Chapter 647


    Suddenly, a silver car swerved in from the side of the road and stopped in front of her.


    Sylvia recognized that it was Thomas in the driver’s seat.


    She was taken aback. “Thomas?”


    Thomas got out of the car and walked up to her, towering over her with his height. “I’m here to see Grandma.”


    She muttered a curt “Oh.” in response.


    Thomas put a hand forward and touched her head, then he stared at her hazel eyes. “Why are you up so early?”? N?velDrama.Org - All rights reserved.


    She strained an unconvincing smile. “I just happened to wake up early.” “You have bags under your eyes. Did you not sleepst


    night?” he asked. She avoided his gaze and brushed it off. “I slept okay.”


    He softly rubbed the corner of her eyes with his warm fingertips, his voice was gentle andforting. “Is there something


    bothering you?” 1 Sylvia frowned. She was moved by the tenderness in his voice. So moved that she wanted to confide


    everything in him, but she figured that he would not be pleased to find out that it was about Odell.


    Before she could find a way to answer the question, Thomas spoke in a low, mellow voice, “Is it because of my brother?”


    She immediately cast him a look.


    He wore the same understanding expression and said, “I saw the news. The corporation is a mess now and it seems like he’s


    going to get pushed out.”


    Sylvia answered, “I just saw the news too.”


    Thomas gently patted her head again. “Don’t worry, he’s very resilient. I’m sure nothing bad will happen to him.”


    It was true. He was nearly killed by his stepmother before he even reached adolescence and survived all by himself. Surely he


    was still the same Odell, made of something greater than steel.


    However, she could not be so confident when she remembered the way he was relying on alcohol to sustain himself now.


    Thomas suddenly caressed her cheeks again with his slender, pointed fingers. A darker tone surfaced in his voice. “I’m going to


    get upset if you keep worrying about him.”


    Sylvia pursed her lips. “I’m sorry Thomas. | didn’t want things to be this way either.”


    If only she had not seen the sapphire ring, then Odell would not have told her about all his internal monologue back when


    Spencer kidnapped her and Tara. She would not be put in this state of mind to begin with. 1


    Thomas looked at her frail expression and fell silent for a few seconds. Then, he murmured,” You don’t need to apologize to me.


    I''m not upset because you''re concerned about him. | just don’t want you to get yourself hurt by getting involved with him again.”


    Sylvia looked at him with a ruminative look, then she blurted out, “He exined everything to


    me.


    “Exin what?”


    Just as she was about to confess, she suddenly took her hand and suggested. “There’s this ce that serves really good


    breakfast. Let’s talk while we eat.” He smiled gently at her. She felt a weight drop off her chest and smiled pleasantly back at him.


    1 After that, she got into the car with him. They arrived at the restaurant she talked about shortly after. Thomas requested a


    private room upstairs. The two of them sat face to face and Sylvia exined everything to him, including the rhetoric behind why


    Odell had chosen Tara instead of her. 1 After listening to her exnation, hemented, “His exnation sounds reasonable


    enough.” She stayed silent. She doubted that Odell would lie to her as well. Besides, he was not the type to lie. Thomas poured


    her a drink and said, “But | think he has this strange obsession with that Tara girl. It does seem like he cares a lot about her as


    well.” Sylvia sighed. “It’s all because of the ring.” Thomas’ hand that was holding a ss suddenly stiffened. He paused for a


    moment before reverting to his natural state and asked with an inquiring look, “What ring?”


    “There was this rainy night many years ago where | rescued him in an alley in the old district. Back then, we barely saw each


    other''s faces and didn’t know each other’s names but before he left, he gave me a sapphire ring. | was very close with Tara back


    then and she fell in love with the ring the moment she saw it, so | gave it to her. That’s how Odell came to mistake her as the one


    who saved him that night instead of me.”