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,

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

strange how

There was

happen!

We won’t

of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly assuming that

then, the room door

Titus walked in with a

the first to

go of her

“Hi, Dad.”

her expression froze and

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

she didn’t?

done now!” he

a finger at Tina

Julia looked at her.

didn’t bother dragging the moment out and only continued coldly, “I know what you did

“How

find out about it?”

“She rubbed that piece

face on the

to get up to something, could you not have

act? Now, we’re forced to

He trailed off, too

continue

wrong, Tina lowered her

grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just

 

 a plot of land? Titus was so incensed by

piece of

 already invested in

for Toby to hand us

work.

and all the projects have

cannot

years, Triforce

of developing a villa district to restore the

conditions, Tina didn’t realize how great

and only stood

has promised the Berthull

out with rage. “And what can the Berthull

in the

the villas I built there?

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

Tina

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 Triforce

the brink. I

 You’re truly not

Julia interrupted

face.

he

closed his

a moment, he reopened

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

her eyes, Tina

“Yes.”

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

his real what?”

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