Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 119

She didn't deny it.

With just those three words, Emma was already buzzing with excitement.

“Oh my god, really?”

Lillian gave a slight nod.

Emma was at a loss for words. “If we have someone that talented joining us, won’t we quickly surpass all the other companies in the industry?”

When she had first started, Emma had been a little disappointed.

After all her years of hustling, she was back at square one, and she could see that Lillian’s company was incredibly small, with very few employees.

But now, Emma saw a glimmer of immense hope.

Perhaps this was their chance to recoup all their past losses.

But there was one thing Emma still found incredibly surprising.

“Ms. Mercer, back when you were starting the company with Mr. Blake, you never worked in IT. Isn’t this career change a bit of a big leap for you?

I always thought you were perfectly suited for management.”

“Perhaps,” Lillian said, “this is what I was doing from the very beginning.”

Emma froze for a moment, then quickly processed what she had heard.

“What? Ms. Mercer, you mean you studied this from the start?”

When Lillian was starting the company with Sebastian, she was the boss’s wife. Naturally, there was no resume for her on file.

So, everyone had always assumed that Lillian had studied finance and management in college.

They never would have guessed that she had actually studied computer science.

Lillian gave a faint smile. “Ethan bought a few cars for the company today. Go pick one out for yourself.”

“Me? Pick one out?”

“Yes,” Lillian said. “You’ll be running a lot of errands. It’ll be more convenient for you to have a dedicated car.”

“Okay, thank you, Ms. Mercer.”

Lillian’s workday was over, but Emma still had to work overtime.

In a startup, a manager always has a lot to do.

Back at Halfridge Villas, Lillian parked the car. As she reached for the door handle, Nathan’s words echoed in her mind.

“Could it be that you accidentally turned on the charm?”

Lillian was certain that her interactions with Leonard were completely normal.

Besides, she was well aware of her own situation.

Married, with a child, and a prison record.

She had met Leonard’s parents. Mrs. Prescott came from a family of scholars, and Thomas Avery had even been her professor.

Mr. Prescott was clearly from an old-money family, and a very low-profile one at that.

You rarely heard about the Prescott family, but seeing how even a family with the status of the Montroses seemed to defer to them, Lillian was sure that the Prescotts were some kind of reclusive, powerful family.

Extremely discreet, but with astonishing influence.

Lillian knew she had no right to get involved with the only son of such a family.

So, her behavior around him had always been perfectly normal.

How could she possibly have done anything to “turn on the charm”?

With that thought, Lillian confidently pushed open the car door. But as her foot touched the ground, another thought struck her with the force of a physical blow.

He was just waiting for her to die so he could get her kidney and save his own life.

With that thought, Lillian stopped her frantic overthinking.

It was all Nathan’s fault. If he hadn’t spouted such nonsense, she never would have thought of any of this.

Though it was late by the time she finished her work, she still went downstairs to check on her grandmother and mother.

Her grandmother was still in a vegetative state, her life sustained by various machines.

Her mother was already asleep. Lillian gently pulled the blanket up to cover her and sat by the bedside for a while.

She looked at her mother’s face, which had aged significantly from a lack of care.

Sabrina was also in her fifties, but she was so well-maintained that she looked much younger.

Lillian just didn’t understand what was so wrong with her mother.

Was it because she loved too much, too completely?

Or was it because the man she loved was just too much of a scoundrel?

Over the years, Sabrina had used every trick in the book, and her mother had suffered countless setbacks, but Martin had simply turned a blind eye.

He always acted as if her mother was just looking for trouble, deliberately trying to antagonize him.

For a marriage to become like that was truly disheartening.

But if you were disheartened, you could get a divorce, you could separate.

Why did it have to end up like this?

Lillian’s hand gently stroked Eleanor Lancaster’s cheek, her own face filled with sorrow.

At that moment, the ringing of a call from an unknown number shattered the silence...