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

shoulder, saying ‘fondly,

shouldn’t bring her up anymore. I don’t think she’d

how even a

her mother’s attention. There was no way she

happen!

alright. We won’t

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

then, the room door

Titus walked in with a

Being the first to

of her mother to

“Hi, Dad.”

he only gave her an indifferent glance without responding. Instantly, her expression froze and she chewed on her lip sadly before asking, “Did

her husband a dissatisfied glance. “Why are you treating

didn’t? Ask her

now!”

a finger at Tina

looked at her. However, Tina

Titus didn’t bother dragging the moment out and only continued coldly,

“How did you find

find out

“She rubbed that

in my face on

to get up to something, could

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

trailed off,

continue

done wrong, Tina

sight, Julia wrapped her arms around her daughter and grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a plot of land.

 

Titus was so incensed by Julia’s words that he started trembling.

of land is to

 already invested in it and

waiting for Toby to hand us

to start work. Now, the

the projects

We cannot afford the

years,

why he thought of developing a villa district to restore the enterprise to its former glory. But now, it

conditions, Tina didn’t realize how great the

stood

“Toby has promised the

rage. “And what can the Berthull

in the middle

I built there?

we’ll still have  to

Tina started to panic.

after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the upper hand. Now, you‘ve

I can’t believe you’re

truly

Julia interrupted

face.

then did he realize that he

closed his

moment, he

 You’re not allowed to go after her and let her catch you in the act again.

her eyes, Tina

“Yes.”

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

his real what?”

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