Chapter 44

After Juliet learned the details of this whole story, she was visited by Zachary, who began to apologize to her again and again.

And when Juliet deliberately slowly folded her hands on her chest, he was even more embarrassed and gave an undeniable explanation of his actions.

Although, this was not part of her intention initially, Juliet thought it would be very useful to understand the situation as a whole.

And as it turned out not in vain, as he told her that those citizens who said they would give her a job and then suddenly changed their mind did it because of her uncle.

Juliet was stunned by his words.

- Wait a minute, but why? - She asked excitedly.

Zachary, lowering his head down in a dip, honestly replied:

- They threatened to kill anyone who dared to hire their niece to tear the floors in some eatery or do dusty books in the library, as soon as they could meet her in a few decades.

- .....

Even more surprising was that Zachary, despite this threat, still offered her a tutor position for his daughter.

Zachary's daughter, Isabella, really turned out to be a lovely child with plump cheeks and an angelic face.

- Big sister!

When Juliet met her, the girl ran up to her without hesitation and hugged her, although she saw her for the first time in her life.

- You can't just hug someone to get sweets, Isabella.

Not paying the slightest attention to Zachary's remark, Juliet hugged the girl tightly in response.

The child's body temperature was higher than that of adults, so it was warm, soft and even smelled like something sweet.

"Little children are so cute." - Juliet thought, treating the girl to cookies.

It was so funny to watch the baby hold cookies in her little hands and try to eat them with her mouth that Juliet couldn't resist and asked:

- Isabella, how old are you?

The girl stretched out five fingers of her right hand and shouted confidently:

- Three years old!

"How cute!"

Juliet hugged Isabella again, at the same time, thinking Zachary's offer was so absurd. Tears almost appeared before her eyes when she imagined the learning process.

What? Tutor? To teach such a tiny one to write?

- I'm sorry I couldn't tell you everything before. But the old man ordered me to shut my mouth...

Zachary, who watched his daughter's tricks from the outside, quickly raised the tips of his eyebrows and made a pitiful expression as soon as he looked at Juliet.

This whole week was incredibly strange for her, as if she suddenly found herself in the middle of the play, but Juliet wasn't too worried about it.

Because there was something else that worried her much more than that. ...

- What? Is this Aunt Lillian's daughter?

Juliet looked in the direction where this voice came from.

- Ha! Does it make sense that someone appeared so unexpectedly out of nowhere, if there was not a single news from this person before? What the hell do you believe this pintail?!

The red hair that recently impressed her so much.

So, Juliet met the same guy who was driving with her in a stagecoach a few days ago.

"I had to understand that he was my relative because he also has the same red hair as the others."

His name was Theo Lebatan, and unfortunately he was the second of two sons of Uncle Juliet, Isaac Lebatan. She was told that he was the youngest of Lionel's grandchildren.

Theo turned and resolutely approached Juliet, who was holding little Isabella on her lap while he screamed dissatisfiedly at the whole mansion.

- Hey, you!

Then he defiantly pointed his finger at Juliet.

- Tell them all the truth. You're here because of the old man's inheritance, aren't you?

Theo was rude and impudent enough to tell her right in the face.

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Gray, Issak's first son, didn't have the same bright red hair as his brother Theo.

And Gray with his reddish-chestnut hair made a much more mature impression than Theo. Gray also told her that he was five years older than his brother.

- Hello, Gray.

- Well, he's an idiot, huh?!

Seeing him in anger, Juliet concluded that his mental age was slightly higher than he really was.

From Juliet's point of view, his red hair could be considered an inheritance from his father, but if you exclude them, Gray probably looked more like his cheerful mother than a hot-tempered father.

And, by the way, Gray, who was five years older than Theo, fortunately turned out to be a normal person.

- I'm very sorry. But don't think badly of him, he's not such a bad guy. - Gray said, approaching Juliet, who drank tea in one.

He probably heard what happened in the living room some time ago, and came to her to apologize for his younger brother's rudeness.

Gray pushed the chair opposite Juliet and sat down.

- Do they usually say: - "he's not such a bad guy," - about those who have wind in their heads? - Juliet asked, slightly tilting her head to her side.

Gray shrugged his shoulders.

- I don't think I can deny this fact. It looks like I'll have to talk to my parents about his behavior.

Juliet, who had already met her uncle Isaac, who was the father of these two brothers, seemed to be a simple and honest person.

And now Juliet was wondering what her aunt, the mother of Theo and Gray, would be like.

These days she was far from home, on a business trip for work, so she had to meet her only tomorrow when she returned.

- In any case, don't worry too much and don't pay attention to him. Although it's easy to anger, it usually doesn't last too long.

- It's all right. It's even to some extent fun.

It wasn't empty chatter. Juliet was the only child in the family, so sometimes she thought about what it was like to have brothers and sisters. And, of course, she already knew it wouldn't be boring.

