Grace cried for a long time. Charlotte stood there with her arms crossed, watching coldly, and showed no sign offorting her.


    In the end, Grace began to hup between sobs and stopped crying. She refused to take her medicine. She turned over and closed her eyes to sleep.


    Charlotte sneered. She thought Grace would cry until it was dark, but clearly, her stamina wascking.


    "Grace, please rest well. When you recover, we will take you back home. Natalie''s room is already prepared, and you have seen it. When Natalie returns, you can stay with her. You two have a deep bond. Nobody can separate you."


    Charlotte spoke softly. She pulled up the nket to cover Grace, then turned and walked out of the hospital room.


    As soon as she stepped into the hallway, her gentle expression vanished and turned cold instead.


    William was on the phone, giving instructions. He had arranged a newpany for his daughter.


    Natalie usually wore a ck jacket and work pants. She tied her long hair up and never wore makeup, but she was still beautiful. Still, she always wore ck, which seemed gloomy.


    So, William and Charlotte decided to give Natalie a fashionpany. Thepany produced new designs every day. Since Natalie was pretty and had a great figure, they wanted her to wear more stylish and colorful clothes.


    The Langleys had acted horribly all these years. As parents, William and Charlotte had not known before, but now that they did, they could not let their daughter endure more mistreatment.


    Charlotte had already given birth to five sons before finally having the daughter she had longed for. She wished she could keep her child protected in the palm of her hand. She definitely would not allow the Langleys to get away with what they had done.


    "The Langleys don''t deserve anything. And Grace deserves nothing either," Charlotte snarled through gritted teeth. "At a time like this, she still wants to see Natalie. How dare she! Shameless!"


    "Calm down," William said. "Thewyer from the Langley Group, Walter Watson, will arrive in Dithoria soon. I''m going to meet him personally."


    He put an arm around Charlotte''s shoulders. "You will have to keep acting with Grace. As for Natalie, Marcus is helping us keep her busy for now, so she won''te to see Grace."


    "Our daughter is too kind and holds onto debts of gratitude too tightly. Even if she suspects Grace''s motives and knows there are many questionable points from the past, she might still pretend not to know and continue listening to Grace."


    Charlotte frowned, her eyes shing with a cold glint. She didn''t mind housing Grace for the rest of her life, but every time she saw her, she remembered the days her daughter had been dragged off to draw blood.


    They imed it was genuine love, but in reality, Grace and the evil couple had put on a good-cop-bad-cop act. While abusing Natalie, they gave her tiny favors so she would feel grateful.


    The more deprived she felt, the more she cherished that small show of affection.


    Human feelings wereplicated, so Charlotte could not say for sure that Grace had not loved Natalie at all. Someone who pretended for so many years without any real emotions would have shown cracks at some point.


    Grace had kept up her good-grandmother act for 20 years. Outsiders could never fully see whaty between them.


    Still, Charlotte and William nned to cut off Natalie''s connection to the Langleys. If their daughter could not make that choice on her own, they would act as the bad guys instead.


    "I believe Natalie won''t do that," William said with certainty. He had a good eye for people. Natalie valued kindness and appreciated favors, but her recent decision to avoid Grace showed she had already made up her mind.


    "I''ll go meet Walter."


    "Alright, I''lle too."


    "No, you can''t. You have to stay here at the hospital and watch over Grace," William said, holding Charlotte''s hand. "Ever since we learned Grace allowed Victor and Diana to draw our daughter''s blood, we lost all respect for her. But we still have to keep up appearances.


    "My dear, you''re a woman, so I''ll leave the task of keeping an eye on Grace to you."


    "Yes, I know." Charlotte let out a breath. "Don''t worry, I''ll pretend to show Grace some respect."


    "Thank you," William said, smiling. "No matter if our daughter epts us fully or not, we need to think of her future. We want her to be happy from now on."


    "That''s a must," Charlotte said, a proud smile on her lips. "My daughter was born to enjoy a good life." "Yes, she was."


    The couple exchanged a smile. Then, William left.


    Charlotte stood in the hallway for a moment, adjusting her mood and her acting. After that, she turned around and walked back into Grace''s hospital room.


    An hourter, Walter walked out of the airport carrying a briefcase.


    William had assigned bodyguards to stand guard at every exit, each holding a sign that said, "Wee, Mr. Watson."


    This way, no matter which exit Walter used, the bodyguards could find him right away.


    Walter thought Natalie had arranged for someone to pick him up, so he went to the nearest bodyguard.


    "Hello, I''m Walter Watson."


    "Hello, Mr. Watson. We''re private security sent by Ms. Walker." The bodyguard spoke respectfully. "This way, please."


    "Thank you."


    "You mentioned Ms. Walker. Is that Natalie?"


    "Yes."


    Walter felt surprised. After Selena returned to the Langley family, Victor and Diana forced Natalie to drop their surname and move out. They no longer acknowledged her as their adopted daughter.


    So why were these bodyguards showing Natalie such respect?


    "Mr. Watson, Mr. Walker is waiting in the car," one of the bodyguards said. He noticed Walter''s doubt and exined, "Once you meet him, you''ll understand everything."


    "Alright." Walter nodded and followed them outside.


    They walked to a ck Maybach in the parking lot. A bodyguard opened the door and politely said, "Mr. Watson, please get in."


    William was sitting in the back seat. He put away his documents and waved. "Hello, Mr. Watson. I''m William Walker, Natalie''s biological father."


    Walter froze for a second. Then, he climbed in without showing much emotion.


    He was not worried it was a trap set by the Langleys because none of them had this kind ofmanding presence.


    Natalie was not the Langleys'' real daughter. Everyone in the family had made a big deal of Selena being the true daughter instead.


    If Natalie had found her birth parents, it would not be strange at all that she wanted to leave the Langleys.