Chapter 1247

"Hello?" Rebecca answered.

"Rebecca."

Francis paced restlessly on the front walk, pressing his fingers to his brow. "I'm at your grandfather's house."

"I know..."

Rebecca moved to the window, pulling the curtain aside. She could see him standing by his car at the front gate.

"When you arrived, Grandpa asked me to go upstairs."

She might be on the second floor, but she'd heard every word exchanged downstairs between her grandfather and Francis.

"Grandpa said from now on, he'll be picking me up and dropping me off at work."

What?

Francis froze, hand still against his forehead. Was the old man really trying to keep him and Rebecca apart?

If it were anyone else, Francis would have fought back. But this was Rebecca White's grandfather.

There was nothing he could do.

"So, what did you say?" Francis asked, frustration clear in his voice. "What are you going to do?"

softly, "I'll listen to Grandpa... It's probably

best?" Francis's

at his tone, but forced herself to

of her... You're burning the candle at both ends. I'm fine here with Grandpa. You don't need to

thinking?" Francis's voice was tight, the pressure in his

"I'm not thinking anything."

so worried about? Whatever you want me to do, I can't really refuse, can I? But because of Grandpa... let's just not see each other

"Rebecca, are you asleep?"

knock on the door and Galloway's voice came

whispered into her phone, "I have to go, Grandpa's

"Rebecca?"

at his phone, but the line was

"Damn it."

the phone, clenching it in his

see each other for

was

even he knew distance was dangerous. The

colder things got.

for him had always been fragile-hardly strong

stand even a single day without seeing

care of everything, but no matter how busy he got, he'd always made time to stop by Rosewood Mansion, if only to catch a

a glimpse was

what should he

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