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.

better half of the day with the boy latched to her every waking second. It was only after the boy had grown tired from

and collapsed on the bed, ready to

Ding!

phone rang suddenly.

phone. Her sleepy eyes immediately

texting her. The message read,

was he asking

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

tomorrow?”

the other end of the phone, Liam regarded the message with a morose frown.

these days and finally managed to free up his schedule tomorrow. He was planning to take Caprice shopping

him that she was going

eyes darkened. He replied curtly, “Never mind. It’s

then. It’s getting

Clack!

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

so opposed to a brief chat with him?

only nine

shut his eyes and rubbed his fingers against

he managed to soothe himself. He reached

time.

within the first

it?” Sylvia’s gentle voice rang through the phone.

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