This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr

Chapter 248

Oh, good, so Rina hasn’t actually been found yet. But it seems as if Mom can’t wait to see her because why else would she bother decorating Rina’s bedroom before the girl is even located? At this rate, Mom’s attention will be stolen by her the moment she returns.

Tina’s hands curled into fists on top of her knees as she dwelled upon these thoughts. She lowered her head by a fraction and hid the dark look on her face.

After a pause, she looked up once more and feigned concern as she asked Julia, “Mom, what if—and this is a big what-if—Rina has a weak and cowardly character because she’d grown up in a poor family? Assuming that is the case, she would only embarrass you in public because she’s too afraid and too incapable of doing anything right. Would you still like her and look forward to meeting her?”

Julia shot her daughter an affronted look, her face no longer a picture of gentle compassion as she demanded, “Tina, why would you ask such a thing?”

 

Tina held her by the arm coquettishly and explained, “I was only curious because that’s how most soap operas go—you know, how the long-lost child from some affluent family is finally reunited with their parents. But they end up getting shunned by them because their incapability is humiliating. I’m just worried that you and Dad might treat Rina the same way.”

“Oh, is that it?” Julia batted away her doubts and smoothed Tina’s hair affectionately. “Pay no mind to things like that, seeing as they only ever happen in soap operas.”

“So you won’t end up treating Rina like an outcast even if something like that happens?” Tina narrowed her eyes slightly as an icy gleam lit up her depthless orbs.

Julia nodded firmly. “Of course not. I carried her and gave birth to her, not to mention she was the child your father looked most forward to. You have no idea how your father—” She broke off with a quick sigh, then added, “It doesn’t matter. The bottom line is that you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Your father and I won’t mistreat or sideline your sister that way, and even if she were to be in such unfortunate circumstances, it would only make us love her harder. We wouldn’t shun her or dislike her at all. In fact, we’d try to make it up to her even more!”

“I’m so happy to hear that!” Tina broke into a smile, looking as if she truly was relieved on Rina’s part.

amplified, and she was the only one who was acutely

 

of luring her mother into revealing her true feelings about her lost daughter. That had backfired, though, seeing as it did not curb Julia’s excitement for the

out to be my biggest hurdle next to Sonia. Tina grew mutinous, and a sinister gleam flashed in her

…

stepped out of the car with the

the car pulling up. She had been

late, Toby,” she remarked disapprovingly as she made her way

the driver had handed him, then said, “I was

what happened at the restaurant earlier,

shall,” Rose agreed

them proceeded toward the house with their individual canes, which proved an entertaining sight, given the decades

the kitchen when she saw Rose and Toby. “Oh, you’re

nodded briskly in acknowledgment.

hastily put the platter down and

he brushed her off and said, “I’ve got it.” There might not be any strength in his legs, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t manage

into his seat. Jean, on the other hand, pushed the fruit platter toward him and asked cheerfully, “Have you patched things up

made no reply. He wondered why his mother would even

how his every thought and emotion had been inexplicably swayed and manipulated because

truly was Maple, Toby was willing to overlook all that he had done for her before the accident—regardless of whether he was being manipulated

had been pretending to be Maple all along, then there was no way

the thought of this, Toby grabbed his cane and rose from his seat. “Grandma, Mom, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be going back

bedroom so that he could find out for sure if Tina was Maple, though he already knew the answer to that. Having said what

Jean glanced at the untouched platter of fruits, then at Toby’s back. Slightly peeved, she grumbled, “He didn’t

the nerves to continue sharing the same space with this daughter-in-law of hers, seeing as Toby had already left. If it weren’t for the fact

take out Maple’s past letters to him and read through them once more. However, he froze in shock when he saw that

moment, he felt as if his own heart had been

the household servants. With a voice like thunder, he demanded, “Who took my letters from

exchanged helpless and bewildered looks. They shook their heads slowly

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