The Reunion After Seven Years novel Chapter 132

Kerr's voice drew Nicole back to reality. She wiped the tears from her eyes and turned around. She looked at him calmly, but the sorrow in her eyes could not be hidden.

"You knew about my family background from early on?"

Nicole knew that Kerr would investigate her, and that he would find out everything about her. What was more, she knew that what Kerr had done today was all to cheer her up, but she felt sorry that his effort would be in vain. She couldn't be happy no matter how she tried.

Kerr walked to her and took both her hands in his.

"I know, so I knew what you wanted. I'll give you anything you want."

He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he seemed to see more despair than happiness in Nicole's face. He didn't know what had gone wrong.

"What I want… I want my father to come back to life. I want the Ning family to remain happy. I want all the terrible things to be nothing more than a nightmare. Can you do that, Kerr?"

Nicole pulled her hands from Kerr's grasp.

She knew that it was unfair to blame Kerr. Standing in the former villa of the Ning family again and seeing that nothing had changed around her, she knew despite this that things had changed here.

No matter how powerful and influential Kerr was, it was impossible to turn back time. She was expecting of him to accomplish the impossible.

"Nicole... What's wrong?"

If he hadn't noticed how peculiar Nicole was behaving, he didn't deserve to love her at all.

But he couldn't understand why she looked so sad.

"I'm sorry. I'm letting you down, but I just want to be alone."

Feeling inconsolable, Nicole looked down to cover her sadness and tried to avoid looking into Kerr's searching eyes.

She turned around and was about to walk upstairs when Kerr pulled her into his arms from behind.

"Nicole, tell me what happened?"

He was aware that the Ning Group had gone bankrupt seven years ago, the villa of the Ning family had been auctioned off, and Nicole had left for Manhattan. Therefore, he had thought that she would be happy if he returned her previous home to her.

However, he did not expect that it would intensify Nicole's sorrow.

"You know today is my birthday. This was my former home, the Ning Group went bankrupt, and it was sold on auction. However, didn't you discover that our family's demise was caused by my father's sudden death? Don't you know that's why I couldn't celebrate my birthday for seven years?

Because my birthday has also been my father's death-day for the last seven years. I really can't bear looking at my father's portrait and celebrating my birthday."

Tears streamed down Nicole's cheeks. She raised her hand, covering her mouth to stop herself from crying.

She had tried so hard to forget the past, but she still couldn't. She had been gone from her home for so long, but she had always lacked the courage to come back to see it.

She had hoped that she would be able to return during her stay abroad. But when she did come back, she understood the saying that "The shorter the distance of your approach to home, the more disquieted you become."

Feeling Nicole trembling, Kerr turned her to him and wrapped his arms around her so that she could vent her despair to her heart's content.