"How are things going with Emilia?"
"She has no problem getting along with people with this one personality, which is what she has been for the most part lately. Rather, she's mostly recovered from all the physical injuries she suffered."
"What about the other personalities? Have they been out much lately?"
"Those personalities rarely come out. It seems as if this personality is her happiest personality, so her body is generally dominated by it. All the other personalities are more or less problematic and have to be watched by someone. Occasionally, you even have to keep Emilia locked up or something is bound to happen."
"It's been a hard time for you."
Robert sighed and said to his brother, while Ivan shook his head straight away.
"My hard work is nothing. It's Emilia's condition that worries me. The specialists have been treating her, and I've been teaching myself about it. But I feel so useless that no amount of effort on my part can help Emilia."
"Don't be so desperate. This disease depends on patience. IS Emilia's mother locked up now?"
Robert asked curiously, and Ivan shook his head outright.
"I let the Powell family take care of this matter. They didn't put Emilia's mother in jail but took care of it themselves. She seems to be in the Powell family for the time being. I don't know what the situation is, but it's not something we can get involved in. I just want to protect Emilia, and I don't want to get involved in the Powell family's affairs."
"Have you ever thought about the fact that Emilia's trauma started when she was a child? I'm not studying psychology as a major, but to heal her trauma, you definitely need to get to the bottom of all the reasons why she was hurt. Since she had a happy time when she was a child, something must have happened to cause her relationship with her parents to go cold later on. Did you find out about this?"
Ivan shook his head.
"Given Margie's nature, she must have never been very nice to Emilia, and she just wouldn't have done anything hurtful before. Maybe Emilia had been expecting her mother’s love and then found out that Margie really didn't love her, that's why she got upset later. I asked Emilia's father, Oscar, too, but he didn't know. Margie won't say a word and now I'm clueless."
"Then forget it. Anyway, Emilia is in the country now, and with our people protecting her, nothing will happen to her. I have a villa in mind, and I'm in the process of buying it. After that, you'll see how it's built. After all, in Emilia's situation, the house will definitely need to be repaired."
"I know. Just give me the layout of the inside of that house and I'll get someone to build it. It is essential now to prepare a house for Emilia where she cannot hurt herself and where some of her personality cannot be put out."
"I understand that."
Having said goodbye to Emilia, Ivan asked curiously about Maisie again.
"Auntie has been smiling very gently at me today, just not the same kind of gentleness as before anyway. Has she really completely forgotten about the past?"
"She's mostly forgotten the memories of her marriage to my father afterward, so she won't be stuck in the pain of being abandoned by my father. She doesn't even remember Wendy. Although she is somewhat sentimental about the passing of her daughter, she will not suffer as much as she did before. And now that she's back to painting, which she loved when she was younger, and spends most of her day in the studio. She's a lot happier now than she was before."
"It's better than before. Auntie was rarely happy before, but at least now she's smiling genuinely, and that's a good decision."
After this was said, he asked about the children again.
"Why haven't I seen Annie and Anaya?"
"They're at Georgia's mother's and I've hired a tutor to keep them in school now. It would have been fine to study here, but I thought I'd pick you and Emilia up today and it's a bit inconvenient for the two kids to be here. And I wasn't sure what Emilia's mental state was like, so I just sent the kids to Georgia's mother's home for the day."
"And Georgia?"
"At one of Riley's current experimental sites. She's been so worried about my health that she's been going over there every day to do experiments with Antonio and the others. She couldn't sleep well last night after what happened to Vanessa, but she insisted on going to work in the lab early in the morning. I didn't want to persuade her. She would have been unhappy if she hadn't been allowed to work."
When he heard Robert say that, Ivan thought about Vanessa and Alfred, and he asked curiously.
"What's this all about, and why is Alfred suddenly engaged to Princess Anna from Svero? Doesn't he already have a child with Vanessa and they've been together for a long time? How could this happen again?"
"Vanessa and her son are missing. It must have been Alfred who hid them. Alfred probably had some kind of deal of interest with Princess Anna of Svero, and they had to be engaged. Yesterday Georgia has contacted Alfred, but Alfred warned us not to interfere or he would not be polite. I don't know exactly what deal Princess Anna has made with the Chow family. Now Georgia is very worried about Vanessa's situation. I'm sending someone to find her too, but no news yet."
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