In a Love Nest with the Aloof CEO
Chapter 133

“I don't know. The hospital didn't call me. The payment is still ongoingthough. Why are you asking me this all of a sudden? Do you want tosee your mother?” Tobias asked in a leisurely tone.

Right then, Skylar came to a sudden realization. How could Tobiaspossibly know? He's only responsible for providing the money, nothingmore and nothing less. I was overthinking it.

He isn't obligated to keep track of my mom's condition.

Nevertheless, she told Tobias about Thomas’ invitation, then asked himfor his opinion. She was grateful that she finally had someone to shareher problems with instead of flying blind like before.

“Don't go. Just do your part.”

Tobias’ reply made Skylar feel uneasy. “But if I don't go, will Thomas doanything bad to my mom? She'd be all alone there. Besides, she killedIrene’s sister back then, so Irene definitely still bears a grudge againsther.”

“Who's Irene?” Tobias asked in confusion.

Skylar's mouth tightened. “My stepmother.”

Tobias sighed in understanding. “What's the point in you going? Doyou want to get bullied together with your mother? Anyway, Thomaswon't be too hard on you. Besides, I doubt your mother will go. Just useyour head and think.”

Skylar felt unsettled as she weighed her choices. The trap at her uncle'shouse the other day had made her see everything in a different light.This time, she wasn't sure what the Joneses would be hiding up theirsleeves either.

In the end, she decided to go for the dinner. She was mentally preparedto be choked if Miranda went berserk upon seeing her.

People tended to feel the most helpless and vulnerable in the middle ofthe night. At times, Skylar bemoaned her fate as being alive seemedlike an exhausting feat to her.

While other children were loved by their parents, she was abandonedby her father and hated by her mother.

I must have been a sinful and wicked person in my previous life. That'swhy I'm paying off a debt that does not seem to have an end to it.When Skylar told Tobias her decision to go tomorrow, he did not stopher because the choice was hers to make. Instead, he merely saidgently, “I can't accompany you there, so be careful. You can replace me atthe company when it's over.”

Skylar was slightly taken aback. Since when could both of us betogether in the open? There's no way I'm going to his company.

Early the next morning, Skylar followed Avery and got into a Mercedes-Benz.

Avery was so pampered that even at university, her driver would waitfor her by the gates every day, always at her service. Apart from that,she had a cleaner to clean her dorm every day and take care of herdaily necessities.

Both of them were Thomas’ daughters, but they were treated sodifferently. In the beginning, Skylar still felt slightly envious, but she wasalready indifferent to it now.

“Skylar, I've never gotten the chance to apologize. I was immature lasttime, so I hope you can replace it in your heart to forgive me.” In the car,Avery looked at Skylar with an imploring gaze.

Despite that, Skylar did not buy Avery's sudden change in attitude,neither did she believe the latter had abruptly grown a conscience.Skylar put on a better show than Avery as she looked at her calmly witha tender smile. “Of course I forgive you.”

Avery went rigid as she cursed inwardly. If Thomas hadn't promised tobuy her a Maserati, she would not have agreed to grovel to her sister.Feigning innocence, she leaned over to hug Skylar, saying in a honey-laced voice, “You're the best, Skylar. We will always be family, andnothing can ever come between us. Dad has been meaning to take youback into the family, but he was afraid you'd reject him, so he hasn'tbrought it up.”