Chapter 489
You Hit My Heart
God! Charlotte was like thunderstruck, standing there idly, and felt an
electric current down her whole body, giving her sharp pain like pins
and needles. It was as if someone had hit her head hard, and she felt
dazed.
The old photo, which looked decades old, certainly could not have been
taken now, and she understood that the person in the photo could
never be Joyce.
She had also heard that Rodney was in love with his late wife, whose
name was Mia Cole, who died of a hemorrhage in childbirth. No one
had ever seen what Mia looked like, not even Cecelia. Because there
was not a single photo of her preserved.
It turned out that Rodney had been hiding a photo privately.
He didn't just stare at the wall alone, but rather he was looking at the
photo of Mia alone and thought about the past.
No one else had ever seen this photo before, and now she had seen it!
She suddenly thought about what happened last time in Riveria Haze.
When Luther met with the Heath family, Rodney left first because he
was angry, and then they heard Rodney shouting and rushing back to
the hallway, when Rodney kept saying repeatedly that he had seen Mia
and insisted on going to look for her.
Moreover, Rodney had been running out of town very often lately, and
she hadn't really paid attention to Rodney because she always cared
about her engagement. She just thought that the old man was just old
and recognized the wrong person.
It turned out that Rodney was really out every day looking for the "Mia"
whom he met in Riveria Haze!
Charlotte almost instantly thought that the person Rodney saw that day
must be Joyce.
Because she couldn't have known better, Joyce was also at Riveria
Haze that day, and she had used some tricks to make sure Joyce
would hear part of their conversation.
She never dreamed that Joyce would look like Mia. Was it because her
genes?
Hell, Khebury was only so big, the old man would find her sooner or
later if he kept searching like this frantically. When the time came, won't
she be exposed? What should she do then?
She panicked, and her heart was messed up.
What's worse, she could not talk about something like this with Ricky,
because she was not sure how would Ricky think of her once he knew
she was not really the daughter of the Heath family.
If Ricky knew who she really was, he would never help her again and
would abandon her immediately. A liar would not be of any help to him.
Although no one else had ever seen the picture of Mia, how could
Rodney easily give up a lifelong obsession.
She stood frozen, looking at the photo in her hand with indignation, her
mind moving with evil thoughts of destruction, but even if the photo was
destroyed, the old man's memory would not be erased. What's the
use?
At this time, there was a soft "ding" from her phone â it was a text
message.
The sudden sound made her body shiver.
She took out her phone and glanced at it hurriedly. It was a message
from Cecelia, "Charlotte, are you home yet? Did Grandpa get home
safely?"
She didn't reply, nor did she have the heart to do so. Her mind was full
of thoughts about what to do next.
It was this slight "ding" that woke Rodney up.
He was just tired today, only in the recliner to take a short nap. When
he was young, he was very alert, any movement could not be hidden
from him. Usually, if someone entered the room privately, he would
have noticed. Now he was too old, and today he was really too tired.
His eyes snapped open, and they reflected a wary and keen light.