Chapter 1138

After all, Augustine was getting on in years, and his health was on the decline. He hoped that each day ahead would be comfortable and easy for Augustine.

Alfredo walked into the room and plonked himself right next to Grandpa Augustine, “Augustine!”

His conversation with his wife interrupted, Grandpa Augustine was ticked off, “Why are you here now?”

Alfredo said, 1 want to have a chat.”

Grandpa Augustine said, “Come find me tomorrow, I’m swamped at the moment.”

Alfredo looked up, a bit unnerved by the woman in the photo above, as if she had been watching him all along. There’s something I need to come clean

about.”

said, “Talk about it

said, “This has to do with Silvia.”

name, Grandpa Augustine suddenly turned to look at Alfredo, “What’s

“Back then, I knew that our elders wanted to split you two apart, but I didn’t tell

thought I had

why didn’t you blame

never done anything to her or our children. You wouldn’t hurt them. The only one who messed up was me. I knew my family was arranging a marriage for me. They didn’t want me marrying an outsider. But I naively thought that having a child would force them to accept Silvia and our child as members of the Duran family. It was my naivety and arrogance that ruined them. Or more accurately, it was my weakness that hurt them. If I had been strong enough back then, not controlled by my family, and able to decide my own life, none of this tragedy would

the years, Grandpa Augustine had never blamed anyone else. He had always known the root cause of the

let you know the real reason why the elders called you back to the Capital, maybe

me then. You were weak, so you had to follow the family’s plans. Telling me earlier, what would that have changed? We probably couldn’t have changed anything, and you

Grandpa Augustine said, “We’re eight siblings, and the first seven of us couldn’t decide our own marriages. Our marriages weren’t what we wanted Only our youngest brother’s marriage brings some

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