Queeny’s expressions changed. Struggling to keep up a stern face, she snapped, “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Not taking offence, Ramon just shook his head with some disappointment. “Do you really remember nothing about me? Or are you just trying to evade it although you’ve already remembered everything?”
He fixed a piercing gaze on her.
Queeny was slightly annoyed, sinking into ambivalence because of those curious memories in her mind.
She was at a loss whether to believe him or not.
She was unsure about his words because she actually had few memories of the years prior to her mother’s remarriage into the Dempsey family.
Maybe because she was too young to remember anything then, she had not even a shred of memory of what had happened before she was around six years old.
She knew that one’s recollections of the early childhood would fade with one gradually growing up.
Therefore, she had thought little about it before.
But now she was forced to plunge into the depth of her memories by the familiar little girl and the intimate dialogues in those uncanny episodes in her mind.
Could it be…that she had really known this man in front of her?
Could the man be the very young boy in the scenes?
How were the two of them related? Why had she been here as a little girl?
A bewildered look flashed across Queeny’s eyes.
Ramon looked at her and said deeply, “Queeny, I can understand it if you really don’t want to face this truth. After all, it was because I had lost you that you fell into the wrong hands and had your identity changed. I am to blame for it.”
Queeny was shocked.
She stared at him in disbelief.
“What did you say? You lost me?”
“Yes.”
Ramon nodded and said, “Queeny, we are brother and sister, born to the same parents. This place is where we lived when we were kids and when our parents were still alive. But I lost you because of something that happened later, and I’ve been looking for you all these years with no luck. Do you know how worried I was?”
His eyes brimmed with affection.
Queeny knitted her brows at the touching words and the familiar face.
Strangely, she couldn’t feel a grain of sympathy or attachment to him.
She replied icily, “So that’s why you’ve abducted me?”
Ramon was dumbfounded.
He hadn’t expected Queeny to be so frigid.
With dim eyes, he said deeply, “Queeny, now that our parents are both dead, you’re my only family in the world. I will not have you away from me.”
“So you got me back by kidnapping.”
Queeny let out a sneer.
Ramon tried to explain, “If I hadn’t used this means, you wouldn’t have come back willingly.”
Queeny was speechless.
Ramon continued, “You’ve been curious about who I am, right? I’ll tell you now. I am the chief of the Summit Branch of the Zircon Association. You must have heard of it.”
Queeny jolted in astonishment.
Eyes dilated, she stared at him in disbelief.
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