Lock You In My Heart

Chapter 23 I’d Rather Be An Orphan

Wendy arranged a driver to send Gabrielle to Vineyard Villa. She instructed him repeatedly to take her only there.

Gabrielle could tell why she was so erratic, She was afraid Gabrielle would run away.

“Ronin, stop the car!” Gabrielle urged the driver when they reached downtown.

Wendy had told Ronin not to let Gabrielle out of the car. She was rather stubborn. Wendy knew if she got out, it would be difficult to coax to get in again.

“Miss Jones, what is the matter?” Ronin asked in a low voice. He took a look at Gabrielle through the rearview mirror. She looked calm and composed.

Before Gabrielle could say anything, her phone rang. It was a call from Tobias.

She hesitated for a while, then answered the phone.

“What’s up, Dad?”.

She was in no mood to fake niceness.

“Gabrielle, have you reached Vineyard Villa?”

anxiously.

“We are just crossing downtown. It will take a while. Dad, what can I do for you?”

Gabrielle knew something was up. Otherwise, Tobias would never have called her.

“Our stocks are falling! It must be because of Westley. When you reach Vineyard Villa, can you urge him not to brutally drive us to a dead end? The Jones has brought you up. I know you are upset with your mother. But I can assure you once this problem is solved, such a thing will never happen again!” Tobias was a middle-aged man. He had never been humble, and was dragged into this trouble by Wendy. 4

Gabrielle was shocked to hear him. Their stocks were falling?

was acting

Westley did this. Whether

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Every second in this drama was causing harm to her

Westley’s wife and the only hope of our family! Who else can we rely on? We have raised you for twenty years, for

the fruit of your grandfather’s painstaking efforts! I don’t want it destroyed at my hands!” Tobias

that he had to beg Gabrielle for help. If the stocks hadn’t fallen too

But you better focus on bringing Bryce and Nellie back. The Jones family has now offended Westley even more. I can try to talk to him. If he

you can do it.

through his teeth. It

all, Westley didn’t trust her. Tobias had

to you later.” Gabrielle hung up and looked

lights from the city lit up the night sky. But for the first time, she felt she had been abandoned

Westley, and he would never treat her like his wife. She was just a scapegoat for everyone. As soon as Nellie would be

poor and lonely

in an orphanage was much better. At least there she wouldn’t

are you okay?” Ronin asked, looking at her sad face in the

talk to Tobias and could roughly tell what the conversation had been

kind-hearted girl. If Bryce hadn’t acted so ridiculously, her life wouldn’t have changed so drastically. Ronin

something cold.” She looked at him with a

I’ll be back in a moment.” Ronin pulled up and got

her opportunity. She climbed to the driver’s seat

turned back. He rushed toward the car and

the window and looked at him calmly. “Ronin, you can take a taxi home. I’ll drive to Vineyard Villa myself. Don’t tell my

do that,” Ronin said

go to Vineyard Villa, but that she was mentally unstable and she could

be fine! I’m completely sober and I know what I’m doing.” Gabrielle turned the key