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Rebecca never imagined Samuel could make such a remark. She wondered if her frequent contact with Ian mistakenly led Samuel to think she wanted a relationship.

Fortunately, everyone just treated it as a joke and didn’t take it seriously. After some casual banter, the matter was quickly dropped.

Ian then turned the conversation to Jessica’s situation, asking curiously, “Since when did Andrea become your sister?”

“She’s my father’s secret love child,” Jessica replied nonchalantly. “We just acknowledged her existence last week.”

Ian exclaimed, “This sounds like something straight out of a soap opera.”

Jessica took a sip of her drink. Before Andrea suddenly appeared at her doorstep, she’d never imagined such dramatic twists–a half–sister stealing her best friend’s man and bringing him to her home.

“Do you know about this, Becky?” Ian asked, noticing Rebecca scrolling through her phone.

Rebecca looked up. “What?”

Ian immediately sensed her distraction. “What’s wrong? You look…” he drew out the suspense, “oddly preoccupied.”

“Nothing important.” Rebecca set down her phone, rejoining the conversation. “I knew about Jessica’s situation from day one. It’s definitely soap opera material.”

Jessica stared at her from across the table. “You’re acting strangely.”

Ian said, “Exactly.”

Jessica spread her hand and demanded, “Hand over your phone.”

her gesture and repeated, “Hand it

say? If your brain’s

Ian complained to Rebecca, “she’s always yelling at me all

if I beat you to death, she’d be the one handing

of their bickering. She subtly deleted

argument, Jeffrey had messaged her. I gave you custody rights not for outsiders to pick up our child.] The

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like a sister to her. She thought, ‘If Jessica counted as an outsider, what did that make him–always

getting sidetracked.” Ian finally refocused after their extended banter. “Weren’t we discussing how Becky

Jeffrey texting you

having a two–day team–building event in the northern district next Monday and

immediately offered, “Don’t worry. I’ll take

pressed her lips together, instinct warning her that telling Jessica about Jeffrey’s message would earn Jessica’s

for a few days with Victor handling childcare, she

legal reality. Until the

Samuel fell asleep, Jessica called Rebecca with worried questions she’d

reassured her. “I’ve got this under

withheld that Andrea worked as Jeffrey’s secretary at PrimePlay Technologies, and that Andrea would likely

work on freelance illustrations, Jeffrey’s message flashed: [I’ll pick up

[Weren’t we supposed to meet on

Jeffrey: [Tomorrow’s Children’s Day.]

remembered Children’s Day. Her original plan involved finishing morning dance lessons, decorating their home, baking Samuel’s cake, and then surprising him after his martial arts

determined to fulfill his birthday promise about taking Samuel to the

arranged leave for his martial arts class. What about your

nearly suggested afternoon plans, but swallowed the words. Knowing Jeffrey’s recent attitude, she realized arguments would only fuel

inevitably weaponize it as proof of maternal neglect, leveraging it

contacted Lucas. She carefully explained the

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