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?”

fingers over the little girl in the photograph, Julia nodded with

 

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

was strange how even a dead person dared to vie for her mother’s attention. There was no way she was letting

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

with a thunderous expression. Being the first to discover him,

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

“Why are you treating Tina so coldly? She

what she’s done now!” he accused, pointing a finger at

looked at her. However, Tina was similarly

truly didn’t understand, Titus didn’t bother dragging the moment out and only continued coldly, “I know what you did to Sonia at

flashed guiltily. “How

going to get up to something, could you not have been less careless so she wouldn’t catch you in the act? Now, we’re

wrong, Tina lowered

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

piece of land is to us? We’ve already invested in it

Enterprise was already on a downhill road. That was why he thought of developing a villa district to restore the enterprise to its former glory. But

realize how great the issue was and only stood to inform him leisurely, “Toby has

be used for? It’s out in the middle of nowhere. Who would buy the villas I built there? If I’m unable

that serious? Finally, Tina

the act and get the upper hand. Now, you’ve truly pushed

Julia interrupted with

and closed his mouth in time. After a moment, he reopened it. “At any rate, you’d better concentrate on Toby for the time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re

her eyes, Tina answered,

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