Shane cast a quizzical look at Harrison right then as well.

He wanted to know Harrison’s intention in inviting him here.

Feigning devastation, the man thumped on his chest. “Nat, is that what you think of me?”

“Drop the act, and stop playing the family card. I know for a fact what kind of person you are. You are the most self-centered person I know. If you truly do not have anything up in your sleeves, why would you be all nice toward the daughter you hate so much? Only a dimwit will believe that you’re sincere,” Natalie mocked.

Harrison was stumped at how straightforward Natalie was.

“If you’re not going to come clean, we’re going to leave,” Shane said.

“Wait a minute!” Harrison clutched tightly onto his walking cane.

Natalie and Shane exchanged glances and stopped in their tracks.

“Say it. What do you want exactly?” Natalie pursed her red lips.

The man looked fragile as if he had aged over ten years in just a moment and sighed with a bitter smile. “I’m inviting Shane over because Jasmine loved him. That’s why I’m inviting him to send her off for one last time. As for you, Nat. I’m inviting you here because I want to reconcile with you.”

 

Natalie furrowed

eyes at the mention of

 

said, “Yes. Now that Jasmine’s passed, I only have you and Jared left.

us back?” Natalie widened her eyes

“That’s right.”

I guessed

corner of her lips twitched in

Jared, and

even willing to reconcile with her. I’m the daughter that

was taken aback by Harrison’s brazen attempt that he squirmed in

though? I can understand that you’re hoping to patch things up with Jared, but I really cannot brain the reasons you want

flashed across Harrison’s eyes, so brief that it had lasted only for a fraction of a second before he replied, “Of course not. I’ve just thought things through. After all, you’re my daughter, and I couldn’t bear

in Shane’s good books was

love with her. If he reconciled with Natalie, then Shane would most definitely look past the horrible things that he had done in the past. Not only that, the man even hoped for Shane to help return the

more excited at

not notice that his greed and

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