The Billionaire's Unauthentic Daughter ✔

C H A P T E R 7 6

❝When one forgives, two are healed.❞

I had borrowed Olivia's car for the day. Today was important. It was something I had promised myself to check after I left the mansion.

It had taken nearly three hours to arrive. It was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon with birds chirping in the afternoon sun and a pleasant atmosphere. The breeze and the faint smell of the salty sea in the air brought back fun childhood memories spent with my parents and my uncle and aunt.

Today was Sunday which reminded me that Ethan was supposed to move out on this day. He hadn't tracked me down and came to talk like he said he was going to on the phone and I wondered if he was just giving me time and space or that he genuinely didn't want anything to do with me anymore. I tried remaining optimistic. There was no way he wouldn't come. On top of that he knew about me from the very beginning and still fell for me so I found no reason as to why he wouldn't find me.

We called Heather the next day after returning because we were curious as to what was happening there. She told us that she got Juliet to keep quiet about it but she still feels awkward to fill in after me. She said that Juliet was finding it difficult to act like me and I was surprised and confused because I was pretending to be Juliet all that time. Then again I didn't exactly do a good job at it and was mostly just myself. The bad news was that her parents were starting to become suspicious and had even asked if she was on drugs and to be honest about it if she was taking them.

She told me that Ethan wanted to move out of the mansion at the earliest because he was already fed up of Juliet.

I rolled to a stop in front of the old house. It looked just the same except that my aunt had grown a few plants in her little garden which reminded me of my own garden with Ethan.

My aunt was Summer Greene and my uncle was Jeffrey Greene. I had lived with them in the city after my parents died and once I moved out of the house, they moved back to their house in the countryside.

I got out and took out the chocolates which my aunt loved so much and my uncle's favorite wine.

I called out once I entered but no one answered so they were probably at the back where our farm was. As expected my aunt had just finished picking the eggs the hens laid and my uncle was just sort of sitting in front of the crops, eating peanuts.

When my aunt spotted me her face lit up brightly and she rushed towards me. "Julie!" She squeezed me into a hug and that caught my uncle's attention. He smiled widely and got up to walk towards me.

"It's been months since we last saw or heard from you!" My aunt was still enthusiastic from my visit. She playfully hit my arm. "Why didn't you even call?"

I smiled and handed her the chocolates and the wine.

"There was no need for this! Why'd you buy it?"

"Oh come on, I know you love these chocolates."

"That's true but you still don't have to buy anything for us. You need the money so don't waste it on us." There was an uncharacteristic seriousness to her words but I ignored it.

She led us inside and I took a seat in the living room where she offered me freshly baked cookies which she had made to sell it in the market but had put aside some for themselves.

"These are really good!" I said, reveling the taste of her heavenly cookies. She was a really good baker.

My eyes skimmed over the small living room, lingering over the photo frames on the table of me with my parents along with them. We didn't really have a lot of pictures so the few that we had were treasured.