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

her shoulder, saying ‘fondly, “You know, Mom, you get

her up, so we shouldn’t bring her up anymore. I

was strange how even a dead

mother’s attention. There was

happen!

won’t

motives

then, the room door

Titus walked in with a

Being the first to

go of her

“Hi, Dad.”

and she chewed on

honey.” Julia gave her husband a dissatisfied glance. “Why are

didn’t? Ask

now!”

a finger at Tina

looked at her. However, Tina was

Titus didn’t bother dragging the moment out and

eyes flashed guiltily. “How did you

I find out

rubbed that

face on the internet.

to get up to something, could you not have been

 Now, we’re forced to give up the land.

trailed off, too angry

continue

wrong,

daughter and grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a plot of land. Why do

 

by Julia’s words that he started trembling. “Do you

piece of land is to

in

Toby to hand us

to start work.

and all the projects have to

We cannot

years,

a villa district to restore the enterprise

understanding market conditions, Tina didn’t realize

and only stood

“Toby has promised the Berthull

rage. “And what can the Berthull land be

in the middle of nowhere.

buy the villas I built there? If

to sell the villas, we’ll still have  to take

 serious? Finally, Tina

me ‘Dad!” Titus snapped hurtfully. “You keep going after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the upper hand. Now, you‘ve truly pushed

brink. I

truly not

Julia interrupted with

face.

did he

closed his

After a moment,

not allowed to go after her and let her catch you in the act again. Do you

her eyes,

“Yes.”

did, Tina grabbed her mother’s hand. “Mom,

his real what?”

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255