“Almost nine already.”

Estelle frowned in mild annoyance. “I was planning to get an early start over to my parents’ place. My nephew, Henson, has his finals coming up and I wanted to help him cram a bit, fill in the gaps, you know?”

She looked up at Jonathan, her lips curving into a smile, “Some tutor I am, right? Only reason my sister-in-law hasn’t complained is because she’s too polite to say anything.”

Jonathan gently pinched her cheek, “She lobbied hard to get you to help out. If there’s any complaining to be done, she’s just going to have to bite her tongue.”

“And to think, she’s doing all this for your sake,” Estelle huffed playfully.

“How about I make it up to her by tutoring Henson myself?”

Estelle imagined the serious scene of uncle and nephew studying together and couldn’t help but laugh.

Scooping her up in his arms, Jonathan declared, “Let’s not go back today. You’ve been running around non-stop because of Evelyn’s situation. Today, we forget everything else and head back to Villa del Sol to have a weekend that’s just for us.”

in J City,

“You bought a whole bunch of stuff for Evelyn yesterday? We haven’t even confirmed if she’s Old Mr. Quintin’s granddaughter. Don’t

Evelyn will get greedy at the sight of money? She doesn’t seem like that kind of person. Back at Citadel, where patrons threw around cash

age, and how her adoptive parents neglected her after having their own children. Now that she has found her kin, you want to

and care. Old Mr. Quintin probably feels the same way. Evelyn was orphaned,

Quintin would help those girls find their biological parents, and if he couldn’t, he’d provide financial support from the shadows.

more than two decades, Old Mr. Quintin probably realizes Nora isn’t coming back. But Evelyn’s arrival gave him new hope – not just to find Nora, but also to give Vivian some

treat her well. But you and Evelyn are different. You

wait until after the DNA test to introduce Evelyn to Old Mr.

going to meet Old Mr. Quintin on her own, leaving them with no way to

was the most

and night couldn’t fully understand each other, let alone Estelle

“Jonathan, you give me too much

Jonathan arched

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