In one moment, only three people were left in the study.
Archie sat on the couch, leaning slightly forward, with his elbows propped up on his knees and his fingers crossed.
He could not calm down his mood for a long time, his complicated gaze fell on the two, and spoke, “Actually, I asked Old Mr. Soto to call you here, I have something to tell you.”
Like a one-man show.
After Archie’s words, neither of the two men paid any attention, not even a glance.
“I know you can’t forgive me for feeling that many years of knowing about your existence and not helping you. It’s me being a jerk, it’s me being incompetent, it’s …”
“That’s enough. If you have something to say, I’m too busy to listen to your confessions here.”
Adriana is calm.
Today Harlee is extraordinarily cranky and irritable.
Archie’s expression was stunned, embarrassed and groundless.
“I …”
Being disliked by Harlee, he was a bit at a loss for what to say, “I know you will certainly not forgive me, and I have no intention of asking for your forgiveness. But I am here today because I have something to give you.”
With that, he pulled out a contract and a bank card from the briefcase beside him, placed them on the table, and pushed them in front of both Adriana and Harlee.
“In the meantime, I’ve met your mothers.”
“Ruth?”
Adriana, who was silent, finally squeaked, “When?”
God knows how worried she was after the last time Ruth disappeared, and has been sending people to look for her, and it’s been six months, and still no news.
“A month ago.”
Archie pushed up the frame of his glasses and said so.
“A month ago? Then why didn’t she contact me?”
Peter’s physical condition in the end how Adriana heart know, but also need to be how long the treatment, or after the cure will not relapse, these things she did not have time to ask, who knows this person just appeared and then disappeared.
“She …”
Archie spoke with a sigh, “She had some things she couldn’t get away from, so she asked me to come find you guys.”
“It was more than a month ago, wasn’t it? Have you been seeing each other one after another for the past twenty years?”
A gut feeling tells Adriana that this is definitely the case.
Her questioning took Archie by surprise, but then with a smile, “You’re very clever.”
“What cleverness? And what exactly do you two mean? Take us as pawns or dolls, ah? Obviously around but also hiding and hiding, let us two little holiday discipline to bear so much? You don’t deserve to be parents at all. If you can’t raise children, you shouldn’t have had us in the first place!”
Leaning back on the couch, Harlee sat up straight and glared across the room.
As his words fell, there was a brief silence in the study, and no one spoke.
After a long time, Archie nodded, “Maybe you’re right, Ruth and I really didn’t do our best as parents, it’s our bad.”
He opened his mouth to speak and said ‘we’ in one breath, which shows that there is a good relationship between Ruth and Archie.
Adriana’s eyes flickered slightly as she gently snapped her nails, her eyelids dropping slightly in thought.
“Since we know that you are not worthy of being parents, what is the need for you to appear before us now that we are grown up?”
“Yes, I am not worthy. But you can’t say that about Ruth. back then, for you guys, Ruth suffered, she went through, I saw it all.”
Referring to Ruth, Archie could not accept Harlee’s accusations.
Extremely protective of Ruth, that attitude left Adriana somewhat ambiguous.
“I want to know how Ruth is still so attached to you after all these years of you ignoring us, or being the biggest wimp in The Alston family in the eyes of everyone in Waverly? Are you, by any chance, hiding something from us?”
The appearance looked simple, but Adriana felt that Archie did not look like such a useless piece of crap.
Because she had met Ruth and knew Ruth’s nature, she was quite sure that Ruth could not live with a useless man for the rest of her life.
It is impossible to see even an occasional meeting for decades.
“He?”
Harlee was a little baffled.
Because it was the first time I met Archie.
Until then he had been a stranger to Archie, didn’t know much, if anything, about it.
Previously Adriana had told him the truth.
But what’s the point?
When he knew the truth, Archie already knew everything, but did not come to the siblings.
Instead, more than half a year has passed, and his life with Adriana two people finally some peace.
What’s the point of him coming forward now?
“This bank card was left to you by your mother and the money is divided equally between the two of you. Your mother said that Grandpa Soto has given a lot for you, but the Soto family’s estate can only be the Soto family’s and has nothing to do with you. When the Soto family distributes the estate years ago, it will be time for you to leave the Soto group.”
Fryer Group is a property of the Soto Group.
If Old Mr. Soto really wanted to distribute the estate, neither Harlee nor Adriana had any intention from the bottom of their hearts to receive a single penny from the Soto family.
“That’s our business, it has nothing to do with you.”
Harlee is very impulsive and gets even more angry when she sees Archie, and there is no way to talk to him properly.
But only Adriana noticed Archie digressing and not answering her words.
Is it considered a default?
She mulled it over in her mind.
“And this, this is a company, from today onwards, you parachute in to handle everything.”
Archie didn’t bother with Harlee and kept to himself.
“Take it away! No need!”
Harlee’s rejection and resistance to Archie became more and more obvious, and she even threw the contract to the ground and yelled at him, “What do you mean? What kind of parents are you? You show up when you don’t need to, and disappear without a trace when you do. Now that we have grown up, you show up to interfere with our lives. Always tying us up, even if it’s a route to survival, and making us do what you want!”
He raised his hand to lift the bangs on his forehead, twisted his brow, and continued, “I, Harlee, whether I die of poverty or starvation, will not use a penny of your money. Please take your money now, take your contract, and disappear from here.”
“You … that … Adri, you …?”
Harlee’s hard and soft, Archie really can not help, and finally fell on Adriana’s body, hoping that Adriana can come forward to speak.
Adriana, who had been silent for a while, leaned over and picked up the contract from the floor, asking while looking at it, “How much money is on the bank card?”
“Not much, ten billion.”
Archie said.
Not much?
Ten billion!
Adriana even thought she had heard wrong.
The ease with which it was said was breezy, but it confirmed what Adriana had just thought, that Archie was not as simple as she thought.
“CG Group?”
CG Group she had always heard of, the world’s top 500 companies.