Chapter 52 – “Zachary isn‘t someone she can handle. Try and get her to move on.

You don‘t see other young women hanging around Zachary other than his family. He‘s a heartless man. Why can‘t Elisa listen to reason?” Clive threw in the towel on his sister. “I‘m too busy to deal with her now. Honey, I‘ll leave Elisa in your hands.” “Carry on with your work.

I‘ll pick Elisa up now and take her to go shopping with Mom. Mom‘s been feeling down lately.” Clive‘s wife, Alice, had a great relationship with her mother–in–law. Seeing that her mother–in–law was feeling blue, Alice persuaded her to go out and get some sunshine. A bit of retail therapy might do her good.

Clive fell silent. He knew the reason behind his mother‘s melancholy. There had not been any news about his aunt. It was the one thing Mom could never stop talking about. Clive‘s mother, Audrey, grew up in an orphanage. Her parents passed away when Audrey was young, survived by Audrey and her sister who was four years younger.

to adopt a child. The couple took to Audrey‘s younger sister. At the time, Audrey was eight years old while her sister was merely four. Although reluctant to part with

had been decades since they saw each other again. As she came of age, Audrey left the

wealthy family and became Mrs. Stone. Now that she had the means, Audrey never gave up on looking for her sister but heard nothing back despite her decades of effort. Not

as they had located the wealthy couple who adopted the girl. Clive and his dad went along with Audrey

maid to take Audrey’s sister away to give her to someone else as they only wanted to leave the family inheritance to

through the yellowing photograph that Mom had kept until now. Clive had put a digital copy of it on the web, hoping it might lead

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