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

saying ‘fondly, “You know, Mom,

her up anymore.

was strange how

There was no way she was letting

happen!

alright. We won’t bring her

unaware of her younger daughter’s motives and wrongly assuming that Tina

then, the room door

Titus walked in with

Being the first to

Tina let go of

“Hi, Dad.”

only gave her an indifferent glance without responding. Instantly, her expression froze and she

are you treating Tina so coldly? She didn’t do anything

she didn’t? Ask

now!”

a finger at Tina

her.

she truly didn’t understand, Titus didn’t bother dragging the moment out and only continued

“How did you

did I find

“She rubbed that

face on the internet.

If you were going to get up to something, could you

wouldn’t catch you in the act? Now, we’re forced

He trailed off, too angry

continue

wrong, Tina

wrapped her arms around her daughter and grumbled at her husband, “That’s enough. It’s just a plot of land. Why do you need to scold her so

 plot of land? Titus was so incensed by

that piece of land is to

in it

Toby to

work. Now, the

and all the projects

cannot afford

few years,

was why he thought of developing a villa district to restore the enterprise to its former glory.

Tina didn’t realize

only stood to

promised the Berthull land

nearly passed out with rage. “And what can

in the middle

I built there? If

villas, we’ll still have  to

Tina started to panic.

call 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 truly pushed

the brink. I

 You’re truly not

interrupted

face.

then did he realize that

closed his mouth

moment,

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

her eyes, Tina

“Yes.”

saying anything further, Titus turned and left. After he did, Tina grabbed her mother’s hand. “Mom, what did he mean by what

his real what?”

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