Chapter 222: Superstition
Chapter 222: Superstition
After that, Maria Julian was in poor health and could not take care of Lauren Torres. Therefore, Lauren Torres was brought up by a nanny hired by the Torres family.
And then, grandmother felt that Lauren Torres was a jinx to the Torres family. Thus she did not allow Lauren Torres to get close to Maria Julian.
When Lauren Torres was half a year old, she was sent away.
Therefore, the first time Maria Julian saw Lauren Torres was when she was born. This weekend was the second time she saw Lauren Torres.
Judging from Maria Julian’s attitude towards Lauren Torres, she still missed Lauren Torres very much.
“I’ll talk to Dad. You don’t have to worry.”
Lauren Torres nodded. She only hoped that everything would go smoothly.
Franklin Torres brought Lauren Torres to the second floor and let her rest in her room for a while. Then, he gently knocked on the door of his parent’s bedroom.
Sean Torres came out very quickly. The tension and anxiety in between his eyebrows and eyes just now were gone.
When he saw his eldest son, he softly asked him what had gone wrong, closed the door, and took Franklin Torres to the corridor to talk. He was worried that they might disturb Maria Julian from resting.
“Dad, is Mom okay?”
Sean Torres sighed.
“She’s all right now. I’ve just called Dr. Wentworth and told him about your Mom’s condition. Now I just have to wait for her to wake up.”
Franklin Torres nodded. “That’s good.”
“Dad, Lauren said she wants to see Mom.”
Sean Torres didn’t answer immediately as if he was struggling with his thoughts.
Thus Franklin Torres continued, “I know what you’re thinking. You’re just like Grandma, thinking that it’s Lauren who caused mom’s health to deteriorate.”
“It’s not just what I think. It’s just that everything is too coincidental. It’s so coincidental that I don’t believe it’s a coincidence. Your Mom is the person I love the most in my life. I don’t want anything to happen to her. Thus if Lauren really was the cause for her current condition, there’s nothing I can do. Even if I have to force the two of them to separate, I will do it.”
At this moment, Lauren Torres was lying on the bed. Just like what Franklin Torres had told her to do, she was resting for a while.
However, she could still hear every single word of their conversation from two meters away. Sometimes, it was not a good thing to have good hearing. She had to listen to everything, including those she did not want to hear.
“Dad, I know you love Mom, but don’t you think this is only your decision? It should be Mom’s decision whether to let Lauren see her or not.”
Franklin Torres put his hands into his pockets and paced two steps in the corridor.
“Since you love Mom, you should respect her wishes. Lauren is her biological daughter. Maybe Mom wants to see her very much. Don’t you want Mom to be happy?”
Franklin Torres was indeed an expert negotiator in the business world. Since Sean Torres loved Maria Julian, he would use Maria Julian as a “bargaining chip”.
Sean Torres seemed to be stumped by this matter as well. He leaned against the wall and pinched the space between his eyebrows.
How could he not know what his wife was thinking? He knew very well how
much she missed Lauren Torres.
Sometimes, when she fell asleep at night, he would notice she was crying. However, she was not awake. She was only crying in her dreams.
He would hear her call out Lauren Torres’s name. At times like this, there was nothing he could do.
After learning that Lauren Torres would return, Maria Julian had actually proposed to visit her countless times. However, both Sean Torres and his mother had stopped her.
The Torres family had been able to stand firm in the country for so many years, so they naturally had their strength. However, they were also very superstitious. Every year, they would invite a master to perform a ritual to ensure that the Torres family would be safe and successful throughout the year. However, ever since Tang Lan was born, everything had become terrible. That was why they had no choice but to conclude that Lauren Torres was a jinx to the Torres family.
Lauren Torres was his daughter, so he naturally loved her, too. However, he had no choice but to give up on these petty love affairs in the face of the big picture.
Now that he heard his eldest son say this and recalled how Maria Julian cried countless times during the night, he felt that he had let her down too much by doing this.
Therefore, he nodded his head.
“Alright. When your mother wakes up later, let Lauren go in and see her.” He then returned to his room.
Franklin Torres opened the door to Lauren Torres’s room and saw her lying straight on the bed with her eyes closed. She looked like a zombie and it was a little funny.
“Dad has already agreed. You can go and see her when Mom wakes up.”
Lauren Torres opened her eyes and nodded.