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Soon, Rosabella would become the daughter of the owner of Soromon Island as well as the sister of the future owner of Neah Bay. By then, destroying Shaun and Cate would just be as easy as squashing an ant.
She just hoped that Sheryl’s memory would never be restored.
Matthew took her to the chateau. After a short while, a married couple walked down the stairs.
Rosabella had seen Sheryl in the Cox family’s photo. Only when she met Sheryl in person did she realize she looked much better in real life. Sheryl looked mature and charming. Just like a blooming rose, she appeared icily elegant and noble.
After feeling dazed, Rosabella soon began to put on an act. “Mom…”
Matthew’s expression shifted a little, whereas Sheryl looked at Rosabella with perplexity. “You know I’m your mom, huh?”
“I’ve seen you in Granny’s photo.” Rosabella began to choke up. “Something happened to you soon after you gave birth to me.”
“What happened?” Sheryl asked gently, but her gaze became sharp without anyone noticing it.
With her current status and rank, she had to be alert now that a daughter who seemingly came from nowhere was acknowledging her.
“You got swept up in a typhoon.” Rosabella bit her lip. “I was too young back then, so I’m not very sure. I only got to know about the incident when Granny mentioned it during her last moments a few years ago. She said that you suddenly headed to Country T because of a call. At that time, there was a typhoon and you went missing after that. The police said that the typhoon might’ve swept you into the sea and you didn’t survive. Grandpa and Granny even had a cenotaph erected for you.”
Sherly’s chest stiffened.
She had been rescured from the sea. Apart from the island owner and a few of his confidants, no one else knew about the incident. Now that those confidants had passed away, only Titus and Mathew knew about it.
“So is my mom already dead?” Sherly was baffled, and her heart ached.
“Not only is Granny dead, but Grandpa has also long since passed away. They were already in their 80s.” Redecca sighed with red eyes. “You also have an elder brother called jeffery jones, and Uncle treats me pretty well.”
“Really?” A look of distress washed over Sherly’s face.
Despite her memory loss, she could remember that it was her parents who raised her ever since she was born. She was supposed to fulfill her filial duty at this time, yet she ended up in this distant place. “Is my brother doing well?”
“No, he’s in jail.” Rosabella sighed.
Sheryl was stunned, Then, she narrowed her beautiful eyes. “What happened?”
“It’s quite a complicated matter.”
Rosabella pursed her lips. After hesitating for a moment, she said, “It has to do with his daughter. Oh well, let’s drop it. Mom, I actually came to Neah Bay this time to look for you. I wasn’t sure if you were still alive either. But a year ago, I came across a man who told me that he saw someone in Neah Bay who looked like me. I thought you might still be alive, so I came here with a purpose. I was just trying my luck, but I didn’t expect…”
Tears trickled down her face again. ” I didn’t know how else I could search for you. I won three days in a row in the casino, hoping to attract attention among the people in Neah Bay. Perhaps you’d be aware of me and notice our resemblance…”
“Enough. I understand everything.” Sheryl went to Rosabella and hugged her gently. Her previous doubts about Rosabella coming to Neah Bay had vanished at this moment. “You must’ve had a hard time over the years, my girl.”
“No, I’m more than happy just being able to see my biological mother in my lifetime,” Rosabella said amid her sobs.
Titus, who was beside them, knitted his brows together. He then asked with a cold, deep tone, ” Which man told you about it? What does he look like?”
Titus was tall and sturdily built.
Therefore, his air of authority instantly made Rosabella nervous and frightened. “I… I have no idea as well. He was sitting beside me in the first class seat of a plane.”
“Alright, hubby. She’s my daughter. The DNA test results can’t be wrong.” Sheryl gave Titus a nasty look.
Titus snorted. ” She’s had plastic surgery before. ” With his keen eyes, he realized it at first glance.
He hated women who had undergone plastic surgery as they were inauthentic and stiff.
Rosabella’s face was not even half as natural as Sheryl’s.
Considering that Titus had taken an instant liking to Sheryl back then, he should not be averse to her daughter. For some reason, however, he subconsciously felt that Rosabella lacked the aura Sheryl had when she was young even though they bore a passing resemblance.
Rosabella’s expression stiffened. “I didn’t mean to have plastic surgery. I offended some powerhouses in Australia a couple of years ago, so I had no choice but to have plastic surgery and leave. This is an old photo of me.”
She turned on her phone and searched for an old photo before handing it to them.
Luckily, she looked more like Jeffery. Her past appearance bore a slight resemblance to both Cate and Sheryl.
Sheryl took a look at the photo and glanced at her afterward. There was not the slightest doubt in Sheryl’s mind about it anymore, especially after she caught sight of Jeffery in the photo. Although Jeffery looked old, she could tell from his face that he was quite like herself. ” Is this my elder brother?”
“Mm. ” Rosabella nodded. “Uncle is quite nice. Even during those ten years or so when I was kidnapped “You were kidnapped?” Sheryl widened her eyes.
“Yeah. When I was playing with Uncle and the rest at the age of four or five, I ran around and got kidnapped. I stayed in the countryside after that,” Rosabella told half-truths, “Uncle and Granny didn’t give up searching for me and they finally found me several years back. They even pulled some strings and sent me to college.”
“It’s all my doing.” Sheryl was heartbroken.
