Chapter 52 “Zachary isn‘t someone she can handle. Try and get her to move on. You don‘t see other young women hanging around Zachary other than his family. He‘s a heartless man. Why can‘t Elisa listen to reason?”

Clive threw in the towel on his sister.

“I‘m too busy to deal with her now. Honey, I‘ll leave Elisa in your hands.”

“Carry on with your work. I‘ll pick Elisa up now and take her to go shopping with Mom. Mom‘s been feeling down lately.”

Clive‘s wife, Alice, had a great relationship with her mother–in–law. Seeing that her mother–in–law was feeling blue, Alice persuaded her to go out and get some sunshine. A bit of retail therapy might do her good.

Clive fell silent.

knew the reason behind his mother‘s melancholy. There had not been any news about his aunt. It was the one thing

Audrey, grew up in an orphanage. Her parents passed away when Audrey was young, survived by Audrey and her sister who was four years younger. The sisters were then

came to the orphanage with the interest to adopt

while her sister was merely four. Although reluctant to part with her sister, Audrey knew she was in better hands with the couple. Hence, Audrey agreed to let the couple adopt her

a memento before the fateful separation. It had been

way up the corporate ladder. She earned the boss’ trust and confidence in return. Plus,

gave up on looking for her sister but heard nothing back despite

Clive and his dad went along with Audrey to visit the wealthy couple and found out that the couple had their own child a year into

the couple stopped being nice to Audrey‘s

her to someone else as they only wanted to leave the family inheritance to their flesh and blood. Decades passed, and the maid was long gone. The maid‘s family had no idea about the whole thing, much less to whom Audrey‘s sister

of the search

was through the yellowing photograph that Mom had kept until now. Clive had put a digital copy of it on the web, hoping it might

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