Chapter 71 They’re actually together!
This time, under Sophie’s policy of mourning Lucia finally raised her head, her expression was so sad that Arthur’s heart ached and his heart was flooded with tears, tears were about to slide down, Arthur could no longer hold back, he violently threw off Sophie’s shackles and reached out to pull Lucia closer to him, before saying to Sophie:
“Don’t push her!”
Just when Sophie thought her strategy was failing, Lucia suddenly spoke up, with a weakness in her voice that no longer needed to be hidden, and said to Arthur:
“Arthur, I’m sorry … I didn’t want to.”
Lucia’s statement means she is willing to talk about it.
“Lucia, sit down and talk to us slowly.” Sophie sighed with relief and sat down in the chair, then asked Lucia to sit down by the bed as well, and together with her son, listened to Lucia’s explanation.
Knowing that she could no longer repress her love, Lucia raised her hand to wipe her tears and began to recount everything that had happened in Chicago, one by one.
On December 20th of the previous year, Lucia, who had arrived in Chicago on an international flight, jumped on a video call with Arthur as soon as she got off the plane, bringing her son with her.
Auntie Esmae’s husband, Chris Brown, is the owner one of the largest shipping company in Chicago, the largest lake port in the Great Lakes region of USA. The Brown family operates the shipping company.
The Brown family has been around for hundreds of years and has its own family culture and logo, so as soon as she saw the car with the family logo on it, Lucia knew it was Auntie Esmae coming to pick her up.
That day, it was Auntie Esmae personally to pick up Lucia and Theodore, but different from the previous long-unseen enthusiasm and joy, Auntie Esmae’s expression is very serious, in the car hardly said anything, after the car back to Browns Manor, Auntie Esmae let the maid to accompany Theodore After the car returned to Browns Manor, Auntie Esmae let the maid accompany Theodore and took Lucia into her husband’s study.
“Auntie Esmae, what’s wrong with you?” Lucia felt a little depressed and asked Auntie Esmae as soon as she entered the study.
Auntie Esmae said, “Close the door, I have something to say to you.”
Lucia closed the door behind her, a vague sense of foreboding surfaced in her heart, and after sitting down, Auntie Esmae spoke up: “Lucia, I want you to break off contact with Arthur immediately and just break up!”
“What?!” Lucia was directly shocked at the request made by Auntie Esmae.
“You’re right to listen to me!” Auntie Esmae affirmed.
“But what about the reasons?” Lucia did not want to directly disobey Auntie Esmae, who had caused the tragedy by disobeying her father in the first place, and when faced with Auntie Esmae, who was like a new parent, she was shocked and chose to understand the reasons first.
“Arthur’s father’s name is Edwin and his mother’s name is Sophie, right?” Auntie Esmae sounded odd as she pronounced Arthur’s name.
Lucia nods and asks suspiciously, “Auntie Esmae, you know them?”
Auntie Esmae’s face clearly showed a touch of sadness, interspersed with a stronger hatred, almost gritting her teeth and saying, “More than know each other!”
Afterwards, Auntie Esmae took out a yellowed photo from a locked safe to show Lucia, who was amazed to see that although the photo was old, the smiles of the three young people on it were still bright as light.
In the photo, young Auntie Esmae is standing in the middle of a man and a woman smiling like smoke, she is slightly sideways against the man beside her, looking happy, the man Lucia does not know, but the other woman Lucia will never be mistaken, this is the young Sophie! Without much guessing, she was almost certain that the man was Edwin.
Holding the photo, Lucia looked up at Auntie Esmae with a puzzled look in her eyes.
Why would Auntie Esmae allow herself to break up with Arthur when she and Arthur’s parents know each other and have shown an extraordinary relationship in the photos?
Faced with Lucia doubts, Auntie Esmae sneered and said directly: “Edwin and I, once a pair.”
Lucia is shocked.
Next, after Auntie Esmae tells Lucia about what happened to her when she was young.
Auntie Esmae, Sophie, and Edwin met in high school. Auntie Esmae came from a world of books, Sophie’s family was in business, and Edwin came from the Davies family, a financial family, and the three of them were in the same class in high school and soon became friends.
Auntie Esmae and Sophie are naturally BFFs. At the tender age of spring, she fell in love with the sunny and handsome Edwin, and of course, she told her BFF Sophie about this carefully hidden secret in her heart at the first time, and Sophie was happy for her.
Auntie Esmae at first thought that Edwin was used to the three of them being together, and didn’t pay special attention to it, but just carefully approached Edwin, expecting the budding in her heart to blossom.
The more time passed, the more she liked Edwin, but she did not confess her feelings out of shyness.
In her senior year of high school, Edwin said he wanted to go to USA for further study together, but Auntie Esmae had a problem.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
Her parents are both businessmen and her family is already rich. After hearing Edwin’s suggestion, she readily agreed and immediately agreed to go to USA together.
Auntie Esmae went home and had a big fight with her parents. Although she knew that her family was not well-off, she insisted on asking her parents to send her abroad and promised to study hard and pay back her parents’ kindness twice as much.
On the contrary, Sophie and Edwin excelled in the entrance exams and both got into USA universities with high scores, and Auntie Esmae was lost.
During the summer vacation, Sophie went to Auntie Esmae’s house countless times to comfort her and encourage her. Auntie Esmae finally had the courage to repeat her studies, and the three of them left that wonderful photo during the summer vacation. Auntie Esmae asked her two little friends to promise to wait for herself for a year, and Sophie and Edwin gladly agreed and promised to wait for her in USA.
At the end of the vacation, Auntie Esmae reluctantly sent off Sophie and Edwin who flew to USA by plane, and started to study alone. Auntie Esmae is depressed because of her father’s serious illness, but her father still insists on working for her future and encourages her to study hard and come back to save herself after studying medicine.
Inspired by her desire for friendship and love, Auntie Esmae also studied hard with the belief of studying medicine to save her father, and a year later, she scored high on the entrance exam and enrolled in USA’s prestigious medical school.
With that, Auntie Esmae left for USA with the expectation of her parents.
But Auntie Esmae never expected that the day she saw Sophie and Edwin again would be the day her heart was broken.
Sophie and Edwin are together!