“Mom…” Yvonne called, waving at me from a short distance away. She was holding a bucket and a shovel, wearing a little yellow duck swimsuit. “Mom, I’m over here!”

It wasn’t a dream. They were really here right in front of me.

“You guys…” I said, still in disbelief.

Jared explained, “Yvonne said she wanted to see the ocean, so since I had some free time, I decided to bring her here.”

let out a dry laugh. “You sure have a lot of free time, Mr. Holcomb, always running all over the place.”

Jared picked up on my sarcasm but just smiled, unfazed. “What can I say? She’s my only kid. When I’m not working, I want to spend all my time with her.”

“Then go ahead and play with her. I’m tired, and I’m heading back to the hotel,” I said, turning to leave.

Suddenly, Jared reached out and grabbed my wrist. “Victoria, don’t you want to join Yvonne and play in the sand?”

I frowned and shook his hand off my wrist. “I’ve got a meeting in thirty minutes. I don’t have time for this. Wasn’t it you who came all the way here just to play with her?”

Jared could only give me a resigned look.

Yvonne rushed over with her bucket full of sand. “Mom, I’ll build you a sandcastle!”

I looked at Yvonne’s beaming face and murmured calmly, “Alright, go ahead. But I can only stay for ten minutes before my meeting.”

“Okay!” Yvonne immediately started scooping sand into her bucket.

side, glancing at us every so often,

and one of them asked Jared to take a

with a smile, “You’re such a handsome guy. Are those your wife and daughter over there? They’re both gorgeous, too. I guess what they say is

was easy on the eyes,

them, Jared came back, looking

time. “I’ve gotta head back to the hotel. You two

I are staying at the same hotel. Can I come play in your room tonight?” Yvonne asked, unusually polite for once. She’d been asking me first about things like this

“Sure,” I said.

the rest of us had dinner together. Jared didn’t

some fun.

was sitting on the balcony to finish up the rest of my

me. “Mom, which room are you in? Can’t

room number, and not long after, Jared and Yvonne arrived

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Chapter 334

I opened the door, Jared looked a

ear. “Mom, Dad and I played for

eyes lingered on me for a moment as he walked in, carrying

and the way Jared looked at me made me feel a

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