?

Is it a coincidence?

But a pink crescent-shaped birthmark is not common, and it’s also on the shoulder. Can it really be such a coincidence?

Old Master Sterling and Kyle Sterling immediately rushed to the hospital.

Hospital.

Gregory Lancaster, "Ivy Summers! Today, I’m taking the three children back. Aren’t you afraid of hurting the children by stopping me?"

Ivy Summers’ eyes were full of coldness, "If you try to take the children again, I’ll call the police."

"Call the police? We are the children’s grandparents. Let’s see who the police will arrest."

Ella Morgan helped Ivy Summers protect the children, "As elders, you show no sense at all. Do you have any shame left?"

"I’ve been reasonable enough with you! Ivy Summers, if you had protected the three children well, how could Sophie have been repeatedly kidnapped, facing life and death situations? Sophie barely survived, yet you collude with the Sterling Family to refuse to return the children, forcing my son to kneel. I’ve endured it again and again, but have I not been reasonable enough with you?"

The matter of Ivy Summers staying with Sophie at the Sterling Family, forcing Damien Lancaster to kneel, has become something Gregory Lancaster cannot get over, a thorn in his heart.

He won’t give Ivy Summers another chance to threaten them with the children.

So taking the children away is a must.

"Stop!"

A voice shouted.

Old Master Sterling and Kyle Sterling arrived.

Gregory Lancaster squinted his eyes, "Old Master Sterling, why are you here?"

Old Master Sterling snorted angrily, "I knew it was you, young man. Your son is clearer-headed than you. Why am I here? Is this hospital owned by your family? Can’t I come?"

Gregory Lancaster’s expression was tense, "Old Master Sterling, I appreciate that you saved Sophie, but this is a Lancaster Family matter, perhaps you should not intervene."

"Lancaster Family matter?" Old Master Sterling chuckled twice, "I originally planned to acknowledge Sophie as my daughter, but didn’t have the chance, yet I even held a banquet. Sophie is considered half a member of the Sterling Family, and Ivy Summers is Sophie’s mother, so by that calculation, she’s part of the Sterling Family. You tell me, you’re bullying someone from the Sterling Family, shouldn’t I intervene?"

Gregory Lancaster was left stunned by Old Master Sterling’s logic.

If Old Master Sterling’s logic stands, doesn’t everyone related to Sophie become part of the Sterling Family?

"Old Master Sterling, you never used to meddle in such things. You’re getting older, maybe you should just rest at home."

Gregory Lancaster issued an implicit expulsion order.

But Old Master Sterling would never let himself be manipulated, supporting himself with a cane and holding his waist, his stern face seemed to say, ’Let me see what the matter is.’

"I said it, both of them are members of the Sterling Family, and I must get involved."

With Old Master Sterling and Kyle Sterling blocking him, Gregory Lancaster’s face turned completely dark. Turning his head, he saw Damien Lancaster arriving.

Gregory Lancaster snorted coldly, pointing at Ivy Summers, he said to Damien Lancaster, "Look at how the woman you insist on protecting stands against me."

Damien Lancaster strode over, looking at Nathan and Leo, who had clenched their fists, then at Sophie hiding in Ivy Summers’ arms, finally his gaze landed on Ivy Summers’ face, "Take the three of them inside first, I’ll handle this."

Gregory Lancaster’s expression turned stern, "Damien Lancaster! You’re still protecting her, she’s completely out of control!"

Damien Lancaster’s gaze shifted to Gregory Lancaster, "You keep saying the children aren’t close to you, do you think forcing them will make them close to you?"

Gregory Lancaster didn’t care about this, he just knew the longer the children were with Ivy Summers, the less likely they were to return to the Lancaster Family.

When they grow older, it will be even harder to bring them back.

Gregory Lancaster, "Why do you always go against me?"

Damien Lancaster, "Because you’re wrong!"

Gregory Lancaster was so angry that his veins were bulging.

