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

bring her up

how even

for her mother’s attention. There was no way she

happen!

alright. We won’t bring

fondly, unaware of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly assuming that Tina was

room door flew

Titus walked in with a

the first

Tina let go of her mother

“Hi, Dad.”

responding. Instantly, her expression froze and she chewed on her

her husband a dissatisfied glance. “Why are you treating Tina so coldly? She didn’t do

she didn’t? Ask

now!” he accused,

a finger at Tina

Julia looked at her.

out and only continued coldly, “I know what you did to

“How did you find out about

I find out about it?”

rubbed that piece

my face

to get up to something, could

act? Now, we’re

He trailed off, too

continue

wrong, Tina

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

 

Titus was so incensed by Julia’s words

that piece of land is

in

waiting for Toby to hand

start work. Now,

the projects

cannot afford

years,

why he thought of developing a villa district to

didn’t

and only stood to inform

promised the Berthull

rage. “And what can the Berthull land be

the

I built

we’ll still have  to take the

Tina

after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act

brink. I can’t

truly

interrupted with

face.

he realize that he

and closed

After a moment,

on Toby for the time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re not allowed to go after her and let her catch you in the

eyes,

“Yes.”

After he did, Tina grabbed her mother’s

his real what?”

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