Chapter 219 Innas Story 2 (2/2)
Now, she's really regretting talking about her life.
”My current parents. The ones that got me from the orphanage. And I can say it's true because I overheard my current parents talk about it before.”
”But I thought you felt that it was such a waste for you not to have met them and know what they looked like or how they were like?”
Hearing her words thrown back against her, Inna sighed as she dropped her arms.
”I know. And I hate myself for it. But as I've said, what's done is done. They're gone and I have to look at the present than focus on the past. Nothing's going to change even if I brood over that fact again and again. But I still can't help but get pissed, though.”
Raghnall was about to express his confusion when Inna cut him off with a deep sigh.
”I don't expect you to understand what I feel so don't try to understand how it would feel like for me. Instead, can we like… not focus so much on this? It's making me want to just shut up and sleep.”
Raghnall, after much hesitation, nodded his head slowly as he apologetically promised her that he'll no longer interfere.
Although not believing him fully, Inna thanked him with relief written in her gaze.
”Okay, so apparently my original parents had no other relatives, with both of them being the only child and their parents, which were my grandparents, were dead as well. My father had a wife but she expressed that she'd never accept me into their family. And besides, it would be weird if I were to go with her anyway since I was a baby born from an affair. Hence, they placed me in an orphanage.”
”Well, to answer the questions in your mind that you are probably dying to ask… No, I don't have any memories about the orphanage and I'm only telling all of this from what I heard and told to me by my current parents.”
Inna gave Raghnall a sharp look as Raghnall smiled sheepishly. She knew that he was dying to ask that since it was written all over his face.
”So, the parents that adopted me were actually from rich families. And that was also the reason as to why they decided to adopt me. Both my parents had an arranged marriage, neither possessing feelings for each other. At first, I thought that their avoidance and neutrality among each other was because they were just shy in expressing their feelings. But as I grew up, I began to realize that they absolutely had no feelings for each other. Turns out, they were both the only child in a family that runs several businesses and in order to keep both businesses running and prosper, they decided to fuse the two companies together through the arranged marriage. Thus, they were practically forced into marriage, without even knowing their differences and similarities.”
”Well, actually they knew they already had one thing in common. Their love for work and for money. In fact, they didn't care for anything else.… And you might be wondering why they decided to adopt, right?”
Raghnall instinctively nodded.
”Well, their families actually had a contract. In order for my parents to inherit each of their own families' companies, they had to fulfill two conditions. One was to get married. The other was to have a child.”