The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 258

Chapter 258

Emily sorted through the pile of medicine, found the ones Charles needed, and helped him take them. Then she hooked him up to all sorts of monitors.

Watching her rushing around, Charles was sorry for her. “Emily, it’s me who let you down…”

Emily froze. She knew what he meant. He blamed himself for not protecting her better.

Emily turned around, gave him a smile, and crouched down next to him. “Grandpa Charles, anyone in the world might let me down, but you never would.”

Back then, because of Lydia, she experienced her family and friends’ betrayal, leaving her in pain and disappointment. But it was Charles’s love that kept her from falling into despair.

During those two years at St. Gabriel Reform Academy, what kept her alive wasn’t just the need to ask the Bennett family why they treated her that way. It was her attachment to Charles that gave her the strength to hold on.

She knew that during those two years, Charles must have been searching everywhere for her, worrying and hurting. That was why she had to come back. She had to see him again.

as he patted her hand. “Emily, be honest with me. What’s going on between you and

and Emily were dating, he’d looked into it himself and did see some signs, so

a single word with Xavier, and there wasn’t even a trace of romance between them. He wasn’t so old that he couldn’t

trick Charles. But there were some things she just couldn’t explain clearly

Charles, we already broke up. I just

anyone that what Charles cared about most was her happiness. As long as she said that,

of her hand. “It’s alright. If he doesn’t make you happy,

scanning through all the promising bachelors in Cloudridge. He just wanted to see Emily find someone she

“Emily, is there anyone who truly

herself picturing Austin’s face, his sweet dimples lighting up his

Honestly, I don’t know. Ever since I first set foot in St. Gabriel Reform Academy, I’ve forgotten

whenever she was with Austin, she felt relaxed. Sometimes, when memories of St. Gabriel Reform Academy surfaced, she almost

expression changed and knew she had someone in

wondered to himself.