"All these are things that he should be giving me! With these gold and silver jewelry, we can exchange them for money. We can help to pay the medical expenses for the grandmother next door and we can buy medications for our mother. Otherwise, we will not have any money to compensate them! They will report us, and then capture Mom and send her to a psychiatric hospital!"
Malvolio instantly stopped in his tracks. His sister was right. After he thought it over, he took out a women's watch, turned around and handed it to the family of the grandmother next door. "Is this enough?"
He had always been living in poverty, so he had no idea that that kind of watch was worth more than three hundred thousand dollars. The other party was surprised once they took a look at it. "Lira, it was your father who had given it to you, right?"
Lira was stunned for a moment. After that, she immediately regained her calmness and nodded. "Mm-hmm."
"Alright, alright! Just this watch will do! We're even from now on. We'll not come looking for you anymore. " The grandmother next door's family seemed to be quite easy to talk to.
Lira and Malvolio immediately realized that the gold and silver jewelry that Lira had brought back from the
Stevens family's house would certainly be worth quite a hefty sum. Both of them felt extremely excited. That night, the family of three sat on the bed and looked through all the jewelry piece by piece. When she saw a nice one, Eira would even hold it in front of her mother's neck to try it on.
"Mom, you're very pretty. Look how beautiful you look wearing this necklace."
"There are also these earrings. Mom, put it on and let u s have a look."
Both the siblings felt that their mother was more beautiful than others. Eira, in particular, felt so and she was extremely happy. There was no one at the Stevens family's house that day, so nobody knew that she had stolen these things. Besides, who would have thought that a child would steal so many things? Mm-hmm! What that pianist had said was really true. She, Eira Stevens, indeed has a talent for stealing and having slender and long fingers meant that she could steal.
Eira fell asleep in her mother's arms that night. After she had fallen asleep, she even had a dream. She dreamt that she was wearing the same clothes as Brooke, and her hand was also held by her mother and father together to dance and piano lessons. However, her father was Delmont, but her mother was not Joy. It was her own mother, Eirwen.
The next day happened to be a Saturday, so Eira did not need to go to school. Malvolio, on the other hand, had gone out to work early in the morning. Only Eira and her mother were left in the house. Maybe it was because all the matters were resolved that her mother was sleeping very soundly and sweetly. Eira also had a good night's sleep, but she woke up earlier than her mother. She could not bear to wake her mother as she hoped her mother could sleep a little longer.
Therefore, she gently got out from her mother's embrace and tucked her mother in again.
Eira whispered proudly to her mother, who was sleeping soundly, "Mom, everything is in the past now. We will be fine. Delmont's money is our money!"
After saying that, Eira first washed up before carrying a lunch box with her as she planned to buy some breakfast. Once the little girl opened the door, she saw a fierce figure at the door.
"Aunt...Aunt Joy! You...why are you here?" asked Eira.
Joy looked at Eira with a fiercely cold and angry gaze. "Guess what I am here for?"
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