My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)
Chapter 1456

I smiled vaguely and said, "There has been too much going on these days. Didn't I call you girls up as soon as I had time? By the way, have both of you seen Dahlia lately? It's been so long since our last meet up. I wonder how she has been."

Rainie replied, "I saw her a few days ago. I heard that she has adopted a five or six-year-old child. I assume that she's not planning to get married. Plus, she's already thirty-six or seven years old. It looks like she's adopting a child so that she won't feel lonely in the coming days. But strangely, the last time I saw her, she was driving an S-class Mercedes Benz. Not only that, she even bought a house a couple of days ago. Didn't she say she was broke? Do you girls know what's up with her recently? How did she get the money to buy all these?"

Tina shook her head and said, "I have no idea. I barely keep in contact with her, and I'm not interested in knowing her updates."

Stunned for a moment, Rainie then asked, "You don't seem to like Dahlia very much, do you, Tina?"

Tina was a straightforward person with her heart on her sleeve. She shrugged her shoulders and said lightly, "I can't say I like or dislike her, she's just a hi-bye friend to me. She just doesn't belong to the world we are in, as you girls know. In my point of view, she's too ambitious to treat us as friends. To her, we're acquaintances. So, I don't really see her as a friend."

Listening to their conversation, I gave a small smile before saying, "Hey, it's alright. We are just chit-chatting here. It's okay if you don't want to talk about it. I'm just curious about the child that Dahlia adopted and where he or she came from. Can a single woman adopt a child legally?"

Rainie nodded. "It shouldn't be a problem as long as she meets the requirements. I heard that unmarried women between the age of thirty to forty can adopt a child, as long as they have the financial means. Besides, Dahlia did tell me that the kid isn't an orphan, but a child that lost their mother in a car crash. Unfortunately, the child's father was sentenced to death. That was how the child ended up in her care."

A death sentence?

I smiled faintly and went home after an afternoon with the girls.

I was surprised to bump into Naomi when I reached the villa's entrance, where she was moving some stuff. She'd hired a moving company to help with moving the boxes outside. Naomi was standing at the door and guiding the movers. She warned the workers several times to carry the boxes carefully. These boxes must've contained valuable belongings.

Naomi looked in my direction and both of us shared a glance. Despite being far away, I could tell that she was stunned for a second. Her eyes were swollen, as though she had been crying earlier. What happened to her?

Not knowing the situation, I decided not to waste my time and smiled politely at her before turning around and heading back into the villa. At this moment, Hendrix was still busy in Oakland. Valerie's plan was for Anne and I to return to Jarold City. However, my heart was filled with anger by the way I was fooled by Sebastian.

I had to do something about it, hence I decided to stay here a little longer.

As soon as I entered the house, I felt exhausted. The doorbell rang the moment I sat down in a comfortable seat.

I got up on my feet and saw Naomi standing at the door.

I walked through the yard and opened the door before asking, "Do you want to come in?"

Naomi shook her head and said, "No, that's fine.

I'm here to return this to you!" She then took off the bangle that she was wearing and gave it to me. It was a bangle that Ziglar once gave me, which I then gifted another identical one to Naomi. It wasn't something expensive, but had a lot of meaning.