Reclaiming Her Heart

Selena slept until noon, and when she woke up, her head was throbbing. Her phone was buzzing like crazy, so she quickly answered the call. It was her aunt Erin, sounding worried.

'Selena, I called you several times and you didn't answer. Are you okay? I was even thinking of asking your uncle to come find you.' Selena glanced at the missed calls. Her aunt had called five times, so it's no wonder she was concerned. "I'm fine. I slept late last night and was too tired to hear anything". Was Selena's reply. Erin sighed in relief. 'Are you still going to visit your mother's cemetery today?'

'Yeah, I'm already up and getting ready. I'll buy some flowers and go later.'

'Your uncle has already bought the flowers. I had him wait outside your residence, so you can find him when you wake up and have him drive you there, as well.' Selena hung up the phone, she took less than five minutes to get ready, and met Uncle Brian outside.

Uncle Brian handed her the things he bought and said, 'Your aunt said you slept late last night. I'll drive, and you can take a nap in the passenger seat.' 'Okay, thanks, uncle.'

Selena sat in the passenger seat and caught a whiff of the all too familiar smell of gasoline. Brian had been driving this car for many years, and even with regular maintenance, the smell of gasoline and leather couldn't be completely eliminated. They bumped their way to the destination. Selena got out of the car with the purchased paper and walked toward the cemetery, finding the grave she had come to visit.

Selena comes here every year, although sometimes she's delayed by things and has to come a few days earlier or later, but she knows her mother wouldn't blame her for that. Thinking about the recent pile of troubles with the Fair family, her mood was not good, and she wanted to talk to her mother alone.

Now that her uncle was waiting nearby, it was not appropriate to say much or to bare her soul in the way she had wanted to. The grave had been tidied up, and she squatted down to lay the flowers on her mother's tomb carefully. After morning in silence for a while, Selena gently rubbed her eyes off tears and walked towards Brian. 'Uncle, let's go.' Brian was smoking and saw her red eyes, he wanted to say something but in the end he remained silent not knowing the best way to comfort her.

He just held the cigarette in one hand and patted her shoulder with the other. Just as they were about to get in the car, they saw a motorcycle coming closer.

There was a man and a woman on the bike. Megan got off the bike when they stopped in front of them and snatched the car keys from Brian's hand, in a rather aggressive manner. "Don't you know I have plans with my friends today? I already told you not to touch the car for three days, but you didn't listen. Now you can walk back yourselves" Megan shouted. "Go ahead, my friend is still waiting for me."

The Lin family only had one car, which they had been using for many years. It cost over two hundred thousand, but it was a low-end BMW.

Megan needed this car to show off to her friends, but when she saw that the car wasn't there, she asked Erin and found out it had been taken here.

Now that she had the keys, she jumped into the car and shut the door with a loud bang, stepped on the gas pedal, and left in a cloud of dust.

Selena frowned, "Uncle, have you and Aunt just let her treat you like this all the time?"

She had always known that Megan had been domineering in this household, but she didn't expect her to be this arrogant. They say family matters shouldn't be aired in public, but in front of Selena, Brian's face had been disgraced. What's worse is that they were left here basically stranded. Did they really have to walk back?

It was too far from home, it would take at least two hours to walk back.

"Uncle, I'm sorry you had to endure this. Let me have my colleague come pick us up."

Selena met Megan for the first time and found her to be an arrogant selfish to the extreme. But Brian and Erin tolerated her, and as a junior, Selena couldn't say anything.

It was all because of her cousin, who left Megan. Uncle and Aunt had always felt indebted to Megan.

"Uncle, I'm fine. I just feel sorry for you. She hasn't had a job for years, and you give her your salary every month. You don't even know where she spends it, and she's always bossing you around at home. If my mom knew..." At this point, she fell silent and stopped speaking, slowly walking back the way they came.

Brian, like a scolded child, followed stiffly.

The sound of car horns came from not far away, followed by two cars stopping in front of them.

Han rolled down the window and saw Brian, "You guys came to the gravesite and didn't bring a car?"

Brian quickly explained, "The car was taken by someone else, Han, can you give us a ride?"

Han looked at the backseat hesitantly, where two supposed important guests responsible for Ridge-field development were sitting.

The two responsible executives were very easygoing, "Come on up, but there's only room for one person in the car. Let your daughter ask the person in the car ahead if she can get in."

That car ahead only had two people in it, and no one else dared to get in. Selena already knew that the car ahead belonged to Raymond. Raymond was the boss who was coming to develop the tourism industry in Ridge-field, she thought to herself.

She walked up to the car window and politely knocked on it.

"Mr. Montague, we encountered a little mishap. Could you please give me a ride?"