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.

Rita distressed. Thus, she ran into the

a small building next door, used for storing junk. She saw the usually clean frame carelessly thrown on

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

in a daze. Only Donna was there to accompany her. Not even her father, Vince, came out to help

hair. "Goodness, Miss Rita, you're soaking wet, and you've always been

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 have ended

was still alive, she would never have allowed anyone to

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

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

in her room would the painting cease to be an

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

how her father had changed. She thought him undeserving of the painting. She