“I heard that Sloane and Theresa came over to pick a fight today, do you need me to help you with that?”
He was quiet for no more than a minute and started asking questions again.
Adriana signed her name on a document she had finished reading, snapped it closed with a little movement, and it was easy to see that it was tinged with some negative emotions.
“It is necessary to tell you again that although we are related by blood, it does not mean that I will recognize you as my brother, so I do not need you to interfere in my affairs.”
With a full tenth of a warning.
The chat between the two was instantly filled with fireworks.
Since sending Adriana to the unnamed island a few years ago, she has become more and more repulsed by him, much to Harlee’s own frustration.
“Adri, I just want to help you.”
Harlee explained, there was more than a little helplessness in her words, and her tone was humbled a bit.
“No need!”
Two simple words straight back.
She placed the document on her right hand side, took another one off the pile on her left, opened it, and continued reading.
Harlee saw her concentrating on the paperwork and could not be bothered, so she sat quietly on the sofa and waited for the time to pass.
As we watched half an hour pass, Adriana had no intention of stopping the work at hand.
Harlee hesitates for a moment and continues to wait.
An hour passes.
He finally couldn’t be patient and got up and walked over, “Grandpa has gone to Asnana Hotel now, it’s inappropriate to make him wait for us as an elder.”
“If it doesn’t fit, don’t wait.”
Adriana replied without raising her head.
“Adriana!”
These words instantly ignited Harlee’s fire, and she raised her voice, “It’s okay if you’re being naughty with me, he’s our grandfather after all, do you have any sense of elders and children in your eyes?”
Adriana’s hand tightened as she held the document in her hand and raised her hand to turn a page, her desperately stoic appearance giving the illusion of bemusement.
When Harlee saw that she didn’t answer, she became even angrier and reached out to yank the contract out of her hand, “Didn’t you hear me? You can ignore me, but you can’t treat grandpa like this!”
At this moment, Adriana may not even know how important her grandfather is in Harlee’s mind.
He is a person who attaches great importance to family, since the loss of his parents, there is a grandfather doting on him to make him extra cherished.
So for many years Harlee has treated her grandfather with respect.
Adriana sitting at the table spread her hand slightly, the tiger mouth has been cut by the sharp edge of the folder to a gash.
Only because Harlee just yanked too hard and too fast.
The blood from the offering spilled out and trickled down the tiger’s mouth to the heart of his hand, staining it with a crimson bloodstain.
That’s when Harlee saw it too.
He twisted his brow, some panic, immediately that walked around the table to her and lifted her injured hand, “Adri, brother sorry you, I just did not mean to …”
“That’s enough, get out of here!”
Adriana’s long-held anger burst into flames, pushing Harlee away, her bloodshot eyes glaring at him, “What the hell do you want? Did I not make myself clear? I don’t want to repeat this for the second time!”
“But the fact that you are still in the Fryer Group shows that you are still hesitant.”
Harlee’s words made her chest rise and fall, and her long fingers tapped the table, suppressing her voice, “You don’t think you can buy me off by giving me a little share of the Fryer Group? Isn’t that a little too naive!”
Adriana has other reasons for staying with the company, otherwise she would have left long ago.
Although the Fryer Group could bring her great benefits, that was never what Adriana was looking for.
Pulled open the drawer and took out a document from it, “Here is the Fryer Group share transfer agreement, back to you! From now on, please don’t bother me again.”
He unceremoniously flung the share agreement in Harlee’s face, pushed him away and walked straight out of the office.
When he opened the door, he saw Old Mr. Soto standing in front of his office.
Adriana subconsciously rushed forward and immediately stopped herself when she saw the old man.
The two men looked at each other with different expressions.
When she saw that she couldn’t avoid it, Adriana said, “There’s something you can say right here.”
“What’s the matter, did that little bastard Harlee piss you off?”
The old man in taiji clothing was playing with a string of beads in his hands, his hands behind his back, smiling amiably toward her as he walked into the office.
Glaring at Harlee, “Why are you making Adri angry again, how are you being a brother?”
Without asking for a reason, Harlee reprimanded, obviously toward Adriana.
But this tactic was immediately seen by Adriana, and she didn’t buy it.
“Grandpa, it’s all my fault.”
Harlee walked up to her grandfather very respectfully, then walked up to Adriana, “Adri, I was too impulsive just now, I apologize to you.”
“No need.”
Adriana held the door with one hand and placed the other in her pocket, her face clear and cold to the extreme.
Old Mr. Soto went to the sofa and sat down, leaning back, one hand on the armrest, one hand playing with a string of beads, not angry and dignified manners invariably give people a sense of oppression.
“Get over here, both of you.”
He said.
Adriana hesitated, only to see Harlee’s eyes unblinkingly looking at her, the attitude is that she does not want to go over.
Very helplessly, he walked over to the old man, and Harlee followed him.
The assistant guarding the office door closed the door.
“Sit.”
The old man waved his hand.
The two sat across from each other.
Adriana’s eyes flashed and her tightly knitted brow revealed her irritation, “Old Mr. Soto just say what you want, I like to get straight to the point.”
“Heh heh heh.”
Old Mr. Soto tilted his head and laughed, patting his leg, “You’re a child with the same temperament as your mother.”
He stared at Adriana with cloudy but shining eyes for a moment and said, “Tell me, why don’t you want to come back with me?”
Why?
When faced with the question of Old Mr. Soto, Adriana did not know how to answer.
The instinctive resistance of the heart does not need a reason at all.
“There’s no reason.”
A short and concise answer, one more word is a luxury.
“Ugh.”
As Adriana’s words fell, she clearly heard the old man let out a long sigh, tapping his fingers on his knee once or twice, as if in thought.
“Girl, I know that the year caused you a lot of damage, but … I am for your own good. Girl, the world you see in your eyes is beautiful and colorful, but the reality is cruel and not as simple as you think. I think … when you reach my age you should be able to understand me.”
He sighed, the face covered with vicissitudes is full of helplessness and emotion.
“Adri, grandpa has good intentions, maybe the process is not acceptable to you, but when you experience more in the future you will be able to understand how good grandpa is to you. Do you understand?”