"So, are we going back?"
"We're going back! My granddaughter won't acknowledge me, and it's killing me."
"..."
......
After leaving the teahouse with Ian Quincy, the heart Cecilia Adler had worked so hard to heal began to break all over again. As for what had happened to her mother, even with Ruth Shaw's scheming, her grandfather, as an elder, was far from blameless.
'Now he wants to acknowledge me whenever he feels like it? Doesn't he think that's outrageous? Doesn't he feel he's in the wrong at all?'
Just thinking about it made her eyes turn red.
Noticing this, Ian Quincy comforted her, "Cecilia, they're practically strangers to you. There's no need to worry over them. Look at you, you're all sweaty. Are you hot? There's a shady spot over there. Let's go sit and rest for a bit, okay?"
Cecilia Adler forced back her tears and put on a smile. "Okay."
They reached the shady spot.
