Capture Your Heart novel Chapter 281

They arrive at the Red Sun Real Estate. Upon hearing Karin say that Simon personally asked them here to see him, the receptionist immediately let them pass. As Karin and Robert are about to enter the elevator, Karin thinks about it and goes back to ask the receptionist, "Last time, I left a note to you. Did you forget to give it to your chairman?"

The stunned receptionist asks in surprise, "Didn't you guys ask it back later?"

"Did we? Me or him?"

Karin points to herself and then to Robert.

"Not you two. It is another strange man. He said that he was with you. Soon after you left, he came to me and claimed the note back. So I didn’t overthink it and gave the note to him."

The two of them look at each other, feeling a tacit understanding in their hearts. Without saying anything, they walk straight towards the direction of the elevator.

"It's true that we've been trapped and that we've been followed."

"Yes."

"Then we are now coming to see the real Mr. Simon, which I think the ones in the shadows also know about it. I am afraid that we will be in danger."

Robert knits his eyebrows, feeling quite worried in his heart.

"Let's be careful. in broad daylight, they won't dare to be so reckless."

The elevator stops on the ninth floor. And the two of them, who are led by the secretary, arrive at the Chairman's office.

"Please wait for a moment. The Chairman is having a meeting which will be over in about fifteen minutes."

"Okay."

"Then please make yourself at home. I'll go and work first."

After the secretary leaves, Karin begins to survey Simon's office, feeling familiar with it. And she always felt that this office is as stuffy as the hall in the ancestral house of her family.

She asks casually, "Where is Simon from?"

"I'm not sure about that. But I am sure about one thing, that is, he's not a native of England."

"How do you know?"

"I heard it from Young Master Troy on the boat last time."

"Didn't he say where he was from?"

"No. He only said that Simon's ancestors didn’t come from England."

Karin guesses, "Then he may be from London."

"Why?"

"This office gives me an illusion, making me feel like I am at home. And I found that I was somewhat familiar with Mr. Simon as soon as I saw him for the first time."

While explaining the feeling in her heart, she continues to stroll around and walks to Simon's desk. Upon seeing a photo placed on the desk, she is shocked all of a sudden. And she feels that her legs go limp. And she wants to go up and take a closer look at the photo, only to find that she can't move any pace at all.

Her eyes gradually become blurry. She takes a big step forward with all her strength, grabs the photo frame on the desk, and stares at a vintage photo of a woman inside the frame, feeling overwhelmingly shocked.

The woman in the photo wearing a lavender cheongsam is sitting alone in front of a small window. And a pot of violets of the same color as the clothes she is wearing is placed on the window sill. Her hair is pulled back loosely behind her head. There is an elegant smile on her delicate face. And the smile stings Karin's heart. She can’t be more than familiar with this woman and her smile...

Seeing her staring at the photo with a complicated look on her face, Robert curiously comes over and asks, "Whose photo is this? Do you know the one in the photo?"

Karin doesn’t speak. Neither can she. Her mind goes blank. And the hand of hers holding the photo is shaking more and more ferociously.

At this time, the door creaks open. And Simon walks in.

"Sorry for keeping you guys waiting."

"It's okay." Robert hurriedly tugs Karin who is still in shock.

As Simon sees the photo Karin is holding onto, there is a gloomy look in his eyes. And he points to a sofa with his finger, "Sit down and talk."

Karin is dragged over by Robert. She sits down blankly as she keeps staring attentively at the man across the table whom she finds familiar.

"After you guys left yesterday, I thought deeply about it for a long time. And I finally decided to..."

She suddenly interrupts Simon's words and asks abruptly, "Do you know Caroline?"

Robert finds her question nonsensical. But for Simon, hearing her words, he feels like he has been stricken with a bolt from the blue. And his body suddenly stiffens. Opening his eyes wide, he is stunned for half a second before asking, "Do you also know her?"

Karin sneers slowly takes out her wallet from her backpack, and pulls out a photo as she hands it over to Simon.