All of a sudden, Titus asked brutally, “Who were you trying to avoid that you had to undergo plastic surgery? How did you offend those powerhouses?”
Rosabella opened her mouth and said, “The Cox family is a bit complicated. I have a cousin who’s m y uncle’s daughter. She’s very pretty, and many say that she looks like my aunt. She also bears a slight resemblance to Mom. Ever since I returned, Granny and Uncle have been treating me very well and trying their best to make it up to me. My cousin, whom they had been pampering earlier, was probably jealous and kept finding faults with me.
Later… because her childhood sweetheart fell in love with me, our relationship turned sour.”
Upon hearing it, Sheryl took an immediate dislike to her so-called niece. She said with a scoff, “Mutual love is needed in relationships. Since her childhood sweetheart doesn’t like her even though they grew up together, what gives her the right to hold a grudge against you? This shows that her character is horrible.”
Rosabella was inwardly delighted to hear Sheryl say that. Nevertheless, she expressed a sorrowful look. ” Soon after my relationship with Nathan was confirmed, she did everything possible to be involved with the then wealthiest man in Australia, Shaun Lyons. She wanted to take revenge on us.”
” Shaun Lyons?” Titus frowned. “I’ve heard someone mention this name before. Incidentally, he seems to be one of the top lawyers in the world.”
“He’s not only the top lawyer in Australia but also the wealthiest man in Australia.”
Rosabella added, “My cousin seduced Shaun and caused trouble for the Cox family. By the way, you used to develop a company called Hudson. Granny initially planned to let me take over Hudson, but my cousin pretended to be your daughter with Shaun’s help and took over the company. When Granny wanted to expose her, she even… went as far as pushing Granny down the stairs in the house when Granny was sick. She even got Shaun to dispute a lawsuit for her. We couldn’t beat Shaun.”
“Initially, she planned to push the blame for Granny’s death to me, but Uncle and Aunt took responsibility for it in order to save me. I spent several nights escaping Melbourne and secretly left Australia after that.”
“What?” Sheryl’s expression changed drastically.
One owed a great debt of gratitude to their mothers for bringing them to this world. At the thought that her mother was killed, Sheryl wished she could cut her so-called niece into pieces.
“How cruel! ” Matthew was so infuriated that he began to criticize as well, “She killed her biological parents and grandmother? Why does such a cruel woman exist?”
” I reckon she was jealous. When I got engaged to Nathan, Uncle and Aunt didn’t object to it. Instead, they showed us their support. Besides, Uncle and Granny, who took pity on me for being kidnapped back then, went all out to make it up to me. My cousin wasn’t happy about it. She thought that I snatched everything from her ever since I returned.
At the same time, she hated Uncle and Aunt. After all, she had been pampered since young.”
After grumbling about it, Rosabella noticed the furious look on Sheryl’s face. She held her hand. ” Mom, I believe what goes around comes around. I heard Shaun has been a shadow of his former self recently. He’s no longer the wealthiest man in Australia, and Lyons Corporation is currently dead in the water. As for my cousin, she married Shaun afterward but he soon fell for someone else and dumped her. This could be karma.”
“Karma?” Sheryl smirked indifferently. “How is that enough? I didn’t know about them back then, but now I know. I won’t let these people off the hook.”
“By the way, where’s your dad?” Matthew finally raised a question that Sheryl had been wanting to ask. However, she dared not ask because of Titus’ presence.
As expected, Titus’ face turned grim within seconds. He glowered at his son so hard that he wished he could eat him up.
Matthew touched his nose, thinking that his father was truly petty. Anyway, this issue had to be clarified sooner or later.
“My dad?” Rosabella sighed. “Mom, you might not know that you gave birth to me before you got married… After Dad got into a relationship with you, his family made him marry another woman. He hasn’t known about my existence for 20 years. “
Sheryl was utterly disappointed. “I was so blind at that time, huh?”
Titus then sneered, “He’s trash. How dare he be so irresponsible toward the woman he fooled around with? What a coward and a scumbag! Wifey, you had such bad taste before this.”
Sheryl indeed felt humiliated, yet she could not deny the truth.
Rosabella laughed. “Karma struck again recently. The media suddenly revealed that his wife cuckolded him plenty of times and even gave birth to a daughter who belonged to someone else. But the most shameful thing was that the man whom his wife had an affair with was my dad’s biological brother. It means that the daughter is now my dad’s niece.”
“That’s really confusing. ” Sheryl subconsciously knitted her brows together. Apparently, her ex- boyfriend was not just scummy but also silly. This was the kind of man who disgusted her the most.
“After that, my cousin impersonated me and acknowledged my dad.” Rosabella shrugged. “She did that because my dad’s family is the wealthy Yule family in Australia. But in recent years, the Yule family has been doing badly. Yule Corporation has changed hands. As such, my cousin failed to take advantage of anything. I don’t feel like acknowledging my dad, so I’m not bothered about him. Anyway, I hate him and will never forgive him.”
“He doesn’t deserve your forgiveness.”
Sheryl held Rosabella’s hands. “You have me as your mom now and that’s more than enough. Just stay here from now on. Let me introduce you to them. This is your brother, Matthew Costner. This is your uncle, who’s also my current husband.”
Titus nodded impassively, whereas Matthew flashed Rosabella a smile. “Don’t worry, Sis. I’ll protect you in the future. Let me know if anyone bullies you. As for your cousin…”
