“I know Miss Paige is still thinking about River Town, but it was Emery who took matters into his own hands. Those involved are either dead or captured. The Folsom family cannot be said to be completely uninvolved in this matter, but we are not irreconcilable, are we?” Beinice spoke with a steady voice.
After thinking for a while, Paige set down her teacup and said, “I will still stop you from doing those things in Country A in the future. I can only promise that unless you kill innocent people in front of me again, Enrico and I will not kill the Folsom family.”
Upon hearing this, Beinice’s expression relaxed. “Miss Paige is really a perceptive person. No wonder my father said that if you were a member of the Folsom family, I, as a son, would not be as good as you.”
“…” Paige’s long eyelashes moved.
“To be honest, before Miss Paige came, I did want to kill you, but after meeting Miss Paige, I dismissed that idea. Being able to associate with people like Miss Paige and Mr. Gustin will do more good than harm to the future of the Folsom family,”
said Beinice.
No one in the Folsom family disagreed with what he said, except Casey, who was kneeling there, looking full of self-reproach.
Paige glanced at Beinice and found that he was a person who liked to state his intentions, without any hypocrisy, so that no one could feel disgusted when they heard such words.
“Then, Miss Paige, it’s so cold today, are you dining at the Folsom family…”
Beinice said, looking at her, and then stopped on his own initiative, “Never mind, I guess Miss Paige doesn’t feel like dining here. Someone, go get the letter of resignation.”
“Thank you, Mr. Beinice.” Hearing this, Paige showed her first genuine smile since arriving at the Folsom family.
Beinice thought that since he was not going to be enemies with Paige and Enrico, he would have to be on good terms with them. After a period of time, even if they were still stumbling blocks, they would not be stumbling blocks that could hurt the Folsom family.
Beinice then said, “You are the only heir of the patriarch. In the future, you will hold the letter of renunciation in your hands, and the Medicine Curse Sect will rely on you to carry on and carry forward the sect.”
“Father-” Casey knelt on the ground, looking at his father’s changed attitude, and feeling even more self-reproach and suffering.
“Shut up,” Beinice glared at him.
Paige sat there quietly waiting. In a moment, a servant walked into the hall in the snowstorm, holding a quaint book in his hands, with a burnt corner.
This corresponded to what Brangelina had said.
Beinice wasn’t lying to her.
The book of doom.
The fruit of oblivion, the snow of death.
Paige’s black and white eyes looked straight ahead, her heartbeat uncontrollably quickening.
Enrico, wait for her, she’ll be right back.
She watched the maid approach step by step, getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, a cold female voice came from outside, “I dare anyone to give her the book!”
The entire hall fell silent.
Then, the excited voice of a maid came from somewhere-
“Miss Blanca is back!”
Miss Blanca.
Blanca.
Her mother.
Paige sat in her chair, and her pounding heart suddenly stopped. She turned her head incredulously towards the door.
It turns out that seeing so many relatives is one feeling, and knowing that your mother is also there is another feeling.
It is the sharp pain of sticking a needle in your finger and seeing the blood ooze out.
That pain instantly spreads through every nerve in your body, through your organs, and in a very short period of time, it stops your breathing, your heartbeat, your five senses…
Outside the door, the wind and snow continued to rage without letup.
A tall figure walked in, surrounded by a group of bodyguards, stepping in the snow.
It was a face that amazed the world, so stunning that it was enough to make people forget the marks of age on her, and just revel in the other person’s exquisite bone structure.
If the photo of the three siblings shows that Brangelina lacks the wisdom in her eyes when compared to her younger self, and that Beinice lacks the handsome appearance when compared to her younger self, then the woman in front of her has undoubtedly been favored by time. She has not lost anything, and she is even more radiant than when she was younger.
She just walked into the hall, wearing a brown coat, a light gray scarf, and some snow had fallen on her long hair and shoulders.
Blanca.
This is her mother.
Paige looked straight at her. Blanca took off the scarf around her neck, wrapped one end around her hand, and flung it forward, wrapping it around the wrist of the maid holding the suicide note in front of her, and pulling the maid back with a soft but firm force.
The maid was pulled and stumbled.
Blanca held her up with one hand, and with the other, she deftly took the suicide note and threw it at the bodyguard behind her, who caught it.
The bodyguard hurriedly caught it.
“…”
Paige then came back to her senses and realized what Blanca had done. Her gaze gradually grew cold.
“Blanca? Why did you come back? Aren’t you cold? Why don’t you put on more clothes in this winter?”
Beinice was very happy to see her sister come home, so she quickly got up from her chair and told the maid next to her to prepare hot tea and hot towels.
The Folsom family was also very happy to see Blanca, and they all stood up to greet her.
Blanca, however, kept her face cold and ignored everyone, walking straight towards Casey, who was kneeling on the ground.
Seeing that Casey’s back was covered in bloodstains, and the blood had stained his shirt, Blanca frowned.
“Little aunt,” Casey had been holding on, but when he saw Blanca, as a man, he suddenly had red eyes.
“Little aunt came late, does it hurt?”
Blanca crouched down, wanting to hug her nephew, but seeing the bloodstains all over his back, she didn’t know how to do it. She couldn’t help but look up at Beinice with a cold and frosty gaze, “Brother Beinice, how can you be a father?”
Beinice felt guilty when his sister looked at him. “This child messed around with his younger siblings, so he had to be punished.”
“No matter how much trouble he causes, he is still a member of our Folsom family. Brother Beinice, why would you hit someone so hard just because he is an outsider?” Blanca said coldly.
“…” Beinice was silent.
Paige remained seated, keeping a close eye on Blanca’s every move. Hearing the word ‘outsider,’ she gave a self-deprecating smile and said, “Mr. Beinice, I won’t interrupt your family reunion, I’ll go first.”
With that, she got up, and the ribbon on her wrist fluttered.
Upon hearing this, Blanca looked back at her.
Not counting the first two days after birth, this was the first time Blanca had looked at Paige, and her gaze lingered for less than two seconds.
Blanca instructed her servant, “Take the young master to get his wound treated.”
After watching Casey being helped away, Blanca turned around and sat down in the seat next to Beinice, very close to Paige.
“Miss Paige, I have heard a lot about you,” Blanca looked at her with a cold gaze, ‘as we have the chance to meet, why don’t we sit for a while?’
“…” Paige looked at her face, her gaze tightened, and then she sat back down in her seat.
“The old man said that he has a young apprentice who has an eidetic memory and is smarter than anyone else. After meeting him today, he really lives up to his reputation,”
Blanca praised her, but there was no tone of praise in her words, “Miss Paige has just arrived in Germany, and she was able to make my Enrico use such a heavy hand on his precious son and make him willingly hand over the letter of resignation.”
Was she blaming her for provoking the relationship between Beinice and his son as soon as she arrived?
It really is the exclusive xenophobia unique to the Folsom family.