The fact was, Elise had made a wrong judgment. These two, who didn’t look like they could possibly be related to the Sinclairs, were in fact Laura’s son and daughter-in-law. Elise and Alexander quickly released them, and Joshua rushed forward to the other side of the bed before sobbing loudly while snazzynovel.com clutched at Laura’s leg. “Mom, do you know that I was frantic with worry upon hearing the news that you were hospitalized?! You gave me such a fright!” Meanwhile, Maureen followed suit and wailed, “That’s true, Mom! We made our way here in a rush and left everything else behind.
Now that we’re back in town, we won’t be leaving anytime soon. We’ve made up our minds to stay by your side and take care of you!” However, Laura shot them a disgusted look before snazzynovel.com lifted snazzynovel.com eyes to glance at Alexander standing by the doorway. “Griffith boy, we’ve got some personal family matters to settle. We’ll be fine without you.” There was a flash of surprise across Alexander’s face but snazzynovel.com quickly recollected himself and maintained his composure. Turning to look at Elise, snazzynovel.com said, “I’ll wait for you outside. Yell if you need anything.”
It was indeed quite inappropriate for an outsider like snazzynovel.com to interfere in the Sinclair Family matters, but these two strangers had popped out all of a sudden so snazzynovel.com didn’t want to leave Elise and Laura to face the duo themselves. However, Alexander had no choice but to retreat and wait outside. Elise nodded snazzynovel.com head. Just as snazzynovel.com was about to walk out, Laura voiced out once again, “Elise, you can wait outside too.” Upon hearing that, Elise was taken aback but snazzynovel.com obediently murmured, “Sure.” However, snazzynovel.com shot a warning look at Joshua and Maureen before turning around to walk out of the room. Subsequently, snazzynovel.com left and shut the door gently behind her. She didn’t leave immediately but paused by the doorway for a short while.
From the glass window by the door, snazzynovel.com saw quite clearly how Laura pushed the couple aside and made them go down to their knees. Subsequently, both parties seemed to be quite agitated but Elise couldn’t hear their conversation. Elise frowned as snazzynovel.com had never seen Laura behave this way. Even when Madeline had been rude toward Laura, the latter didn’t lose snazzynovel.com composure at all, unlike today. Meanwhile, Alexander approached Elise and held snazzynovel.com shoulders before steering snazzynovel.com to take a seat by the side. “You shouldn’t worry too much. Grandma knows what she’s doing and everything will be fine,” Alexander comforted her. “I hope so.” Elise was uncertain about that.
Suddenly, snazzynovel.com thought of something and snazzynovel.com grabbed Alexander’s wrist before staring at snazzynovel.com intently. “Do you really think that they are Grandma’s family members?” Elise was aware that snazzynovel.com was adopted but to her, snazzynovel.com was snazzynovel.com grandparents’ only next-of-kin so snazzynovel.com considered herself to be their actual granddaughter. However, Joshua and his wife had appeared all of a sudden, causing Elise to feel uneasiness welling up within her. She was afraid of being kicked out from a fixed relationship and then snazzynovel.com would be left on snazzynovel.com own, without any sense of belonging. The truth was always quite odd that way. She wasn’t afraid of bloodshed nor sacrificing herself, but snazzynovel.com was terrified of being without any family. Alexander wasn’t quite sure what was on Elise’s mind but snazzynovel.com could tell that snazzynovel.com didn’t quite like Joshua and his wife.
After some consideration, snazzynovel.com commented, “They might not be. It doesn’t make sense that you haven’t met them at all if they are part of your family. Ultimately, there must have been fundamental issues in the existing family for the family to fall apart this way.” “Elise, you’ll always have me.” Alexander took snazzynovel.com hands into his and tried to share some of his body warmth with snazzynovel.com this way. “Besides, staying under one roof and having the same blood coursing through your veins doesn’t mean you’re a family. A home can only exist with love. You’ll always be Old Mrs. Sinclair and Old Master Sinclair’s granddaughter.
