qFor some reason, the atmosphere in the room immediately turned cold when Danrique sat down.

Suddenly, the joyful laughter had vanished as the children became tense, and Francesca appeared to be somewhat uneasy.

To remedy the awkwardness, Charlotte quickly lifted her glass. “It's not every day that we get to have dinner together like this, so I'd like to propose a toast!”

Zachary then lifted his glass as well to join in. Naturally, he had a non-alcoholic beverage in it.

After Francesca and the children, too, lifted their glasses and cups, they turned to look at Danrique, who had no choice but to follow suit.

“This is just wonderful! How I wish we could gather like this more often! Cheers, guys!” exclaimed Charlotte.

“Cheers!”

After clinking their glasses and cups, everybody gladly took a sip of their drink, except for Danrique, who nobody wanted to clink their drinkware with.

Zachary was about to start eating when he noticed how disappointed Danrique seemed, so he hurriedly extended his glass to the man.

a little reluctant,

two then quietly took a sip of their

feast begin!”

“So what did you

hand raised. “Jamie pushed me so high up that I could touch

so high up that

played the slide, but I was a little scared because you weren't

gently before suggesting, “Or you can

then glanced at Danrique, who had already lifted his head to look

shook her head. “No,

Zachary raised an eyebrow curiously. “Why not? Your father is even taller than I am. I'm sure he's more than capable of catching

in her mother's

Did Daddy do

story just now. It was terrifying!”

out his hands to scare us,” Suddenly, Beta's

Robbie, Jamie, and Ellie were scared,”

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