My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I frowned. I was spiraling into a swirl of emotions. I wanted to speak, but Sheridan held my hand. He leaned over and whispered, "That's no point intervening. The Hathaway family is not willing to pay the compensation at all."

I was stupefied. Staring at Orchid's ashen face, I suddenly felt utterly helpless. Regardless of what I did, the outcome would still be the same.

Seeing that I seemed gloomy, Laura stared at me and said with a smile, "Miss Reid, thank you so much. But I hope you will not intervene in this matter. This is my family's business and it's inappropriate for you to intervene."

Was she trying to be courteous?

But she was right, it was indeed none of my business.

nothing we could do except watch Rick drag the helpless child away.

know

are a lot of things she can no longer do and frankly, she will turn into a disabled person. As such, I don't want much. I just want to be compensated fifty thousand and I'm sure that Miss Reid

a moment, I was at a loss for words. From his perspective, his greed did

opened my mouth and said, "I'll give you a million dollars and we will go and get everything done. From then on, I'll be adopting this child and

a smirk. "Yes, we have a deal. I didn't know that she was worth

actually delighted to hear this. Although Abby was still a child, I was certain that she understood the entire conversation and all her siblings could also hear our conversation. All of them would suffer emotional

all the documents dealt with. He then stared at me and