"What are you laughing at? Is this your servant? How dare she act so disrespectful in front of me? I was blind to have asked her to follow you here."
Brantley was displeased and irritated.
Before Mango could say anything, Haniya quickly retorted and said, "Who wants to follow you? You old wreck."
"Well, that's enough, Haniya. He didn't mean that. He meant that you should stay here to take care of him. You misunderstood him."
Mango hurriedly explained.
Sadly, she couldn't do anything about it. If she didn't say anything, Brantley might really be pissed off by Haniya.
Although Haniya realized that she had misunderstood, but she still refused to apologize. Then, she immediately said, "Madam, you are just too kind-hearted. We can't tell if he really meant that. Don't speak on his behalf. I know that this old man a good-for-nothing at first sight."
Brantley really wanted to ask his servants to throw this stinking rascal out.
Mango hurriedly said when she saw that Brantley was really mad, "Haniya, stop talking nonsense. This is my grandfather! My real grandfather!"
"What?"
Haniya was completely stunned.
"Which grandfather would treat their granddaughter like he did?"
"That's how I am. It's none of your business."
Brantley turned his head and left like an annoyed child. Then, he said to the person next to him, "Let that stinking girl sleep on the floor at night. Don't let her sleep on the bed. I'm so pissed off."
Mango smiled again upon seeing Brantley's reaction. Haniya, on the other hand, was devastated.
"Madam, please plead with him on my behalf. I didn't know he's your grandfather. I thought he was an outsider."
"It's fine, I'll let you sleep on the bed."
Mango took Haniya's hand and followed behind Brantley.
Just then, Haniya suddenly thought of something and asked, "Madam, since he is your grandfather, how can he treat Desmond like that? What if Desmond goes back and sends the wrong message?"
Although Mango wanted to say that she wasn't afraid of that happening, she recalled what Brantley had said to her and replied, "Although he's my grandfather, his personality isn't that good. He placed my mother under house arrest and tried to force me to persuade Nathan to do something. You can just watch, but don't interrupt. Let's talk about it when Nathan comes. After all, I'm no match for him."
"Ah?"
Haniya was startled.
What the hell was going on?
However, she didn't dare to ask any more questions when she saw how calm Mango was. Instead, she followed behind Mango and observed.
Mango took Haniya to Queena's room, but Brantley did not allow Haniya to enter. Instead, he let Haniya sleep on the floor of the corridor.
Brantley was particularly stubborn. It took a long time for Mango to calm him down and persuaded him to arrange a guest room for Haniya.
Haniya didn't dare to say anything else. She entered the room under Mango's instructions, but she was extremely nervous. She had been listening to the commotion outside all this while as she was afraid that something might happen to
Mango.
Meanwhile, Mango wasn't that worried and anxious at all. After she entered the room, she looked at the room arrangements and decoration of the room and suddenly thought of her mother.
There was a portrait of Queena on the bedside table. She had a sweet and warm smile on her face. She looked young in that photo, so it was probably a photo of her during her school years.
Mango lifted the photo and looked at it for a moment. At the same time, Brantley's words replayed in her mind.
He said that Queena was put under house arrest in the small town of Nakasara and she was accompanied by Bettany. But why Bettany?
When Bettany was treating Marissa in the Fang family, she disappeared all of a sudden. Bettany went to see Mango before that happened, in hopes that Mango could agree to the conditions of the Fang family. Was Isla the one who ordered her to do it? Or was it Brantley?
Brantley said that all this was a trap to lure out the network of forces that were helping Isla. But Isla had been planning this for many years. Perhaps Brantley had also waited for many years to take action against Isla? Did he know everything that Isla had done, but he still chose to observe her
from afar?
Mango couldn't figure it out and her train of thoughts was in a complete mess.
Was it right to trust Brantley?
Should she believe this old man who claimed to be her grandfather during their first meeting?
She didn't know what to do.
Although she was a little scared and confused, she remained calm because she believed that Nathaniel would come.
No matter what Brantley's real purpose was or identity was, Nathaniel would eventually come as long as Desmond went back.
On the other hand, Nathaniel was anxiously waiting in the hospital.
Several bags of blood were being sent into the room, but the lights in the operating room did not go out.
Just then, Rainie called from the airport to ask if Mango was at home and Nathaniel was stunned for a moment when he heard this.
Mango missed Rainie so much, so she definitely wouldn't be able to sit still at home. What happened? Didn't Mango go to the airport? Or was it because she was pregnant? Did anything happen to her?
Nathaniel called home, but no one answered. He called Desmond again, but he couldn't get through because the signal had been blocked.
Nathaniel was feeling anxious at this moment.
When he called Haniya and learned that Haniya's phone was also disconnected, he immediately knew that something had happened to Mango.
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