Chapter 412 Shyness
When he said so, Ruby was even more embarrassed.
She cleared her throat and gave him a blank look, “Mind your own business.”
However, Olivia spoke at this point: “I know! It must be Daddy! Mum only gives that shy look when she calls dad!”
Shy ……
Ruby raised her hand and nudged the little girl’s forehead, “Where did you learn all these words at such a young age? Don’t talk nonsense!”
The girl rubbed her forehead and conceded very sensibly, “Okay, I rambled.”
But then, she gave a smile and came up to Layton’s ear, muttering in a small voice, “My mother is really shy!”
Ruby: “……”
She could hear that.
To avoid embarrassment, she hastily changed the subject and stopped the two from teasing her.
“What about Raphael? How is he now? Is he awake yet?”
Layton nodded, “He just woke up, we came to tell you that.”
Soon the three went upstairs.
Today, Raphael was clearly in much better shape than before, and could even get off the ground and walk around.
At this time, he was slowly moving back and forth in the room, and when he saw Ruby, he immediately curled up with a smile.
“There you are, your medicine is really working, I feel better now.”
Ruby looked at his face and nodded, admonishing, “You’re better, but you can’t move too much, take your time, you’ve been poisoned too deeply and the toxins have been in your body for too long, you need to recover slowly.”
“Hmm, okay.” Raphael responded in a good-natured manner.
He was silent for a moment, then gathered the curve of his mouth and asked, “I heard about what happened over at the Williamson’s, thank you.”Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.
Ruby looked calm: “There is nothing to thank you for, if something happened to me, wouldn’t you also help me? We are friends for many years, it’s mutual.”
Raphael sighed, more frustration in his eyes.
“These days I just wonder if blood related things has any meaning, my father actually only see me as a bargaining chip, using me, even going out of his way to get me killed, but friends who are not even remotely related to me can help me, my life is really ridiculous.”
Ruby understood his mood and was silent for a moment before speaking in a light voice.
“There’s no need to be too disappointed, things in this world are unpredictable, you’ve just have such a father, just like me. Spencer was ruthless and heartless to me back then. He never really thought of me as his daughter either, so it’s not worth it to feel bad for such a scum, you have other family.”
Speaking of other family members, Raphael thought of his mother and frowned, “I don’t know how my mother and grandfather are doing.”
Listening to him mutter, Ruby and Layton glanced at each other before telling him, “Your grandfather was hospitalized due to his anxiety, your mother should be fine now, but I heard that the Williamson family had made a big fuss about you earlier.”
Ruby pondered and asked him, “When will you go back?”
Raphael pursed the corners of his mouth and thought for a moment before answering, “I’m not sure, I haven’t thought about it, in my current state, I’ll be used by him if I go back. He’s a man who won’t stop until he gets what he wants, I don’t mind suffering a bit myself, but I don’t want to be a threat to you, so I won’t go back for now.”
Ruby understood his concerns: “OK, then you can stay here and wait until you’re well enough.”
……
In the afternoon, Ruby took Olivia to the cemetery.
“Mum, is this where Great Grandma and Great Grandpa are buried?” The little girl asked as she walked up the steps, holding Ruby’s hand.
Ruby nodded: “Yeah, your Great Grandma wanted to be buried with Great Grandpa, and they are next to each other, sleeping in the ground.”
As they spoke, they stood in front of Cara’s tombstone.
The little girl first looked at the picture on Cara’s tombstone and her eyes suddenly turned red.
She stepped forward and stretched out her little hand, stroking it gently over the old lady’s picture, her sweet voice laced with a slight choke.
“Great Grandma, I finally come to see you, you are not good. You said you just went out for a while, but you didn’t come back, and I have been waiting for you for a long time.”
This childish remark immediately caused sourness in Ruby’s heart and her eyes faintly heated up.
Olivia was very understanding and after rambling on for a few minutes, she knelt down in front of the old lady’s tombstone and took the initiative to kowtow.
“Great Grandma, don’t worry, my illness has been fully recovered, and I can grow up to be as healthy and happy as other children, isn’t that what you want most? If you know, you would be very happy! Mum and Dad and I are good, from now on, we’ll live together as a family, you don’t have to worry anymore.”
The little girl said a lot, then turned her head to look at the tombstone aside and tilted her head to look at Ruby.
“Mum, is this Great Grandpa?”
At the time of Logan’s death, Olivia had not yet been born, so she had no memory of this great grandfather.
Ruby nodded, “Yes, it’s him.”
The little girl moved obediently to the side, kowtowing solemnly to Logan’s tombstone as well.
“Great Grandpa, first time to meet you, I’m Olivia, your great-granddaughter, this is the first time I’ve seen you, you were so handsome when you were young! As handsome as my father! Great Grandpa, you must be happy with Great Grandma now in heaven, right? Take good care of her! She missed you so much all these years and would often tell me about you. I’m so happy for you now that you are finally reunited ……”
The little girl was still sad and could not help but shed tears as she spoke.
“Mum,” she stood up and grasped Ruby’s hand, looking up at her with her little face full of sadness, “I miss Great Grandma, I miss her so much ……”
Ruby held back the sourness in her heart and raised her hand to wipe away her tears.
“I miss her too, but it’s okay, even though she’s not on this earth anymore, she’s always in our hearts and never left.”
As twilight fell, Ruby did not stay here for too long and took Olivia back with her.
And as she walked into Jin Yuan, her face abruptly changed!