Twins in Her Womb (Bianca and Luke Crawford novel) novel Chapter 81

"He is..." Grandpa did not want to guess who the person was. If he guessed wrongly, it would be awkward.

Luke walked in with his suit and straightened back. He reached out his hand politely and intimately wrapped his other arm around Bianca's waist. His gesture seemed to allow Grandpa to understand their relationship.

"Are you the Jean Langdon that my son told me about?" Grandpa smiled and stood in front of the fire pit. He said, "I tried to remember your name well after Bea's father told me the two of you have been together for more than five years now and that the two of you are getting married soon."

Bianca was worried that Luke would correct him, so she immediately interrupted and said, "Grandpa, look how thin you’ve gotten! Were you not used to life in Japan?"

"I'm old, and old people look like this." Grandpa put his arm around his hunched back and took the fire stick to another dilapidated room.

After he searched for something for a long time, the old man took two small stools out and put them on the kitchen floor. He invited his grandson-in-law to sit. "Come, boy. Have a seat here. We don’t have any nice furniture in this house.”

Bianca looked at the two dilapidated wooden stools on the floor and glanced at Luke nervously. She was worried that he would not want to sit on it.

However, Luke was thoughtful and took Grandpa's feelings into account. He stepped down his usual high horse and did not seem to mind sitting on the stool at all. He even pulled her to sit next to him and said, “Come and sit, let’s talk to Grandpa.”

Grandpa sat on the small stool that was already in the kitchen.

"You can go ahead and talk to Grandpa. I need to get some groceries.” Bianca pushed her luggage aside and took some money from her bag. She glanced at Luke worriedly.

Luke understood what she was worried about and nodded to signify that he understood.

"Alright, I'll be out.” Bianca glanced at Grandpa before going out.

After Bianca walked past the red-bricked front yard and exited the gate, Bianca looked up and saw a lot of people standing a few meters away.

She could still vaguely remember some of those neighbors’ names.

In the eyes of those neighbors, she was the daughter of a wh*re, so she had to be a wh*re now that she was all grown up. Those were the gossips she had heard all the time since she was a kid.

Bianca walked to a mini-mart that sold fresh produce.

Even though the people that discussed her behind her back were lesser, the story seemed to have progressed a lot.

It seemed that the arrival of Luke and her had reawakened the old gossips that those people just about forgot.

"Is that Bea from the Raynes’ old house?" a middle-aged woman pointed at her and asked the others in a low voice.

Someone answered immediately, "It must be. Even though she’s grown a lot, you can still tell that’s her. I could tell straight away that’s the little Bea.”

"Tsk. Times are different now. A river 30 years ago might be called the east river, but 30 years later, it might be the west river. Look at how promising the Rayne daughter is, then compare her to my daughter. My daughter only married a policeman from the county.”

"Mrs. Wilson, don't compare them that way. Your girl got married to the best compared to all the other girls in our town."

"Well, it’s not any better. The only reason my husband and I agreed to marry her off is because of the betrothal gift that’s worth 200,000. That, and the car that he bought for her dad that’s worth more than 100,000. Other than that, my son-in-law has no merits! All he has is money! I hate it!"

Someone stood up and praised Mrs. Wilson. "Well, your daughter married into a good family. I’m 80 percent sure that this Bea is a mistress. Look at this man's car. I bet it's worth millions! Perhaps Bea recently seduced the man from somewhere and hurriedly brought him back to show him off to the townspeople."

"This Bea is quite vain… She did the same thing as her shameless mom who ran off with a rich guy..."

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