My Four Miraculous Treasures

Chapter 178 Grandma Cindy came in with a bowl of soup, still steaming-hot. "Willow dear, I noticed you didn't eat much at dinner earlier, so I made you some soup to help tide you over-"

She trailed off mid-sentence when her eyes fell upon the two of them, entwined together upon the bed: Willow wrapped up in Jasper's arms, nuzzling tenderly against his chest; Jasper with his bathrobe in disarray, as Willow's hands groped him hungrily.

Grandma Cindy fell silent abruptly, at the sight of this intimate scene.

Willow realized that she was a little too close to Jasper at the moment, which might give someone the wrong idea. Sucking in a sharp, cold gasp of air, she dove under the blanket in a mad frenzy, trying to disappear from sight.

She could feel her whole face on fire with humiliation. If only she could dig a grave for herself and just die

Grandma Cindy clearly didn't think there was anything to be embarrassed about. Rather than being

now.

surprised, she appeared delighted, beaming from ear-to-ear. "I'll just leave the soup over here, come have it at your own leisure. Carry on, carry on! I'll just get out of your way..."

And with that, she made her exit, shutting the door considerately behind herself.

She was the one who'd put Willow in Jasper's own bedroom. She was the one who'd chased that workaholic grandson of hers off to bed.

woman, alone in the night... and Jasper was healthy and vital, such a fine young man... so if nothing happened between them, even under such circumstances... why,

in order to deflect the usual talk of marriage... that was her true motive behind insisting

voila, this one was the

grinning madly, like

Cindy frantically caught hold of his hand to stop him from disturbing the pair of lovebirds. "They're

under our roof," Frank said sternly. "She knows to

Cindy reproached him. "Modern youth are free spirits, who celebrate love everywhere they

Free spirits...?

face right then was a hideous sight

a sensible, upstanding, by-the-book sort of fellow Frank refused to believe Jasper would cross the

way.

им

replying to Cindy, Frank raised his hand to knock anyway. He

and pulled him away, down the staircase to the next floor, where she felt it was safe to raise her voice and set him straight: you don't believe me,

sharp as a falcon's, narrowed into slits as he listened to all

did give up on calling upon Jasper "Let's get ready for bed. We're getting on in years, we shouldn't stay up