"Of course! I’m the owner of East Hall. Here, I keep all o f my promises." Holden said.
"Oh... Oh, I have a big horse to ride now." Aino hugged her teddy bear and ran out to play in delight.
Children still loved to play outside in the courtyard.
Because it was big and spacious.
Holden continued smoking his cigar. Then, he said to Sabrina, "A few puffs more and I'm done."
Actually, he just started smoking the cigar in his hand.
Sabrina laughed out of the blue. "Why... Why are you s o nice to my daughter? It seems like you... really like children?"
"Why?" Holden tapped the end of his cigar. Then, he closed his eyes to consider her question.
"I used to be alone all the time when I was a child.
When I was around Aino's age, all I wished for was my father to hug me, my mother to hold me in her arms, but they never did. He was always so cool and distant from me, and my mother told me..."
At the thought of his childhood, a flash of hurt passed across his face.
Sabrina said, "What did your mother tell you? She couldn't have told you she didn't want you, did she?"
Sabrina was a mother herself, so she understood what it felt like to be a mother. All mothers would do their best to love and care for their children.
"She said that she was not my birth mother. She said my three brothers and I were born to different
mothers." Holden barked out a short, miserable laugh. 1
Sabrina was taken aback.
He and his three brothers were born to different mothers, so how could his fate be so similar to Sebastian's?
Sabrina could not help herself and she stole another glance at him again.
Just one more!
She really felt that Holden was very similar to Sebastian, but she could not place her finger on their exact point of similarity.
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