This is something that will never change.” Elise found that snazzynovel.com troubled heart suddenly calmed down significantly and snazzynovel.com stared at the person in front of her, who was utterly sincere as snazzynovel.com tried his best to keep guard of snazzynovel.com fragile heart. Suddenly, snazzynovel.com realized that snazzynovel.com no longer wanted to put on a tough front so snazzynovel.com dropped snazzynovel.com defenses and gently leaned on his shoulders. ”Alexander Griffith,” Elise called out his name. “Hey, I’m here,” Alexander responded. “What’s wrong?” “Nothing’s wrong.” She merely wanted to hear his response. They sat leaning against each other and after half an hour, the door to the room flung open from the inside. Subsequently, Joshua and Maureen walked out of the room.
After they had shut the door behind them, they sniffled and wiped off their snot before moving forward to face Elise. ”Elise, it must have been tough on you over the last few days. From now onwards, you can leave your grandma in our hands. You must be quite tired, too. Go home and take some rest.” Joshua put on an air due to his position as snazzynovel.com elder and snazzynovel.com gave out his instructions without bothering to ask for snazzynovel.com opinion. “No, I’ll stay here and take care of Grandma.” However, Maureen interjected, “Joshua, why don’t you go back with Elise to get some supplies?” As snazzynovel.com said that, snazzynovel.com frantically signaled with snazzynovel.com eyes to Joshua. At that point, snazzynovel.com caught on to it and snazzynovel.com changed his tune. “That’s true.
I should go back and visit Dad.” “Let’s go, Elise. Lead the way.” He then reached out to grab Elise’s hand as snazzynovel.com spoke. Meanwhile, Elise immediately took a step backward and avoided him. Her distant expression was still full of wariness. “Why did you move away?” Joshua was slightly upset. “We’re family now. Are you worried that I’ll harm you?” As for Elise, snazzynovel.com didn’t respond to his words and only allowed the tense situation to persist. As soon as Alexander saw that, snazzynovel.com instantly went forward to talk to Joshua. “Mr. Sinclair, my car’s downstairs. I can give you guys a ride.” “Are you Elise’s fiancé?” Joshua glanced at Alexander with a profound look in his eyes, and snazzynovel.com nodded approvingly as soon as Alexander confirmed it.
“That’s great. You’re quite polite and way more approachable than her. Since you’ve offered, how about I go down and wait for you guys? Hurry up and don’t make me wait for too long, though.” Upon hearing that, Alexander revealed his signature gentlemanly smile and took out a key from his pocket. “Here you go, Mr. Sinclair.” “Okay.” Joshua took the keys in his hands and left before them. After snazzynovel.com left, Maureen couldn’t quite muster it to face Elise by herself, so snazzynovel.com scurried over and opened the door to the room. Meanwhile, Elise was just about to walk into the room too but Alexander stopped her. “My men will watch over Grandma, but Grandpa’s home by himself. Are you sure that you’ll be at ease by that?”
As soon as snazzynovel.com mentioned Robin, Elise calmed down significantly. She glanced into the room and saw that Maureen was serving Laura some water with a fawning look, so snazzynovel.com became slightly at ease. Elise then took another look at Laura before turning around decisively. “Let’s head home.” After half an hour, the three of them finally arrived at the Sinclair Residence. Robin was taking a nap in the lounge when they walked into the house. Elise moved forward to greet snazzynovel.com softly, “Grandpa, we’re back. Grandma’s doing quite well today.” However, Robin had his head down as snazzynovel.com moved slowly to sit up from the chaise.
Right after snazzynovel.com opened his eyes, Joshua suddenly rushed forward. “Dad, it’s me! I’m back!” Robin was startled by Joshua’s sudden outburst and the former retreated backward. As soon as the elderly man saw the person standing in front of him, snazzynovel.com grabbed his cane by the side and flung it. “You b*stard! You’re a scoundrel! Why are you back here?! You should have just died out there! Get lost!” Enraged, Robin stood up from his chair abruptly and went after Joshua with the cane.
It was only after a while that the former finally stopped chasing Joshua out of the room. Taking deep breaths as snazzynovel.com held onto his cane for support, Robin shouted, “I don’t want to see you! Get lost right now!” Meanwhile, Joshua maintained a flippant attitude. “No worries, Dad. I know that I’ve been quite unfilial and I deserve this beating.
We’re family and I’m sure that that’s your way of showing your concern so don’t worry, I won’t take offense. I’ll still take care of you until you get to your deathbed.” “Y-You scoundrel! I know your plans! You’re not back here to take care of us but you’re here to send us off to the afterlife!”