The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Chapter 2727

"Mister Vince, it's a downpour out there. Miss Rita will get sick if she runs around outside," said Donna.

"It's her own fault if she gets sick," remarked Vince stiffly. "No one told her to go out."

Sensing a slight softening in his tone, Donna quickly interjected, "Why don't I help her? That painting is a cherished memento for her, so it's understandable for her to be so anxious about it."

In the end, Vince sighed and waved. Donna immediately followed Rita outside.

It was partly the servants' fault that the painting went missing. They only knew that the painting, which had been hanging for over a decade, was suddenly being taken down, but they completely overlooked where it had been put.

'Oh, what a mess this has turned out,' thought Donna.

could not bear to see Rita distressed. Thus, she

door, used for storing junk. She saw the usually clean frame carelessly thrown

head and burst into tears. "Mom,

Only Donna was there to accompany her. Not even her

wiped Rita's soaking wet hair. "Goodness, Miss Rita, you're soaking wet, and you've always been easy to

her own when she saw Rita tightly clutching the painting with her face streaked with either tears or rain. She watched how Rita remained silent and completely blocked out

she would never have allowed

in such a large mansion like the Russell family's, there was not even

as nothing more than troublemaking in her father's eyes; she

to her room. Only in her

the deepest corner of her closet. The painting depicted the

were.