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.

her hand. “Emily, be honest with me. What’s

sworn up and down that Xavier and Emily were dating, he’d looked

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

had seen through everything. She never meant to put on an act with Xavier just to trick Charles. But there were some things she just couldn’t explain clearly to him,

white lie. “Grandpa Charles, we already broke up. I just wasn’t happy with

her happiness. As long as she said that, he would never

If he doesn’t make you happy, just stay away from him. The only thing I

in Cloudridge. He just wanted to see Emily find someone

there anyone who truly makes you happy when you’re with

Emily found herself picturing Austin’s face,

don’t know. Ever since I first set foot in St. Gabriel Reform Academy, I’ve forgotten what happiness even feels

St. Gabriel Reform Academy surfaced, she almost believed it had

her expression changed and knew she had someone in mind.

wondered to himself.