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?

turn the doorknob, but a familiar voice

gentle as the sounds of nature. Who else could it be

tingled as I mustered up

making him look bright and beautiful, like a newborn angel. He was thin and scrawny; traces of being bedridden for such a long time evident in his

him alive with my very own eyes, I was too excited to say anything else. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Find ɴøᴠel.nᴇt

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

cane leaned against the side, and the chair swayed slowly. The sunlight and the smile on his face dispelled the coldness

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 not fully recovered

you would bring the kids here," Ian said,

you were awake, I rushed to see you immediately. Why don't we return to the Reid family to see

no need to rush," Joe assured, "We'll have plenty of opportunities

of his harmless sincerity toward others. I asked

by silence. The atmosphere in

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

had been hospitalized - how could

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

I