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Chapter 4: Concerned Brother
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2021-05-11 16:02:24Alec came to the hacienda this summer but he was more different now. With the stiff and cold treatment he shows, that made a big question in her mind. He became more aloof and very weird. The occurrence that happened yesterday made her sulk and confused about him. Not expecting him to come home this summer, she got surprised when she saw him standing from afar watching the horses in the paddock. With that, a surge of happiness and excitement filled her the reason why she couldn't resist herself running to him and embracing him from the back to show how much she had badly missed him. It's been almost a year and she was so glad he chose to come home in his summer vacation. But instead of being happy, he went furious and irritated for what she did. Did Alec hate her that much to be mad in that simple gesture of sweetness? Is he that disgusted on her until now to even treat her rudely that way? To Alec, she doesn't know how to please and make him like her. For an unknown reaso
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