were too valuable, they did not dare send them for recycling. That’s why they sent them back.”
With that said, the nanny no longer spared him another glance. She turned around and left.
When he heard that those were things Melea threw away, Samuel’s lifeless eyes instantly lit up.
Melea had thrown away everything in her room when she left, including the family portrait they had taken some time ago. She had also changed it to a family portrait with Yelena.
Even after searching through every corner of the house, he could not find anything related to Melea.
Samuel dragged the box over. Perhaps it had been a long time since he moved about, but he could not control his strength, and the box was torn apart, and everything within it spilled out.
Once he saw the contents, his eyes flew wide open.
They were all his presents for Melea!
The teddy bear in his hand was the present he gave her when she first arrived at the Foster family.
At that time, she could not sleep due to fear.
Samuel had snuck into her room and told her bedtime stories with the teddy bear. He even said that the teddy bear
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was a part of him and would protect her in his place.
The dancing shoes beside it were Samuel’s first birthday present for Melea. At that time, she had become really interested in dancing, and in order to motivate her, Samuel had a foreign shoemaker design a pair of shoes for her.
The others were all his birthday presents for her.
Whenever midnight arrived for her birthday, he would bring the present he had already prepared and placed it in front of her door.
He never missed a single year until her eighteenth birthday. After he discovered her feelings for him, he never gave her another present.
As Samuel stared at the presents, the pain in his eyes grew
She had kept the presents in great condition. If not for the yellowing marks on them, anyone else would think that they were brand new.
With trembling hands, he caressed the presents.
Suddenly, he remembered something, and he fished out a diary from the bottom of the pile.
When he saw the cellophane tapes all over it, he knew that this was the diary he tore apart.
At that time, Melea had started calling him by his full name. He had thought that it was because Melea had grown up and had become her own person. That was why he did not read too much into it.
It lasted until Yelena came to him and told him about how Melea felt about him.
It was at that time that he learned that Melea loved him.
He had been surprised. Then, fear overtook him.
Melea had told her greatest secret to Yelena, and Yelena was not someone who could keep secrets. If Yelena told others about it, the entire Foster family would be dealt a huge blow to their reputation, not just him and Melea.
That was why he decided to nip her love in the bud before it was fully exposed.
