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?”

the answer when we meet Sean. I would like to know

knows where he is now?”

kept quiet after that, bowing his head and losing himself in a

then, his phone

from one of the directors of

Natalie go and walked to the balcony to

her sketchbook from the bedside table and flipped it open to work on a few designs. The deadline set by

a sheet fell out of her sketchbook and landed

wasn't one of her fashion designs but

that Joyce had shown her previously. She had done a rough sketch of it after she came back

news about

she was scrutinizing the sketch intently, Shane

and swept a quick glance across the sheet she

poor angle, he didn't