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.

could not bear to see Rita distressed. Thus, she

small building next door, used for storing junk. She saw the usually clean frame carelessly thrown on the ground and completely covered in dust. It was

hold back any longer, Rita lowered her head and burst into tears. "Mom,

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

you're soaking wet, and you've always been easy to get sick! You'll definitely catch a fever

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...you wouldn't

if Rita's mother was still alive, she would never have

her mother dearly. It was unfortunate that in such a large mansion like the Russell family's, there was not even space

troublemaking in her father's eyes; she was the one who disrupted

in her room would the painting cease to be an

closet. The painting depicted the warm family bond of her, her father, and her

her father had changed. She thought him undeserving of the painting. She did not want to hang the