Chapter 379 What Even Is He to Me?
Jean texted: “That’s just the kind of person he is.”
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Dalton replied: “But I didn’t give up on him. Back then, I really thought he was pitiful… and I was afraid something bad might happen to him again. So I kept reaching out.”
Jean texted: “I really admire your persistence. If it were me, I wouldn’t have had that kind of patience.
Dalton responded: “Well, luckily, it ended up paying off. Your brother… eventually, he started acknowledging me a little. Then our relationship started to thaw, and things slowly improved. Sometimes we’d even go hiking together.”
Jean texted: “That couldn’t have been easy. Still can’t believe my brother actually wanted to be friends with you back then… that’s rare.”
Dalton replied: “It was rare. His personality at the time was already more or less the same as it is now. After the kidnapping, he changed a lot–he became cold, distant… like a wall you couldn’t get through. Maybe it was because I saved him once. Maybe he felt grateful. Honestly, I was really happy to be friends with him.”
Reading that, Jean couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
Winston and Dalton… there had been a time when they understood each other–connected on some deep. unspoken level.
But now, all of that was gone. The two were like fire and ice, completely at odds.
What on earth had happened between them?
Dalton kept talking about the past.
Dalton texted: “Later on, your brother started opening up a little. He’d talk to me about what he was really feeling. For example, after I kept pressing him, he finally told me about the kidnapping… I didn’t know anything at first, and he refused to say a word. He only told me once we got closer. He also told me that after I brought him home that day… he realized something ridiculous.”
Jean asked: “What did he realize?”
As it turned out, the day after Winston had been kidnapped–after spending the night in the park and being escorted home by Dalton–he realized something. Not a single person in the entire family had noticed he’d been missing for an entire day and night. Matheo hadn’t cared at all; his phone had even been turned off.
His other brothers were just as cold; no one had paid him any attention.
As for Sienna–she wasn’t exactly cold–hearted, and she’d actually treated him decently–but her mind had never been clear.
In her world, Matheo always came first. She would follow his lead without question, completely under his control.
Winston had never liked his father.
Matheo was a cold, selfish man; Winston had known that for a long time. But Sienna couldn’t see it—she was still being spun in circles by him.
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Chapter 379 What Even Is He to Me?
That day, after Winston got home, he saw Sienna inside his oldest brother’s bedroom.
The door hadn’t been shut; it was only slightly ajar.
Through the crack, Winston saw the scene inside.
Dominic was lying on the bed, his eyes closed.
His brow was furrowed instinctively, a trace of pain on his face.
Sienna sat at his bedside, gently tucking the blanket around him with extra care.
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Winston couldn’t help the sour feeling that welled up inside him; while he had been going through hell, neither his father nor his brothers had cared. They hadn’t even noticed…
He had thought–at the very least-
At least Sienna might care about him a little…
But the truth was, Sienna hadn’t even known he’d gone missing.
Not only that, she had been doting on another child with all her heart.
Even though that child was his biological older brother, Winston’s heart still ached–bitter and cramped with emotion he couldn’t shake.
What even am I to them? That question had taken root in Winston’s heart.
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