Aunt Neile said, “It was rare to see you sleep in today. That's why I didn't wake you up. I didn't expect you'd look so tired."

"I'll be fine after drinking a cup of coffee," Luca ate a mouthful of oatmeal. She thought she needed a cup of warm coffee to perk herself up a little.

"Let me get you some coffee," replied Aunt Neile as she walked into the kitchen.

The kids finished eating their breakfast. Tommy glanced at the time and said to Luca, "Ms. Luca, we're heading to school first."

"Okay. Be good and listen to your teacher," replied Luca. Usually, it was Uncle Zander who picked the kids up and sent them to school. When Luca was making her way down the stairs, she glanced outside the villa and saw Uncle Zander's car already outside and waiting for the kids.

"Ms. Luca, see you later." Rainie waved her hand at Luca and walked out of the dining room.

Luca was watching the kids as they left and disappeared at the entrance of the dining room. Only then did she shift her gaze and continue eating her breakfast.

She had to quickly finish her breakfast and head to the office.

Luca was planning to work this weekend, but Luke was away on a business trip. It ruined her plan. She canceled it and let the researchers on her team take the weekend off so that she could stay at home and take care of the kids.

After Luca finished eating her breakfast, Aunt Neile came out carrying a cup of sweet-smelling coffee in her hands.

"Ms. Luca, here's your coffee."

Luca looked at the cup of coffee in Aunt Neile's hands. She thought it would be rude to turn her down, so she said, "Aunt Neile, can you please pour the coffee into the thermos bottle? I'll bring it to the office."

"Of course." Aunt Neile nodded and walked into the kitchen to look for the thermos bottle.

Luca went upstairs to get changed. She looked at herself in the mirror. She looked okay because she had enough sleep last night, but it was obvious that she was low-spirited and a little tired. Belongs to © n0velDrama.Org.

Luca shook her head, picked up her phone, and glanced at it.

Luke did not continue to keep in touch with her after he replied to her with a simple response yesterday.

A bitter smile swept across Luca's face. She truly did want to keep a distance between her and Luke, but now, she truly wanted Luke to be kinder to her too.

However, things did not turn out the way she wanted...

Luke seemed distant again when she was stuck in contradiction and indecisiveness.

Luca placed her phone in her coat pocket and hurried downstairs.

Aunt Neile stood at the landing of the stairs, holding the thermos bottle filled with the coffee. She handed the thermos bottle to Luca when she saw her coming down and said, “Ms. Luca, drive safe."

“I will. Thank you, Aunt Neile." Luca walked out of the villa after taking the thermos bottle from her. She drove the car and headed in the direction of T Corporation.

Luca realized that Rhett was the only one there when she returned to the floor where the laboratory was located. The others had yet to come back.

It seemed like it was still early.

"Good morning, Dr. Craw," Rhett stood up immediately when he saw Luca come back.

"Good morning." Luca glanced at the time and looked at the breakfast on Rhett's desk. She nodded without saying anything. Then, she clocked in, turned around, and walked back to the office.

Rhett looked at her from behind, and he glanced at his breakfast. He sat down and continued eating his breakfast since Luca did not say anything.

Luca's phone rang when she just sat down on her chair in her office.

Her heart skipped a beat. She took her phone out and looked at it. It was Sue who was calling her.

Luca answered the call and greeted, "Hey, Sue, good morning."

"Luca, have you seen today's news?" Sue asked.

"I woke up late today. I didn't manage to watch the morning news broadcast. What happened?" Luca's panicked thoughts grew wild when she heard how anxious Sue sounded on the other end of the line. Could it be that something had happened to Luke?

Luca was flustered as she quickly turned on the computer. She wanted to find out today's news.

"Nina's in trouble," said Sue. There was nothing she could do to help Nina now. That was why she called Luca to see if she could help her.

"Nina?" Luca's hands trembled when she typed the news website in the search bar. Then, she clicked on the local news website and read the news.

"Mhm. A few media outlets reported about her today. They wrote horrible things about her. They're all about. Take a look at the articles. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now," replied Sue. She had no idea how to describe the contents of the news.

"Don't worry. Let me take a look at the situation first." Luca could sense the helplessness in Sue's tone.

Sue must be eager to help Nina, but Luca believed that Sue did not know how to help Nina this time. That was why she came looking for her in the first instance.

Luca saw the news after the website was done loading. She saw the headlines about Nina.

Luca frowned. The headlines themselves were terrible enough. Every single word taunted Nina for having a family background that was no match to Percy's.

Luca clicked a link and scrolled down the page. Almost everything written on the news was the truth, but some of them distorted the facts.

There were false statements such as Nina being raped and getting pregnant.

Another one was how Nina treated her mother, Anna.

The news report thoroughly exposed everything that happened to Nina in the past and the present. Besides, the words carried an overtone of defamation and sarcasm. Whenever Percy was mentioned, the article that someone like Nina did not deserve Percy.

"Damn..." Luca could not help but lose her temper when she saw the news. The person who wrote this news article seemed to have dug into Nina's background through someone close to Nina. Otherwise, how did that person manage to know so much about Nina's past?

Sue heard Luca swearing, and she knew Luca was furious too. Therefore, she told Luca about her assumptions, "Luca, do you think there's any chance the person who wrote this news article is someone in the Mallory family?"

“It can't be the Mallory family,” Luca denied immediately without a second thought.

“How can you be so sure about that?”

"The Mallory family aren't fools. Mr. Mallory got someone to spread the news that he was engaged with Nina two days ago. Even though the Mallory family is against it, they wouldn't have started with this and gotten the reporters to write an article about Nina's past. Isn't that smearing the Mallory family's reputation too?" Luca shared her thoughts with Sue. The Mallory family was meticulous and concerned with their family's reputation. If they knew about these, they would use it as a reason to convince Percy not to marry Nina. Perhaps they might use it as evidence to threaten Nina.

However, they would never do something stupid to expose these to the public. Would they give the others the chance to make fun of them and look down on Percy?

It was a nightmare for a wealthy family to be surrounded by such embarrassing news.

“What if they had made up their minds?” said Sue. Only the Mallory family was holding a grudge against Nina. She could not think of anyone else who would do this to her.

“It doesn't matter who it is now. What matters the most is Nina. It's obvious they're against Nina. How is she now?” Luca asked. It was important to find out who exposed these things to the reporters, but Luca believed that Percy would get his hands on it.

She was more concerned about Nina's condition now.

“The reporters are waiting for Nina downstairs. I told Nina about it. She's not coming to the office today. As for her current situation, I guess she's probably at home hiding from the reporters,” Sue said helplessly.