“How are you and Nellie doing?” Alina lifted the glass of water and took a sip.
Andre’s eyes froze when he heard Nellie.
Although Alina was over in Kubay, he had paid attention to what was going on between Nellie and Barney.
Andre lit a cigarette irritably, “What do you think about the matter between her and Barney?”
Barney?
Alina didn’t expect Andre to ask such a direct question. Seriously what happened between Nellie and Andre back then was not known to her.
But if she was Nellie, after all these years and Andre still had this attitude, she would have chosen the same as Nellie.
“She waited for you for many years, and whatever she had wronged you for back then, she had repaid enough.”
Andre, “Enough?”
“Isn’t it enough? She has her own life, her own dreams. It’s just that she chose you before her life and her dreams.”
No matter how close Andre was to her, when Alina thought of how Nellie had once humbled herself in front of Andre, she felt unworthy for Nellie.
If the past was really unforgivable, then the attitude should have been clearer and he should not have dragged on for so many years.
In those past years, although Andre did not have a good face for Nellie, as long as she did not come to him, he …
In short, Nellie of that time was wrong in his world, no matter what she did.
This can be interpreted as he wanted Nellie to be near him, but at the same time that hurdle in his heart could not be passed.
“And this time, between her mother and you, she chose her mother.”
The James family was raised by Nellie, and after George relied on the Chambers family to climb up only to do something like that.
Now he was dead, yet he wanted to leave everything to his mistress and her daughter? If it was Alina, this reaction would probably be even more serious.
Hearing that Nellie had chosen her mother, Andre got upset.
Alina, “There’s not much time left for you to think about it now, so…”
Alina didn’t say much.
She didn’t know how to persuade a person, but a choice was placed before him, how exactly to choose was up to Andre.
Andre closed his eyes.
Opening them again, his eyes were clear.
…
Soon after Andre left.
Brandon brought Margot over, and when Margot saw Alina, she respectfully greeted, “Miss Hughes.”
“Yes.”
Alina nodded her head.
Looking at Brandon, she said, “Go and carry her things over.”
“Miss Hughes, I…” Margot was shocked when she heard that she had to move in with Alina.
Being smart, she naturally knew that what was happening nowadays was even more uncomplicated.
But to live with Alina, who was her boss, she felt unnatural in her heart.
Alina didn’t look at Margot but turned to Brandon, “You go back first.”
“Okay.”
Brandon originally had a lot of work-related matters that he wanted to report to Alina, but it was obvious that Alina didn’t have the heart to listen.
With a final nod, Brandon left.
When Margot and Alina were left, Alina lifted the coffee in front of her and took a sip, “Come and sit down.”
Margot struggled to clam down and eventually sat opposite Alina.
“Miss Hughes, is something wrong?”
Alina looked towards Margot.
At this moment, Alina didn’t even know how to tell Margot about her birth.
The Hughes family’s parents were so good, yet what was left in the end?
Her parents were implicated because she knew about Vanessa’s affair and her grandmother left because she couldn’t take the blow.
As for grandpa…
When she thought of her grandfather, Alina’s heart was even more uncomfortable.
When she saw Margot, she should have explained everything, but after all that she had been through, Alina didn’t know how to speak at this moment.
How long had it been? How long had it been since she had thought of her past?
Now when she remembered those past, her heart was still so afraid to face it.
“Miss Hughes.” Seeing that Alina was not speaking, Margot frowned and opened her mouth.
Alina, “Let’s wait until after we’ve taken care of Paisley’s affairs.”
“Why is she targeting me?” As soon as she heard Paisley, Margot asked.
This was what she wanted to know the most.
And when it came to why exactly Paisley was targeting Margot, actually Alina wasn’t too sure right now, she just knew that Paisley was Marcus’s younger sister.
Before, when she was over in Kubay, she heard that Paisley was targeting Margot and even wanted to get the whole Hughes family.
She had thought it was a personal grudge between Margot and Paisley.
If it was really just about the two of them, Alina would have left it alone. But Sienna was involved in it.
This was where she could not sit back and do nothing.
“You don’t know Paisley?” Seeing the bewildered look on Margot’s face, Alina knew that she didn’t know Paisley.
Margot shook her head, “I don’t know her, I’ve never even met her before.”
Paisley wasn’t bad looking.
If Margot had really met her, she couldn’t possibly have no impression at all, but since Paisley had appeared, she had felt the hostility towards her, but never recalled where exactly she had seen this person before.
“I know, I’ll take care of this, and you’ll have to stay with me until it is over.”
“That serious?”
When Alina said this, Margot felt that things were very complicated.
What exactly was the purpose of Paisley?
“Miss Hughes.”
“Yes?”
“You know it, right?” Margot looked at Alina, eager to know an answer.
Alina frowned and shook her head, “No.”
Since Margot was not clear, then Alina couldn’t really guess why Paisley was targeting her.
Paisley couldn’t possibly want the Hughes family for no reason, right?
If so, what was the reason?
After settling down Margot, Alina made a call to Sienna.
The moment the call was answered, Alina asked, “What is the reason?”
The question was why exactly did Paisley want to get the Hughes family.
It wasn’t a personal grudge with Margot, so what exactly was it because of?
Alina had thought about it for a long time, but had not figured out the reason, and now to know the answer to this question, it was obvious that the fastest way to find out was from Sienna.
But Sienna didn’t answer her question, “You still went back to Shirling after all, I told you, you shouldn’t be involved with the past anymore.”
Sienna’s voice was gentle, along with her helplessness at such a move from Alina.
Alina took a deep breath and pushed down all that stuffy weight in her heart.
“You know, the Hughes family is not a normal past for me.”
Any kind of past could be passed, but as long as it was something that involved the Hughes family, Alina would not easily leave it alone.