I'm richer than my billionaire ex-husband novel Chapter 9

When Alina heard that, she was even more shaken.

Not while he was alive?

Without waiting for her to speak, the old Collins continued, "You know my health, I won’t live for that long. When I am alive, I always like to have a lively home."

"Grandpa, don't say that, I..."

"And I know it's selfish to ask, but the thought of me not being able to make you the mistress of our Collins family, not making you happy, I am upset."

The old Collins said with a sigh.

Alina was silent.

For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

When she was eighteen, her grandmother fell down the stairs and was admitted to the hospital, and her mother and father were killed in a car accident halfway to the hospital because they were in a hurry to get there.

Her grandmother, who was in the hospital, got the news and eventually didn't make it through, leaving Alina to her best friend Grandpa Max in her final days.

And in her twentieth year, Grandpa Max was seriously ill hospitalized, when in the hospital thought he was dying, but also because he was worried about Alina, he let Caleb marry her.

Caleb was so dutiful that he had the wedding arranged almost immediately.

To this day, Alina still remembered how Grandpa Max treated her like a princess during her stay at Collins Castle.

Grandpa Max was afraid that she might be sensitive.

This was the only thing that gave made her feel that she was not an orphan after her mom, dad and grandmother was gone.

How could she bear to refuse such a request?

"Okay, Grandpa, I promise you. Don't say things like that to scare me, I'm very timid." Alina obediently crouched on the old Collins' knee and finally agreed.

And she was telling the truth, for she had lost so much.

So when the loved ones around her say such things, she feels like she is going to lose the most important again.