Old aunt? Grace is furious. She is young. How can a child call her Old Aunt?
“You are a fool! I’m in my twenties. You are so rude.”
“You are a fool! He’s Andre, not Ben.”
Before Andre says anything, Gogo stands in front of him and blocks him.
Grace is embarrassed. She finds the wrong person again.
“So what? You look the same anyway. You have to go to the hospital with me and apologize to Dennis.”
Grace wants to catch Andre.
Gogo helps Andre dodge, “old aunt, you know you are wrong. You can apologize and go back. Why do you do that?”
“Don’t call me that!” Grace roars. She looks at Gogo. “The children in this family are really ill-bred. I will punish you after I marry Alex.”
“You can’t tell us but you want to marry my father. Don’t you think it’s funny?” Joey makes a mockery of Grace and she is disdainful.
Grace often looks down upon others, but when others look at her like this, she feels very uncomfortable. Andre and Gogo have gone elsewhere. She reaches for Joey.
“Your name is Joey. I know you. I will punish you first.”
Miya takes Ben to the bathroom and hears a noise outside. When she goes out to have a look, she finds that a woman wants to catch her child.
“What are you doing?”
Miya’s voice is louder than Grace’s. Grace shudders and turns and looks at the woman who has just spoken.
She sees Miya and is afraid, “are you a human or a ghost?”
Miya doesn’t know what Grace is talking about. All of a sudden, she thinks of the rumor she made before. She casually asked Randy to take a message. She didn’t expect such an unexpected effect. It’s spreading too fast.
Miya gestures to the children with her eyes. The children soon understand her.
Miya comes up to Grace and says sternly, “what do you say?”
Her voice is cold. She says it with her eyes wide open.
Grace is afraid and points to Miya and says, “are you a human or a ghost?”
Grace backs off as she speaks.
“Old aunt, what are you doing? Who are you talking to?” Joey looks at Grace with disgust, but her tone is confused.
“Don’t you see her?” Grace points to Miya and asks the children.
The children look at Miya’s direction and shake their heads.
“Do you see anything?” Gogo asks.
“Dad said that our house has a long history and many people have lived here. The people who want to live here must be very kind. Bad guys may see something strange here.”
Andre starts to make up a story.
The other two children nod, “I seem to have heard about it.”
Grace is afraid. She becomes more frightened when she listens to the children. So she can’t even look at Miya.
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