The Heiress’ Return: Six Brothers at Her Beck and Call

Chapter 1433 Humans Are Selfish Beings

Tamia removed Cyrus hand. “What’s going on with you? Do you think we could make decisions for the Whitman family if your father didn’t agree? I know you Have a kind heart, but business is far more complicated than you realize.

“You’re actually giving your cousin a wake–up call by pulling out the investment. A young girl like her should be focusing on her studies, not playing grownup by buying land and trading stocks. It’s a bottomless pit. How much wealth do you think it would take to fill It?

“Cyrus, my dear grandson, listen to me. Don’t follow your cousin in this reckless venture. Are you really willing to let a moment of loyalty cause your mom, dad, and I so much worry?”

Guilt–tripping family members seemed to come naturally to Tamia.

also urging him

Cyrus went still as soon as Tamia finished speaking. He looked over at Ophella, who was also to stop. For the first time in his life, he felt as though he was truly seeing his family members for who they

were

All these years, they had taught him to always put family first, to remember the ties of kinship, and not to be like Reuben.

didn’t mind embarrassing others,

impulse. This had nothing to do with loyalty or bonds. It was simply about protecting their interests, and they

could never have imagined that the grandmother and

always thought was too cold–hearted might have been the only

sent abroad. Reuben would always ask him, “Do you really want to study

him back then. He would

at him and took a deep breath. “You can go abroad, but not now. Wait until you’ve finished high school, with good grades, and been accepted

not when you can’t even master the basics or haven’t tried to work hard. I

teenager. He had thought that Reuben was just an old–fashioned

relented but rather as if he had

has their own path“. Now, he did. His

realized how useless he had been. He was basically a hollow shell.

nothing more than pawns placed by the Wray family to sabotage him and the Whitman family.

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his teeth. It was one thing for his mom and grandma to urge him to pull out