hapter 13

“Lessie, you’re amazing Karen smiled softly, her eyes shining with genuine pride.

Alessia tucked her phone away, lips curling in a quiet smirk.

“Instead of worrying about tuition, why don’t you let me handle the paperwork to update my legal name and registration? No need for you both to make a special trip–just give me the family documents and I’ll take care of it.”

“Are you sure you can do it alone? Maybe I should go with you,” Brendan said, his tone concerned but trusting.

“I’ll be fine. Don’t worry.”

Unable to change her mind, Karen fetched the folder with their family records and handed it over. To their surprise, Alessia had everything sorted by the end of the

afternoon.

That evening, Zachary came home. The ceiling fan spun lazily overhead as Karen and Brendan recapped their lunchtime conversation for him.

“Every day at rush hour, there are food stalls lined up outside our school. Even the ones that aren’t that great have crowds, and Mom, your cooking is incredible. I think this could really work.”

nature–a true gentleman, the kind you’d imagine

cart to set up

“We don’t need-”

voice soft but cut

toward him. Alessia noticed the pallor in his face and frowned

said, giving his back a

owner bought it years ago, but they never use it anymore. I’ll message him now and

family seemed to believe in waiting around. Once

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something, they moved fast–making plans and putting

he’d been planning to get rid of the cart

ingredients, supplies, and labor. The discussion

awake, Alessia hesitated, then

of reorganizing the bedrooms

you not

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