At the mention of this, Renee turned embarrassed, “Who wants to develop with a stud? Leila, don’t make nonsense! The office gossip is not fun at all!”
“Oh, really? It is impossible for ordinary people to encounter their childhood friends unexpectedly and have been in bed for so many years and joined together into the same company.” Leila made a joke.
“Damn, How dare you make jokes on me!” Renee said while giving her a flying fist punching.
Meanwhile, Leila’s phone rang at this moment, “Alright no more nonsense, there is a call here!”
She saw that it was Vincent’s phone when she lowered her head, she had only just left and he called which really made her feel uncomfortable.
But it turned out that Vincent had called her to tell her that he was going for a business trip and informed her to go back home from work directly.
That night, Leila didn’t go back to the villa either, but went back to Pearl Community.
She took a day off on Wednesday as it was her aunt’s death anniversary.
Leila returned to the Hunter family early in the morning and went to the grave with her parents. By the time she entered her house, she saw her father sitting on the sofa angrily while her mother was trying to convince.
“What’s wrong, dad?” Leila was puzzled.
“Nothing, you come and persuade your dad, let’s go later today!” Mabel Ross stepped forward and took her hand while whispering, “We don’t know where Macey went and she always doesn’t return overnight. You father is furious about this!” Leila realized and nodded her head.
“Leila, does she always contact you?” Brian Hunter saw Leila returning home, yet, he still showed a serious face but with some anger hidden away.
“No!” In fact, Macey rarely contacted her, especially after knowing that she was her father’s daughter and after her aunt had died, trying to save her four years ago today, Macey had nothing but hatred for her.
“She is getting worse and worse!” Brian only said a sentence, he then didn’t say anything after realizing something. “You and your mother will go to your aunt’s grave today, I will go by myself later as I have a meeting in my office!”
In the end, only she and her mother visited her aunt’s grave while nobody knew where Macey who was her aunt’s biological daughter was.
Leila called Macey and a sleepy voice came from the other side as if she was still not awake.
“What do you want from me, Leila?”
“Sister, today is aunt’s death anniversary!” Leila whispered.
“Humph! You don’t forget that it is my mother who died to save you!” Leila pursed her lips as she listened to her words.
“I’m going to the grave with my mother, you should go too!” Leila waited for her to finish then spoke.
“What’s the point of all this ritual? Don’t I know what’s on my aunt’s mind? She is so aggressive because she owes my mother, if my mother didn’t die, you and your mother will never enter the Hunter family! Don’t think I don’t know what’s on your minds, I don’t care to go with you all, I will go by myself!” Macey spoke with an impatient tone.
Then, Leila seemed to hear the sound of man’s rough gasping, followed by Leila’s soft moan. “Hmm…stop it…”
Leila was about to say something else when the phone hung up. Who was that man who her sister was with? Was it the man on the video? She hadn’t come back all night, not even on aunt’s death anniversary. “Leila, isn’t Macey coming back?” Mabel sighed as she worried. “Mum, let’s go together, Macey is busy and can’t return.” Without explanation, Leila took her mother’s hand and together they went to her aunt’s grave.
“Leila, is mum wrong?” Mabel turned her head back to ask Leila at the moment she entered the cemetery. “I shouldn’t have fallen in love with your father and stole your aunt’s happiness. Now that you are married to Vincent, can’t both of us escape this fate?”
“Mum, you are overthinking, happiness is something that no one else can snatch, even if you were wrong at the beginning, but all these years, you have had such a difficult journey, you deserve to be happy, I believe that in heaven, my aunt will also forgive us!” Leila could only comfort her mother in this way, she didn’t know what to say but she just didn’t want her mother to be sad!
“She won’t forgive me, I’m sorry to her!” Mabel’s eyes turned dimmer.
“Mum, it is dad who should take the responsibility, not you!”
If a man was not half-hearted, how could such a mistake occur? Mum was responsible for this as well, she shouldn’t have fallen in love with dad who was her brother-in-law, but since so many years had passed, everything had turned irreversible, those who had passed away had passed away and those who were alive should live well.
‘A beautiful bouquet of white chrysanthemums had just been placed on my aunt's grave, but I didn't know who it was!’
‘Was it father?’
‘Or was it sister?’
Leila didn’t know, she just looked at the picture on the tombstone and she was sad and emotional, if her aunt hadn’t saved herself, she would be the one lying here today!
In another city, R City.
It was a lazy night full of ambiguous passion and the mystery of the night was adorned with the flashing neon lights, the strolling crowds and the streaming shadows of cars.
The five-star HJ Hotel, another hotel that belonged to Vincent.
In the suite on the twenty-seventh floor.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...