“In the early years, you were abroad…” When she said this, Vanessa couldn’t go on, and didn’t know how to say it.
At that moment, underneath Vanessa’s eyes, there was all hurt and pain.
“And the night you returned home, you remember that, don’t you? I didn’t even know it was you until you guys said it.”
The person that night was Caleb.
So, “That would explain why your grandfather must want you to stay with Alina and send your brother away.”
At that moment, he only felt the ground shake in his world and looked at Vanessa in disbelief.
And that part of the past was the last thing Vanessa wanted to bring up. Looking back on it now, it was all so heavy and painful.
Grandpa knew everything, so why did he?
“If Grandpa knew it was me that night, why didn’t he say anything?” Caleb asked nervously, as if his brain had been hit by a storm.
And in asking the question, he had lost all hearing of his voice.
If grandpa knew that the person who did that to Alina that night was him, why didn’t he say anything? How else would he have treated Emma in that way?
Suffocation and pain spread in his heart.
Vanessa, “Probably your grandfather doesn’t know why you’re so protective of Emma. He thought you loved her.”
Love?
The word, for them, is so heavy and painful, and even more so, so difficult to face.
Once Caleb was in this matter, he suffered a lot because of it.
“And how could he tell Alina that it was you that night when she was already well and had lost all her family?”
She forgot all about it, even Chester….
If the stimulus makes her want to remember, Vanessa really didn’t know if Alina would be able to return to normal after that. So in that case, she kept silent.
And it was this led to the shocking scene between Caleb and Alina and Emma.
Caleb knew that Vanessa was talking about Alina’s insanity.
She had gone mad and even had to see a number of psychiatrists to get better, how could those past events reappear in her world to irritate her nerves?
“Caleb, when it comes down to it, whose fault is it to say?”
“…”
When Julia heard this, she couldn’t help but feel sorry for Caleb, who knew nothing and yet was caught up in it.
Perhaps it was true, as his mother had said, that he was a man who should never have been forgiven in the first place. But now watch him as he is involved in that past.
It was clear just how much he had held back his love for Alina all these years.
Whose fault is it?
Grandpa? Grandpa is dead, and Grandpa doesn’t know why he protected Emma, but is obsessed with the idea that he should be responsible for Alina.
And the wrong person is Caleb? He’s mistaken, he’s a good man in charge.
Once, Max said that Caleb was a responsible man, and that Alina would not suffer if she married him.
He is a good responsible man, yes, just the wrong person to pay for all those years of responsibility.
So it was Emma?
Then aren’t Alina and Chester innocent of those forcibly buried pasts?
“So you mean I should back off?” Caleb looked at Vanessa.
Underneath the eyes is an indescribable pain.
That painful colour made Vanessa understand in this instant that Caleb’s feelings for Alina, in fact, had become uncomplicated from some time onwards.
Just what can be done about this uncomplicated situation?
“Caleb.” Taking a deep breath, she wanted to say something, yet the next moment Caleb said in a sour tone, “I didn’t know that.”
“But even if you didn’t know, you shouldn’t have done that to her.”
As soon as Vanessa’s words fell, the air became colder, “So you are on brother’s side even now?”
“…”
“Whatever happened from the beginning to now, I’m the one who should quit, am I?”
Caleb almost roared out.
Or is he the one who should quit, no matter what happens between him and Alina?
Julia, “Caleb, Mom actually…”
“Shut up.”
Before Julia could finish her words, she was interrupted by Caleb with an angry scolding.
Julia swallowed the words that followed, and Vanessa looked at Caleb, who was in a frenzy like this, and her heart did not feel good either.
Caleb’s eagle-like sharp eyes just looked closely at Vanessa, and those eyes seemed to be asking an icy question.
And it was such a look that for a time made Vanessa feel suffocated.
Looking at Vanessa’s silence, Caleb’s tone became heavier, “Is that so? Mother?”
“Yes.”
Vanessa looked firmly at Caleb.
At this moment, looking into Vanessa’s eyes, he felt an indescribable disappointment.
Vanessa had only seen such look from Chester’s eyes before, so all these years she had always been heartbroken by what Chester had endured.
Now such a look, surprisingly, appeared in Caleb’s eyes, and at this moment, as a mother, she had an indescribable stinging pain.
“Caleb, things were wrong between you and Alina from the start.”
“I have a child with her.” Caleb’s tone, at this moment, was heavier.
The child bore a slight resemblance to Caleb, which made Vanessa’s heart even more sad.
What a sin, and who is responsible for it?
Caleb, “No matter how this mistake was caused back then, I have a child with her and you want me to quit?”
“That child…”
“Do you still want to say that I am not qualified?” Not waiting for Vanessa to finish her sentence, Caleb interrupted her.
All these years, Vanessa and all the Collins family believed that Caleb could not be with Alina, and after all that had happened, he was even less deserving of forgiveness.
At that time, Emma was the one that night. Three years later there was even a tie of life and limb.
Whose fault is it that all this is happening?