Once this part was over, she pushed the time back again and continued reading. She couldn’t help but enlarge the screen and quietly gaze at the girl on it.
Her daughter’s appearance, temperament, and abilities were all top notch.
She is even more beautiful than she imagined when she was pregnant.
But she has lost such a good daughter. She was raised in the Clarkes family, who are worse than animals, and has lived on the barren and backward Wind Island, where human life is worthless.
She has grown up step by step on the edge of a knife. If Paige is not strong enough, I am afraid that she would have…
How did she dare to leave that hospital room in the first place.
Blanca looked at the girl on the screen, her left hand holding a silver longevity lock, her finger tips tracing the characters on it, while her right finger nail was pressing on her own wrist, drawing lines on it.
It was as if she had no sense of pain, the blood oozing out faintly, but she remained indifferent, her fingernail continuing to draw lines on her wrist.
The surveillance room was unusually quiet.
Blanca suddenly woke up, turned around, and saw Paige standing behind her in her pajamas, staring expressionlessly at the surveillance screen.
“…”
Blanca’s heart trembled, and she quickly stood up, put the locket in her pocket, and pulled down her sleeve.
Her movements were quick, but Paige had already seen them.
There were large and small scratches of varying depths and shades on Blanca’s arm, as if they had been there for years.
“You’re pretty good at what you do. I’ve been watching the surveillance cameras, but I didn’t realize you were coming.” Blanca looked at her, her gaze restrained, her breathing almost suppressed.
“Are you depressed?” Paige asked in return, her eyes looking at her without much emotion.
Blanca pulled her sleeve again and said, ‘Not really.’
Blanca had a bright but cold face, still beautiful even at this age. She put her hand behind her back and straightened her back, unwilling to show weakness.
Paige lowered her long eyelashes and turned to walk out.
Blanca paused for a moment before following her.
The sea was especially quiet in the early morning. Apart from the white waves from the cruise ship sailing past, the sea surface was calm and without ripples in the night.
However, the wind was a little strong, and it felt a little harsh on the face.
Paige stood on the deck and looked into the distance, while Blanca stood at her diagonal rear, half a step away, and watched her almost greedily from this position.
“You seem a little different from what I expected.”
Paige spoke bluntly, looking out into the endless night. ‘I thought you were the kind of person who would give up everything for the greater good of the Folsom family, but it seems that’s not the case.’
“If you don’t like the Folsom family, I won’t go back there anymore,” Blanca said without even thinking.
“It’s not a matter of liking or not liking. I never considered the Folsom family my home, just like you…”
Paige slowly turned around and looked at her calmly, ‘I can’t consider you family either.’
Paige knew clearly that she couldn’t call her mother, even though Blanca didn’t seem to be what she had originally thought.
An inexplicable gap always existed between them.
“…”
In the faint light, Blanca’s face was pale.
“The cruise ship is about to arrive at The Capital,”
Paige said lightly as she stood in front of Blanca. “I came to see you today to tell you that you have lived a successful life without me, and since I cannot accept you, it is more important for you to seize your own life.”
This was a tactful way of telling her to go, unwilling to let her follow.
That’s right.
No direct harsh words.
Blanca’s eyes showed no light, and she nodded, responding quietly, “I understand. I already promised Mr. Gustin that I would stay away from you in the future and not bother you anymore.”
“…” Paige looked at her silently.
It wasn’t exactly bothering her, but ever since coming to A-Country, Blanca had hidden herself very well and never appeared in front of her on her own initiative.
“Go back to sleep, it’s late.” Blanca didn’t want to waste any of her sleep time, so she turned around and walked away.
“Don’t kill for me anymore.” Paige’s gaze fell on her back.
Blanca’s body stiffened, her face white, and she turned back to look at Paige’s eyebrows and eyes. After a long while, she said, “I can’t promise.”
She still has people she wants to kill, and she hasn’t finished yet.
If someone dares to hurt Paige in the future, she won’t stop either, and she simply doesn’t care if her hands are stained with blood.
Paige frowned. Blanca’s paranoia towards her was quite hard to bear.
“No matter how many people you kill, I won’t be moved.”
She has already become strong, no longer the submissive Paige of the past.
Blanca, however, heard it in a different way, ‘Because I didn’t kill Rachel?’
“…”
“I have carefully investigated the circumstances of that year. If she weren’t Beatrice’s daughter, I would have gone back and killed her a thousand times over,” Blanca said, struggling to hold back her tears.
Paige followed her words, “You won’t regret it if you don’t touch her.”
“What?” Blanca looked at her in confusion.
Paige walked towards Blanca and stood in front of her, “Let’s say I thank you for the candy, I’ll give you some advice. I don’t feel a sense of belonging to the Folsom family, so why would Rachel?”
“…”
“You think I hate the Folsom family for good reason, but why don’t you think about why Rachel could accept everything so quickly?”
Upon hearing this, Blanca’s eyes widened in shock.
Paige didn’t say anything else and just walked forward, leaving the deck.
She had said that Blanca should return to Country D and would no longer hover around her.
She hoped that the Folsom family was just a part of her past, and that her future life would include Enrico, Gabriel, and the entire Temple in Heaven.
…
Paige’s return to The Capital was a grand occasion.
Jaden and countless executives from the Gustin Group, along with Nick and everyone at Temple in Heaven, gathered at the beach to welcome her and the Wind Island crew back.
Rafael and Carrie arrived as the president and first lady of Country A, accompanied by a large number of presidential guards and a few secret agents.
The major conglomerates also arrived with their own people, waiting with complicated expressions.
A large number of people even crowded the road above, making it impossible to pass through.
The media were stopped outside the wall of bodyguards desperately taking pictures, competing to report on this epoch-making day.
The people from the slums have really been picked up!
The cruise ship docked at the seashore.
Paige walked towards the lobby, dressed in a smart black and white suit, her long legs encased in trousers and her feet in a pair of high-heeled leather shoes.
She had parted her hair to one side, revealing a simple stud in her ear, and she wore glasses with a thin, sparkling, retro metal chain hanging down her nose, creating an elegant arc next to her pale cheeks. Her smart attire made her look mature and fresh at the same time, and her temperament stood out.
In the hall, the crowd was packed together closely.
When they saw Paige coming, they all turned to look at her, amazed by her outfit today.
“Sister Paige!” Bastion jumped in from outside, looking at her excitedly but timidly, “There are so many people outside, are we really going out?”