“What is it?”
“I’m along the river, come over here. I need to talk to you.”
“I … that line.”
After the two agreed, Adriana sat on a bench by the river and waited for a while, and twenty minutes later, Harlee arrived.
After looking around for a while, he finally saw Adriana sitting over here and immediately walked over, breathing a long sigh of relief, “Why didn’t you answer your phone?”
“Sit down.”
Adriana didn’t answer and patted the bench beside her.
Harlee sat down and noticed that she was in a bit of a mood, “What’s wrong, is something wrong?”
Looking at his sister’s sad face, Harlee followed the worry.
“Do you want to know who your father is?”
She asked.
“What my father, then if my father is not your father?”
He sputtered.
Adriana did not retort, still looking ahead, watching the weeping willows along the river bank swaying in the wind, mood sinking and sinking.
“Do you know Archie from The Alston family?”
“I know. Isn’t he the third in The Alston family who is a lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy man in the Alston Group?”
He sat up with a start after his words, “Archie?”
Harlee looked incredulously at Adriana, who glanced at him, vaguely aware of his suspicions, and nodded.
The two have a heart to heart.
“Shit!”
He exclaimed and immediately asked, “Don’t you tell me that Archie is our dad.”
“Hmm.”
Adriana responded.
“Shit.”
He raised a hand to ruffle his hair, indicating that it was difficult to accept.
Abruptly, he moved a beat, frowned, tilted his head to look at Adriana, “No ah, if he is our father, then you and Peter’s child is not …”
Harlee felt a little metaphysical.
Adriana snorted, “I was just as worried as you were at first, so I asked to meet with him today.”
“Meet?”
Harlee stared coldly at Adriana , “You’re backstabbing me again, you know everything again, and you’re the last one to tell me.”
expressed great dissatisfaction.
“I was a little surprised to meet with him because I didn’t say anything, but he knew everything. He said he wasn’t from The Alston family, but an adopted child of Old Mr. Alston, so I’m not related to Peter in any way.”
Adriana explained succinctly.
But her words of explanation didn’t satisfy Harlee, “You haven’t answered what I just said. When did you know that?”
“Yesterday.”
“That’s more like it.”
Harlee wasn’t too shocked.
It seems that compared to what has happened recently, anything is more surprising than what is happening now.
The mother is the hidden master of Obren, only the father is that mediocre.
“So you’re saying that the oldest member of The Alston family knew about your relationship with me and stood by and watched? Geez, I don’t know how Ruth could have taken a liking to him.”
Harlee, somewhat annoyed, pulled a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and took a silent drag.
The lips exhaled a faint cigarette and sighed, “Finally found them, can the next road what to do? After all, you can’t identify with Archie, or the two children will definitely suffer from the criticism.”
All are smart enough to know the seriousness of the matter.
If the outside world knew that the father of the two of them was Archie, then no one would believe Archie even if he was open about his identity to the outside world at that time.
Instead, those media reporters will make a big deal out of it, making it even more embarrassing for Luis and Helen’s two children.
Adriana nodded, “Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
The two men keep the same idea on this point.
There was a silence, no one spoke, not knowing what things were going through each other’s heads.
“There’s something I need to talk to you about.”
Adriana added.
“What?”
“I’m already with Peter.”
“What?!”
Harlee immediately blew up, stood up, pointed at her and asked, “Wasn’t it Peter who was at the villa yesterday?”
“Hmm.”
Adriana did not deny it and nodded her head.
This is why Harlee is even more upset, “Have you ever treated me as your brother? Adriana, aren’t you going a little overboard?”
He truly treats Adriana as his own sister.
Although the two people met again after a twenty-year gap.
But that’s a blood tie that can’t be cut.
Adriana looked at him, eyes sunk, screaming Harlee seemed to have a few fear, immediately collected the body of the prick, quiet, sitting by her side.
Skimmed, and then said in a serious tone: ” Peter he is simply not worth your like. If you want to find someone to spend your life with, you can find a better man, and I can recommend you a better one, you understand?”
He is really worried that Adriana will not be happy after being with Peter.
“Harlee, I want to be with Peter. I don’t care how you refuse, this time I’m determined. Also, there are some things you may not know, but just remember one thing … he is worthy of my love and affection, that’s enough.”
Adriana is determined to stay with Peter.
She didn’t bother to look at Harlee’s face and continued, “I’ve been entangled with him for almost ten years now since we met, how many decades are there in life? I want to cherish the days ahead.”
“Crazy, crazy, crazy.”
Without much commentary, Harlee kept waving her hands, thinking Adriana was brainwashed.
“As I said, what does Peter have that you like? Look at what he did to you when he was having an affair with Theresa all day long. And what did he do to help you when you were in danger? You were bullied and suppressed before, have you forgotten?”
He reached out and poked Adriana’s forehead, “Are you out of your mind or are you masochistic?!”
Cracking up a bunch, Adriana really didn’t care to explain, but thinking about it and feeling that there was a long day ahead, she had to get Harlee to let go of her preconceived notions about Peter now.
Only by working together can we have better days at the end.
“Actually Peter has done quite a lot for me. Back in the day …”
Adriana doesn’t want there to be a misunderstanding between Peter and Harlee, so she tells him all about what happened between her and Peter in the past.
There are many stories and Adriana is in no hurry, so she goes slowly.
The two sat by the river for a long time, and Harlee listened carefully to the things Adriana told before she got an idea of what happened between the two Peter and Adriana.
After all was said and done, Harlee was calm for a long time and never spoke.
Adriana saw that he didn’t say anything and she didn’t squeak.
“It’s all one-sided from you, could you have made it up on purpose because you wanted to be with Peter?”
He looked at Adriana with raised eyebrows and a skeptical look on his face.
“Get out!”
Adriana cursed, grabbed her bag and got up to leave.
“Don’t, don’t, don’t go.”
Harlee knew Adriana was angry and immediately went after her, “OK, OK, OK, I know there are things I shouldn’t say, it’s my cheap mouth. If Peter is really as good as you say he is, of course I would like you to be together. But don’t you have to give him an observation period?”