Dn did not learn of Ondo’s disappearance until after his return.


    Seeing a serious expression on the face of someone who had been all smiles a moment ago, Vanessa realised what was going on. She frowned slightly and looked a little worried.


    Something had happened to thepany, hadn’t it?


    All this time, Dn had been busy with Vanessa’s business and must have been very neglectful of thepany. It had been hard to return to Pacifica City, but he had taken an extra week’s holiday before going back to the office.


    The man who had been workingte every day, surprisingly, came home early for Vanessa and her daughter.


    -What’s wrong?


    Vanessa asked with concern only when she saw Dn hang up the phone.


    There was no way Vanessa didn’t want to know why Dn resented Gerardo and Ondo, she just didn’t ask.


    Until then, there had not been adequate opportunity for her to ask.


    And now, the time hase.


    Dn looked at Vanessa and felt that he should tell her everything, that since she had been used by him before, she had a right to know and should not keep it to herself.


    Just because Vanessa didn’t ask didn’t mean Dn could remain silent.


    -It’s about Ondo. He’s been out of sight since he fled the country, and my people had a hard time finding him. I knew Ondo would never give up, so I nned to keep him abroad for the rest of his life, unable to return. Just now my men called and said Ondo had disappeared.


    -Disappeared? -What happened?


    Vanessa asked, frowning.


    I wasn’t worried about Ondo, but subconsciously I wanted to ask for rification.


    Dn thought about how in love she had been with Ondo, knowing that Vanessa supposedly hated Ondo, but still couldn’t help but worry that there were other feelings in her heart.


    Because I loved her so much, it was inevitable that I was not confident enough.


    -Vanessa, could you… think I’m too hard on Ondo?


    Seeing what was going through Dn’s head, Vanessa didn’t know what to say.


    Since when was this powerful man so insecure in front of her?


    -If you’re not hard on him, he’ll turn to you. I know all that, so you don’t need to say it, let alone care. Right now we’re talking about what happened in Ondo.


    Vanessa said calmly.


    She even reflected on whether she had been too hard on Dn.


    Dn, a tough man who had always been the only one, had learned to think for others and to care about their feelings.


    -He took a cruise ship without knowing what to expect and ended up sinking in an ident while the cruise ship was sailing at night. Several people on board were missing and unounted for, and Ondo was among them.


    -Were there many people involved in the ident?


    -The shipwreck was not serious and the rescue was timely, so basically no one died, while those who disappeared were unlucky. It could also be that it was too chaotic…. Anyway, Ondo is now missing. But it’s okay, my people will keep looking for him and will always find him.


    Ondo is the insecurity in Dn’s heart.


    Just by keeping an eye on Ondo, Dn would not have to worry about Vanessa’s safety with his daughter.


    -Hmm,” said Vanessa, adding after a moment’s thought. Be careful.


    When Vanessa finished and left, with no intention of pursuing the matter further, Dn took to grabbing her wrist.


    The way the slender wrist looked like it would break if he gently squeezed it challenged Dn to push.


    -Don’t you want to know why I’m killing Gerardo and Ondo when I’m obviously also from the Moya family?


    Vanessa looked at Dn again.


    -Do you want to talk to me about it?


    He worried that Dn didn’t want to talk about it and that the past was something he didn’t want to worry about anymore.


    -There is nothing I can’t tell you.


    Dn pulled Vanessa closer to the couch and sat down next to her.


    He looked down, his eyes fixed on her pale, soft hand, and unconsciously ced it in his palm, squeezing it gently.


    -You’ve seen the news.


    -The one who said that Gerardo was not a real Moya family person?


    Dn nodded.Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org.


    -Good.


    Vanessa stared at him, saying nothing, and Dn felt self-conscious enough to exin.


    -What the news said was true, Gerardo was just an orphan that the Moya family adopted from the orphanage. They adopted him out of kindness, and raised him and treated him like a true son of the Moya family. Growing up, everything my father had, Gerardo had as well. He was an adopted son, but of course he could not have inherited thepany of the Moya family. But the Moya family was kind to him, giving him a share of thepany and some real estate. Unfortunately, Gerardo was so greedy and because the Moya family treated him so well, he forgot that he was an adopted orphan and not from the Moya family.


    Some people are like that, they never know how to be grateful.


    -As he loved the whole Moya family, Gerardo took over my parents’ car. When I was about eight years old, my parents died in a car ident. And at that time my grandfather was gone and my grandmother was still alive. The Moya family was left with Gerardo and me, and no one to control him. Not many people knew Gerardo when he was adopted by my grandfather, so it was natural that Gerardo became the heir of the Moya family after that.


    Gerardo was a man who held a grudge against the family that had adopted him.


    He finally got what he wanted and took his rightful ce at the head of the Moya family.


    And the only person in the Moya family, Dn, is the only thing standing in Gerardo’s way.


    -Gerardo had just taken over the Moya family and his position was still unstable. To consolidate his position and show his generosity, he did nothing to the young me. Instead, he sent me out of the country iming that the death of my parents had affected me so much that he had to send me abroad to recover. After that, I lived under his gaze, surrounded by his people, and led a life that naturally cannot be described. He didn’t want to raise me either, and would have preferred me to die earlier. So at the age of fourteen he left me alone, took back the nanny and the house and set me adrift abroad alone.


    A fourteen-year-old boy!


    Feeling Dn’s fingers grip her hand a little tighter, Vanessa couldn’t help but look up at him.


    Dn kept his head down, wondering if it was because he was remembering a past he didn’t want to face that he didn’t want Vanessa to see his expression.


    -I had nowhere to live and no money, and I was only fourteen. Gerardo wanted me to die, but I wouldn’t let him. I struggled at the bottom of thedder, living in the slums and working my way up. I was trying to stay alive every day, trying to learn, trying to build myself up.


    Vanessa cannot even imagine how a fourteen-year-old girl can grow up safely in such a dangerous ce as a slum.


    Not to mention the fact that the slums abroad are very poorly policed, even with dangerous people with guns everywhere.