When Barney entered inside, he saw Nellie sitting on the sofa, with the cheque in front of her.
Barney stepped forward, grabbed the cheque and tore it to pieces.
Nellie, very calmly, looked at the man.
However, Barney met her calm gaze, and his heart felt a bit blocked.
“What? You don’t care at all?” Not even, not at all, have a reaction?
She had nothing to say when she saw him? For example, that the people over at the old mansion had embarrassed and humiliated her.
Nellie, “I care.”
She nodded.
When he heard these two words, Barney’s face eased slightly.
Looking at Nellie, he sat down beside her and picked her up to sit on his lap, “Good.”
Nellie, “Barney.”
She crept carefully over his heart, even though she knew his wounds had scabbed over, she couldn’t help but be careful, fearing that it might hurt him.
Barney held her head down to his heart, “It’s already healed, no need to be so careful, it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
“How can it not hurt? A wound that long.”
Nellie did not believe half of Barney’s claim that it did not hurt.
Barney felt her caution and his heart grew even sweeter, “Then you’ll always be so protective of me, okay?”
Thinking of the time she spent in the hospital, the way she was so careful and attentive, Barney’s heart warmed.
Nellie, “Okay.”
She said, but was sullen and distracted inside, not knowing what to respond to his tenderness.
How astute is Barney? Naturally, he sensed it too.
Rubbing the top of her soft hair, he asked “You hear that?”
“What?”
“My heartbeat.”
Nellie listened carefully, his heartbeat was so strong and energetic.
“Yes.”
When he was in the operating theatre, many people were worried that he would not make it off the operating table alive.
That was so upsetting.
Barney, “Will you listen to it every day from now on?”
His tone was so gentle.
Very ordinary words sounded romantic.
When Nellie first met Barney in the past, coupled with her knowledge of the entire Brooks family, Nellie had always felt that he was a rather stereotype man.
He might now know what romance was, but he was traditional but settled for life.
But now, listening to these sniffy words of his, Nellie felt that her knowledge of Mr. Brooks was really too shallow.
“Why don’t you say anything?” Seeing Nellie’s silence, Barney rubbed the top of her fine soft hair, bringing mind to come back.
Nellie came back to her senses, saying, “A life like that, just thinking about it makes me look forward to it.”
“Would you like to live that life with me?”
Thinking of Aleeza’s words and how mad Andre was now, Nellie was once again silent.
Barney, “Still minding Nancy?”
Nancy?
So Barney didn’t even know that it was the old lady of the Brooks family who had just come to the door?
When Nancy went out just now, she was bumped into by Barney, right? There is no need to tell what kind of attitude Barney would have.
Suddenly, Nellie felt that the Brooks family was very deep. The old lady of the Brooks family not only shocked her, it also made Barney completely disgusted with Nancy, making it no longer possible between Nancy and Barney.
At the same time, it made Nancy grateful to her. That’s a deep heart.
“Why don’t you say something, Nellie?”
Barney felt her body tense up and pushed her out of his embrace. The moment his eyes met, he saw the dazed look in Nellie’s eyes, and his heart was startled by it.
Looking at the worry in the man’s eyes, Nellie was horrified. But she didn’t know how to say it to Barney.
Thinking about Aleeza’s first strike today, she suddenly felt that there was actually no hope at all between her and Barney.
Aleeza is totally doing this to her, telling her that there are actually a hundred ways to get her to leave Barney.
She, on the other hand, might not survive the first ten.
Today Nancy was an example of this.
Barney was now completely disgusted with Nancy.
“Why don’t you say anything? Are you really angry?” Barney, seeing that she never said anything, rubbed the top of her hair and said softly.
Nellie crept into his arms, hugging his lean waist.
Inside, she was suddenly so confused, so bewildered, that she could not find any semblance of a way out, and she was appalled.
“What kind of person do you think that Grandma is, and what kind of person Nancy is?”
Or does he really know all about his family?
But after today’s incident, she was utterly aware that she knew absolutely nothing about the Brooks family.
Previously, she just knew that the Brooks family was a traditional family, but she didn’t expect that dark fights would exist.
There were even some tactics that she would use on her own family without hesitation, something she had never thought of before.
“Grandma is a very nice person and she may blame you in her heart, but don’t worry, she’s a very easy-going.”
Indeed, on the surface it is true, but what about in secret?
From these words of Barney, Nellie thoroughly realized that Barney seemed to know nothing about his family.
“What’s wrong? You look pale.”
“Nothing.”
Nellie did not want to say anything else.
Barney, “You have something on your mind.”
Although she had said it was all right, Barney still sensed that something was wrong with Nellie.
He asked, “What did Nancy say to you?”
“It’s not Nancy, it’s your grandmother, who told me to leave you.” Nellie told him the truth.
In fact, this is a sort of test for Barney.
She wanted to see how he would react when he heard it was his grandmother.
However, the moment these words came out, Nellie clearly felt the tightening of Barney’s body, which made her even more unsure of what to say.
Barney, “Grandma let you leave me?”
“Yes.”
Nellie listened to the man’s shocked rhetorical question, and her heart seized up.
Barney, “It seems that Grandma has always been mindful of what happened before, don’t worry, I’ll take care of this matter, okay?”
He gently soothed Nellie in his arms.
Under his eyes, however, there was a cold flash.
Nellie, however, wanted to give up.
There are some things that, in her opinion, simply cannot be changed. For example, if Barney goes to the old lady now, the old lady will definitely agree with him.
But what it will do in secret is not known.
She’s a person who likes the simple life, and right now the Brooks family isn’t simple.