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Emily turned to the sullen-looking old man who was sitting on the sofa near the stage.

“Right. Should we give him the prize how?”

Louis nodded swiftly. They both opened their backpacks. After taking out a piece of paper, they walked over to Rowan.

However, two meters from the sofa, Sean stopped their steps. “You can’t cross the border.”

Seeing Sean’s fierce look, Emily furrowed her eyebrows and hid

behind her brother’s back. However, Louis wasn’t scared at all. He dared to look up with round eyes.

“Why did we stop here? We wanted to give Grandpa a gift,” Louis asked loudly.

Witnessing Louis’ courage, Rowan raised an eyebrow. His eyes then fell on the paper the toddler was carrying. Curious, he cleared his

throat. Sean immediately made way.

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“Good morning, Sir.” Louis took his sister’s hand and stepped forward. “Emily and I are very grateful that you gave us a scholarship. We are also happy we are invited to this cool event. Therefore, we

want to give you a gift.”

While occasionally glancing at Sean, Emily came out from behind Louis’ back. “We just bought colored pencils. So, we decided to give you our first drawing.”

Emily handed Rowan the paper. Her tiny hands seemed to be shaking.

Seeing that sweet face, Rowan suddenly thought of Kara. His hatred rose. He was reluctant to take the paper.

Receiving such rejection, Emily’s furrowed brows deepened. She was confused and turned to Louis as if asking for help.

“Sir, my sister gave you a gift. Why don’t you want to accept it? That’s rude,” Louis said, shaking his head in surprise.

“You’re the ones who are rude. Who taught you to wear sunglasses when talking to an old man? This is indoors. You’ve made that

mistake twice.”

puffed up. He never knew such a rule existed. However, after taking a deep breath, he took off

want to accept our gift?”

looked

“Yeah, Emily’s eyes are gray too.”

suddenly became heavy.

them to you?”

his head quickly so that his chubby cheeks swayed.” Mommy’s eyes are amber like copper. So, we think that we inherited

is your

changed drastically. After placing the paper in Rowan’s lap, Emily turned to leave. Louis puffed out his

If you don’t like it, you can throw it away. Now excuse me. We have to practice our speech again.

Π

putting down the paper, Louis followed

A moment later, his gaze fell onto the paper.

and flying robots. A boy and a girl were holding hands. They were flanked by

five people playing in the flower garden filled with butterflies. A stuffed lemon sat on a pile of books and a man with

a tree.

they playing?” Rowan sighed.

be comforting Emily by stroking her cheek. Then, with all his

have the same eyes as Frank?’

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for a moment, Rowan motioned for Sean to come closer. “Find out

event. Various scenarios flashed through his mind. Only when the twins finished giving speeches did his attention turned to Kara. The toddlers just ran to

speech? Were we cool?”

adjusting his bow tie, Kara smiled. “You guys are very cool. Mommy’s little angels are

say because my heart was beating so fast,” Emily said

it. You two looked so relaxed. Many people took photos of you because you looked so

again. “Then, Mommy must show our recording to Grandma. Grandma will definitely be

nodded. For the rest of the event, she let the twins sit on her

people wanted to take photos with the twins. Kara allowed them and watched from a limited distance. Suddenly, a voice greeted her. “I didn’t expect

smart children.””

expected, Rowan did come to her. She was sure that the old man

are

facing him,

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before Rowan asked the question, Kara interrupted, “Mr. Harper, do you have a little time? I have something to talk

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