The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 2727

"Mister Vince, it's a downpour out there. Miss Rita will get sick if she runs around outside," said Donna.

"It's her own fault if she gets sick," remarked Vince stiffly. "No one told her to go out."

Sensing a slight softening in his tone, Donna quickly interjected, "Why don't I help her? That painting is a cherished memento for her, so it's understandable for her to be so anxious about it."

In the end, Vince sighed and waved. Donna immediately followed Rita outside.

It was partly the servants' fault that the painting went missing. They only knew that the painting, which had been hanging for over a decade, was suddenly being taken down, but they completely overlooked where it had been put.

'Oh, what a mess this has turned out,' thought Donna.

distressed. Thus, she ran into the rain

Rita found her painting in a small building next door, used for storing junk. She saw the usually clean frame carelessly thrown on the ground

lowered her head and burst into tears. "Mom, I miss

to accompany her. Not even her father, Vince, came out to

"Goodness, Miss Rita, you're soaking wet, and

could not help but shed tears of her own when she saw Rita tightly clutching the painting with her face streaked with either tears or rain. She watched how Rita remained silent and completely blocked out the outside world. "If only your mother was still

alive, she would never have allowed anyone

like the Russell family's, there was not even space for her longing

choice. Her resistance was seen as nothing more than troublemaking in her father's eyes; she was the

found back to her room. Only in her room would the painting cease to be

up. Instead, she hid the painting in the deepest corner of her closet. The painting depicted the warm family bond of

thought him undeserving of the painting. She did not want to hang