When Sherry left the Garcia Family, she was smuggled out the back door by her driver.
No one even knew that she had been in the mansion once again except for a few people, and she had another card in her bag, from Miller.
Back at the flat, Sherry’s first order of business was to book a flight.
The earliest flight the next day, back home.
She tossed and turned for more than ten hours, got off the plane and took the bus again.
As she was about to return to Collin county, news of her departure from Seattle reached someone’s ears.
Eral looked at his own president’s dark face and regretted a million times if he shouldn’t mention Sherry again, but Aaron had instructed before that he should report any news of Sherry as soon as he had it.
That’s why there was that scene five minutes ago.
Eral told Aaron about Sherry leaving Seattle alone and returning to her hometown of Collin county.
Those few minutes seemed unusually long for Eral, who was even starting to worry about keeping his bonus at the end of the year.
All I heard from Aaron was a cold, “I’m going to Collin County.”
“But …” Eral wanted to cry.
Knowing that the last few days have been the days when several big projects have been launched for the company, the loss of the postponed trips cannot be measured in money at all.
But before he could say anything else, Aaron had already tugged on his jacket and sprinted out.
Collin County is economically backward and its population is small. Those who stay in Collin County and keep their old homes are mostly widows and orphans, and the philanthropist who built this nursing home also saw the serious aging of this county and allocated this money.
The sanatorium is now considered to be the most imposing building in the whole village.
As soon as Sherry entered the COUNTY she saw a lot of people sitting around talking about the unnamed female body on the hill.
Obviously, coming here in person gives you a sense that the case is not as conclusive as the police say it is, and that no further investigation is needed.
When people saw Sherry, their eyes first took on a wary look, then when they saw her face, some of the neighbors began to greet her, “The old Garcia Family girl is back, visiting your mother?”
“Yeah, Uncle Tom, I’ll go to the sanatorium first.” Sherry grinned.
The smiles on these people’s faces are genuine, but they don’t really agree with Sherry’s approach to sending their parents to a nursing home only if there is no one else in the house.
It’s a waste of money and ungrateful.
“She’s a lot more reliable than that brother of hers, though, and the old Garcia Family got dragged to death by that little son of a bitch those years!”
“Who knows what Kate did in her last life to have a husband like that, eh? Why do I remember that Kate’s husband was previously with that dead Nona …”
A gossip is again whispered among the villagers.
Kate was the happiest person when Sherry returned. She took her daughter’s hand and looked her up and down a few times and tears welled up in her eyes, “Wasn’t it hard at work? You’ve lost weight.”
Sherry shook her head and looked at the carer next to her who was checking the room without saying much.
She waited a moment for people to leave before she closed the door, “Mom, be honest with me, you know Nona, don’t you?”
Kate was stunned for a moment.
The look of hesitation and nervousness on her face was all in Sherry’s eyes.
“Mum, did you and Nona meet the year I was born?”
Sherry left with the copy Miller had asked her to look up, also thinking how it was such a coincidence that what he wanted to know happened in the week of her birth.
Add to that the fact that Kate asked specifically about Sherry later, and Sherry had to think more in her mind.
“No, no.”
Kate got even more nervous and kept waving her hand, setting her glass of water aside, “Sherry, I’m tired.”
But the more Kate reacts like this, the more it becomes clear that she does know something and that Nona’s death is not that simple.
Sherry got up and turned off the light, and by the light of the moon, looked at the person on the bed.
“Mom, you often taught me that one should know how to repay kindness, I am asking you this now to repay someone’s kindness, if you don’t want to talk about it, I won’t force you, when you want to talk about it, you can always tell me, I will go back to our house tonight to pack up and come to see you tomorrow.”
Sherry finished and walked out of the room.
The footsteps disappeared beyond the door and Kate’s hand clutching the quilt wrung very, very tight.
“How can …”
She closed her eyes in pain, the memory of what had happened back then was still fresh in her mind, but how was she to tell it to her own daughter!
She was not her biological mother because her husband was drunk at the time and held the wrong child.
Kate also found out afterwards from Nona that the two other pregnant women who gave birth were the wives of wealthy families and that her husband had made the mistake that ruined Sherry’s life in the first place.
She had also thought about helping Sherry find her real parents, but she was incapable of doing so and quietly paid for so-called private detectives, but in the end, nothing came of it and the money was swept away.
I was thinking of finding a chance to tell Sherry the truth after she graduates, but now …
Hearing Sherry ask about Nona, Kate’s whole nerves tensed; could it be, Sherry knew something to verify it in this way.
This night Kate kept her eyes open until dawn.
When Sherry arrived, she found Kate looking even worse and sullen, one eye looking around, just not daring to meet her eyes.
Sherry’s brow knitted.
“Mum, are you not feeling well somewhere?”
“Sherry ah.” Kate gathered her courage and took her hand, “Sit down first, Mum has something to tell you.”
Dragging it out like this is not an option.
Their family owed Sherry for over twenty years, they couldn’t owe her any more, they should let her go back to her biological parents, she couldn’t be so selfish and so sad to let go of the child she had raised with her own hands in front of her.
Kate’s eyes were overflowing with tears, the look, full of reluctance.
But before she could say anything, the door to the room was pushed open.
The carer stopped behind, “Sir, you’re not a family member, you can’t go in!”
But Aaron had already appeared in front of Sherry’s mother and daughter.
His icy aura radiated and his eyes were fixed on Sherry like nobody’s business, and for weeks he’d been wondering what was wrong with him.
Think of her.
The thought of going mad.
He even wanted to go straight to Ryan’s company and grab someone, but he needed time to digest what Monica had told him, and by the time he had figured out how to apologize to Sherry again to make amends, she was actually taken to Seattle by Ryan.
What the hell is their relationship!
Aaron thought of the possibility that she had actually climbed into another man, and that anger inside him, started to grow wildly again.
The president of the company did not say a word for half a day, and his temper was so cold and frightening that Eral, in order to save his job, hurriedly stepped forward and said, “Miss. Sherry, Mr. Swift came to see you specifically because of the previous company project, could you come out for a moment?”