Regret

"That… just now…"

"Plain water" Velina replied quickly.

Eh?

Jun gave her a confused look. Meanwhile, Jena just smiled.

"It's just plain water. The prototype that we have just given to Afriza will not endanger his life in the long run. As long as he drinks lots of water, within 18 hours he will be fine ". Velina explained.

"Then…"

"I said those things so that he could focus on his life. Imagine, if you don't have money, but you are a smoker. Then, you had to spend your money on cigarettes. In fact, for one pack of cigarettes that you smoke every day, if you save the same amount of money off that one pack of cigarettes, you will save enough money in a month. " Velina smiled wryly at Jun.

"I also smell a little alcohol on his body. He looked a little depressed. A person would not be able to think clearly and rebuild his life if their body has been affected and drowned in alcohol." She continued again.

Jun: "..."

"I do not understand, why did you give him money instead of punishing him? He only saw Nadine as a money machine!" Jena snorted in annoyance.

"What had happened to Nadine, was also part of my fault. As an older sister of her, I did not know anything about my little sister. " Velina replied softly.

Her head lowered, stared at the floor.

"All this time I had fun out there, not even had thought whether she was sad or happy... I was ignorant, enjoyed my own life..." she continued again.

"But, you did not always live comfortably out there either! We often went on secret missions and nobody should not know where we were and what we were doing! I did not even have social media…" Jena said again.

Jun touched Jena's shoulder, shook his head, signaling her to keep quiet.

"I… did not know anything about Nadine…" Velina said again, her eyes turning red.

Finally, Jena bit her lip. Now she understood what Velina's referred to.

Inside their heart, the two siblings felt guilty because they had snatched Velina's affection that she should have poured out on her sister, not on them.

Jena felt that she was very greedy. She already has an older brother who extraordinarily loved her, however, she also wanted Velina's affection.

Eleven years ago, perhaps, if she had not tried to stop Velina from leaving Hang Zhou City and had not nagged her not to leave, maybe Velina would not have adopted the two of them, and she could have spent more time with her younger sister instead.

Meanwhile, Jun who understood what was happening stepped towards Velina. He squatted in front of Velina who was sitting in her chair, stared into her eyes closely.

"Sis, I'm sorry, because the both of us, you ignored your own sister..." he said softly.

Jena then also crouched down in front of Velina. "Sis, sorry, if only I had not asked at you so that we could follow you..." She said tears began to well up in her eyes. Even though she looked cool on the outside, Jena was quite a sensitive girl.

She could not imagine if Velina and her family did not adopt them, maybe they would still living under the bridge.

When she thought about her gloomy past, the life full of threats from others, food stealing, fought over food, being kicked out of the shop front at night when they were sleeping on a cardboard bed, she started to cry loudly, shuddered at the thought if Velina was not in her life to save them.

Meanwhile, Jun became confused. He felt trapped between the two women. He originally intended to comfort Velina who was sad, but then he also had to calm his sister down, who was also sad and sobbed.

Jun did not know whether he should laugh or cry seeing things like this.

Finally, Jun realized something. There was no wonder that Nadine looked cold to him.

Could it be that girl felt jealous seeing their closeness to her older sister?

Even though they rarely met each other, let alone being interacted, Jun saw several times when Nadine had occasionally contacted Velina. Whether it was a phone call or a video call, if Jun or Jena was around, they would not talk for long.

At first, he thought Nadine was indeed a quiet introvert and did not like to talk much, however, who would have thought that… one of the reasons was… him and his sister?.

He took a deep breath.

In one hand, he felt ashamed, just like Jena, he also felt that he had snatched the love that did not belong to him and had taken it from someone who had the rights.

Velina then sat on the floor as well, hugged the two of them lovingly. She also felt guilty for the two of them for making them both felt bad.

She realized that all along she did not care much about her own younger sister, because she thought that Nadine was living well living in a big house with her grandfather and father.

Meanwhile, she had to live independently since she was young because her grandfather asked her to train herself hard and even harder so she could take care of herself in the future.

Velina and her older brother wanted to be filial, so they obeyed the wishes of their father and grandfather, left home to learn about the harshness of life, out of their comfort zone.

Velina let out a heavy sigh.

*******

Meanwhile, in a busy office building.

Nadine was studying the results of the monthly reports that her secretary had just submitted to her.

Suddenly, she felt her chest was beating faster than normal.

She frowned.

Am I sick? Has my pain recurred again?

For a moment, she was silent for a long time.

But, why does this feel different from usual? I'm not that sweaty!

She definitely did not think that, if the strange feeling she felt was because of her sister, Velina, who was feeling sad out of guilt for neglecting her only sister and had even felt jealous of her just because, among the three siblings, Nadine was the only one who had never experienced a proper training of life survival in the wild that once gave Velina a lot of stress.