Chapter 94

Sarah’s grip on the phone tightened slightly.

She had anticipated resistance, but hearing it still made something twist in her chest.

“Grandma’s birthday only comes once a year, Alex. You can visit Aunt Linda anytime,” she said, keeping her voice even.

A sigh came from the other side. “I guess…” He didn’t sound convinced.

Sarah closed her eyes briefly,

She knew pressing him further would only make him more resistant, so instead, she decided on another approach.

Later that evening, she found Arnold at his cottage, sitting in his usual chair, flipping idly through an old book. He barely looked up when she entered.

“Can you talk to Alex?” she asked without preamble.

Arnold turned a page, his face impassive. “About what?”

“Grandma’s birthday. He’s reluctant to come. Maybe if you talk to him, he’ll reconsider,” she said, crossing

her arms.

Arnold finally glanced at her, studying her for a moment. “And you’re not going to ask me to come?”

Sarah looked away. “That’s not what this is about.”

He exhaled through his nose, closing the book. “Fine,” he muttered. “I’ll talk to him.”

That was all she needed. She left without another word, walking back home with Alex. They barely spoke, and though she tried to brush off the lingering discomfort, it clung to her like a shadow.

Saturday arrived with a quiet kind of joy.

The house was filled with the warm scent of baked pastries and fresh flowers, the soft murmur of family members exchanging laughter and greetings.

chosen gift to Grandma, a beautifully embroidered shawl in her

shifted awkwardly, hands empty.

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her gentle gaze toward

she asked with a smile, expecting nothing extravagant, only a

hesitated, glancing at Sarah with a look of slight

anything,” he admitted. His shoulders tensed, as if

still a kid, Alex. What Mom and Dad prepare is what you prepare,

frame melted almost instantly. “Oh,” he said, relieved. “That makes

way Sarah’s expression cooled ever so slightly.

only remembering the date but counting down the days, eagerly anticipating it as

it,

to buy a gift, he could have drawn something–he was more than capable of

thought of it.

it was that realization that had made her reluctant to remind him in the first

swirling beneath the surface like an unmoving tide. Some things, she supposed, were simply not worth pointing

Sarah took out the herbal wine she had prepared and handed it to

the package, the faint yet distinct

Grandma murmured, eyes widening with

I knew you would

a flicker of astonishment in the old lady’s gaze as she looked at her granddaughter. “This wine is almost impossible

help,” Sarah admitted with a small smile, not mentioning

turned the wine pot in her hands.

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her tone laced with nostalgia. “Back then, only the most esteemed elders

it. You have brought me a treasure, child.”

rippled through the family.

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