Chapter 38: Change In Heart

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

After the butler’s guidance, the selected maid’s eyes didn’t wander. She stood quietly behind Toya.

She didn’t help pull out the chair until Toya stood up after eating.

She did not make her presence felt.

Seeing that she was quite nimble, Toya didn’t say anything.

She asked her to follow her to her room to apply medicine to her back.

It was already a lot better, but it still hurt a little.

Reyes got a call from Sullivan. Sullivan asked him out to play, but he didn’t agree.

“I’ve already eaten. I’m not going.”

Sullivan sounded surprised. “It’s only seven! You eat so early?”

Reyes stood in front of the French window. It had just darkened outside.

“It’s okay even if you already ate. It won’t keep you from drinking.” Sullivan instigated him. “Hurry up and come over. I’ll open a bottle for you.”

“No, I have school tomorrow morning.”

Sullivan thought he heard him wrong and said, “Huh.”

He glanced at his phone. He had indeed called Reyes. “Going to school?”

Early in the morning?

“Come on, you don’t even know your class schedule. How can you attend school?”

Reyes said, “…None of your business.”

Sullivan clucked his tongue. “That’s so unusual of you. Is it because of your young stepmother or because of Toya?”

Sullivan still didn’t know that Toya was Reyes’ stepmother. Although he was also a young master of the upper-class circle, he liked to play around and hadn’t taken over the family business. Others had heard some rumors and guessed it, but he hadn’t heard any news.

Reyes rubbed his forehead. “Whatever you think it is.”

Sullivan laughed. He hadn’t realized by then that Reyes had actually implied that his stepmother was Toya.

He thought about the phone call he’d made to Toya and felt a little guilty, so he focused on Reyes’ stepmother. “How is your stepmother?”

Reyes said nothing. Sullivan thought maybe his question was too general. He changed the question. “How does she look? Is she beautiful?”

This was actually not a good question. How could there be a beautiful lady in the eyes of a picky young master like Reyes?

Sullivan was about to ask another question when Reyes unexpectedly answered.

He said, “She’s beautiful.”

It was two simple words.

But the fact that he could say that meant that Reyes was already able to face the fact that Toya was his stepmother.

Sullivan didn’t think too much of it. He was encouraged by Reyes. “I actually wanted to see her. What would she look like if she can win over Uncle Butler, that devoted man? Besides, even you said she was beautiful.”

“…There will be a chance. And I don’t think you’ll have such thoughts after you see her.”

“Huh?” Sullivan didn’t understand. “Is she bad-tempered?”

Toya’s temper was indeed not good.

“It’s a little bad.”

“Then you…” Sullivan asked cautiously.” You can’t get along with her? Did she bully you? “

“Not to that extent.” Reyes laughed.

After all, the other party was only engaged to Butler and had not even held a wedding yet. It would be too arrogant for her to bully Reyes now.

Sullivan asked, “Does she get along with Uncle Butler? Are they close?”

If Butler took her too seriously, Reyes’ future might not be easy.

“I don’t know how they used to get along, but Butler hasn’t been home in days. And they don’t live in the same room.”

“Their relationship seems very ordinary? They’re already engaged, but they’re still sleeping in separate rooms?”

“But how do you know Uncle Butler hasn’t been home these past few days? You don’t come home every day, do you?”

Sullivan knew that Reyes had an apartment next to his school, and he stayed there regularly. He rarely went home. He would stay there if he drank too much.

Reyes didn’t retort

Sullivan was speechless.

He felt that something was wrong, but he couldn’t say what it was.

Other than having a stepmother, nothing else had changed in Reyes’ family. Why had he suddenly started to like going home?

Previously, Reyes had asked him to help pursue Tonya, but after seeing his stepmother that night, the next day, he said that he wouldn’t pursue her.

Sullivan suspected at first that he had a change of heart, but when he thought about it, there was no one around him who could change his mind.

He liked Toya. How could he, with such a picky taste, like someone else so easily?

But if this person was his stepmother, it was not impossible.

After all, she was the woman Butler had chosen. She was naturally not an ordinary woman.

Was Reyes’ crush his stepmother?

Thinking of Reyes’ usual attitude toward his father, he felt that it didn’t seem like it was impossible for him to snatch a woman from his father.

Sullivan, as his best friend, felt obliged to stop him from making a big mistake.

“You’re already so old. Why do you keep coming home? Uncle Butler finally got a wife. Can’t you give them some privacy?”

Reyes frowned. “What’s wrong with you?”

He was still on his side just now and was afraid that he would be bullied.. Why did he start lecturing him in the blink of an eye?