auntie Julie saw her softness and hardness, could not help but be a little exasperated, the hand hanging at her side had been tightly clenched into a fist, and her nails had somehow been deeply embedded in her palm.
“Miss Elena, why don’t you want to believe me?”
“There’s nothing about you that I should believe.” Elena Bush’s response was flat to the core, as if she didn’t give a damn about her.
auntie Julie was furious, but quickly hid all her emotions and smiled naturally, “What if I said that I was helping you because of Joanna Lake?”
“Joanna Lake?”
Almost subconsciously, Elena Bush immediately popped out of her quilt and sat up, accidentally getting too excited and subconsciously making her bend over.
auntie Julie nodded, “Yes, Joanna Lake.”
Elena Bush looked at her deeply as if she was trying to gauge the credibility of her words, “Why do you know Joanna Lake? or are you related to Joanna Lake in any way?”
“Joanna ……”
auntie Julie had a wistful look on her face, “We grew up playing together, but when we grew up it was like we were strangers, she suddenly alienated all her relatives and friends, even her family, no one could contact her or see her …… ”
Elena Bush’s eyes never took their eyes off her body for half a second, and at this point they couldn’t move them.
“After all these years, I don’t know what really happened to Joanna back then, and I don’t know what she did to die so horribly. But I do know that Edward Ford was not a human being at all! He was the one who deprived Joanna of her right to live, so after my life was ruined all I could think about was my childhood playmate Joanna, and then …… I learned of your existence!”
auntie Julie became more and more excited as she spoke, and even held her hand uncontrollably, “Elena, you look exactly like her, and the moment I saw you, I swore to myself that I would take you out of Edward Ford’s clutches, and I wouldn’t let him bully you half as much!”
“Elena, come with me, trust me, I won’t harm you.” auntie Julie clamped down on her hand so tightly that she couldn’t move at all if she tried to pull back.
Elena Bush clenched her lower lip, still in disbelief.
auntie Julie was crying out in anxiety, “Elena, even if you don’t trust me, don’t you even trust your mother anymore? Your mother, Joanna Lake, is my best friend, how could I possibly harm her daughter?”
“No. ……”
Elena Bush shook her head, resistance in her eyes.
auntie Julie’s tears fell completely, unable to control them in the slightest.
“Elena, I’ve been so true to you, but in your eyes, it’s nothing after all, is it?”
Elena Bush tugged at the corner of her mouth, “Maybe that would have been useful for you to say in the beginning, but now …… I don’t believe a word of it!”
It’s not that she’s hard-hearted, it’s just that she’s seen too many betrayals, and what’s more, Jacob has betrayed Logan Brown, so how else can she trust someone who has no proof?
A story like that could be fabricated by anyone, even her!
“What about this?”
auntie Julie suddenly unfolded her palm, and in her hand lay peacefully a delicate silver bracelet, but it made Elena Bush fix her eyes for a moment and fall dead on it, unable to move away!
auntie Julie laughed, “Elena, your mother and I bought this together as a testament to our sisterhood.”
Elena Bush couldn’t wait to snatch it up and kept scrutinising it.
She had one of her own, given to her by Mason Bush, with the exact same pattern, but without any signs of repair.
Her own had been deformed by a fight with Emma Bush, and then Logan Brown had taken it to have it repaired, and even though it had changed back to its original form, if you looked closely you could easily tell that it had been repaired.
“Elena!” auntie Julie took her hand again, with a soft look on her face, “Can you trust me now?”
“It can’t be, it can’t be, how can you have ……”
“Because I’m telling the truth, so of course you do!” auntie Julie said word for word, “Elena, this was supposed to be a testimony between me and your mother, but she’s dead and all that’s left is me. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen your mother’s relics, but I do know this, and if you were her daughter, you must be able to tell, right?”
Elena Bush shook her head and quickly pushed the bracelet in her hand back into her arms, “You take it.”
auntie Julie blinked her eyes and watched her response come out of her mouth, “Elena, have I gone this far and you still won’t believe me!?”
“It has nothing to do with believing ……” she lifted her face to meet the somewhat pained look she was wearing at the moment.
auntie Julie couldn’t figure it out, much less think about it, “If it’s not that you don’t believe me, then what is it, or is it that I’m too ugly looking? That my voice is awful and you don’t want to come with me? Or …… do you still think I’ll hurt you?”
“No.”
“Then why the hell is it Elena!?” auntie Julie clasped her shoulders a little annoyed forcing her to look at herself, “Elena, listen to me, Edward Ford is more than just a pervert, you can’t even imagine until you’ve seen it with your own eyes, I just want you to leave as soon as possible!”
She said it with a bitter, moving face.
Elena Bush almost believed her, but the deepest part of her heart also kept reminding her that she couldn’t be trusted, that she couldn’t go with her.
Her sixth sense had always been accurate, and even if the person in front of her was a former friend of Joanna Lake’s, she wasn’t sure she was capable of taking her away.
auntie Julie, almost overcome with anger at the way she seemed unable to listen to anything, couldn’t help but snarl, “Elena, what the hell are you clinging to, did you really think Logan Brown was going to come and get you?”
“I didn’t!” She subconsciously denied it.
“If you didn’t, then why didn’t you even bother to listen to me?”
“I can’t leave.” Elena Bush gritted her teeth, “If I leave, Edward Ford will take on THE Brown Group and KL, and if I leave, what will KL do?”
“Elena!”
auntie Julie slapped her thigh in anger, “In the end, you still don’t understand the situation, you have to know that Logan Brown’s right hand man has already defected to Edward Ford’s side, what chance do you think Logan Brown will have? Or do you really believe that Edward Ford will promise you that he won’t do anything to KL?”
Elena Bush tightened her lips and said stubbornly, “That’s what he promised me.”
“If that’s the case, then why did he poach Jacob?” auntie Julie asked rhetorically, and crushed the last vestiges of hope from her mind!
auntie Julie’s words reached her ears again, “Miss Elena, don’t be silly, Edward Ford has always gone back on his word and trusting him …… won’t end well.”