The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming (Natalie and Marcus) novel Chapter 152

When Natalie had stayed with the Langleys, she had often disappeared for a while from time to time.

During those days away, she had learned medical skills and other abilities from Milan. She had also listened to many stories about his adventures in his younger years.

Most of those adventures had happened deep in the mountains.

After hearing so many of them, Natalie had started to yearn for such experiences.

However, Grace had always taught her to focus on the Langley family and Langley Group. Because of that, she could not vanish for too long.

Grace was the only family member who truly cared about her, so Natalie didn't want to make things difficult for her.

More importantly, Natalie had become accustomed to putting the Langleys first because of how Grace had raised her since childhood.

People often said that those who cried the loudest got the most attention. Yet, Natalie had never cried in the Langley family as she had not wanted Grace to worry.

Later, when her birth parents and her brother had appeared, they had hoped with all their hearts that she would go back with them.

They had never forced or pressured her. Instead, they showed through their actions that they truly loved her and sincerely wished for her to return.

Even if she chose not to go back, they would still respect her choices without question.

Whenever she found something inconvenient, William and Charlotte would step in to help her handle it. Afterward, they never took credit for it or even let her know what they had done.

Some of William and Charlotte's actions made Natalie wonder what real love truly looked like.

It wasn't like how Grace had treated her, providing her with plenty of material and emotional support, but then failing to stand her ground against Victor and Diana when they had wanted to take her blood.

Grace would argue with them for a bit. Then, she would silently shed tears. In the end, Natalie had always been the one to compromise.

After each blood draw, Grace would ask the helpers to make nutritious meals for her. She would curse Victor and Diana while she ate.

When Natalie was little, she would wipe Grace's tears and assure her she wasn't in pain. She would say she had plenty of blood, so it didn't matter.

Then, Grace would hug her and speak to her for a long time.

Yet, when Charlotte and William had learned that Victor and Diana had treated Natalie like a living blood bank, they had been furious. They had refused to accept it.

Could Grace really not have stopped Victor and Diana from doing that?

It was just a trick. She acted kind while the others played the bad guys. They fooled Natalie because she was too young to see through it.

Diana needed blood, and the Langleys, being the richest family in Amberton, could have easily bought it. If they had issued a notice and offered benefits, many people would have lined up to donate blood.

Yet, Grace had allowed Victor and Diana to keep drawing Natalie's blood, and it had gone on for many years.

Grace had been capable of building Langley Group into the biggest corporation in Amberton. She must have had plenty of strategies and tactics.

Charlotte and William did not believe for a second that she could not stop it. Everything she said had fooled only the young Natalie of the past.

Now that Natalie wanted to leave Langley Group, the only reason she still sought Grace's approval was her lingering sense of gratitude for being raised by her.

Who could have stopped her if she truly wanted to walk away?