Chapter 63

After half an hour, Titus reached home. The butler came up to greet him and he handed his coat over, asking, “Are Miss and Mrs. Gray home?”

“They’re in Miss Gray’s room, sir” the butler answered after draping the coat

over his arm.

After a hum of understanding, Titus

headed toward the staircase.

 

Meanwhile in the room upstairs, Julia

and Tina were sitting at the foot of the

 

bed flipping through a photo album

together. Pointing at a picture of herself, Tina asked, “Do you remember

this photo, Mom?”

Fondly stroking her daughter’s long hair, Julia replied, “Of course I do. You were six when we took this picture. You liked playing hide-and-seek that year and no matter how hard I looked, couldn’t find you. I was so scared that! lost you, but it turned out that you fell asleep hiding in the attic.”

“I remember. When I woke up, I came

down from the attic by myself to find you crying. You had even lodged a police report,” Tina recalled.

The smile on Julia’s face faded and

there was a touch of hatred in the

bottom of her eyes. How could she not

cry out of panic and file a police report

when she couldn’t find her child? At the time, she even thought Henry had kidnapped Tina. It was a good thing that it turned out to be a false scare in

the end.

Presently, Tina flipped a page. All of a sudden, a yellowed photograph fluttered out of the photo album and landed on the floor. She bent down to pick it up. There was an infant of a few months old in the photograph. The baby was smiling widely and looked

adorable, and a single glance would

endear anyone to it.

However, for some reason, Tina did not

like this baby at all. In fact, she disliked

and even hated this baby a

little. Nevertheless, she didn’t show it and only handed the photograph to her mother, asking with a smile, “Is this Rina?”

Stroking her fingers over the little girl in the photograph, Julia nodded with her eyes wet. “Yes. This is your sister,

Rina.”

When Tina saw how much Julia

missed the infant in the photograph, she couldn’t help feeling jealous. And so, she put the photograph back and

tucked it into the photo album. Following that, she looped her arm

around her mother’s and leaned her

‘fondly, “You

so we shouldn’t bring her up anymore. I don’t think she’d want you to

strange how even a dead

attention. There was no way she was

happen!

alright. We won’t

answered fondly, unaware of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly assuming

room door

walked in with a

the

Tina let go of her mother to

“Hi, Dad.”

indifferent glance without responding. Instantly, her expression froze and she chewed on her lip sadly before asking, “Did I do something wrong,

gave her husband a dissatisfied glance. “Why are you treating Tina

she didn’t? Ask her

now!” he accused,

a finger at Tina

looked at her. However,

and only

her eyes flashed guiltily. “How did you

did I find out about it?”

rubbed that

in my face on the

to get up to something,

she wouldn’t catch you in the act? Now, we’re forced to

trailed off,

continue

done wrong, Tina lowered her

husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a plot of land. Why do you need to

 

by Julia’s words that

piece of

 already invested in

for Toby to hand us

to start work. Now, the

the projects have to

cannot afford the

few years,

downhill road. That was why he thought of developing a villa district to restore the enterprise to

market conditions, Tina didn’t realize how great the

only stood to inform

promised the Berthull land to

what can the Berthull land be

out in the middle of nowhere.

I built there? If

villas, we’ll still have  to take the

 serious? Finally, Tina started

“You keep going after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the upper hand.

the brink. I can’t believe you’re

 You’re truly not my

interrupted with a

face.

then did he realize that he

closed

moment, he reopened

 rate, you’d better concentrate on Toby for the time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re not allowed

eyes, Tina

“Yes.”

turned and left. After he did, Tina grabbed her mother’s hand. “Mom, what did he mean

his real what?”

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