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Estrella’spun around, a playful smirk dancing on her lips. “I’m here to shop with your mom, Jason. What’s it to you?”

Jason leaned in, his face inches from hers, but Estrella was quick to pinch his jaw. “Jason,” she chided, her tone teasing yet firm, “you’re getting shameless by the minute.”

Without another word, she bit down hard on his jawline, then pressed a button in the car, pushed his face away, and strutted out with an air of triumph.

As she stepped onto the sidewalk, Kristin approached, her face lit up with a welcoming

smile.

Jason, meanwhile, rolled down the window and rubbed his face, watching Estrella’s retreating figure. “We’ll settle the score for that bite later tonight,” he mumbled to himself.

Seeing this, Kristin looked at him with a serious expression and said, “Son, you better start raking in the dough to support Estrella and my future grandchild.”

Estrella glanced back to see Jason still nursing his cheek and let out a chuckle. “Goodbye, Jason. Don’t bother seeing me off.”

After exchanging goodbyes, Kristin linked arms with Estrella, her face blooming like spring flowers. “Estrella, I saw some adorable cribs and baby clothes last time I was out. I’ll take you to check them out.”

Estrella couldn’t help but lose her smile. So that was why Kristin insisted on shopping

today.

“Kristin, it’s too early for that,” Estrella protested gently.

“Not at all,” Kristin insisted with a knowing smile. “Time flies, and babies come quickly. Once you start, there’s no stopping. I’ll be holding my grandchild in no time.”

As they entered the department store, Jason drove back to the office, his heart lighter than usual after the playful exchange.

At the office, Drew caught sight of Jason’s unusually bright demeanor, and the tell-tale bite mark on his face. He had worked with Jason for years and had never seen him this

chipper.

acting as if she was already a grandmother, filled their cart with baby essentials and clothes. Estrella felt overwhelmed and under a lot of

Oasis, instructing the store to deliver everything there Then, she announced to Estrella that they were going to have a delicious meal. However, just as they stepped out, they ran into Korey, surrounded by a

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fieldwork in the

out of the maternity store. The sight

warm smile, he

so Blake dismissed the reporters and staff, allowing everyone to head home early for the weekend. Once they had said goodbye to Korey, they left him to catch

engagements, he glanced at his watch and said to Kristin and Estrella, “It’s dinner time.

about to decline the polite invitation when Kristin, with a cheerful grin, accepted. “It must be fate that we ran into

accepting his invitation, Kristin hoped to show him how close Jason and Estrella were and that they were soon to be parents,

lack something, the more they boast about it,” goes the saying, and Kristin was a prime example of this. And Kristin knew about the last time Korey asked Estrella to handle the issue of paying the wages and project funds to the migrant workers.

the invitation accepted, Estrella could only sigh and

status, Blake chose a private restaurant with an elegant ambiance, frequented by those of Korey’s

private dining room, as the waiter served alcohol, Korey considerately requeste “Please bring

just exited the maternity store, so Korey’s gesture seemed particularly thoughtful. Hearing this,

awkwardness Estrella felt; Kristin was acting as if she were pregnant, and how would she explain if

wasn’t?

it, simply commenting,

if her son could have half of

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she might have already

Estrella. “I saw you coming out of the maternity store. Are you-” He stopped himself, remembering her

jumped in, ‘Yes. Estrella and I have been at the maternity store all afternoon, picking out some things for the new

with Korey’s assumption, yet pointedly avoided correcting

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