CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

“Yes, I remember that.” Natalie nodded.

Shane lowered his gaze and went on softly, “My grandfather took me away when I was three and personally raised me. Because of that, I seldom spent time with my parents. As time passed by, although we still cared about each other, we were simply not that close. Then, when I was five, my grandfather sent me to study overseas, and I got to receive the most exclusive education there. I only came back here when I was fifteen.”

“That means you were gone for ten years?” Natalie looked at him.

“That's right. The technology back then wasn't half as advanced as it is now. In those ten years, I only had a few phone conversations with my parents and never saw their faces even once. In fact, even the phone calls that we had were pretty short, as we didn't have much to say to each other.”

“That wouldn't be surprising considering you're a person of very few words in nature.” Natalie fiddled with his fingers.

Shane let out a chuckle, but his expression turned solemn a second later. “During those ten years, it was Sean who had stayed by their side.”

“I get it now. Sean took your place and played the role of your parents' filial son for ten years, and your parents were happy to have him around. So...”

“Yes. Perhaps that's why my mother let Sean take over Wells Properties instead of me. After all, I wasn't a good son to her.” Shane buried his face in his hands.

Natalie wrapped her hands around his waist, comforting him, “It's true that you could have done better, but you had good reasons for your shortcomings. However, what I can't figure out is Sean. He stayed by your parents' side for ten years. It's impossible that he had no feelings toward them whatsoever. So, why didn't he stop Sam from killing them? Even if he didn't know about it in the planning stage, he should still have known about it after. So, what stopped him from exposing Sam? Surely he had no feelings toward Sam, does he?”

his eyes. “We can only find out the answer when we meet Sean. I would like to know if he truly cared about my parents as

knows where he is now?” Natalie

his head

his

a call from one of

Natalie go and walked to the balcony to

table and flipped it open to work on a few designs. The deadline set by the magazine company abroad was closing

fell out of her sketchbook and

to pick it up, she saw that it wasn't one of her fashion designs but a

the badge that Joyce had shown her previously. She had done a rough sketch of it after she came back and intended to show

when she received news about

the sketch intently, Shane came back after finishing his phone

came to her side and swept a quick glance

poor angle, he didn't quite catch what the sketch