The old man was moved to anger.
Hearing Adriana’s words just now was furious, and for the first time he was angry with Adriana.
Adriana knew she was out of line in front of the two by talking like that, “I’m just speaking on the matter. If it is your firm belief that someone from The Alston family was the mastermind, why didn’t you call the police and ask for justice?”
“Of course we called the police. Back then, The Alston family was so strong that we, the Soto family, could hardly compete with them and sent the culprit to jail only to be released anyway!”
The old man stood up, looked straight at her with anger, and growled.
He took a deep breath and continued, “Do you think it was us who didn’t want you? Never told you, you were taken away from the hospital after you were born, and after that your mother and father searched for you for many years without any news. Immediately after the two met with misfortune, even your brother was missing for months before we found it. He was thrown off a cliff by The Alston family, and was found dying, and if the villagers hadn’t saved him by chopping wood on the mountain, I’m afraid he would have died!”
A comment poked Harlee’s sore spot, and he bowed his head, hung his head, and did not speak.
Adriana was sitting on the couch at an angle that was facing Harlee, but she couldn’t see his face and didn’t know what his mood was.
Old Mr. Soto’s face was red with anger, and he was panting hard and didn’t speak again for a long time.
“Grandpa guessed that you were taken away as a child and The Alston family had something to do with it. These years the Soto family has not given up looking for you, every year in the matter of looking for you have spent countless human and financial resources, but did not expect that the people of The Alston family so early on to focus on you. Deliberately let Peter play the game to get injured, so that you save him and give you a necklace, only Theresa’s appearance is an accident. But it does not affect the plan to move forward. Although the necklace was taken by Theresa, he The Alston family still sought you to give birth to their children. Even without Jenkins’ cancer, you will be forced to go nowhere because of Thelma’s gambling debts to loan sharks to pay everything back, and will also fall into the pawn of The Alston family.
Haven’t you noticed that since you had your baby, The Alston family has tried to suppress you and keep you out of The Alston family’s doors? That’s what The Alston family people are after! To make you give birth to a child for The Alston family, and then threaten you with the child. And then threaten the Soto family later!”
Harlee seems to be very clear about these things, thinking clearly and analyzing everything that is going on.
Adriana truly doesn’t want to hear what they have to say.
But at the moment, they are frothing, trembling, immersed in panic and unable to extricate themselves.
If …
Everything is as Harlee and Old Mr. Soto said, everything she is experiencing is the work of The Alston family, so Peter is also involved?
It was indeed The Alston family who approached her to have the baby, only that she knew nothing about it at the time and only learned the truth a few years later.
If that’s the case, Peter is the one who caused her so much pain?
Without the calculations of The Alston family, her life would have taken a very different course?
Adriana only felt a chill down her back, even her heart was flooded with coldness, as if it had frozen, cold and painful, as if a knife cut.
Why is that?
“Where’s the evidence?”
Adriana’s eyes flickered, despite the panic in her heart, but still pretended to be calm.
“Adri, you are incorrigible!”
Harlee reached out and pointed at her, exasperated by her.
Perhaps because of too much anger, pulled the wound are painful, he covered his abdomen backwards, “If you are not my Harlee’s sister, I will risk my life to save you?”
That day Flora brought someone to hurt her, and Adriana didn’t expect Harlee to come to his rescue without thinking about it.
She knew for sure that Harlee was not playing games that day.
Because the Henderson Family didn’t care to work with Harlee on the play, and the hospital doctor’s word was more believable.
His injuries were so severe that he was only a centimeter away from dying.
“You want proof, don’t you? Okay, I will give you the proof at the banquet on the 16th day of the first month.”
Old Mr. Soto dropped a line, seemingly not wanting to talk to Adriana much, and simply walked away.
Watching his grandfather leave, Harlee looked back at Adriana with a tender and helpless face, “Adri, I am your brother, even grandfather in this world is not as good as the blood relationship between you and me. Don’t say I won’t harm you, even if you want my life now, I will give it to you.”
He pulled out a dagger, took Adriana’s hand and put it in her hand, broke her fingers to hold the hilt, and then stabbed it viciously toward his abdomen.
Thud –
Adriana reacted in time and threw the dagger on the ground, “Are you crazy, what are you doing? Do you know that you are not yet healed, this knife will kill you!”
She was furious.
Harlee saw her stand up, emotional, he also stood up and yelled, “I’m doing this for your own good! Adri, don’t be naive, okay? Do you know why you are in this situation? If it wasn’t for the deliberate revenge of The Alston family, how could Mom have thrown you away right after she gave birth to you? Or do you think that the Soto family couldn’t feed you!”
I have to say, Harlee’s words make sense.
The Soto family back then was not as powerful as the Soto family now, but it was not so powerful that it could not feed a little yellow girl.
Adriana was stunned in place, staring at Harlee with dull eyes, and for a while there were no words to refute.
It seems that all the previous indifference, resistance, detachment, are collapsing at this moment.
Harlee saw her flinching, before walking up to her, lifting her hand to cover her cheek, clear eyes trembled slightly, pupils covered with a thin layer of water mist, “I know what happened on Orco Mount back then made you remember it for the rest of your life, but brother was too eager at that time, just wanted to make you remember The Alston family. That day in the prison, our men were just about to do it when Alvin came.”
He slowly shook his head and said in a hoarse voice: “On the unnamed island, everyone has to take that drug. But that drug will be completely eradicated by taking the antidote for four consecutive years, and there will be no harm to the body.
I was worried about you and Peter getting back together before I tried to get you to show up at Waverly as ‘Lawson’, but I didn’t have you under too much control. Your friends Anne, Vivian, Alvin, they all know who you are, including your children. You know why? Because I want you to forget your old unpleasantness and at the same time keep your distance from Peter!
I just really didn’t expect you to be so stupid, stupid to survive the onset of the drug alone. The good thing is that it was the fourth year, not so much that you would die, if you really died that day. I had already thought about it at that time, I will accompany you to die together!”
He jerked his head down and closed his eyes.
Adriana clearly saw two tears fall.
At that moment, she had mixed emotions, her mind was in a mess, and she didn’t even know how to deal with the rest of her life.
Where do you go from here and what choice do you make?