She Quit Her Family and Found Herself novel Chapter 22

In his half-asleep daze, Miles vaguely heard his grandmother mention Sylvie Sinclair. His little mouth parted as he murmured, "Yeah, Sylvie is nice... I want Sylvie to be my mom..."

Valery smiled, her perfectly manicured hand gently stroking his forehead. "See? He loves her."

"Mom," Herbert sighed, his voice heavy with fatigue. "Why are you saying things like that? I've told you, Sylvie is just my student and an employee. There is absolutely nothing going on between us."

"Herbert, when are you going to admit the truth to yourself?" Cora interrupted, unable to listen anymore. "If you really just saw her as a student, would you have hosted a wedding for her?"

"I was doing her a favor," he quickly corrected.

Cora rolled her eyes. "I've never heard of a boss helping an employee by throwing her a wedding. You didn't just show up yourself; you brought your mother and your son. Honestly, if I were Hulda, I'd be furious too."

"You..." Herbert found himself utterly speechless against his own sister's logic, unsure of how to rebut it.

Cora pressed her advantage. "Plus, the way you take care of Sylvie goes way beyond a normal professional relationship. Haven't you noticed that yourself?"

"That's because she's had such a hard life. She..." Herbert wanted to explain how terrible Sylvie's family background was, how she had fought tooth and nail to get to where she was. Even then, her parents had almost forced her to marry a piece of trash who didn't deserve her.

Sylvie was like a rose growing through concrete, striving against all odds to find the sun.

But Cora didn't give him a chance to finish. "There are a lot of pitiful people in the world. Hulda grew up in an orphanage—isn't she even more pitiful?"

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