Chapter 1540


    "Given what you know about Serena, what do you think the chances are she actually said those


    things?" Keh and Louisa peered anxiously at Arabe, as if on tenterhooks for her verdict.


    "One hundred percent."


    Arabe''s unequivocal response floored Keh and Louisa.


    "Has she been doing things behind our backs, things to hurt you, like disrespecting you, being two-


    faced, or maybe still carrying a torch for Romeo?"


    "Yes."


    The confirmation rocked Keh and Louisa to their core, "When did it start?"


    Was it recent weeks? The past couple of months?


    "Always."


    "You''re saying, for the entire six months since you returned home, Serena has been like this? Just


    putting on a show for us?"


    "Yes."


    Arabe''s final word left Keh and Louisa utterly stunned. They exchanged speechless nces,


    unable to articte their disbelief.


    "I''ve got some issues to sort out at the office. I should go," Arabe stood up; she had urgent matters to


    attend to.


    Louisa watched her leave, murmuring after a long silence, "How could this be?"


    They had doted on Serena all her life, and she had always been the picture of sweetness and empathy


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    in their eyes. They never imagined she would do such things behind their backs.


    "I thought Serena and Be would get along," Keh had not foreseen that Be''s homing


    would change things.


    "Be must have turned a blind eye to Serena''s behavior because of the bond we''ve formed with


    Serena over these eighteen years." Louisa was suddenly ovee with sorrow, "We wanted to make it


    up to Be, but instead, we''ve allowed her to be hurt under our very noses."


    And the hurt was inflicted by the daughter they had cherished for eighteen years.


    "Be is naturally reserved and quiet. If we hadn''t brought it up today, if Serena hadn''t been this way for


    six months, I doubt she would have ever mentioned it. I bet she''s suffered a lot in silence," at the


    thought of this, Keh was wracked with guilt.


    "She must have kept quiet about Serena''s actions to spare our feelings, to keep us from being upset.


    She''s so considerate, it breaks my heart."


    Louisa felt a lump in her throat, realizing that Be had faced every slight, every hypocrisy from Serena


    alone, all the while caring for her parents'' emotions, never speaking ill of Serena, always the picture of


    forbearance.


    "Serena must have been ndering Be behind her back this whole time; otherwise, Be wouldn''t be


    so certain it was her doing. Serena has be a stranger to us," Keh never imagined Serena


    changing this way.


    "I thought all the talks we had with Serena had sunk in. She always called Be ''sis'' and greeted her


    with such a bright smile. I was so pleased. To think it was all an act." Louisa felt a chill of


    disappointment and distress.


    "If Serena and Be truly can''t get along, there''s no point in forcing them to live under the same roof.


    Let''s have her move out in a few days." Keh said with a heavy sigh.