Natalia asked rhetorically, "Bad health?"
She lowered her gaze to Kiera, who was hiding behind Ian.
Only to see her clutching Ian's clothes tightly on his shoulders, her whole body shrinking behind his back, like an innocent kitten hiding behind a big tree, looking at her with fear and uneasiness.
Natalia suddenly smiled.
She laughed sarcastically and sadly.
"Are you ... afraid of me?"
Kiera didn't say anything, just stared into those eyes of hers with growing fear.
Ian's face didn't look too good, shielding Kiera tightly, as if he was afraid she might suddenly do something to hurt Kiera.
Seeing this, Faye comes up awkwardly and tries to pull Natalia back.
"Natalia, stop it, we're talking business ..."
"Shut up!"
Natalia suddenly roared.
Faye was stunned.
Over the years, although she and Natalia have had quite a few scuffles, this is the first time she has been yelled at openly in front of outsiders.
Tempers flare up all of a sudden.
"What are you doing? Can you behave yourself as a guest and talk business? Go back and sit down!"
Naturally, she was trying to put up an elders' front, but Natalia's mind was already stuffed with one thought, so how could she listen to it?
She shook Faye off as soon as she could and stared straight at Kiera, who was hiding behind Ian.
"Aren't you dead? Why aren't you dead? Why are you here? If you are still alive why didn't you tell me, why didn't you come to me? If you raised me why did you leave quietly alone and leave me in that dark home for more than ten years, why?"
As she spoke, tears rolled down her face like beads on a broken thread.
When these words came out, the whole room was shocked.
Mr. Robinson was incredulous, and Faye's mouth was open in surprise.
Only Ian, his face changed, seemed to understand something, and then look at Natalia's gaze, can not help but have a touch more complex.
However, Kiera still looked as clueless as ever.
"What ... are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"
She frowned lightly, and even though she was scared, she still looked at her with that polite and civilized look of confusion.
Natalia shook her head sarcastically.
"Do you not understand? Kiera, I am your daughter, the daughter you left behind in The Dawson family for over ten years, now do you understand?"
Both Mr. Robinson and Faye stared in amazement.
Faye was so incredulous that she even stammered in her speech.
"Natalia, not ... you said she ... she was ..."
Natalia's gaze was icy, "Yes! She is my adoptive mother, the eldest lady of JulioThe Hawkins family, Kiera, the Kiera who should have died in a car accident eleven years ago! Now do you understand?"
Faye had a shocked expression on her face.
Natalia's life, she naturally knows.
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