Zachary withdrew his arms lamely. Although he seemed very nonplussed on the surface, as though he couldn’t care less about the kids’ behavior, he felt very disappointed indeed.

Turning to Ruby, he said, “I’ll entrust the kids to you then.”

“Of course, of course! I’ll take very good care of them. Don’t worry, Mr. Nacht!” Ruby and the other higher-ups exclaimed at once, nodding vigorously.

Zachary took one last look at the kids before leaving.

As he walked away, Jamie stared after him. He opened his mouth to say goodbye, but seeing as Robbie wasn’t saying anything, he decided to keep quiet too.

“Goodbye, Uncle Zack!”

In the end, it was Ellie who opened her mouth first. She sounded a little cautious despite her adorable voice—nonetheless, she still managed to melt Zachary’s heart.

turned around to look at her, his lips curving into

up

wave. He then turned to look at Robbie, who had remained silent up till

down at the ground

turned to leave at

could confirm that the children did not detest him. This meant that he had succeeded in his first

said,

presents,” the teachers called, gesturing at the students to settle down. “These

one of them raised his hand and said, “Thank you to Robbie, Jamie, and Ellie’s Daddy

stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around to look at the children, only to find that they were

bowing her head to look

his mouth as though he wanted to say something, but chose to

Jamie returned their smile gamely and chirped, “No problem! Hope all of you like

another whoop of

wash over him. Children were rather simple creatures. If you were kind to them, they would

home when she heard a sudden commotion of cars outside the

out of bed and walked over to the floor-length windows, where she saw a convoy right outside the gates. Under

most of the

felt a little confused, but she didn’t ask

Rawlston hissed urgently. “Ms. Windt

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