Chapter 773 You Can Stay

Elliot was taken aback. I thought Aunt Jessica had left. She’s at the door pulling a pity party?

Nathaniel’s expression remained unchanged as he said, “Let her be.”

“Yes, sir.” The housekeeper left.

Cecilia did not expect Jessica to be so persistent. She continued eating her breakfast, paying no mind to it.

After breakfast, she brought Elliot to kindergarten.

A light drizzle fell from the overcast sky, and heavy clouds loomed, signaling the approach of a heavier downpour. As they stepped outside, a servant held an umbrella over them. With just a glance, Cecilia spotted Jessica at the doorway, drenched to the bone, kneeling in the rain.

Jessica noticed them too. The rain made the normally warm April day feel like the dead of winter. Her lips had turned a purplish blue from the cold. Hope flickered in her eyes as she saw Cecilia, much like a drowning person ching for a lifeline. “Cecilia, please,” she begged, her voice

trembling. “Let me stay. I’ll do anything. If I leave here, I have nowhere to go. My grandfather… if he sees me return, he’d break my legs.”

Cecilia stayed composed, her expression unreadable. She stepped in front of Elliot protectively and blocked his view, saying, “Let’s go.

expecting Cecilia to still refuse to help her when she was

grabbed the hem of Cecilia’s clothes. “Cecilia, are your really going to let

She was

like it was Cecilia’s fault for refusing to let her stay, though it

cruel for not letting her cousin “stay” and help. It’s not like they’re poor and their

Cecilia

she groveled at Cecilia’s feet. “Cecilia, please have mercy on me. My parents are no longer alive, leaving me an orphan. Besides my grandfather, no one pays any attention to me

Nathaniel come out. She wondered if he was

housekeeper, “Go and

“What?” The housekeeper hesitated.

surprise, the housekeeper refused

they didn’t leave right away.

you can stay.”

Jessica

couldn’t believe what he heard.

him and handed him over to Sven. “Sven,

took

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