A good-looking eyebrow gently converged and sighed, “Adri, don’t think so much, grandpa just wants to cultivate a relationship with the child now and hope you can integrate into the Soto family as soon as possible. you are the Soto family’s child after all.”
As the real brother, Harlee cares more about his sister than anyone else, and certainly cares about her feelings.
“I am your brother, my own brother. For so many years we couldn’t support and help each other, and now, I want to do my best to make up for the mistakes I once made. Adri, I really hope you can give me a chance.”
Harlee’s attitude is extraordinarily cool in front of other people, but only in front of Adriana is always a humble posture.
Adriana got up, walked around Harlee and went to a side tea table, said while grinding coffee: “Harlee, what do you want me to trust you? You knew who I was years ago, and you’ve been counting on it? If I did have a brother, it would only be Jenkins, not you.”
In Adriana’s mind, the only person she would admit to was Jenkins.
“I …”
Harlee wanted to say something, but looked at Adriana’s back darkly, “So tell me, what exactly does it take for you to be willing to accept me?”
He suddenly asked, Adriana grinding coffee hand a slight beat, eyes forward, through the floor-to-ceiling windows to look outside the blue sky, into deep thought.
Now Peter has a life of his own and Luis and Helen are back with her.
With nothing to eat or drink and nothing to worry about, Adriana suddenly wants to leave, wants to leave Waverly and go to a new place and start her life over.
Because there are no more ties here.
“I …”
She pursed her lips, turned back, looked at him with clear eyes, and said in a shallow voice: “If I wanted to leave Waverly and take Luis and Helen with me, would you say yes?”
A phrase with a few tentative words.
“Leave?”
Harlee’s eyes wavered, as if she hadn’t expected Adriana to say that, and she didn’t even dare to think it.
“Why do you want to leave? Adri, you’re my sister, this is your home, where do you want to go? Am I not doing a good enough job or what?”
Harlee’s heart inexplicably aches and pains.
It was hard to find a sister that gave him a sense of home, and now Adriana suddenly says she’s leaving.
“Harlee, didn’t you say you love me? Didn’t you claim to be wholeheartedly devoted to me as your sister? If you really care about me, then why don’t you let go and make me whole and let me take Luis and Helen and leave, okay.”
Adriana always wanted to leave, but there were still a lot of things on her hands that had not been taken care of.
With Alvin’s affairs soon to be taken care of, and her having gotten custody of her two children, Adriana thought it would be a good idea to start a brand new life somewhere else.
Since she was a child, she had no control over her own life. Now that she has a new opportunity, Adriana really wants to make a new choice and plan her life again.
She wanted a simple and peaceful life, and she didn’t know if she would ever get the chance.
Because, Adriana knew that even if Harlee agreed, he had an Old Mr. Soto behind him and it was not so easy to leave.
But Adriana just wanted to test Harlee’s heart.
“Why, I need reasons.”
Harlee slowly walks up to Adriana and looks at her in a condescending manner.
Adriana retracted her gaze straight at him and sighed, “People have their own life pursuits, I don’t like glory and wealth, I just want to be with the person I love and simply be happy for the rest of my life. I have Luis and Helen and that’s enough. The Soto family has nothing to do with me, and I don’t want to take advantage of you. Understand?”
She’s really not short of money, not at all.
Whether it’s the income from her YA Law Firm in Los Angeles, her YA live streaming company with Alvin, or the wealth she’s accumulated over the years, she has enough to last a lifetime.
On the contrary, after having everything, she yearns for a peaceful life.
Harlee doesn’t understand Adriana’s mind. She knows Adriana has been through too much and she knows it’s not easy for her.
“Adri, you should understand that there are times when it is impossible to really do out of the mud. Besides, once something is tainted, it is not easy to get out of it.”
His words carry a string of meaning.
“So, you’re not going to let me leave?”
Adriana looked even more bitter.
“No, of course I agree, I …”
“Harlee, if you really think of me as a sister, then let me go, okay. When your target was Peter, he has now been kicked out by The Alston family, an outsider who is no match for you, the Soto family. It’s easy to get rid of him. I won’t get involved, I won’t stop it.”
Adriana made her thoughts clear.
She looked at him, and he looked at her, four eyes facing each other, silent.
Harlee’s eyes flickered slightly, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a long time, he waved his hand, “Let me think.”
Say it, turn around and leave the office directly, walking very hastily.
Bang–
The office door closed and Adriana looked on and suddenly hooked her lips in a smile, “Huh.”
Take a deep breath, turn around, go to the table and continue grinding coffee, only this time, her deep pupils are not deep, the depths seem to hold something that is elusive.
…
Hospital.
“What? Is it true what you said?”
Theresa sat on the hospital bed, staring wide-eyed at her own father Logan, “Is it true that Peter was thrown out of the Alston Group?”
The news came so fast that it caught her off guard.
“The Alston Group has given notice, and now the media has been broadcasting about it.” Logan didn’t expect things to be so sudden either, “I heard it was because Peter gave custody of Luis and Helen’s two children to Adriana, angering the old man, and he did it.”
Logan shook his head and sighed, “Ugh, you say you, how can your stomach not compete a little.”
It was so easy to get pregnant, and the baby said no.
Theresa looked stiff and embarrassed.
She would like to keep the child, but the child …
“Theresa, I think Peter must not be that useless.”
The first time I saw a woman, I was in the middle of a conversation.
“Yeah, Dad, Peter’s a veteran of the mall, there’s no way he’s going to run out of flip-flops all of a sudden.”
Theresa felt that what Sandra said was not unreasonable.
Logan shook his head and sighed, “Since the last bid for the Clear Bay project lost, Old Mr. Alston is very unfriendly to Peter, secretly took away a lot of his power and rights, gradually transitioned to The Alston familyBrenden. Mr. Alston hands, round ability, Brenden although inferior to Peter, but Peter has not been used by Old Mr. Alston. I think Luis and Helen two children is just an excuse, Old Mr. Alston’s intention is to pull Peter out of power.”