Kara was terribly afraid of Linda.
As a twelve-year-old girl with a weak body, Kara was gentle and shy.
However, Linda was a rural woman. It seemed like she was quarreling when she spoke. When she scolded Kara, she even howled.
When Kara listened to Linda, she would always shrink her shoulders in fear, worried that her eardrums would be shattered.
Sometimes, Linda looked at Kara with a strange expression and directly raised her cane to hit Kara.
Therefore, Kara did not dare to speak to Linda, much less approach her.
Usually, Kara would avoid Linda and hide in her bedroom every day, or go to her studio to draw.
But Linda didn’t like Kara drawing because Kara needed paint, paper, and pens, which need a lot of money.
After being scolded by Linda once, Kara no longer dared to go to her studio. She only stayed in her bedroom. She became duller and duller.
In these five years, only when she was in school, would she relax a little.
However, she was in poor health. Once she was ill, Sophia would take her to the hospital and asked her to take all kinds of medicine.
Just when she was in desperation, she met James.
Therefore, she was terrified. She was afraid that he would suddenly abandon her. Then, she would fall into hell again.
No, the situation would become even worse.
“Nolan, wind the window down!”
James held Kara in his arms and patted her back comfortingly.
Linda pleaded, “Kara, you must help me, save your Uncle Adam.”
Kara paused for a while before she dared to look up at Linda.
Linda was so excited that her eyes were red. Her tears and snot had not been wiped, and she was sweating profusely. She looked even more embarrassing than the beggars on the roadside.
Kara pursed her lips and straightened her back.
“How can I help you?”
“I had a bad temper in the past. But I also wanted to be good to you and make you a good girl. Now that your uncle and I get into terrible scrapes, you must help us.”
Linda said a bunch of nonsense before finally revealing her purpose.
“Kara, the Quains must have descendants. Rose’s child must be born. Give me five hundred thousand first. When your Uncle Adam recovers and earns money, I will return it to you.”
What Linda said shocked Kara.
Kara was still a student. She didn’t have a single cent on her. What was Linda thinking when she asked for five hundred thousand from Kara?
“I don’t have that much money.”
Kara really searched in her bag, only found two hundred yuan and some change. She gave the money to Linda.
She had James to help her with her food and clothing. She didn’t have a lot of expenses, so she didn’t have much money with her.
“This is all my money. Take it.”
Linda stared at Kara as Kara went to look for money. She was still a little glad.
She was just thankful that Kara was still alive. Now only Kara could help them.
However, Kara only took out two hundred yuan. Linda stared at the money in Kara’s hand angrily. She didn’t believe that Kara only has so little money!
“Kara, don’t coax me. You own the Quain Group and have Mr. James to raise you. It’s unreasonable for you to give me so little money.”
Linda had to stand by the window to talk, so she had been bending over, giving her a feeling of groveling.
She felt particularly humiliated!
“I really don’t have money. I don’t know how to manage a company. I ask someone else to manage the company. James’ money is not mine. This is my pocket money. If you don’t want it, then forget it.”
Seeing that Linda was unwilling to take the money, Kara wanted to take it back.
Linda immediately held her hand and took all the money from her.
Linda did not want to miss out on a single cent now.
“Kara, I don’t have a place to live with your Uncle Adam right now. Let us live in your father’s villa. You needn’t employ servants for us. Remember to find a maternity matron. Rose needs someone to take care of her.”
Kara blinked, but she did not agree to anything.
Even if she abandoned the villa, she did not want to let Linda live in it anymore.
Linda did not get Kara’s answer. She was anxious, so she began to censure Kara.
“Kara, Kathleen is in prison, and Sophia, that bitch, ran away with my money.”
“Now you are the only one left. You need to be filial to me. I know you are the most sensible and obedient in the past. You can’t learn from those heartless people and watch me and your Uncle Adam be homeless.”
Kara sneered in her heart.
Just because she was the most sensible and the most obedient, she was almost beat to death by Linda! She did not want to obey Linda now!
“That villa now belongs to James. If you want to live there, you have to ask James for the key.”
When Linda heard that she needed to get James’ approval, she turned to the man next to Kara.
James was really good-looking, but his handsome face was gloomy, and his beautiful brown eyes flashed with a cold light.
Linda glanced at him and averted her gaze guiltily.
Her son had been crippled by James’ people. The fear she felt towards James was almost uncontrollable. How could she dare to beg him?
Linda didn’t dare to ask James, so she still placed her focus on Kara.
“Kara, don’t scare me. That is your father’s villa. How could it belong to Mr. James?”
“I gave it to him!” Kara said frankly.
Linda gritted her teeth in anger. She did not expect that Kara had become bold and dared to talk to her like this.
“Since you can’t give me the money, then you have to find a place for us to live. How can you forget us when you follow Mr. James and enjoy rich life now?”
“Did you forget that after your father passed away, it was your Uncle Adam who took care of you?”
Now Linda lost everything she ever had, she could not give up easily.
“Then I thank you for your care all these years.”
Kara had never cared about Adam’s care for her. Instead, she hated him.
Kara clenched her fists. Suddenly, her hands were wrapped around by James’ big hands. He pried open her fingers one by one.
Then, he crossed his fingers with hers.
James was a person with restrained emotions. He would not directly comfort her, but he would prove to her with his actions that he was right beside her.
Kara received James’ silent comfort. Her tense body instantly relaxed. She bravely looked up at the greedy old lady and raised her hand to roll up the window.
“I’m hungry. I want to go home and have dinner.”
The car window was rolled up. Linda was worried that her head would be caught by the window, so she quickly retreated.
However, when she left, she started to regret it and desperately hit the window.
“Kara, don’t go. You can’t watch me die.”
But no matter how much she shouted, Kara didn’t wind down the car window again.
Linda was furious. She kicked and hit the car, but she failed to let Nolan stop the car. Instead, she hurt her foot.
The more she thought about it, the more unwilling she was. What right did Kara have to live happily now while she had to spend her life to earn money?
She couldn’t give up. She had to make Kara give her the money.
When Rose’s mother knew Linda’s experience, she remembered the time when she was humiliated by Kara and rushed back to her hometown. She was also very dissatisfied.
Kara was also a member of the Quains. Now that her daughter was pregnant with the child of the Quains, how could her daughter have to suffer while Kara was able to enjoy life?
She had to make Kara pay a large sum of money!