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?

doorknob, but a

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

as I mustered up the courage to

bedridden for such a long time evident in his physique. He stood with a cane in

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as he got us to sit. He sat himself on a rocking chair next to

the side, and the chair swayed slowly. The sunlight and the smile on his face dispelled the coldness in the room little by

came for our visit that he could actually walk. Judging from clumsy posture and footsteps, I could tell that he had not fully

the

knew that you were awake, I rushed to see you immediately. Why don't we return to the Reid family to see the kids now? lan,

rush," Joe assured, "We'll have plenty of

I knew of his harmless sincerity toward others. I asked

subsequently accompanied by silence. The atmosphere in the

later, lan looked 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

to us had been hospitalized - how could anyone

custody, I've asked the

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