Chapter 50

“Is that really you?” Frederick asked in disbelief, “You’ve changed so much?”

Marguerite shrugged it off. “So, are you saying I’m ugly now? All kids look pretty much the same, and mind you, I was only a few days old then.”

Frederick’s eyes were glued to the photo. It was of a lively old lady holding a baby in swaddling clothes, both beaming brightly.

Snow was falling around them, but the old lady’s clothes were thin and shabby. It was a heart-wrenching sight.

No wonder Marguerite was taken in by the Lockwood family. The old lady seemed not to have the means to raise a child.

Did her parents abandon her right after she was born?

Frederick wanted to ask Marguerite about her parents and consider if he should help her find them, but he decided against it.

Marguerite never mentioned her parents or grandma, probably because it hurt too much.

He didn’t want to reopen her wounds.

At this point, she was very much like him.

Even though he now successfully controlled the entire Winston Group, his childhood experience of being driven out of the family by his father was still a painful

scar.

talked about it and didn’t want to

Their

photo, then hesitantly

had a more

that he had seen the old lady somewhere

grandma seems very kind.”

desk, sitting

much of Frederick’s words. She shrugged, looking at the photo. “True

world.”

sapphire necklace with a floral pattern, but it had

asking, “Do you remember if I lost

some documents and didn’t look at her. “Are

her gaze shifting on him.

She wasn’t sure.

when she lost the necklace, she had been to

her briefly, then bluntly said, “If you lost it, just

so casually. Did he think everything could

was at a loss for

only been with the company for half

to buy it,

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