Chapter 474 - Forgiveness and Going Home (1/2)

Once Nicolae told Lauriel, Caspar, and Finland that Aleksis was willing to meet them, the three wasted no time and immediately headed to the young man's house to meet Aleksis.

”Aleksis!!!” As soon as the door was opened, Finland rushed to hug her daughter who had run away from home for two months. ”I missed you so much ...”

She had noticed Aleksis' protruding belly, but Finland managed to calm herself down and did not mention it. She hugged Aleksis lovingly and stroked her daughter's hair.

”Mommy ...” Aleksis could only cry without tears on her mother's shoulder. Her tears have dried because she had been crying for the past two months.

Caspar and Lauriel who entered after Finland could only stand motionless. They quickly figured out that Aleksis was pregnant, and they didn't know what to do or how to act.

Nicolae just shook his head softly and signalled the two men not to say anything that would make Aleksis sad. Lauriel looked at his son deeply and sighed.

He knew how much Nicolae liked Aleksis, he had been protecting and shielding her all this while. Lauriel realized that Nicolae had fallen in love with the girl.

It was a pity Aleksis had married someone else and was now pregnant with his child ...

Finally, they let Aleksis and Finland cry until they couldn't cry anymore, then Caspar and Lauriel got their turn to hug Aleksis.

When Lauriel approached Aleksis to give her a hug, she was initially a little hesitant to return his hug ... There was anger still burning in her chest ...

But when she looked at Lauriel's grief-filled eyes, the anger in Aleksis's heart was swept away by a very cold wind and she finally hugged Lauriel back.

Yes ... she could now admit that all of this was her own fault ... She shouldn't have put all the blame on Lauriel. Lauriel was her godfather who loved her so much, and she was sure that all his decisions were made to ensure her happiness ...

Eighteen years ago when Aleksis was poisoned by bad-hearted people, Lauriel was even willing to die to neutralize the poison.

During the 20 years of her life, Aleksis had been receiving Lauriel's abundant affection and he had never stopped spoiling her. Of course Aleksis' sadness was his sadness too ... so Lauriel was probably in as much grief as she was.

Aleksis could not look at his blue and green eyes that were covered with sadness ...

Suddenly Aleksis was afraid that Lauriel would lose his desire to live and decide to take Death.

She hugged Lauriel even tighter.

”Forgive me for leaving, Uncle Rory ... I just needed time to calm down ...” Aleksis kissed Lauriel's cheeks and wiped the tears that began to wet her godfather's eyes. She realized how Lauriel was also devastated by everything that had happened. ”Please forgive me ...”

Lauriel just nodded; he was speechless. Everyone was then quiet, occupied with their own thoughts.

Nicolae, who was full of understanding, made hot drinks for everyone and they sat together while enjoying tea. Slowly, conversations started to surface and the ice started to break.

”We have news from Rhionen Industries ...”

The five were surprised that the TV had turned on suddenly and mentioned Rhionen Industries.

Nicolae had set a notification system so that the TV would turn on automatically when there was news about several topics that he was researching, and he had forgotten to turn it off. For the past few years, he had been investigating Rhionen Industries and had arranged for all of his TVs and computers to provide him with the news whenever it came up.

He even moved to Singapore and disguised himself as a student so he could enter the new Rhionen Industries office. During the past two months, after he returned to Bucharest, there had been no news about them so Nicolae forgot that he had installed this automatic settings.

Now, out of the blue, at such an imprecise time, the TV turned on and delivered news about Rhionen Industries, in front of his father and Aleksis.

Nicolae hurriedly looked for the remote to turn off the TV, but Aleksis held her hand and stopped him. The girl's eyes were fixed on the TV screen on the wall and her tears started flowing again as she saw the familiar faces on the screen.

”Rhionen Industries finally announced that the four children of Mr. Alaric Rhionen will replace him and take over the company group after a single accident that resulted in his death two months ago. All heirs to one of the largest corporate groups in Europe will lead a different division and they will reside in four branch companies, namely in Romania, in China, Singapore, and in the UK. Mischa Rhionen, Takeshi Rhionen, Kai Rhionen, and Rosalien Rhionen Mr. Rhionen's children who had been living in low profile and only appeared to the public this week. The public is very interested in this family because the Rhionen family is known for their privacy and never appeared in public. Many people are surprised by the news, because they never knew who the Rhionen Industries owners are, until the death of the patriarch.”