Robert returned to the hospital room, and Lucille looked up from moistening her grandma’s lips. with a cotton swab to ask. “Was Edwin here to see you about something important?
I thought I heard you guys say you’re moving the main business focus back here. If you’re busy. you should go. I can handle things here.”
“It’s nothing.”
Robert sat down next to her. “Just giving me a work update. It’s all going smoothly.”
“Brother, you’re moving the business here. Will you and Auntie move back for good?”
Lucille was very curious.
“Not for now.”
He smiled faintly. “I’ll probably be flying back and forth in the beginning. Once things are going well and stable here, we’ll consider if my mom will come back too. Besides, she has her own career and plans. She wouldn’t want to be a full–time mom for me.”
“Auntie is amazing ”
Lucille knew her aunt worked in the fashion industry. She had been a designer for a certain brand for many years and had only recently left the company.
She said this from the heart. The world outside was so vast, yet she had trapped herself for five
years
“Our Lucille is amazing too.”
Robert said this with such sincerity
Lucille felt like he was just praising one of his own The kind of feeling where no matter how badly your life is going or what you’ve become, in your family’s eyes, you’re always the best.
This was the kind of feeling she should have gotten from her parents over twenty years ago, something she had long stopped hoping for She never expected to get it now, on the verge of thirty with her life in a mess, from a brother she had only known for a few days.
“Brother…” A warmth filled her chest, making it so tight she couldn’t speak
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“Silly girl, don’t worry. From now on, our family will be together.”
“Yeah.”
Lucille nodded. After almost thirty years, suddenly having a blood relative felt so warm.
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By the time Cedrick rushed out of the hospital, Maricela had already contacted Harlan.
She was penniless. Those people had stolen her phone.
She was thrown out of a car into a remote, empty place. By the time she crawled out of the sack, the car was long gone.
As far as she could see, there were no houses, let alone people.
Luckily, it wasn’t a highway. Later, she stood in the middle of the road to flag down a car, asking for a ride to the city.
But no one would.
So she had to ask to borrow someone’s phone, but they were too scared. In the end, she just gave them the number, and they dialed it for her.
She had them call Harlan.
They put it on speaker, and she talked to Harlan.
Harlan got worked up as soon as he heard. “I’m coming right now! I’ll tell Cedrick!”
“No, no, no, don’t tell Cedrick yet! You come by yourself!
Just you!”
Maricela panicked.
These people were looking for Eleanor, so they were clearly connected to Lucille. They knew too much about her!
She didn’t know if Lucille knew, and if so, did that mean Cedrick knew too?
She had been locked up for so long, she had no idea what had happened outside. With everything so unclear, she absolutely couldn’t risk seeing Cedrick!
Harlan arrived quickly.
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In less than half an hour, he had her in his car.
She sat in the car, still trembling.
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She was a mess. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were wrinkled and dirty, and all her makeup was smeared.
The moment Harlan saw her like this, he got furious. “Who did this?
What happened?
I’ll fucking kill them!”
Maricela didn’t dare say what really happened. She just stammered, “I was robbed. They took my phone, my jewelry, and my
watch.”