- However, I don't understand why Theo does this. Maybe it's because he thinks he's lost his privileged position as the youngest child in the family?

- Because of attention...?

Gray, throwing pieces of sugar into his cup, snorted and said in response as if he had heard something ridiculous.

- No, Theo has never been like that since birth. Rather, he takes his grandfather's legacy too seriously than that.

- That's how...

- ....

Juliet thought about it, carelessly giving up the sugar that Gray wanted to put in her cup.

The first impression of this guy was quite miserable. But she thought it wasn't the only reason Theo hated her so much.

"If it's really because of the inheritance, then you have nothing to worry about."

Maybe it was a little cold on her part, but Juliet really thought so.

In fact, only Lionel knew she was his only granddaughter. The glove and hair clip were stolen by Mrs. Ronda on his orders.

Juliet was happy to meet her maternal grandfather, whose existence she had no idea existed, but she did not expect that she could easily become part of their lives. Honestly, she herself did not even understand what to do in this situation.

If Juliet wasn't Lillian's daughter and Lillian wasn't Lionel's daughter, would it be impossible?

In other words, there were only blood ties between them at the moment.

She didn't think it was bad or something, but now it was a real state of affairs where she would have to decide to stay with them or leave.

And the fact that Theo was so passionate about Lionel's legacy meant that there would be even more people who thought the same way as he did.

"Well, great..."

Theo may have had his own circumstances that Juliet didn't know about yet, but she wasn't too interested in other people's relationships.

"I'm still used to being hated."

However.

Juliet didn't like that anyone could hate her so openly for no reason. Awareness of this fact brought her out of balance.

So, after sitting a little more and reflecting, Juliet put a cup of tea on the table and walked up to the chair by the window in the living room where Lionel was sitting.

Just at this time, Zachary and several other Lebatan's assistants gathered to ask for his opinion.

- Grandpa.

- Yes, Juliet.

Lionel smiled softly when Juliet called him.

- What happened?

Lionel's chair in which he was sitting was visible from all sides, so everyone sitting in the living room could easily see him if they turned their heads.

One, two, three.

Plush.

Juliet flopped at the old man's feet, depicting her fall as if she had injured her knees. He bowed his head towards her in bewilderment.

- Juliet? Baby, what are you doing?

- Oh, young miss?

Hearing the frightened voices of people gathered in the living room, she sobbed slightly, as if she were really crying.

Then Juliet counted to five, raised her head and said sadly:

- Please, Grandpa, believe me. I didn't know anything about your inheritance or something like that...

- Inheritance?

- Everyone must think that I've come all the way because I need my grandfather's inheritance. And they don't think I'm really my mother's daughter...

- What the hell?!

- No, young miss, don't say that, we believe you. Who the hell might have thought of telling you that?

All Lionel's people standing next to him were amazed and angry.

- I don't want to say who said that. But if everyone thinks so, then I... It's normal that they might have thought that. But I just don't want you, grandpa, to think of me like that either, so... I wanted to clarify this misunderstanding.

Juliet played deftly, remembering the lines from the new play she saw in the capital.

In fact, the lines weren't that important right now.

What was really important was facial expression and a good choice of time.

- So, please believe me, grandpa.

Everyone except Lionel looked shocked.

- Oh, young miss...

Lionel, meanwhile, looked at his granddaughter from top to bottom and looked as if he was barely holding back laughter.

- Yes, I understood you. Stop it and get up, Juliet. I don't know who the hell told you that nonsense, but...

The moment he took a short pause playing along with her and looked around everyone present, some even shuddered.

- I promise that from now on I won't let anyone accuse you of it and offend you.

Juliet did not forget to behave pitifully until the very end, and got up only with the help of the people around her, who immediately rushed to her as soon as the formidable grandfather agreed.

Of course, she did not forget to stand on the stairs to the second floor and secretly smile at Theo, who saw this grandiose performance before going to her room.

Well...

Juliet was the person who couldn't stand quietly aside when someone hated her for no reason. And now she was looking forward to further developments.

"So, I'm going to find the cause of your anger."

Juliet smiled triumphantly, meeting Theo with her eyes.

"Well, isn't he a complete idiot...?"

Theo stared at her stunned, noticing her provocative smile, and seemed to mutter something, but it didn't matter anymore.

However, there was something that Juliet lost sight of.

A few steps away from them, all three of her uncles froze with big greeting pies in both hands, seeing this scene.

Lionel's three sons were shocked, noticing all the smallest details of this scene - even the unusual views exchanged between Juliet and Theo.

Isaac, Baris and Kylos - all three brothers, took turns recovering from numbness and revived, deciding to discuss what they had just seen.

- Ahahaha.

- Brother, did you see that?

- Oh my God, it's the same thing Lily did. ...

- Yes, no one can deceive the blood. ...

- She's like Lily's daughter.