“Go on, go on! I’ll take good care of him.” Joyce waved her away.

Natalie smiled and thanked her. After nagging at Connor for a few more minutes, she finally picked up her bag and left.

When she got to an oriental wares street, she stood at the entrance of the alleyway. It stretched on so far that she couldn’t see the end of it—that was how long it was. Besides, the street was bustling with people. It was every bit as crowded as the street that sold vintage items.

Natalie took out her phone and, using the built-in GPS, finally found herself at the most famous collectible items store on this street.

The moment she stepped into the store, an employee came hurrying up to her with a smile on his face. “Welcome to our store! May I know what sort of teacup you’re looking for? We stock both dish and bowl.”

“Oh, definitely the bowl!” Natalie said as she glanced around the store, awestruck.

Mr. Moore wasn’t interested in the dish-style teacups. He much preferred the bowl-style ones.

“Here you go!” The employee pointed at a shelf to her right. “All of these are bowl-style teacups.”

Natalie thanked him and walked over to take a look.

very lavishly sat on the sofa with his eyes fixed on the security footage monitor in front of him. He brought

quiet, he put down the magnifying glass in his hands and turned

swiveled the wine around in the glass and didn’t say

Natalie in the security footage, he pushed his glasses up and yelped in surprise. “Dear me! Isn’t

to look at him. “Mr. Blackwood, do

know that she was the girl your grandfather selected as

I see. That’s interesting.

thumb grazing over the stem of the wine glass. “So you knew all along that Jasmine

nodded. “That’s

then, why have you kept the truth from me these past

he had known that Jasmine wasn’t the true heiress of the Smith family, he would never have

your intentions. When you got engaged with Jasmine five years ago, I thought you were truly enamored with her, so I decided not

thin line.

you broke off the engagement, I could tell that the person you really love is Natalie. I’ve seen the way your eyes look when you gaze

Shane didn’t deny it, Mr. Blackwood took his

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