As Simon sees the photo, his face changes. And he looks at the photo in Karin’s hands as he is trembling. Then he asks in shock, "Why do you have this photo as well?"

The photo he holds in his hand is the same as the one placed on his desk. It is just that it is slightly smaller in size.

"Didn't you ask me if I know Caroline as well? Let me tell you frankly, I know her. Besides, I am the daughter of the daughter she gave birth to back then when she had a sinful relationship with an ungrateful man, that is, I am her granddaughter."

“Boom!” Hearing her words, everyone on the scene is stunned. Even Robert is dumbfounded. The sudden change of events for a moment simply overwhelms the ones on the scene. And the change is just like the plot twist in a TV drama.

"What do you say? Are you Caroline's granddaughter?"

"Yes, you are very surprised, right? Could it be that you have never inquired about her for so many years? And you don't even know about my existence, do you?"

Simon's face turns pale as he forcefully covers his chest with his hands. And the look on his face indicates that he is in great pain.

Robert, who is enlightened, hurriedly goes forward to ask Simon, "Mr. Simon, are you okay?"

Simon says with difficulties, "Get the medicine in the drawer in the middle to me..."

Robert rushes to his desk, pulls open the drawer in the middle, and sees a bottle of pills for decreasing blood pressure. Then he quickly takes the bottle over and lets Simon take a few pills.

After taking the medicine, Simon gradually becomes emotionally calm. And he asks in a hoarse voice, "How is your grandmother? Is she okay?"

Karin sneers with tears coming out of her eyes, "What do you think? In the time when people’s judgment can get one killed, for a woman who is pregnant with a mysterious man’s child, the way you see it, could she have an easy life?"

Simon's face becomes paler and paler. He lowers his head and chokes as he says, "I'm sorry. I'm indeed so sorry..."

"You should say sorry to my grandmother rather than me. Unfortunately, you do not have the opportunity to say it to her even if you want to."

Simon asks in a trembling voice, "What do you… mean?"

His body is trembling more fiercely.

“Don’t you understand? You no longer have the opportunity to say sorry to my grandmother, unless you wait for the day when you close your eyes."

"Is she dead?"

“Whoo…” Simon lets out a loud cry. He cries so heartbreakingly and emotionally that for a moment, Karin is somewhat convinced that the man in front of him is in love with her grandmother. However, this thought just flashes across her mind and disappears. Thinking of how her grandmother has been waiting bitterly all her life and how her family has been living a life of pain and suffering for three generations because of Simon, she is furious instantly. She won’t forgive him. Neither will her grandmother.

Robert is in a dilemma. Seeing that both of them are crying, he thinks that it is inappropriate for him to comfort either of them. After all, what lies between Karin and Simon isn’t the resentment on usual days that have been piling up for decades.

Simon cries for a long time. And he cries so sadly that his throat is hoarse and that he almost can’t speak. Only after that does he lift his face covered with tear marks and say, "I don’t expect that you will forgive me. Just pretend that you don’t see that photo. Neither do you know who I am. Just carry the hate for me with you and continue hating me…”

Karin sucks her nose, sarcastically questioning, "In that case, why do you need to put on such a show?"

Previously, she couldn’t figure out why Simon, whose attitude was so resolute yesterday, would suddenly change his mind today. At this moment, after seeing that photo, she seems to finally know what is going on.

"What do you mean?"

Simon wipes his blurry tears from the corner of his eyes.

"You suddenly changed your mind because you knew about my relationship with Caroline, right? Don't deny it. Ever since I was young, my mother told me that I looked very similar to my grandmother when she was young."

"No, it's not like that. I didn't know your relationship with Caroline at all. I am telling you the truth."

"If that's the case, why did you suddenly decide to help us again?"

Simon is silent. Karin smiles self-deprecatingly and stands up directly, "If you were just my father-in-law's friend, I would accept your help. But now that even if you want to help me, I won't accept it. I won't let you make up for your debt to my grandmother so easily. I want you to live in guilt for the rest of your life!"

Karin finishes speaking and runs out directly...