Ernesto instantly felt full of power.
"I'll wait for you, but you can't just turn your back on me. Alison, you have to be honest. You have to do
what you promise me, you know? I'm starting to get things ready for the wedding. What kind of
wedding do you like? I'll arrange it."
Ernesto felt like his heart were on a roller coaster today. And he actually felt everything so unreal right
now.
Alison, however, said indifferently, "There's nothing in particular I want. In fact, we can just go and get a
marriage license."
"How can you do that? The most beautiful time in a woman's life is when she's wearing a wedding
dress. I can't let you feel inferior to anyone else. Now Mr. Green has asked me to manage the foreign
branch. I'm at least respectable enough to be worthy of you now. Just wait and be Mrs. Orozco."
Hearing what Ernesto said, Alison froze for a moment before responding.
"Your last name is Orozco?"
"Alison, don't tell me you don't know my last name?"
Ernesto was instantly depressed.
Alison, however, smiled and said, "I do not know. They call you Ernesto all the time."
"Alison!"
Ernesto was really angry.
Alison, however, was very cheerful and said, "I'll be your wife when I get back. Ernesto, I'm giving you
the rest of my life. You'll have to catch it."
"Yeah. I'll catch you."
Ernesto replied solemnly before he saw the screen go black and Alison had hung up the phone.
Although she couldn't see Ernesto anymore, Alison was still smiling.
In all the time she had been back to the Close family, today was the happiest day she had ever had.
She had never thought she would fall for Ernesto.
The nerdy-looking but silly boy seemed to be a little younger than her.
Never mind. She didn't mind that he was younger than her.
Alison felt as if she was in a bubble of happiness, which was especially unreal and sweet.
Suddenly, she reacted with a jolt, feeling that someone was spying on her. With that, she picked up
something next to her hand and threw it straight at it.
"Alison, it's me."
Ebby was almost hit. She hurriedly stepped out while the flowerpot that flew over instantly shattered
around her.
If she was hit by the pot, she would definitely be seriously injured.
Ebby took a deep breath.
Alison's eyes deepened.
"I didn't know you had a fetish for snooping."
Ebby was a little embarrassed by Alison's sarcasm, but still walked in.
"Did you just call your boyfriend? What does your boyfriend do?"
"What? You're here to investigate me so soon? I have to be bugged to make a phone call now?"
Alison spoke coldly as she looked at her indifferently.
Ebby frowned at her attitude and said in a low voice, "Alison, do you have to be so hostile to me?"
"Then what should I do to you?"
Alison threw the phone directly onto the bed, which coincidentally was very close to Ebby. But the
phone was already blacked out, so she couldn't see anything.
Ebby was a little curious, yet she knew that Alison disliked her, so she took a deep breath and said,
"The Close family's situation is rather special right now, so you'd better not contact the outside world
easily. I'm not tapping your phone. It's for the family's sake. You are, after all, the eldest daughter of the
Close family. If the servants see that even you don't follow the rules, I can hardly manage them."
"What does it matter to my daughter whether you can manage them or not? My daughter doesn't even
have the right to make a phone call now? Or does she need you to agree and decide what kind of
boyfriend she wants?"
Clark suddenly pushed his wheelchair out, and what he said surprised Ebby.
"Brother, how can you say that about me? You should know that I'm doing it for Alison's own good."
"No need. You're doing her a favor by just not coming and giving her a hard time."
Clark said indifferently, and his attitude was now completely different than he was.
Ebby couldn't accept such a gap, yet she knew that maybe Clark knew the truth about Alison's loss and
couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved.
"Brother, you're blaming me too, aren't you? Do you also think I lost Alison on purpose back then?
She's my niece and I'm her aunt. How could I have lost her on purpose? All these years, I've been
running around out there looking for Alison."
Clark, however, didn't want to hear what she was saying.
"Aunt? Since you're her aunt, what are you doing here eavesdropping on her phone calls?"
"I didn't!"
"Then what are you doing here? You care about her? How do you care about her? You asked her who
she was calling and asked her to follow the rules of the Close family. But over the years, has Alison
eaten a grain of rice or drunk a drop of water from the Close family? Even if she grew up breathing the
air only, it's not the air of the Close family she's breathing! How could you use the rules of the Close
family to bind her?"
Clark's words directly caused Ebby to gag.
"Brother, you're being unreasonable."
"I'm just being unreasonable. What's wrong? My daughter has been lost for more than twenty years.
Now that she's finally back, yet she still has to abide by the rules of the Close family. You forbid her to
do this and that. Does she even have to report to you to get a boyfriend? I don't think that’s
reasonable!"
Clark had never spoken to Ebby like this before.
Ever since Ebby had lost her family for the Close family, Clark had doted on her. Over the years, he
had never scolded her, but today, he was arguing with her for Alison.
As she watched Clark defend her, Alison was a little touched, but not that impulsive.
She was truly cold-blooded to the bone towards the Close family even if that person was her father or
her aunt.
"All right. If you two want to argue, go out and do it. I've got a headache!"
Alison's gentle voice instantly silenced Clark.
"You have a headache? Alison, are you catching a cold?"
"Can you go out? As long as you are not here with me, I don't have a headache."
Alison's words made Clark's face go a little pale. He glanced at Alison and could not help but feel a little
sad when he really saw a hint of annoyance and impatience in her eyes.
His daughter was still not willing to give him the chance to redeem himself.
Clark, who had been very spirited when he scolded Ebby earlier, now suddenly drained and burned
out.
Ebby had never seen her brother like this.
Even when Clark had broken his legs, she had never seen Clark look sad and depressed. Now he had
turned into this state because of Alison's words. To be honest, Ebby felt quite uncomfortable in her
heart.
"Alison, how can you talk to your father like that?"
Alison raised an eyebrow while her cold eyes made Ebby very unhappy.
Clark, however, pulled Ebby and said, "I don't blame her. It was me who barged in. Let’s go out and let
Alison have a good rest."
After saying that, he tugged Ebby's hand and walked out without a word, while Alison narrowed her
eyes slightly.
62fb1bb41dcb31934bd49bda