บท 20: Grandfather's Surprise

Andrew Lewis is her grandfather from her father's side. He is one of many old men who retired from being CEO and resigned to simple life.

Way back in his youthful days, the old man was one of the Casanova's in the country. Being a gentleman, with a lady killer looks and thick wallet will spoke for itself. He was born under the legendary family of distillers. He was based in Italy to study winery and establish their name in Tuscany. He then met his love of his life Alma, with an unknown origins. Their family was rich but not prejudiced. As they also came from poverty. They welcomed Alma in their family, warmly and eventually they married.

Italians were romantic type of people and the culture of romanticism was very well adopted by his family back then. As a part of their wedding ceremony, they bought a whole island and gifted to Andrew as their honeymoon site. The couple was so happy. Eventually, Alma came to love the island life, they lived there for good. He only left the island when she passed away due to an accident. The whole island was now deserted and unoccupied.

The old man called his secretary, Jane to make necessary preparations.

He will not let the chance to slip away and not have a grandchild.

'Ha! I know that that was all a façade. Don't try to fool this old man. I'm sure you will come to love each other on what I will do. I'm sure of it.' he assured in his mind.

He noticed the awkwardness of the couple back then so he kept shipping them. He will not leave them be until they will realize the love within each other's heart. After all, he's a romantic type of a person so, he couldn't withstand the facade and not break it.

He flew back to Italy to supervise the things he wanted to make happen, personally. As the wedding day came nearer and nearer. He wanted to fasten things up so that he can have little Misha and little Lyndon soon. He instructed Jane to have a transfer title for the island. He wanted to gift it to her dear grand daughter for their honeymoon. After all, Shane was made there so for him, the success rate is basically a hundred percent. He couldn't help but smile.

He wanted to restore the bungalow it had before. Coming back to the island, he never missed the chance to visit Alma's grave. He wanted to share his plan for his grand daughter and how much he missed her. He also came here before he retired and moved back to the country to be with Shane and his family. He wanted to show Misha's picture to her and brag his beautiful granddaughter of his to her. Ah, how he wished they could spend the night alone in this island once more and gazed out the stars until dawn.

He could only wish and look up to the sky. He is sad but at the same time happy. He is sad because Alma was no longer there to accompany him and happy because he can finally be at ease. He can see that Lyndon is a good man. He is the best man for his precious Misha. So, he wanted to take this opportunity to make them happy. Well, truth to be told, he wanted to see his great grandchildren before he will join Alma at the afterlife.