"Just go back to the Lancaster Family? Fine, I’ll go back." In the tense atmosphere, Nathan suddenly spoke up.

"I’ll go back too, so you won’t disturb our mommy and sister anymore."

Nathan and Leo stepped forward, their faces unhappy, but they understood that if they didn’t go back, Gregory Lancaster wouldn’t stop.

"Nathan, Leo..." Ivy Summers knew her two children were sensible, and her heart ached for their sensibility.

"Mommy, we’ll come see you and sister again tomorrow."

Nathan and Leo walked over to Gregory Lancaster, their small faces cold. Nathan said, "We’ll go back with you, but we won’t be happy. If this is what you want, then so be it."

Nathan was rational and sensible, like a mature little adult.

His words pained Gregory Lancaster.

He was their biological grandfather, he just wanted to bring them back to the Lancaster Family and give them the best, yet they treated him like an enemy.

Now even his own son stands against him.

It feels like he’s the one who did something wrong!

But he only wanted what was best for them.

"Let’s go, back home!" Gregory Lancaster left in anger.

Seraphina Kennedy looked at the three children, "Children..."

"What children, don’t you see they’re looking at us like we’re their enemies? If we keep forcing them to go back, I’m afraid even my son won’t recognize us as family. Let’s go!"

Seraphina Kennedy was unwillingly pulled away.

Ivy Summers pulled Nathan and Leo back into her arms. This time she kept the children, but how long would the standoff be next time?

Ivy Summers looked up, her gaze meeting Old Master Sterling’s.

Old Master Sterling’s gaze was peculiar, staring at her as if trying to discover something from her.

The words Ivy Summers wanted to say to thank Old Master Sterling for coming to help were caught in her throat, "Old Mr. Sterling, what’s wrong?"

"Child, do you and Sophie both have a crescent-shaped birthmark?"

Old Master Sterling’s question changed abruptly, and Ivy Summers looked at Old Master Sterling in surprise, "How do you know?"

"Both on the right shoulder?"

Ivy Summers was even more shocked, "Yes."

Old Master Sterling unconsciously took a step forward, his eyes filled with a surging and urgent glow.

He suppressed his trembling body, asking again, "How old are you this year?"

Damien Lancaster, who had been quietly standing aside, couldn’t help but tense up at Old Master Sterling’s question.

A birthmark on the body, such a private detail, how did Old Master Sterling know so accurately?

Asking about the birthmark and age, what was he trying to do?

Ivy Summers answered as asked by Old Master Sterling, "I’m twenty-nine this year."

"May I ask your mother’s name?"

Ivy Summers found it strange, "Old Mr. Sterling, why are you suddenly asking these things?"

Old Master Sterling: "Quickly, tell me, it’s very important."

Ivy Summers hesitated for a moment.

Since her mother passed away, she had rarely mentioned her mother, and now, being suddenly asked by Old Master Sterling.

Ivy Summers was puzzled and somewhat wary.

But unable to resist Old Master Sterling’s urgent gaze, she slowly said, "Sienna Sterling!"

Old Master Sterling frowned.

It seemed the answer wasn’t what he wanted.

"Sienna Sterling?"

"Yes." Ivy Summers nodded, "Is there a problem?"

Old Master Sterling’s voice deepened, "Did your mother change her name?"

Sienna Sterling.

But his daughter was called Vivian Sterling.

Ivy Summers shook her head, "Not that I recall, my mother was always called by that name."

"That can’t be right..." Old Master Sterling’s eyes dimmed.

Kyle Sterling understood, the old master was suspicious of Ivy Summers’ background because of something his mother had said.

"Grandpa, show her a picture of Auntie."

Kyle Sterling reminded him, and Old Master Sterling remembered, immediately taking out his phone.

The old man was so nervous that even his fingers were shaking too much to tap the phone.

Kyle Sterling took the old man’s phone, quickly scrolled through the photos, and handed it to Ivy Summers, "Look, does your mother look like this?"

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