Angeline’s team aside, no one else doubted Evander’s credentials, so everyone proceeded to get on the open-air gondolas parked at the hostel entrance.

Since Evander chose to sit with Angeline’s team, the vehicle felt more crowded than usual.

As the gondolas moved into the dense forest, a cool breeze brushed against everyone’s cheeks, putting everyone in a relaxed mood.

Seeing no one was shooting in their gondola, Evander glared at Angeline with Floretta in her embrace and questioned, “So, are you really not explaining anything? You talk a lot usually, don’t you?”

Angeline felt nervous at his interrogation.

“I thought I shouldn’t leave Floretta alone at the airport. Besides, I did send you a text before that,” she replied softly.

“What about you?”

Evander glowered at Floretta, who gradually showed her face from Angeline’s lap like a duckling.

“Daddy, I asked for your permission before as well. You promised you would bring me out on Labor Day,” she answered, smiling sheepishly.

Evander was left speechless at her reply because he knew he had fallen for her trap for his own carelessness.

Despite being just five years old, his daughter was clever and scheming.

Jacob pouted in dissatisfaction when he saw how frightened Angeline and Floretta were. “Just so you know, we’re at Summerbank now. This is not your turf anymore, so stop scaring them like that.”

Evander’s face gloomed the moment Jacob spoke, making the ambiance in the car tense and cold suddenly.

“I can always make them leave. You know that, right?”

“You…” Jacob gazed up and met Evander’s eyes.

Feeling the deterrence from Evander’s glare, which sent a chill down his spine, Jacob did not utter the rest of his sentence.

is exactly like

Evander, who had experienced and seen many things

“Carry me, Daddy.”

escalating, Floretta suddenly went over to Evander and sat on his lap with

the show started. Also, they pay a lot

her as he reminded her, “Floretta, you’re still young.

differ,” Angeline weighed

is good training for Floretta. You shouldn’t always

the exploring they make us do,” Floretta added readily, raising her

two working together to come up with excuses for

himself he should just

so he figured he might as well make full use of that opportunity to

suppose Angeline won’t accuse me of

not have gone easy on Jacob after what he did, but that

their little digression in the gondola, the

could not see the end of it. The tree branches blocked off the sun, and little butterflies flew around, catching

teams quickly pulled him over, trying to get

am I tying this knot

go? What should we do if the children get a

laughed heartily when she saw Evander trying to conceal his anger as the people poured in

didn’t expect himself to be answering simple questions like that when he

you stick around, all

watching Evander caught in a conundrum, Angeline still took Floretta’s safety seriously when she tied the

in eagerness as she waited for

everyone set

it, she still held on to Floretta’s hand as they

elsewhere and followed behind Angeline

just need to look pretty for the cameras. Let me do all the

too,” Floretta volunteered happily in her floral dress as

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