Adina searched the whole residential area with the boy but found no cat. In the end, she realized that she might have been deceived. She stared at the boy coldly. “Are you really here to look for a cat?”Harold’s heart trembled under her stare. He was not a boy who liked lying, but if he did not lie, he would not have a proper excuse to stay with the woman. He pursed his lips and said nothing. Adina knew that she had guessed right, and she asked, “What’s your name? Where do you live? I’ll send you home.”Suddenly, Harold felt sad. He had come so far and taken such a huge risk to see her, but she wanted to send him back before even spending half an hour with him!He was so sad that tears began to collect in his eyes. “I don’t want to go back!”He stared at Adina stubbornly, and the sadness in his eyes nearly turned into tears that gushed out of his eyes. In an instant, Adina felt as if someone had seized her heart, and her breath caught in her throat. She had two chi
A spark flashed in Adina’s eyes. At the moment she heard Harold’s name, she deduced that he would be a member of the Winters family, but she did not expect that he would be Duke’s son. The boy appeared to be around the same age as Alden. He should also be four years old. But when she was in Sea City four years ago, she hadn’t heard anything about Duke getting married. “I don’t know how you learned about my son, but take that information to your grave.” Duke warned her. “If I find that you’ve leaked anything to the public, I won’t spare you, nor your daughter.”Adina let out a bark of laughter in anger. She did not care about him threatening her, but this man should not have used Melody to threaten her!She glared at him and smirked coldly. “Mr. Winters, even though your family can do anything it wants and no one dares to offend you, I’ll make you understand what regret means if you so much as touch my daughter.”‘Threats, huh? I know how to make them, too.’Adina glared a
When Duke looked at Dew, his gaze was cold and mocking. If Dew really liked children, he would not have minded marrying her for the twin’s sakes. But he often saw her staring at Harold with a cold and ruthless gaze. If the boy was forced to spend more time with her, he would probably end up even more stubborn and rebellious. Duke could not understand why he would have slept with a scheming woman like her five years ago. She had come to him the day after the twins were born and made it clear that she wanted to become Mrs. Winters through them. Meanwhile, he had looked for her for eight months because of that one night. If he had known that she was like this, he would have never entered the room that night. “Duke, I’m Harold’s mother. Everything I do is for his good. I don’t care for anything else…” Dew pleaded with him. “Won’t you give me a chance to live together with my child?”“I’m going to hire a private teacher for Harold, and it won’t be convenient for you to stay
When Sophia saw the disappointment in Mdm. Xavier’s eyes, her heart ran cold. She was the granddaughter who bore the same last name as her grandmother. She was a true Xavier, but her grandmother was intent on protecting an outsider!Why was she the one getting chased out when she was a Xavier?!Sophia hissed in exasperation. “Grandmother, if you insist on protecting Adina, then you might as well disown me!”“You’re already married to the Gardners. You’re Mrs. Gardner now, so you shouldn’t visit this family so often anymore,” Mdm. Xavier said mercilessly. “Send Mrs. Gardner and Young Master Gardner back,” she told the servants.Sophia was so angry that her face turned red. She had given an ultimatum in order to gain her grandmother’s favor, but her grandmother did not fall for it. She felt as if she had been slapped in the face. At that moment, Richard parked his car before the porch. As if she had seen her savior, Sophia grabbed Leo and ran to him. “Dad, Grandmother wants
Adina stared at the necklace in her hands. The crystal seemed to be shining with a brilliant light coming from within it. She could tell at first glance that it was a priceless family heirloom that was passed down through generations. The necklace was worth cities, and perhaps could not even be bought with money. Yet, her grandmother had given it to her just like that. Adina felt touched. “Thank you, Grandmother.”She put the necklace away. After a moment, she asked, “Grandmother, will the Daugherties come to tomorrow’s banquet?”“The Daugherties are just a bunch of ungrateful wolves! If I had invited them, it’d be the same as bringing mud to decorate our mansion.” Mdm. Xavier’s eyes lit up with ice-cold fury. “They did everything they could to kill you in the past, so the best way to humiliate them is to ensure that you live a much better life now away from them!”Adina took Mdm. Xavier’s hand and squeezed it tightly. She felt calm at that moment. ......Night fell, and th
Adina lifted the skirt a bit, and the champagne rolled off the gown. Not a single stain could be found on the dark green dress. “There are so many people who are jealous of me, so I could only use brocade for my dress. That way, no wine could possibly stain it.” Adina smirked. “But you couldn’t possibly be jealous of me. It was just a careless mistake, wasn’t it?”Sophia was furious. ‘What’s this stupid dress?! Why won’t alcohol seep through it?!’“If you want to cause a ruckus, you should just go back to the Gardner family, Sophia.”Ethan was also in the dressing room, and he had seen the whole thing with his own eyes. Besides, anyone with brains could tell that Sophia had spilled her champagne intentionally. He simply could not understand why his sister would do something so stupid. Unlike him, Sophia could not understand why her own brother would protect an outsider. She wanted to throw a tantrum, but there were other people in the room, so she could only suppress her
‘Tonight’s banquet must be an engagement banquet for Richard Xavier’s eldest son.’The Xavier family was among the top ten families in Sea City, so Ethan was a desirable bachelor that the rich ladies of Sea City had been trying to win over for a long time. Everyone wanted to know which socialite was fortunate enough to become the fiancee of Richard Xavier’s eldest son, and hundreds of gazes shifted to the woman beside Ethan.A series of sharp intakes of breath echoed through the banquet hall. ‘She’s gorgeous!’‘Where did she come from? How could she be so ridiculously beautiful?’The moment the woman came closer, the socialites in the banquet hall felt as if they could not compare to her.“My goodness, where did Ethan Xavier find his fiancee? She’s so beautiful! Her looks are out of this world!”“She’s so fair, and she has a great figure, too. Even I am attracted to her, and I’m a woman! Oh my goodness!”“Don’t you think Ethan Xavier’s fiancee looks like the eldest daughter of
The mention of scandals from five years ago caused a huge stir. The Daugherty family was also an important and dignified family in Sea City. It had held a grand banquet for Adina on her eighteenth birthday, which had made countless people envious. However, the very next day, Adina had been caught sleeping with some man by the reporters. From then on, the image of the most beautiful woman in Sea City was destroyed, and she ended up becoming a target of scorn. After that, she disappeared from sight for almost a year, and when everyone nearly forgot about the scandal, the Daugherty family’s mansion went up in flames. Adina’s crimes were then exposed. She had slept with a man when she turned eighteen, got pregnant out of wedlock, gave birth to b*stards, went through a difficult labor that led to her children’s deaths, set the mansion on fire, and jumped into the river to commit suicide.Each of these things could send the internet into an uproar, so when all of the events were