Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 199

Chapter 199

Yes, everyone would get old, but aging overnight was truly heartbreaking.

Zack still made me a cup of mocha, but it tasted awfully bitter.

"Take these coffee beans home. You can brew it yourself. It's high in antioxidants." Zack packed the leftover coffee beans for me. He treated me like his own daughter, and now there was an added layer of guilt to it.

I couldn't refuse, or it would make him feel worse.

"Okay, I'll ask for more when I finish it," I responded in a light casual tone to ease his mood.

"Hmm, ask for anything you want. Maddie, you are my daughter, do you understand?" Zack spoke from the bottom of his heart.

I firmly nodded. "You're my father too."

When I was in school, Zack usually attended my parent-teacher meetings. Sometimes Bree wanted to go, but Zack insisted with the excuse that given his status, the teachers in school would take me more seriously.

Although my parents died early, Zack never made me feel like an orphan in front of my classmates.

at his hair thinking that Bree might worry. "Zack,

look handsome, don't I?" Zack ran his

and nodded. "Yes, you do. You look the best no matter how you

the stairs as we talked and laughed. We heard Bree's voice before we saw her. "I've come to

she spoke. I saw her with a playful smile through the

smile froze on her face the moment she saw Zack. She looked at him in disbelief with eyes widened in

I both stood up. I quickly walked to her for fear that she couldn't handle the shock.

Bree

and wiped her tears. "What's

Zack's hair. She raised

you do. You don't have to worry about yours anymore, right?" Zack joked while wiping her

wouldn't stop as she trembled. She was in so much

first time I had seen he cry

while crying uncontrollably, her hands kept stroking Zack's

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happened?

Chapter 199

My words shocked Conrad, and his eyes