My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

As I watched the scene unfold, I seized the opportunity and hurriedly stood up. "I'm also done eating. It'll be too late if I don't go now!" I said quickly.

Aaron blocked my way and said, "Are you sure you want to choose your client over the chance of meeting lan?"

I was both surprised and delighted, exclaiming, "lan's awake?"

Aaron shrugged while replying, "Yeah, and he particularly wants to see you. Are you sure you're not going?"

"Let's go!" I gushed.

After driving for nearly an hour, we reached a holiday villa in the suburbs.

Upon entering the manor, I saw that it was surrounded by the singing of birds and vegetation. Due to the morning rain, the air was especially fresh. After getting cooped up in the car for a long while, I felt much more relaxed being out in the open.

While I stood at the corridor with my hand on the

doorknob, I grew nervous all of a sudden.

We had been friends for more than a decade, and we used to be like family. A few months ago, we were involved in a huge dispute regarding the ownership of Anne's custody, but he still protected me with his life in the end.

What would happen if we were to meet again?

not dare to turn the doorknob, but a familiar voice rang out from the other side of the room, "Is that you,

the sounds of

as I mustered up the courage to walk

thin and scrawny; traces of being bedridden for such a long time evident in his physique. He stood with a cane in his hand, and he looked

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gestured while grinning as he got us to sit. He sat himself on a

swayed slowly. The sunlight and the smile on

some physiotherapy exercises. It was not until the day we came for our visit that he could actually walk. Judging from clumsy posture and footsteps, I could tell that he had

thought you would bring the kids here,"

Why don't we return to the Reid family to see the kids now? lan, you really

Joe assured, "We'll have plenty of opportunities to

in hysterics before, I knew of his harmless sincerity toward others. I asked

question was subsequently accompanied by silence. The

at Aaron with eyes resembling black pearls and said with a self-deprecating grin, "It looks like Aaron was telling the truth; everyone hasn't been doing well while I was in a

had been hospitalized - how could anyone rest

and looked at me enthusiastically, "Regarding Anne's custody, I've asked the lawyer to withdraw the lawsuit. Like Aurelia, she is your daughter after all; that

my heart. I feared