Luca froze at my words, his electric blue gaze piercing me.Soon, he sighed, his glare suspicious again. "Please don't make jokes like that, Erin. Your mother's perfectly fine, so how could she just—"I laughed, cutting him short as I wheeled on him. "She would've been alive! The surgery was only 200,000 Euros! But your dear secretary rejected my request because family rules, and now she's dead! And you only ever think that I'm lying!"Silence ensued, but what little doubt Luca started to feel soon faded as Lina bellowed, "No, that's not it! She immediately demanded 200,000, and it's natural that I'd presume she's trying to siphon money off again! That's how she has always tricked you for money!"Luca scowled again at her words and shrugged at me as if my lie had been exposed.Flustered, I reached for my mother's death certificate. "I'm not lying. There's proof right here, look—"Luca frowned as I clearly wasn't joking, but even before I could hand the death certificate to him, L
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