"It's been so long, but there's still no progress. Maybe I can't remember it all my life." Mrs. Rose sighed.
"Auntie, you have to be confident that one day all the memories will come back to your mind. I also lost my memory, and I remember everything," Essie comforted.
"Let's talk about it after the new year. I have to clear up the accounts of the Chateau as well," Mrs. Rose insisted.
Swallowing, Essie decided to speak a little more frankly, "Aunt, well... Are you in conflict with daddy? "
Mrs. Rose trembled slightly, and a complicated expression flashed across her face. "You... Why do you ask that? "
"I'm worried that you will have a dispute about my mommy," Essie explained.
"No... We have no conflict. " When Mrs. Rose spoke, her eyes flashed with something unusual.
Zac keenly sensed it. It seemed that his guess was right. Something must have happened between his daddy and aunt that night.
"Auntie, you haven't celebrated the new year in China for nearly thirty years. We really hope that you and Irene can come to celebrate the new year with us."
"And grandma, although she is still in a coma, I believe that she will be very happy when you come back to celebrate the new year with her," Essie persuaded after Zac finished his words.
Mrs. Rose thought for a while and said, "I... will think about it," she said hesitantly. She was thinking about her mother. She was old and didn't know how long she could hold on. Even if she couldn't hear or see, she still hoped to spend the most important new year with her.
Seeing that she softened her tone, Essie secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that even if Mr. Rose had a conflict with Albert, she would not leave grandma behind.
After hanging up the phone, she sighed, "I don't know what happened between daddy and aunt that made aunt unwilling to come to Dragon City."
Zac touched his chin deeply. He stayed up late that night and read business magazine.
At one o'clock in the morning, he heard the hurried footsteps upstairs. It should be his aunt. About an hour later, the sound of his father entering the room came from the next door.
In this way, it was a little weird for the two of them to stay in the Chateau till midnight.
"I'll ask daddy some other time."
Essie nodded.
On the second day, when Zac went for a walk in the garden, he saw Albert sitting alone in the pavilion smoking a cigar. He stared at an unknown corner in the depths of the garden, lost in thought.
"Daddy." He walked over and sat beside him.
Albert came to his senses and looked at him, "Have the children gone to school?"
"Yes." Zac nodded, "Essie and I talked to aunt on the phone yesterday. I hope she can come and celebrate the new year with us."
Turning his face away, an unnatural look flashed across Albert's eyes. "Do you think a person will become another person after losing her memory?"
"I think people who lose their memory will show their own instinct, more like themselves." Zac shrugged.
"Really?" Albert raised his thick eyebrows slightly, with a very deep expression flashing.
With a smile at the corners of his mouth, Zac said, "I can recognize my wife at a glance no matter what she has changed. Even if there are two identical women standing in front of me, I won't make a mistake. "
The corners of Albert's mouth twitched violently, and a trace of guilt appeared on his face.
At that time, he married Mary just to heal his wounds. After marriage, he put almost all his energy on work and did not care much about his wife.
He even often messed her up with Charlotte, resulting in such a terrible tangle.
He was not a good husband. He didn't even reach the passing line.
That night in Provence, he saw the tattoo on Mrs. Rose's secret position. He clearly remembered that it was Mary who made it for him after marriage. It was the nickname of them two.
Why did Mrs. Rose have the same tattoo? Even if she wanted to have a tattoo, she would use her own name. Why did she use Mary's name?
Did she imitate Mary and go crazy?
He took a drag on his cigar, and a terrible idea flashed through his mind, but it was extinguished in an instant. It was too absurd, and he didn't dare to think about it again.
While he was silent, Zac's voice came again, "Daddy, if something really happened between you and aunt that night, you should explain to each other. After all, we are relatives. Don't worsen the conflict."
Albert puffed out a smoke ring and said, "I'll handle it well."
In the jewelry store, Ivy was asking Essie to pick up jewelry for her. She was going to attend the spring celebrities ball in Yang City.
"I must be the most eye-catching star in the party, so that brother Hanson will not look askance at me and focus all his attention on me."
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