Love Coming from the Least Expected

“Of course, that doesn’t matter anymore. What’s mine will still be mine. My daughter can’t get married without a proper dowry!” Isabelle smiled.

She wants to give me everything? Naturally, my first response was to refuse her offer. “I don’t want any of that, Mom. You know how I’ve always preferred drawing since I was a kid, right? I’m getting kind of famous now and a lot of people have acknowledged my artistic skills. I’m really happy to do what I like for a living, and I don’t need anything else.”

said after a brief pause, “You silly girl! Why would you defend that scumbag father of yours after all the suffering they’ve put you through? You should spoil yourself a little sometimes, you know? I’d grant

free to live our own lives now. We don’t need to bother with certain things anymore,”

than Christopher. Isabelle and I seemed to have this barrier between us; things simply didn’t feel the same anymore. The cost of being selfish with her was far too great and I was afraid of losing

know what I’m doing. Nathan wants to protect the Tanner family but he chose to send you while he hides in the back. How smart of him, treating us both

I knew better than to say any further because she would get mad if I did. She then brought me shopping for clothes and had me try on a ton of them. She also bought

feeling increasingly uneasy since he left. It was as if I had lost my pillar of

I knew Christopher had left to give Mom some time to cool off and slowly accept him. He knew that having me cling to him at all

don’t like to live with the Goldsteins. I can feel that she’s really making an effort just for me. I know you’re probably mad about me leaving, but Sabby’s right:

with pictures of Remington’s artwork for an art exchange in