His Domineering Lover

Aleigha hesitated and then followed Dustin upstairs.

"Grandpa, hold my hand."

Dustin didn't refuse her.

On the second floor, Dustin went straight to Emilia's room.

Lainey and her daughter hurried upstairs too.

They finally guessed what Dustin was going to do.

In Emilia's room, Dustin's eyes swept around.

"See if you can find it here. Take your time," he said to Aleigha.

Dustin was determined to teach the mother and daughter a lesson today.

"Grandpa, why are you doing this?"

Emilia grabbed Aleigha by her hand to stop her.

"Someone, take Emilia down."

Dustin would be hard on her if she had admitted her fault in the first place.

But it was too late now.

As a man of the world, he could see through her trick at once.

Emilia shouldn't have lied to him.

He felt very disappointed that his granddaughter whom he had thought highly of was so base.

He could stand her squandering money and was even willing to buy her way into a college.

However, he wouldn't take a thief.

Moreover, Aleigha, the granddaughter whom he had abandoned, obviously surpassed Emilia in every aspect.

It made him very distraught.

Aleigha searched randomly and then came to the table.

Emilia's heart lifted into her throat at this moment.

Lainey was very anxious too but could do nothing.

"Father, leave it to the servants."

Marcos walked in front of Dustin and deliberately blocked his line of sight.

"Move! If you help them again, you are to leave the house and never come back!"

Dustin had three sons and two daughters, and among them, Marcos, the youngest son, had been his favorite.

Marcos's brothers and sisters had all held important positions in the Gardner family's company.

But after Lainey had married him, both his brothers had died within ten years, and their children had also passed away because of accidents. One brother's pregnant wife had also died in a car accident.

The loss had been so great that Dustin's health collapsed and he had suffered a stroke in the past years.

Dustin's two daughters had left the family since the disasters and had never come back.

Dustin had thought all these were his karma. Maybe he had done something wrong in his youth.

But as time passed by, he started to suspect.

It was since Lainey's coming that his family had become broken.

He suspected her but had no evidence.

Therefore, during these years, he had been wary of Lainey all the time and had made Marcos a puppet with no actual power.

The Gardner family was actually in the charge of his two daughters.

He was afraid that his family would fall into Lainey's hands one day.

His love for Emilia was not faked. She had been his only grandchild before Aleigha came back.

But now...

"Father, it's unfair to Emilia!"

Lainey could bear it no longer and dashed toward Dustin.

How could he do this to her daughter for an insignificant country girl?

"It's fair to everyone. You don't need to go to the company tomorrow. I will find someone to take over your work."

Aleigha rummaged through the table while hearing them intently.

Perhaps there was something she didn't know about the Gardner family.

After a few minutes, Aleigha casually picked up a book and gave it a slight shake. A piece of paper fell out from it.

"What's it?"

Her voice drew everyone's attention.

The golden tile of the acceptance letter was too conspicuous to be mistaken.

Everyone realized what it was immediately.

Emilia looked at Lainey helplessly with a pale face.

Lainey was not much better either, her eyes fastened on the paper.

"Grandpa, This is..."

Aleigha picked up it and when she saw her name on it, her joy was genuine.

She then handed it to Dustin.

Dustin took it over seriously and carefully read the words on it.

He felt a trace of pride because no matter what, Aleigha was a Gardner too.

Even his two daughters were not as excellent as she was.

"Come, dear. Follow me."

Dustin's voice had never been so gentle.

Aleigha was stunned, so were the others.

Especially Emilia, she even felt a sense of despair, fearing that Aleigha might replace her.

Taking the hint of her mother, Emilia quickly broke free and ran to kneel down before Dustin.

"Grandpa, I was wrong. Please forgive me, grandpa," Emilia cried.

Dustin was distressed to see her tears.

"Grandpa, please forgive her. I believe Emilia did mean it," Aleigha said.