I lowered my voice and asked, "lan, where are you? I plan to go back to Ucrebury in the next two days. Do you want to tag along? Shall we celebrate the New Year together in Ucrebury?"

After a moment of silence, he responded, "I might not be able to. We're still in Mesville, and the weather here is cold. It's also not good for the child to travel back and forth. Let's wait for after the New Year, and when the weather is good, we'll go back to look for you."

I looked at the man not far away as he lied, and I couldn't shake the discomfort from my heart. Why would he deceive me?

If I hadn't seen them with my own eyes, I would have kept thinking they were in Mesville.

Suppressing the discomfort in my heart, I questioned, "Where's Monique? Has she been well?"

I looked at him and Sawyer. After a moment of silence, he finally replied, "She's at home, and I'm out. Uh, I have something to do now. I'm hanging up."

Before I could say another word, the call ended.

I was in a daze for quite a while, looking at the back of him and Sawyer, who were talking as they pushed the child away.

Kelsey tugging on me, I would have rushed up and asked him

for me to calm down. When I did, I took a

were on such bad terms, and things weren't going well with Andrea

at me, pursed her lips, and said, "You'd better call Mr. Robert's back first. There are hundreds of missed calls. He must be really worried

phone, and Hendrix was calling again. If I picked up the call in a situation like this,

at Kelsey. "Is the place where you live far

celebrate the New Year. How about this, I'll take you somewhere tomorrow, and then I'll go back after you're done with your business. I heard that the Reid family in Jarold City is still waiting to get you into the family registry. You'll probably have a lot of things to do

bottom of things. Seeing that she already had it all planned out, I just let things be. Since Hendrix wouldn't stop calling, I just

from her bag, and said, "I'll pick you up

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bidding her goodbye, I went straight back to the Bronzy Residence. After being stuck in squabbles for the entire day, I didn't have the energy

there anyway. If I were to live there alone, things would be uncomfortably

got home, Hendrix called again. I answered the phone and greeted

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