Paige stood there, watching Armen rub his chest with a skeptical look on his face as he silently walked forward.
A group of children were already playing away in the small yard, little boys bouncing all over the place and little girls climbing onto the swings and swinging around.
The white-haired old lady stood there, a pair of wrinkled eyes looking at these children, worry growing between her brows.
“The old lady looks a lot like one of my teachers.” Paige walked over to her.
The old lady turned her head to look at her, a little puzzled.
“As soft as her heart is, her mouth is hard.” Paige smiled faintly.
At these words, the old lady’s expression lagged, then grunted, “Nonsense, how did Annie find such an articulate girl like you to be her daughter-in-law, is she tired of making a mess all by herself?”
And bringing a daughter-in-law to make a mess.
Paige listened and lowered her eyes, “When she passed away, I wasn’t even born yet.”
The old lady turned her face away, “That’s just right, saving the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law from tossing and turning together, the sky can be overturned for you.”
“You mean, if she were alive, she’d love a daughter-in-law like me, don’t you?” Paige could all too well understand the deeper meaning of these types of old ladies.
“…”
A rich old lady looked at her incredulously, “Why didn’t I see it just now, you’re so good at praising yourself.”
After saying that, the old lady twisted her head and pushed the door into the room in the courtyard.
Paige glanced at Enrico who was standing not far away, lifted her feet and followed the old lady into the room, the room was still antique flavored people, but unlike the previous room, a lot of books were placed here.
Obviously just a bedroom, but there is an entire wall of bookshelves, books densely packed together, even the bed has a small bookcase.
You can see how much Annie loved to read when she was still in the Davis family.
The only decoration in the room is a bottle of dried roses, standing in front of the window, next to the pen, ink and paper.
Paige looked at, as if to see a young girl full of books pushed open the window, looking out of the window wall full of roses, delicate fingers pick up the quill pen on the paper to write down their own aspirations for the world.
“Her son and daughter? Why didn’t they come, are they worried about me the Davis family dealing with them?” The old lady sat down on the side and looked at Paige coldly.
Hearing this, Paige was stunned, I guess when Uncle Alonso came back, he only reported the so-called “joy”, Annie married and gave birth to two children, but nothing else.
Paige turned back from the window, sat down opposite the old lady, thought for a long time before telling the truth, “Mother was betrayed by Jeremy, the day of the birth, Jeremy brought a woman home, she was stimulated by the onset of disease, was rushed to the police killed.”
The old lady sat there, clenching the armrests on the chair all of a sudden, and said in a deep voice, “Blame yourself, I told you that people outside can’t be relied on.”
“After his mother passed away, Jeremy married another man and abandoned a pair of children in Rose Estate, the two siblings suffered from constant bullying by the servants, the older sister had a fit and killed all the servants before committing suicide as well.” Paige whispered.
“…”
Armen and Enrico were standing in the doorway when they heard this and Armen looked at her in shock.
The old woman’s hand gripped the armrest in a death grip, her chin trembling as she stared at her, “And what about your husband?”
Her voice shook with restrained tension.
Enrico couldn’t help but raise his eyes to her.
“He … is okay, it’s just that he hasn’t been able to get over the deaths of his mother and sister, and he hates Jeremy, but his mother had explained that he couldn’t harm his family, so he robbed THE Gustin Group consortium and put Jeremy under house arrest. ” Paige said.
“Well done!” The old lady slapped the armrest excitedly, “That’s more like us the Davis family!”
“…”
Enrico leaned against the door with his arms wrapped around him and snorted darkly, of course he did well.
Armen stood to the side, and seeing this, asked, “Ms. Paige, so you came here this time to see THE Davis family?”
Paige pursed her lips and calmly said, “Yes, I just wanted to come and see his mother’s home for Enrico, didn’t mean to intrude, sorry.”
“No need to say sorry, you’re better than Alonso, at least have the guts to tell the truth!”
The old lady said as she gouged Enrico in pain and scolded, “Coming back for more than twenty years and not even daring to enter the house, not a word of truth, no talent!”
“…”
Enrico turned his head to look outside, depressed and could only sink his breath.
Oy.
How much scolding did he take for that biological father of Paige’s.
The line of sight retracted, the old lady looked at Paige again, “You go back and talk to your husband, let him hand Jeremy over to the Davis family to dispose of, the conditions are as open as he wants, the Davis family, even if they have been avoiding the world, they have left some of the capital.”
The words …
Paige’s eyes deepened and she asked, “the Davis family wouldn’t still be hiding any amazing wealth, right?”
Otherwise, Jeremy had to ask her to come here to find something.
Hearing this, Armen sucked in a breath and looked fixedly at Paige, that was too blunt a question to ask.
The old lady’s gaze changed and she stared at Paige, “What, your husband thinks the money is bad enough to hit up THE Davis family?”
“No, I’m just asking.” Paige said lightly.
“It’s Annie passing down the word, isn’t it?”
The old lady sneered, “That’s right, a hundred years ago the plutocrats were in chaos, the world was in chaos, we the Davis family hid a lot of antique treasures, any one of them is worth a lot of money, but in the the Davis family, it’s just put inside the basement, the key to that basement, I remember it’s still in Annie’s hand, she wants her offspring to come to the Davis family to ask for it?”
So that’s what happened.
It seemed Jeremy had his eye on the antique treasures.
Asking her to dig in the room would have meant digging for the key, and Annie really had no defenses against the man, saying anything.
Jeremy naturally didn’t care when he was rich, and now that he’s running away, he’s hitting on the idea of THE DAVIS FAMILY.
People … really suck in the end.
Paige’s eyes went cold, just thinking, the old lady suddenly stood up, “It’s fine to beg, the old ancestor gave her the key, the basement is up to her, but she has to hand Jeremy over to THE Davis family.”
With that said, the old woman headed out the door and Armen rushed to respectfully assist her.
As the two made their way outside, Armen inquired about adding two places for Annie and Fawn at the shrine.
The old lady says yes and to take Jeremy’s blood for the sacrifice.
Paige sits there as the figure shifts in her afterglow and the shield clips back onto her collar.
“Know the truth? Able to call it quits?”
Enrico came to sit beside her, tossing his hat aside as his eyes looked deep into hers.
“I thought Jeremy would have something else up his sleeve, but it turned out to be no surprise this time.”
Paige let out a bitter laugh as she thought about all that had happened since the attack, “He really used your mother to his advantage, wanting her to help him take over the throne, wanting her to die, using her drunken scheme to get out of it, and now wanting the basement curiosity she was guarding …”
It was chilling to think that a person could be this bad.
She turned her head to look at Enrico’s disguised face and said after a moment, “Enrico, just do what the old lady says.”
“…”
Enrico looked at her, his eyes deep.
“He deserves his comeuppance.” Paige said.