How could she let go of everything so easily?
It was Harlee’s fault, but Old Mr. Soto also had a hand in it.
Adriana doesn’t think she should go back to the Soto family.
At least, she has her own reasons for not going back.
“I came here today to ask you, how in the end will you return to the Soto family?”
The old man saw that she was silent, soft and hard, and seemed to have exhausted his patience to the extreme, not wanting to be nagging.
“I’d like to ask you guys what it would take to be willing to stay away from me and not bother me.”
That’s what Adriana wants to know most.
“Adri, aren’t you being naive? From the time you were with Peter, to meeting Brenden, Raylan, Edward, which of these things existed not because of your identity? Do you really think that with your simple identity, Peter would have sought you out to give her a child back then?”
Harlee relented, stood up, and yelled.
At that, Adriana’s eyebrows narrowed slightly, “What do you mean?”
Heart a tight, suddenly a bad feeling of foreboding.
“More than nine years ago, you were with Thelma, Jenkins had cancer and needed surgery, and someone found you having a baby with Peter and ended up giving you $2 million. Didn’t you ever think about why you gave birth to Peter’s baby? Didn’t you think about why Peter picked you? Also, why did Peter prefer your BFF Theresa when he didn’t like anyone?”
The successive questioning, word for word, fell on Adriana’s ears and gave no small shock.
What is it?
She had never thought about it before.
But now that I think about it, I think Harlee has a point.
“It’s just a coincidence, nothing to get worked up about.”
She pretended to be calm, a breezy look.
But the hands that couldn’t help but clutch together betrayed her soul.
Adriana got nervous and scared.
If you think about it according to Harlee, you just feel that everything is so creepy and frightening.
But Peter had said that she liked Theresa because of the necklace.
Supposedly, it was because of that one necklace that the misunderstanding arose.
“Can you convince yourself if you explain?”
Harlee asked rhetorically, “You saved a boy over ten years ago, was that boy Peter?”
All at once, Adriana’s brain exploded into chaos.
The dumbfounded brain did not know how to answer Harlee’s words.
“No, nothing like that.”
Her eyes twinkled, and she turned around abruptly and poured herself a glass of water to drink.
But the cups placed on the water fountain were full and overflowing before she noticed.
Picked up the glass and took a sip of water, which was actually cold and icy.
She found out that she had long been nervous that she didn’t even know which was the water valve for hot or cold water.
“You don’t have to deny it in a hurry. In fact, you can sit down and let grandpa talk to you about what happened in our family twenty years ago, and perhaps, it will be beneficial to you.”
“No, I don’t want to hear it.”
Adriana rejected Harlee’s offer and turned around, staring at him with cold eyes, “I told you very clearly that I don’t want to go back to the Soto family, don’t you understand?”
“The Soto family is so prominent in the business world that even if you don’t go back, your days will not be peaceful. Those who want to pull you in, those who want to kidnap you, those who threaten you, those who threaten Luis and Helen, there will be countless.”
Harlee told Adriana about the importance of the matter.
“What do I have to fear with Giovanny around?”
She smiled contemptuously and went to sit on the single sofa, in a somewhat annoyed mood, and took a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table, lit it, and took a drag.
Although very dislike smoking, but this moment really want to smoke a cigarette, forcing themselves to calm, more want to cover up the inner panic.
“Giovanny’s amazing abilities are well known to everyone. But a man’s life is long, and he cannot have one pair of eyes on all three of you.”
A proper threat.
“From what you’re saying, this technique to sounds a lot like your style.” Adriana laughed.
“Adri, you …”
“Okay.”
Harlee was angry and wanted to refute something, only to see Old Mr. Soto raised his hand to interrupt him and looked sideways at Adriana, “Girl, you should listen to your brother to tell you about the past. I think you should know very well what kind of people he The Alston family is. The Alston family is a group of people who have been together with you for a long time, but also with the woman named Theresa. When you had the car accident, if it is correct, it was Theresa who did it.”
“Oh, really? This you all know?”
She smiled, “If I’m right, even without Theresa, you would have arranged a car accident like this one to hoodwink the world. Wouldn’t you?”
If it were in the past, Adriana would have been led by their noses, but this is not the past, Adriana is no longer that silly little woman.
How is it possible not to know what they are thinking?
“Hahahahaha.”
Old Mr. Soto smiled instead of being angry, “It seems that my Quintin’s granddaughter is very smart and really looks like me.”
Laughing brightly, he seemed to be in a good mood.
“Adri, you’re right. But that doesn’t take away the fact that Theresa did it to you. If it weren’t for Theresa, if it weren’t for Peter, you wouldn’t have had to suffer so much at all.”
Harlee is always leading in all sorts of ways, largely to get Adriana to remember Peter.
But Adriana remained sober, not compelled by their words, still thinking calmly said: “Where are so many ifs? If there really are ifs, I just want to say that if you had known that I was Adriana and took me to the Soto family, there would not have been everything afterwards.”
So, what’s the point of talking about that now?
“Silly girl.”
Old Mr. Soto shook his head with a sigh, helpless with Adriana, “Tell me about you, why are you so stupid?” He patted his knee and inclined his head to look at Adriana, his whitened eyebrows wrinkled, and sighed again, “Harlee, tell her what you know.”
“Okay, Grandpa.”
Harlee nodded, walked over to Adriana, removed the white porcelain mug sitting on the low table, and sat directly across from Adriana, keeping just under a meter between them.
“Adri, the Soto family has been feuding with The Alston family since decades ago. At that time, both families were brothers, but later they broke up for many reasons and even became enemies. I think that there are some things you already know. The Alston family is responsible for the death of our mom and dad.”
Mentioning the death of his late father and mother, Harlee looked pained, with scarlet blood in his eyes, his hands clenched into fists, unable to suppress his heart’s angry emotions.
“Who exactly did they do, do you have any proof? From the legal point of view, you can say that The Alston family did it without any evidence, so you can say you are falsely accused and defamed!”
“Nonsense! Adriana, don’t think that because you’ve been a lawyer for two days that you can see no one else.”