House One Manor of Oceanion was quite legendary.
It sat halfway up a hill with the whole community sprawling across three thousand acres, and Horton’s old house bathed in over two thousand acres.
The rest were a few dozen small villas that dotted around the Horton property.
It was the most famous rich district in Oceanion.
Keira assumed the elderly lady lived in one of those small villas; it never crossed her mind that this could be the Horton house.
She replied to a message. “That’s alright. We’re already in a taxi.”
The elderly lady looked tired and was dozing off as soon as she got into the car.
The taxi winded its way on a broad and well-maintained mountain road before entering House One Manor and dropped them at the location specified by the GPS.
Keira looked up at a grandeur black gate, which was carved with antique patterns, and hesitated. “Grandma, is this your home?”
The elderly lady, still half-asleep, looked dazed. “Granddaughter-in-law, I can’t remember.”
Keira was speechless.
She messaged “Grandson”. “I think we might have taken the wrong turn.”
“Grandson” replied, “Stay put. I’ll be right there.”
As they drove in, Keira noticed that even the nearest house was a five-minute drive away; it wasn’t wise to wander around.
She helped the elderly lady to a stone bench nearby to sit.
Suddenly, a BMW X7 pulled up in front of them.
Isla and Poppy got out of the back seat and marched toward them.
Poppy’s brows furrowed in anger, and she cried out, “Keira? It really is you! What are you doing here?”
She was here today as Isla’s nanny. She spotted a young woman lingering in front of Horton’s house from afar, never expecting it to be Keira!
Isla glanced at the tightly closed gate of the Horton house. “Keira, are you back to pestering Mr. Horton?”
At that, Poppy rebuked fiercely. “You bitch! Don’t you know what the occasion is? Leave immediately! If you ruin Isla’s family reunion, you’ll regret it!”
Keira was really sick of them.
But the elderly woman was there, and she didn’t want a conflict, so she swallowed her impatience and tried to explain, “I’m here to take the old lady home. We just took the wrong turn.”
Isla responded instinctively, “Isn’t this your husband’s grandma? She can’t possibly live in this community!”
Keira retorted sarcastically, “Why can’t she? Did your family build this community?”
Isla was speechless.
But Poppy sneered. “What are you pretending for? Can your poor husband’s grandma afford a house here?”
She then turned to the elderly woman, “Old thing, tell me, which villa do you live in?”
Just as Keira was about to say something, the elderly woman suddenly stood up. “I remembered! I live here! Granddaughter-in-law, let’s go home!”
She grabbed Keira’s hand and began to head toward the grand gate of the Horton house.
The gate was still a hundred meters away.
But they only took a few steps when Isla spoke. “Keira, after all that, you’re using the old lady as an excuse to get into the Horton house, aren’t you?”
Keira paused and fixed her gaze ahead of her. The Horton house?
Even though she had a vague suspicion upon seeing the grandeur gate…
But how could she possibly connect the polite “Grandson” from WhatsApp, with the ruthless Lewis…
Maybe the old woman remembered wrong?
Just as she was about to double-check, Poppy lunged over, reaching out to grab the old woman. “You shameless old hag, how dare you try to get in with this excuse! I won’t let you create chaos in the Horton house!”
Keira was taken aback. She managed to shield the elderly woman, and with one hand grabbing Poppy, she pushed her away forcefully, shouting, “What do you think you’re doing?”
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