Female Novel
Chapter 1679
Susan was stunned. 'Give me the ownership of a villa? How tempting...'
Nevertheless, no matter how luxurious the villa was, it would never be as palatial as Crawford Manor. Ifshe and Louis moved out, although they would hire servants, they would not have as many servants asin Crawford Manor.
Moreover, if she moved out and let Allison move back in, she would undoubtedly be handing the throneto Allison with both hands.
She was not that stupid. Although the free villa was indeed tempting, Susan held back.
Although Old Master Crawford's health was going strong, she believed that he would not have manymore years left to live. If she moved out and gave Allison a chance to please Old Master Crawford, itwould not be worth the loss.
Therefore, she chose to stay in Crawford Manor.
"Forget it. I'm just raising my concerns but since you don't care, forget about it. I hope Allison's faceisn't too ugly. Otherwise, my Thea will be miserable and have nightmares every night," Susan said.
Old Master Crawford snorted coldly, stood up, and left with his cane.
After Susan saw him leave, she glared at Louis and his wife. "It's all your fault! You've failed me."
Louis replied helplessly, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Look at your grandfather! He doesn't care about Thea's quality of life. He only cares when it comes toLuke and his family. If you're willing to have more children, Old Master Crawford will pay more attentionto you too! That'll bring me honor as well!" Susan had been urging Louis and Yuri to have a secondchild throughout the years, but Louis had not once reacted positively.
He would give her various excuses over and over again. Susan had heard all the versions multipletimes.
She was not sure what was in Louis' head. If he had more children, they would get more attention fromOld Master Crawford. After his death, they would also benefit from getting a larger portion of the will.
Nonetheless, Louis did not share the same thoughts.
"Actually, Grandpa is right. The Crawford family is being held together by Luke. We have to beconsiderate and agree to Allison moving back in. There are servants at home to take care of her soLuke can devote more energy to his work. As such, the Crawford family and T Corporation can growbigger and get better." Louis was understanding.
"Allison? Why are you so affectionate with her? After you see her face, I don't know if you'll still want toacknowledge her as your stepmother. You've disappointed me. If others didn't know, they'd think thatyou're Allison's son!" Susan glared at him with a look of disappointment.
Louis thought that she was being unreasonable but he did not say anything.
After all, it was not his first time witnessing a fight between these two women. After a few years of calm,it seemed that Crawford Manor was going to be a battlefield once more.
Yuri asked, "Mom, you said that Allison's face has become scary?"
She remembered that in the past, Allison had fair skin and always dressed so well that she did notappear to be 50 years old at all.
Even after she was imprisoned, Yuri thought that her complexion may become a little duller. She neverthought that Allison would be described as scary.
"Yeah, it's terrifying. I heard it through the grapevine. It's hard to describe it. She just has a terriblywrinkled face now. It's even more wrinkled than the face of a 90-year-old old man. Anyway, when thetime comes, you should keep a close eye on Thea. Don't let her be scared by the woman's terrifyingappearance," Susan warned Yuri.
"I see. I'll keep a close eye on her." Yuri nodded. She wanted to help Susan so that Allison could notmove back into Crawford Manor but they did not expect Old Master Crawford to be so determined.
From what they knew of him, Old Master Crawford should be furious that someone stole from hishome. It did not make sense that he would so easily forgive Allison.novelbin
The conversation they had earlier did not end up how they expected it to.
Rainie stood at the stairway and overheard their conversation. She seemed confused.
'They mentioned that... Grandma's face has become scary?'
Rainie suddenly remembered the witch she saw in storybooks and was a little scared.
'Did Grandma turn into that?'
Lanie told her that everything in storybooks were fake, including how witches would eat people.However, if her grandmother looked like a witch, would she eat them?
When she thought of that, Rainie immediately went upstairs and opened the door to Tommy's bedroom.
Tommy was reading a book when he heard the door open. He looked at his sister with a confusedexpression and asked, "Rainie, what's the matter with you?"
"Brother, do you have Mom. Ms. Luca's contact number?" Rainie asked.
"Yes, but Daddy said that Ms. Luca is recovering from an injury and I'm not allowed to disturb her,"Tommy said. If Luke had not warned him, he would have called her long ago.
Rainie said, "Can you lend me your tablet?"
"Rainie, don't you have one as well?" Tommy wondered. Luke had given each of them a kid's tablet.
"Mine is out of power and I need it urgently now. Can you lend me yours?" Rainie wanted to contactLuca through Tommy's account because Luke was away, so no one else could answer her question.
She was their mom, so she wanted to talk to her.
Tommy nodded, gave her the tablet generously, and said, "Here you go, Rainie."
"Thank you." Rainie took the tablet and brought it to her bedroom.
She closed the door, turned on the tablet, and logged into Tommy's Facebook.
Tommy did not have many friends on Facebook, so she easily found Luca's profile. She thought aboutit for a second and called her.
Whenever Luca did research, she would use a tablet to record the data for convenience. When Lukecame, she did not put the tablet back in the master bedroom. Hence, when the video call requestsounded, she heard it.
At this hour, the only person who would video call her was Tommy.
Luca sat up, turned on the bedside light, and picked up the tablet. She glanced at it and found that itwas indeed a video call request from Tommy's account.
She pressed the accept button.
However, it was not Tommy who was looking for her but Rainie. Luca was slightly surprised.
"Ms. Luca, am I disturbing your rest?" Rainie asked cautiously.
Luca shook her head. She noticed the anxiousness on Rainie's face and asked with concern, "No, I'mnot asleep yet. Rainie, are you okay?"
"Ms. Luca, can you chat with me?" Rainie asked again, still in a cautious tone. She was worried thatshe was disturbing Luca.
"Of course. What do you want to talk about? Why do you look like that? What happened?" Luca caredabout her.
Tears welled up in her eyes when Rainie saw how much Luca cared about her. "Ms. Luca, I heard thatGrandma is going to be released from prison."
Luca was stunned. She did not expect Rainie to know about this.
To be fair, the Crawford family was high profile and had a lot of members. It was normal for someone toaccidentally spill the beans.