Chapter 15: Never bear again

Instead of lingering in the awkward atmosphere, Imogen tried to put their attention to something else. She grabbed the dish near the older Marshall man and served it to him.

“Look, Grandpa. You love sweet and sour eggplant, right? You should try this.”

Her action lifted the mood. “Our dear Imogen remembers your favorite! I’m jealous!” The old woman exclaimed.

“You’re still the same sweet lady,” Grandpa Marshall uttered and picked the chopsticks, smiling. “Unlike some heartless person there who only makes me angry. I think his purpose is to frustrate me to death.”

However, instead of saying anything, the labeled “ungrateful” Troy remained silent.

“Grandpa, don’t say that you’ll live a long life.”

Imogen’s life was pretty eventful. Her parents were divorced, and her father got custody. It was because her mother did not want her at all. So years following their split, she had never met her

Mom.

Growing up, she witnessed her father being so busy with work while she was living in her

grandparent’s house in the countryside. But a few years later, they passed away one after another, and she was taken by her father once again.

Her miseries did not stop there because, at 16, her father also left, and she was utterly alone. That was when the older Marshalls, her now grandparents, came into the picture. They gave her warmth and a home to come back to.

want to bear the pain of losing another loved one. That was why no one was very eager to pray that the older man

other

Looking at them from a third point of view, they appeared like a real

their faces.

of sharing stories when one of the maids went

meal, Imogen accompanied Troy’s grandfather to play

chess, and he basically taught her ways to gain good playing skills, and surprisingly, she made

no way! You’re

Grandpa of the Marshalls apologetically

themselves laughing because of

going.

Imogen. I haven’t dropped the chess yet.” The old man rightfully squeezed the white

you sure you’re placing it

at Imogen, hesitated momentarily, and nodded, “I’m sure.”

10:39

Never

in her hand and laughed

him. He returned the white one and threw Imogen’s black one back into the box. “No, no, no, that

at

looking at his grandfather now, it seemed only Imogen could turn him into a

Troy and

over, and the smile on

laugh at me? Why don’t you go to pour water for Imogen

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