After half an hour, Titus reached home. The butler came up to greet him and he handed his coat over, asking, “Are Miss and Mrs. Gray home?”

“They’re in Miss Gray’s room, sir,” the butler answered after draping the coat over his arm.

After a hum of understanding, Titus headed toward the staircase.

Meanwhile in the room upstairs, Julia and Tina were sitting at the foot of the bed flipping through a photo album together. Pointing at a picture of herself, Tina asked, “Do you remember this photo, Mom?”

 

Fondly stroking her daughter’s long hair, Julia replied, “Of course I do. You were six when we took this picture. You liked playing hide-and-seek that year and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t find you. I was so scared that I lost you, but it turned out that you fell asleep hiding in the attic.”

“I remember. When I woke up, I came down from the attic by myself to find you crying. You had even lodged a police report,” Tina recalled.

The smile on Julia’s face faded and there was a touch of hatred in the bottom of her eyes. How could she not cry out of panic and file a police report when she couldn’t find her child? At the time, she even thought Henry had kidnapped Tina. It was a good thing that it turned out to be a false scare in the end.

Presently, Tina flipped a page. All of a sudden, a yellowed photograph fluttered out of the photo album and landed on the floor. She bent down to pick it up. There was an infant of a few months old in the photograph. The baby was smiling widely and looked adorable, and a single glance would endear anyone to it.

However, for some reason, Tina did not like this baby at all. In fact, she disliked and even hated this baby a little. Nevertheless, she didn’t show it and only handed the photograph to her mother, asking with a smile, “Is this Rina?”

Julia nodded with

 

jealous. And so, she put the photograph back and tucked it into the photo album. Following that, she looped her arm around her mother’s and leaned her head against her shoulder, saying fondly, “You know, Mom, you get upset every time we bring her up, so we shouldn’t bring her up anymore. I don’t think she’d want you to be

for

answered fondly, unaware of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly assuming that Tina was concerned

door flew open and Titus walked in with a thunderous expression. Being the first to discover him, Tina

Instantly, her expression froze and she chewed on her lip sadly before

a dissatisfied glance. “Why are you treating

she didn’t? Ask her what she’s done now!” he accused, pointing a finger at

her. However, Tina was

and only continued coldly, “I know what you did

guiltily. “How

were going to get up to something, could you not

wrong, Tina lowered

sight, Julia wrapped her arms around her daughter and grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a

words that he started trembling. “Do you know how important that piece of land is to us? We’ve already invested in it

thought of developing a villa district to restore

and only stood to inform him leisurely, “Toby has

out in the middle of nowhere. Who would buy the villas I built there? If I’m unable to sell the villas, we’ll still

that serious? Finally, Tina started to

going after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the upper hand. Now, you’ve truly

interrupted with a pale

you’d better concentrate on Toby for the time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re not allowed to go after her and let her catch you in the act again. Do you

eyes, Tina

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