Christopher raised his eyes to glance at her, his thin lips curving slightly, with a hint of smugness, "Of course. Bad projects aren’t worth my ti and effort."
Alia called him out, "If you’re a bit more humble, you’d be even cuter."
Without even looking at her, he said faintly, "I don’t need to be cute, as long as you love ."
"..." Alia Garcia was speechless, her cheeks turning red to the tips of her ears.
Seeing her suddenly silent, Mr. Hart glanced at her, the corners of his mouth curling up into a smile again.
As the saying goes, a little quarrel invigorates the feelings.
It seed like every ti they quarreled, making up afterward always felt like a young love, almost shy to even glance at each other, becoming even more affectionate.
Of course, Alia Garcia would never say such a thing.
Otherwise, it would seem like they were deliberately seeking excitent through arguing.
If possible, she wished for a lifeti of calm, harmonious days, leading an ordinary life of quiet contentnt.
The atmosphere between them was ambiguous and silent for a while, and Christopher took the initiative to ask with concern, "How did it go handling your father’s matters this morning?"
At the ntion of this, Alia Garcia’s expression fell, "Not great, I must’ve been enemies with him in a past life, which is why we’re the most opposing father and daughter in this one, loathing each other at sight."
"You’re paying for his treatnt, and he still doesn’t give you a good face?"
"Heh, he’s been relatively courteous today, probably worried if he angers , no one will pay for his treatnt." Otherwise, he would’ve undoubtedly cursed at her to get lost by now.
Christopher couldn’t understand.
"I’ve had rough patches with my parents too, but no matter what, family is always family. We face problems together and can let the past go. Why does he treat you... as if he’s never been good to you from the start?"
Having grown up together since childhood, Christopher naturally knew all about these matters.
Recalling slightly, he looked at Alia, "I rember... before Auntie passed away, he wasn’t great to you. Back then, neither Fiona nor her daughter had entered the picture, no child favoritism issues existed, and you were the only child. He should’ve doted on you."
The topic dampened Alia Garcia’s appetite, and she put down her chopsticks, looking dejected, "It seems like, when I was really little, he was okay."
"Was he?"
"Hmm, I rember there’s a family photo at ho, probably when I was about one or two. My mom holding , him with his arm around her, looking at us with a very tender expression."
Talking about that family photo, Alia Garcia didn’t know what happened to the items in the house after the Garcia Family was raided and seized.
However, she didn’t have much nostalgia for those old things, just recalling them accidentally during the conversation.
"Being in a family photo with you ans the relationship was at least alright. But how did things sour between them later on? He completely lacked fatherly love towards you."
"I don’t know, all these years, I’ve never figured it out..." Alia shook her head and suddenly rembered what Jacob Garcia said today, laughing bitterly, "Even that brat Jacob Garcia started to suspect if I’m really my dad’s biological child, and I scolded him."
Christopher raised his eyes and looked at her, saying nothing.
The woman t his gaze, and after a mont, turned serious, "You can’t possibly think that too, right?"
Christopher asked, "Haven’t you ever suspected? Normally, what father would treat his own biological daughter like this?"
Alia said, "How could I not? In this world, there are many monsters in human disguise, scumbags worse than beasts. Aren’t the news often reporting so n who, in a bad mood, beat their wives and children for no reason? Last year there was news about a father deliberately pushing his own children off a building to their deaths! Human hearts can be so vicious; there’s nothing unusual about it."
Seeing her getting more agitated as she spoke, Christopher realized his suspicion had crossed her line and quickly soothed her, "Alright, alright, I get it, indeed, there are many such people, and Michael Garcia is a complete scumbag!"
Yet Christopher still wanted to say, if Michael Garcia was such an inhumane jerk, why didn’t he treat Lily Garcia, that stepdaughter, and Jacob Garcia, his little son, the sa way?
Why target only his eldest daughter?
Even if a father is biased, it shouldn’t be such a stark contrast in treatnt!
From a man’s perspective, the only explanation he could think of was—Alia’s mother did sothing unforgivable toward Michael Garcia, which he discovered, leading to their marriage breaking down and Michael Garcia’s ensuing resentnt toward his eldest daughter.
But he dared not voice this out.
No daughter wants to believe her mother is that kind of person.
Besides, recalling his own impressions of Alia’s mother, Christopher also felt that the graceful and gentle lady didn’t seem like soone of such dubious morals.
So, where did it all go wrong?
Alia noticed he was still pondering and slamd her bowl down in anger, "Christopher Hart, what do you an? Are you suggesting my mother cheated on my dad? I’ll tell you, that’s impossible! My mother isn’t that kind of person!"
While Alia had considered the possibility of not being her father’s biological daughter, she was more willing to believe Michael Garcia was a cruel scumbag than doubt her mother’s character.
"Alia, don’t be so agitated. I’m a few years older than you, and I have so mories of Auntie while she was alive. I know she wasn’t that type of person."
"Then why are you still suspecting!"
In an attempt to pacify her, Christopher said, "I’m not suspecting, I was just wondering what caused Michael Garcia to change."
"Ha! Didn’t he show his true colors after securing my grandparents’ inheritance, fearless now?"
"Hmm, put that way, you have a point."
Christopher thought, was it indeed because Michael Garcia obtained the Norton Family’s inheritance and began to assert dominance and expose his true nature? Did he intentionally anger his wife to death, allowing her to die early so he could marry a new wife?
If so, then Michael Garcia had been scheming this for a long ti.
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Jacob Garcia couldn’t handle serving in the hospital for just two days.
Michael Garcia was irritable, often lashing out, unable to tolerate the pain during treatnts, moaning loudly, even cursing nonsensically, causing issues with the others in the ward too.
Initially, Jacob Garcia planned to work during the day and stay overnight, but he couldn’t last two days, ending up with huge dark circles under his eyes, tottering as he walked.
Desperate, he had to request leave from work.
With Alia Garcia backing him, he got half a month’s unpaid leave to better care for Michael Garcia.
But he definitely didn’t want to go to the hospital early to get cursed, so after breakfast, he went to the prison to visit.
The grievances he suffered with Michael Garcia had no outlet, so he could only go visit Fiona Marshall, his biological mother, to vent.
Incidentally, he wanted to inquire about the mystery of Alia Garcia’s parentage.
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