His reaction made Blair a little sad. She kept her voice as low as possible as she replied to Niles, “We were just neighbors. ‘Were’ being the operative word.”

What Blair didn’t know was that Cecelia had been watching them the whole time. The happy mother pinched her husband, tilting her head in their direction.

Baldwin followed her gaze and saw Blair and Niles whispering to each other, while Wesley gulped down his food. However, he could see how

Niles reacted around Blair. His younger son was friendly and animated, but he saw no deep abiding love in the young man’s eyes.

It could be because he considered Blair a friend, or maybe because he had an axe to grind. Either way, Baldwin was sure that Niles wasn’t in love with Blair.

However on the other hand, Wesley was acting strange. He seemed to deliberately avoid eye contact with Blair. But when he occasionally took a quick glance at her, the look in his eyes was complicated.

Baldwin thought that Wesley might have a thing for Blair.

picked up her glass, starting in on the lemonade. He suddenly drew

fool me, I know

Niles had told her, Blair awkwardly choked on the Lemonade

the drink in her mouth. Otherwise, she

coughing fit drew everyone’s eyes toward

her and asked, “Blair,

she could hide under the table now. She waved a hand at her uncle as she patted her chest

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okay. Sorry… Ugh…” She was cut off by another

pulled out a few tissues and handed them to Blair. She took

water,” a voice said. She recognized the voice. She took the glass of water handed to her by the man

nothing. If he had, he wouldn’t have been so calm,

patted her back and said, “Hey, why are you so shocked? I was telling the truth.” Cecelia saw how considerate Niles

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