“Isa, here are scented tea, fruit, and snacks. Feel free to take whatever you want. Don’t be shy in your own home!” Williams said dotingly.
Isabella picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea.
Ordinary Azores Orange Pekoc tea didn’t have this kind of flavor and aroma unless it was sourced from ancient tea trees over 300 years old in the picturesque Azores islands.
In the royal courts of Europe, teas as rare and prized as this were once exclusively reserved for kings and queens.
At an auction not long ago, a single gram of this precious tea, harvested from a majestic mother tree, fetched an astounding price of ten thousand dollars.
She took another sip, and the mellow tea fragrance lingered
between her lips and teeth, with a lingering aftertaste. It was a top- quality tea.
“Isa, have some snacks…” Eloise pushed the plate of snacks towards Isabella, and said with mixed feelings, “I didn’t mean to lose you back then.”
“I know.” Faced with her mother’s sadness, Isabella felt a little soft in her heart. Who would deliberately lose their child?
“How did you find me?”
“A while ago, the Brown family issued a missing person notice. mentioning what happened back then. After I happened to see it. I always felt uneasy and had nightmares for several days. That’s why I asked your father to check it out.”
“After this investigation, we found out that you are our daughter. and the daughter we have raised for eighteen years is not our biological daughter…”
As she spoke, Eloise shed tears, “I’m sorry, it’s our fault that you ended up in someone else’s home.”
Williams also felt guilty. “It was my fault for being so confused back then and bringing Cecilia home without investigating her background. This time, we also investigated her parentage. Her birth mother died in that big fire, and her father’s whereabouts are unknown. After all, we raised her for eighteen years, and it’s not good to drive her out of the house… So we want to discuss it with you and let her stay in this house. From now on, you are the older sister, and she is the younger sister. Is that okay?”
After all, they had raised her for eighteen years. Even if it was just a dog, they would have feelings, let alone Cecilia who was so outstanding in every aspect!
Isabella understood what they meant, and responded calmly, “It’s up to you to decide. I’m okay with it.”
Eloise breathed a sigh of relief. Her daughter was kind!
“How about I take you upstairs for a tour?”
As they passed by the piano room on the second floor, Eloise asked casually, “Sweetie, do you have any hobbies?”
“Yes.” Isabella casually said. “Making money.”
The corner of Williams’ mouth twitched. “Hahaha… Like father. like daughter. I used to love making money when I was young too! I didn’t expect our hobbies to be the same!”
“Nonsense!” Eloise bluntly exposed him, “You were clearly into chasing girls back then!”
Williams’ expression froze, and his survival instinct kicked in, “But there was only one girl who made my heart skip a beat back then… chasing after you was far more important to me than making money…”
Being left speechless, Isabella looked away and accidentally caught a glimpse of a small private airport outside the window. It wasn’t a large one, and it had only three airplanes parked on it, including at Boeing 747sp, a limited edition worldwide worth 1.4 billion, identical to the private jet owned by the Emir of Qatar.
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chased her around after breaking off the engagement
Romance****this is for offline reading purposes**** After staying with the Brown family for eighteen years, Isabella learned that she was a fake daughter. When the real daughter was back, she was abandoned, and she was going to be sent back to a poor mount...
