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?”

over the little girl in the photograph, Julia nodded with her eyes wet. “Yes.

 

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

for her mother’s attention. There was no way she was letting

her up,” Julia answered fondly, unaware of her younger daughter’s motives

then, the room door flew open and Titus walked in with a thunderous expression. Being the first to discover him, Tina let go of her

glance without responding. Instantly, her expression froze and she chewed on her lip sadly before asking, “Did I do something wrong,

Julia gave her husband a dissatisfied glance. “Why are you treating Tina so coldly? She

says she didn’t? Ask her what she’s done now!”

Julia looked at her.

moment out and only continued coldly, “I know what you did to

eyes flashed guiltily. “How did you find out about

internet. How could I not find out about it? If you were going to get up to something, could you not have been less careless so she

had done wrong, Tina lowered

and grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a plot of land. Why do you need

land is to us? We’ve already invested in it and were only waiting for Toby to hand us the deed to start work.

he thought of developing a villa district to restore the enterprise to its former glory. But now, it was all for

Tina didn’t realize how great the issue was and only stood to inform him leisurely, “Toby has promised the

can the Berthull land be used for? It’s 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 have to take

serious? Finally, Tina started

me ‘Dad’!” Titus snapped hurtfully. “You keep going after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the

interrupted with

you’d better concentrate on Toby for the time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re not allowed

eyes, Tina

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