Mom, Please Marry Daddy novel Chapter 6

"Sister..." Star could not help but gasp this word, which caused a great uproar in the crowd.

The only person who could draw that word from Star's lips was the daughter of the former President of the Xia Company, who had been kicked out of Xia family, and who had cut off all relations with her family since then. She was Emily Xia! She was the woman who had caused a huge scandal in T City seven years ago, and who had once been cursed by thousands of people in T City. Seven years ago, her own parents died because of the scandal. She had also been Sawyer's fiancee seven years ago. But was this woman really she?

Seven years ago, there had been a picture of her pale face printed full page in the newspaper, but now it was even harder for the crowd to take their eyes off her. But there were also some people who whispered about her after they became sure of her identity. Some looked at Charles, with a tacit understanding that the child they saw was the result of that ugly business seven years ago. They looked at Emily and Charles with complicated expressions.

"Who are you talking to, Miss Star Xia? I've long severed all relations with the Xia family. If you still call me sister, you insult me."

"Sister, the past is in the past. Grandpa didn't mean to do that. If you want to come back to the family, I can plead with grandpa for you," Star said eagerly, as if she and Emily had once loved each other very much. But only Emily knew what Star was really worried about.

"Come back?" Emily laughed as if she just heard a great joke. "Star, don't you think you have too much of a crush on the Xia Family? I don't even like the Xia Family now, much less seven years ago when the whole matter transpired. Seven years is not long enough for the past to be forgotten. Yes, seven years have passed, and I have born it with great pain!"

Star's fingers tangled up in tension as she listened to her long lost sister. When Sawyer saw Emily, he had become very pale, and he had remained so until now, when he said, "Miss Emily Xia, the matter seven years ago has already passed, hasn't it?" Sawyer could only speak these words in a weak voice.

"Oh, the past is past. Mr. Sawyer, you are so broad-minded, but unfortunately, I have never felt that it has passed. In these seven years, every time I thought of it, I had an impulse to nibble at it with my teeth and suck blood." The bloody words from Emily shocked everyone around her to a hushed silence, especially when they saw her eerily bright smile, which seemed so heartbreaking.

Star tightly grasped Sawyer's arm. She pinched him so hard that some of his skin instantly turned blue and purple. Sawyer knew the worry in Star's heart, and he could not have relaxed any more than her, but he forced himself to calm down.

"Miss Xia, what happened seven years ago is over and has become history now. You can't change anything about that no matter what you do."

"If this kind of thing happened to you, Mr. Sawyer, would you say that so easily? Can that still be used to explain the events of the past? Probably not." Gazing at the slight smile on Emily's lips, Sawyer felt his heart ache anew despite the passage of time.

"Dearest Sawyer..." said Star, tugging at Sawyer's arm.