“Don’t play dumb. He changed his will. You are too insidious.” Cindy stood behind the policemen and sneered, “and now you’re Mrs. Jessop. Sean protects you. Are you afraid I will hurt you?”
I looked at her and said seriously, “Yeah, you can’t hurt me, so I don’t have to pretend.” I said with certainty, “I really don’t know about it.”
Cindy was stunned.
She looked at me in disbelief.
It seemed that she thought what I said was true but she didn’t want to believe it.
I went on, “and I’m not interested in your father’s legacy. After all, he abandoned us when I was still in my mother’s stomach. He wasn’t involved in my life at all.
I grew up in an orphanage. He didn’t know I existed. He didn’t buy me clothes or dolls. He didn’t take me to the park or send me to school.
In my heart, he was never my father.”
Cindy looked at me. The afternoon sun shone on her face. She looked serious and confused.
She looked at me and didn’t speak.
Yes.
What I just said was really for her.
I didn’t feel father’s love when I was young, but the fathers in the TV plays and books I watched were like this.
I guessed Nelson did the same to her.
Cindy’s expression confirmed my guess.
Cindy sneered. “You want to teach me? You think I’m selfish? He’s so nice to me, but I don’t want to donate marrow for him, right?”
“Yes.”
I didn’t deny it.
It was a fact.
Cindy looked at me and said coldly, “so what? Do you think you and your mother have a terrible life, but my mother and I have a good life?”
No?
I didn’t answer, but I thought so.
Cindy was a famous rich woman in York. She had always been liked by many people.
Diana was not famous, but I had seen her several times and she had a good life.
Cindy looked at me and sneered.
When she opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, there was the roar of the cars’ engines.
Everyone looked in that direction.
Three cars came behind her.
I knew the first car. It was Sean’s car. The other two were also luxury cars.
Soon three cars stopped. The bodyguards got out of the car. Finally, Sean’s door opened.
Eric got out of the car. Then Sean got out of the car on crutches.
When I saw him, I remembered that I had just hung up because the glass had been smashed.
Sean, surrounded by the bodyguards, came up and asked, “what happened?”
The police knew Sean and immediately explained, “she...”
“I come to solve family problems.”
Cindy interrupted the police and said directly.
When I saw Sean, I didn’t seem to be afraid at once.
I passed the police and came to Sean.
Instead of looking at me, he looked at Cindy and asked her, “are you talking about Nelson’s bone marrow match?”
“Yes.” Cindy said positively, “you did it for her, didn’t you? She can’t spend millions of dollars looking for bone marrow.”
“You did it?”
I knew.
It must be Sean.
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