Chapter 945:

“You figured it out!” Aliza approached and linked her arm through his, playfully coaxing him with her touch. “I came out and couldn’t spot you, but I bumped into Miss Hinks, and we got caught up in conversation.”

Kristopher’s mind drifted elsewhere, managing only a distracted murmur in response. The identity of Aliza’s female acquaintance held little interest for him.

Meanwhile, Alethea, having returned to the banquet hall herself, searched in vain for her adoptive parents.

Across the venue, in an upscale lounge tucked behind the banquet hall, Kelsey and Jacob entered with a suited man.

the man settled into his seat, Kelsey leaned forward

modest means. To thwart this unsuitable romance, the Hinks family had drugged her mother along with their preferred suitor, resulting in an

family had initially assumed her mother would terminate the pregnancy, monitoring her closely. To their astonishment, her mother calmly accepted

the Hinks family concluded that keeping the child might effectively sever her mother’s connection to the impoverished

meticulous about Kelsey’s care, pouring herself into her daughter’s education and upbringing. Yet, she maintained an

grow up lonely, her mother even adopted an

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elementary school years, something unexpected occurred. One evening, her mother, abandoning her customary detachment, entered Kelsey’s

strived to fulfill my maternal duties and educate you properly, but my presence in your life has its limits. While I am your mother, I also belong to someone

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