Chapter 63

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, couldn’t find you. I was so scared that! 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?”

Stroking her fingers over the little girl in the photograph, Julia nodded with her eyes wet. “Yes. This is your sister,

Rina.”

When Tina saw how much Julia

missed the infant in the photograph, she couldn’t help feeling 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

‘fondly, “You know,

bring her up, so we shouldn’t bring her up anymore. I

how even a dead

attention. There was

happen!

alright. We won’t bring

answered fondly, unaware of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly

room

Titus walked in with a

the first

Tina let go of her

“Hi, Dad.”

froze and she chewed on her lip sadly before asking, “Did I do something

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

says she didn’t? Ask her

done now!” he

a finger at Tina

her.

Titus didn’t bother dragging the moment out and only

her eyes flashed guiltily. “How did you find out about

did I find out about

“She rubbed

face on the internet.

were going to get up to something, could you not have been

catch you in the act? Now, we’re forced to

He trailed off,

continue

wrong,

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

Titus was so incensed by Julia’s words that he started trembling. “Do

piece of land

in it and

for Toby to hand us

start work. Now,

and all the projects have to

cannot afford the

years, Triforce

a villa district

market conditions, Tina didn’t realize

stood to

has promised the Berthull land to

what

in the middle of

villas I built

sell the villas, we’ll still have

 serious? Finally, Tina started to panic.

me ‘Dad!” Titus snapped hurtfully. “You keep going after her and you keep letting her catch you in the act and get the upper hand. Now, you‘ve

the brink. I can’t

 You’re truly not

Julia interrupted with

face.

did he

and closed his

a moment, he

time being and leave Sonia to me. You’re not allowed to go after her and let her catch you

eyes, Tina

“Yes.”

did, Tina grabbed her mother’s hand. “Mom, what did he mean

his real what?”

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