Alina took a deep breath.
“Let go of me.”
“Abby, do you know that I was really scared during this time? Just the thought of letting go of you would make me lose you forever…”
It was that way back in Ingford.
At that time, he knew that if he let go of her hand, he might lose her forever, but he wouldn’t let go.
No matter what, he wanted her to be safe.
At that time, it could not allow him to make any choice.
Alina closed her eyes.
Even after taking several deep breaths, she could not suppress the stuffy weight in her heart.
“If you don’t go back, what about the Spinster family?”
“Those aren’t as important as you.”
Alina had lost.
She really hadn’t noticed before that Chester was so good at teasing, and now such lovey-dovey words caught people off guard.
“I’m really scared of you.”
“Then you go back to the Spinster’s with me, okay? Penny has been waiting for you.”
Alina was speechless.
Does he know that it is a very shameful act to take someone’s soft spot or not?
Especially now that Alina was still missing Penny more.
“Let me think about it.”
That firmness in her heart swayed at Chester’s heart.
When Chester heard her words, he knew that she would agree.
Penny was her soft spot.
He was thankful that there was Penny between them.
If there was no Penny, she…
…
Alina got back to her room, Chester still stayed with her together, although they didn’t do anything.
But it was this forced proximity that brought them a step closer to each other as a result.
In the evening the video showed Penny’s face.
“Mummy, when are you coming back with Daddy?” The child on the other side of the phone raised a sunny smile.
Alina, “Shame on you for being cute.”
“Mummy.”
Alina couldn’t stand this trick of Penny’s, their father and daughter were now uniting to mess with her.
Penny, “Mommy, when exactly are you coming back with Daddy?”
The child’s tone was full of anticipation.
Alina let out a sigh.
At this point in time, she actually didn’t know what to say.
Going back with Chester? Before, when she was at the Ajax family, when she knew that Chester was Fraser, Alina felt that they had completely walked into a dead end between them.
The relationship between the Ajax family and the Spinster family would never come to an end, but now…
“Do you really want Mummy and Daddy to be together?”
“Of course.”
“But he wasn’t good to you before.” Even at this time, Alina still didn’t forget to blame Chester.
She couldn’t figure it out.
Penny was such a vindictive child, what had Chester done to her in the Spinster family that she had let go of her grudges?
Or was it that blood kinship was really powerful?
But when she thought of Sienna, Alina couldn’t help but have doubts.
“That was before, Mummy. Daddy is so good to me now.”
“How good? Buy you dolls?” In the past, Andre had bought her many dolls.
But she didn’t want to come back to Shirling to see his lovely uncle after she was at the Spinster house.
What a heartless girl.
“That’s not just for dolls, Mummy.”
“What else is there then?”
“Lots, too many to count.”
“…”
Chester is scheming. How did she not realise this before?
After chatting with Penny, Alina felt like her brain was all up in the air.
It just felt like this child was now on the same page as her dad, completely ignoring her mommy.
…
She really missed Penny.
But going to the Spinster family always made her feel weird.
When she met Andre this day, Andre’s face was not good, and at this time Alina remembered that during this time although the wedding between Nellie and Barney had been postponed, the postponement was not long, and the wedding between the two was now considered on the agenda.
“Andre, is it still not possible?”
Nellie was now determined to leave him. Alina did not expect that she would leave Andre as her heart was on Andre before.
She could actually understand Nellie’s kind of determination, but Andre was her brother.
There was really no way to be picky about the kindness he showed to his family, but for Nellie, it was all-consuming and cruel.
Now that Nellie had come to her senses, he was not happy about it instead.
“What do you think she really thinks? Doesn’t she know well what kind of person Barney is?”
She’s clear.
“It doesn’t matter what kind of person Mr. Brooks himself is.” Alina took a deep breath.
“Then what matters?”
“Contrast.”
Andre didn’t understand, and his eyes looked at Alina with some doubt.
Alina took a deep breath and said helplessly, “Have you been good to her all these years?”
Andre wrinkled his brows even more at this.
All these years towards Nellie, after that incident, he showed disgust and detachment.
“Andre, she loves you and gives you many opportunities, but that doesn’t mean she is heartless.”
“…”
“How desperate were those for her when you treated her that way all those years ago?”
Andre probably never thought about it, right?
But even if he hadn’t thought about it, the people around him had reminded him of it countless times.
It was just that at that time, he was immersed in his hatred for Nellie, so how could he listen to half a word?
“Now that she’s woken up and leave you, it’s completely a matter of savoring her life.”
If it wasn’t for this incident with the James family, Nellie probably wouldn’t have reacted by now and wouldn’t have been forced to die at some point.
Andre frowned as he looked at Alina, his breathing was a bit heavy.
“You’ve always had a clear view of your feelings, so what’s going on with Chester recently?”
“Between Chester and I, it’s the opposite to that between you and Nellie.”
She was not a wooden head.
After Chester was in Shirling, when she disappeared, he kept searching for her. She was aware of all these.
The biggest difference between her and Andre was that she wouldn’t turn a blind eye to it, but would go deeper into it after learning some clues.
“The biggest difference between me and you is that I won’t run away.”
“…”
“When I knew he did that to me then, I secretly went to find out what happened.”
If not for those, did he really think she was a generous person?
But under those circumstances, whose fault could one say it was? It seemed that one had to think carefully about what was right and what was wrong.
“You’ve never bothered to look into it all these years, have you?”
“…”
“And even when she did explain, you never listened.”
In a relationship, once there is mistrust, then the rift between the two will grow deeper and deeper.
Andre frowned at Alina.
His breathing, which was already heavy, now went straight into suffocation.