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?

acting too

why Westley did this. Whether he listens

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felt desperate and helpless. Every second in this

Westley’s wife and the only hope of our family! Who else

destroyed at my hands!” Tobias said in a low voice. He was

the stocks hadn’t fallen too low, he would never have begged her

on bringing Bryce and Nellie back. The Jones family has now offended Westley even more. I can try to

do

through his teeth. It was useless to

trust her. Tobias had begged

to hang up now. I’ll talk to you later.” Gabrielle hung up and looked outside the

up the night sky. But for the first time, she felt she had been abandoned by the whole world. There was no place where

Westley, and he would never treat her like his wife. She was just a scapegoat for everyone. As soon as Nellie would be back, she would have no home. She could not imagine going back to the Jones after what they had

poor and lonely she would

an orphanage was much better. At least there she wouldn’t have been used like a

looking at her sad face

her talk to Tobias and could roughly tell

been a gentle and kind-hearted girl. If Bryce hadn’t acted so

something cold.” She looked at him with a somber expression. She could

a moment.” Ronin pulled

seized her opportunity. She climbed to the

rushed toward the car and tried to open the door. “Miss Jones, what are you

and looked at him calmly. “Ronin, you can

can’t do that,” Ronin said anxiously, scared of what might happen

wasn’t worried that she would not go to Vineyard Villa, but that she was mentally unstable and

know what I’m doing.” Gabrielle turned the key and