Chapter 1899

Caprice got into the car first.

Then came John and Sherry. They entered the car from each side of the car so that they could have Caprice seated at the center, squished between her parents.

She felt like had been transported to ages ago when she was just a child. She cast a strange look at them.

John curled his lips into a gentle, doting smile.

Sherry smiled tenderly and took her hand.

Caprice was confused.

Had she truly been away for so long? Were they beginning to miss her this much already?

The ride back home took several hours.

Caprice tended to get sleepy on lengthy car rides. She spent half of the ride sleeping against her father’s shoulder and the other half burrowing herself into her mother’s arms, drowned in sleep.

It was a wonderful journey.

Upon her return home, Madam Stockton stuffed her full of her favorite food. Aunt Queenie

showed up as well with her three-year-old son. Her son was adorable. He was a little devil who ran amok.

boy latched to her every waking second. It was only after the boy had grown tired from playing that she finally had

back to her room and collapsed on the bed, ready to sleep.

Ding!

phone rang

for her phone. Her sleepy eyes immediately pried themselves

texting her. The message

asking her

replied, “Hey, Liam, I just got back to Glanchester. Did you need

tomorrow?”

the phone, Liam regarded the

occupied with work these days and finally managed to free up his schedule tomorrow. He was planning to take Caprice shopping and spend the

not tell him that she was going

darkened. He replied curtly, “Never

It’s getting

Clack!

composing a paragraph of text when he deleted the entire thing and tossed the phone onto the table. He had barely finished his

she so opposed to a brief chat

only nine

against his temple to cool his restless mood.

himself. He reached for his phone again and

time.

was connected within the first few rings.

it?” Sylvia’s gentle voice

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