Filed to Story: Returning to Her Not-So-Poor Family >>
Mirabella took the necklace and smiled slightly. Such a cheap ruby, she really couldn’t care less… Whether it was the color of the necklace, the clarity, or the craftsmanship….
What kind of small workshop could produce such a thing?
Ten thousand dollars? In her eyes, this necklace was worthless.
Just when everyone thought Mirabella would take the necklace… the next second, Mirabella threw the necklace straight into the trash bin. Her actions were decisive and swift, not a second wasted.
Everyone was dumbstruck, even Olga was shocked for a good while, exclaiming, “Mirabella, what the hell are you doing!!! This is your sister’s most treasured necklace, she gave it to you, and you just threw it away like that!!!”
“What? Yolanda gave me the necklace, so I can do whatever I want with it, isn’t that what your darling daughter just said?” Mirabella mocked with a cold laugh. “All these years, I didn’t take away anything you guys gave me.”
How could she have cared about a measly necklace?
“All the clothes I’m wearing and the stuff in my backpack, I bought them myself.”
Mirabella’s words made one of the maids scoff. “You say you bought these yourself? That’s hilarious. Your money… isn’t it your parents who gave it to you?!”
“Do I need to report where my money comes from to a maid?”
“You…”
“You’re just a maid that we hired. Focus on your own job.”
The maid was angry but couldn’t do anything about it.
“Alright-” Demetrius sighed, hoping to calm the situation, “Bella, it’s about time, let me walk you out.”
“No need, Mr. Melton.”
She used the address “Mr. Melton,” obviously putting distance between herself and the Melton family.
“Sir, don’t we need to check her bag? She’s carrying a lot of stuff…” The nosy maid was still trying to remind Demetrius.
“It’s fine-” Demetrius was, after all, the richest man in Tranquil City. Even if this kid really took something valuable from his house, he wouldn’t make it public. Besides, checking bags was something he felt was unethical, and he would never do it!
Mirabella walked out the front door with her backpack and saw a black sedan parked there.
What was different was that this sedan obviously had signs of having been in a collision, not only was the boot bumped up, but the body was also dented. Even the windshield was somewhat shattered.
The driver got out of the car a bit awkwardly, his glasses crooked, obviously broken. But when he saw Mirabella, he froze for a moment.
The girl in front of him had neat eyebrows and bright eyes, a tall nose; she was a walking beauty, just like madam when she was younger!
But, this girl seemed more confident and attractive than madam when she was young.
“Miss, I’m sorry.” The driver quickly approached Mirabella and apologized sincerely, “My car was rear-ended by a truck earlier, I couldn’t dodge in time and hit the guardrail, I was afraid of delaying and keeping you waiting, so I didn’t go home to change cars… But I’ve checked, the car is fine, it just doesn’t look particularly good…”
The driver’s words revealed a lot of information. Could it be that her home wasn’t as poor as the rumors said, could they even afford a car? If she wasn’t mistaken, this car was a custom-made Rolls-Royce, one of a kind in the world, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mirabella smiled and asked, “You call me ‘Miss’?”
“Yes, you are the sixth child in the family, you have five older brothers!” When the driver said this, he quickly added, “I’m sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I’m your family’s driver, you can call me Aiden.”
So she had a dedicated driver? It seemed her biological family wasn’t as bad as the Melton family made it out to be.
“Miss, where’s your luggage?” Aiden saw that she only had a backpack and couldn’t help but ask, “Is it inside? I can go in and help you get it.”
“No need, my luggage is right here.” Mirabella didn’t plan to bring a lot of stuff, so she lazily responded.
The driver nodded, “Then you wait for me in the car, I’ll go in and give the gift that the old lady asked me to give to your foster parents, to express our gratitude, and we’ll leave right away.”
Aiden pulled open the back door of the car, hoping to invite Mirabella to get in. But unexpectedly, the next second, the car door wobbled and fell off!
This was all because that truck hit it so hard, it busted the car door.
The Melton family, who just stepped out, saw this whole scene.
Yolanda was totally gobsmacked! She thought to herself, “What piece of junk is this? Are the doors made out of paper or something? How could the driver have the nerve to roll in this junk and make a fool out of himself? Just how broke is this family?”
Olga couldn’t believe that Mirabella’s biological family could be this disastrous. How could her folks let their driver show up in this clunker to pick her up? Did they have zero dignity?
Wait a sec, her home was in a remote mountain area, they probably didn’t even own a car! Maybe this man borrowed this ride from a friend, just not to look bad?
But maybe his lousy driving skills got the better of him and he wrecked the car? If that was the case, things just got interesting, because they were gonna have to cough up cash when they returned this mess!
Demetrius looked at the man in front of him, all dirty and grimy. There were obvious oil stains on his suit, was he a mechanic? Judging by his looks, he didn’t seem like Mirabella’s brother, could he be Mirabella’s father?
Maybe he just rushed here from the auto repair shop, showing off by driving someone else’s car?
If that was true, this guy was just too vain. He really didn’t need to put on this show in front of the wealthiest man in Tranquil City.
Even though there was a Rolls-Royce logo on the hood, there was no way Demetrius, a man of stature, couldn’t tell that this car didn’t look like any model sold by Rolls-Royce. In all his years, he had never seen a Rolls-Royce like this.
That logo must have been fake!
The driver accidentally got his suit dirty while checking the car. When he saw the folks from the Melton family coming out of the mansion, he hurriedly pulled out a few gift boxes from the trunk.
These were specifically instructed by the mister to be handed to the Meltons. Unfortunately, a previous tailgating incident resulted in a few of the gift boxes getting squashed, making them look rather unappealing.-
“I reckon you’re Mr. Melton?” The driver approached Demetrius and offered the boxes politely, “These are a token from the young lady’s parents. They insist you accept them.”
“You’re too kind…” Demetrius hastily declined. “Bella has been great with us over the years, these gifts…”
“We don’t need your gifts! Just take her home, her family is waiting for her!” Olga interrupted them and without giving Aiden a second glance, she walked back into the house.
She thought to herself, “With such shabby gift boxes, there can’t be anything good inside. She certainly doesn’t want other people’s trash.”
Yolanda suppressed a sarcastic smile, following Olga. Her face was filled with an air of superiority as if she had just won a war. She never realized that Mirabella’s biological family was in such a poor state, but she was secretly pleased.
The Meltons’ maids looked at them with scorn, contempt, or pity, and they all went back inside. Only Demetrius remained standing there, somewhat embarrassed, “Well, have a safe journey… I won’t accept these gifts. Let’s just say I’ve sent them back to your masters. Consider it a small token from me…”
“But…” The driver was at a loss. The mister had specifically told him to make sure the Meltons accepted the gifts. But what Demetrius meant was that Mirabella was no longer part of the Melton family. If she went to her biological parents’ house, she would have nothing to do with the Meltons.
“Mr. Melton, please accept these gifts. Mr. Melton?”
The driver initially wanted to say that the boxes contained deeds to several villas, keys to several shops, a bank card loaded with a billion dollars, and rare medicinal herbs that you couldn’t buy anywhere. But as he watched Demetrius walk into the house, the driver paused, puzzled. It seemed like none of them actually liked Ms. Bennett. Was it all in his head?
Mirabella casually fixed the car door back in place, “Let’s go.”
Watching her get into the car, Aiden was taken aback. Did Ms. Bennett just fix that door by herself? How did she do that?
On the road, Mirabella casually looked out the window, her pretty face giving off a pleasing aura.
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