No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 23



My heart swelled with emotion. Though I was the Wagner family's foster daughter, Conrad's parents showered me with the same concern and love as if I were their child.

They treated me like their own daughter. I remembered Dustin Wagner, Conrad's elder brother, joking that he and Conrad had fallen out of favor since I arrived.

Fanny was right. My bond with Conrad might be fragile, but my connection with the Wagner family was unbreakable.

I took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

Everyone looked at me. Jacqueline stood up, walked over, and said, "Felicia, you're back. We were waiting for you to start dinner."

"Jacqueline, Herschel," I greeted them.

Nudged by Herschel, Conrad got up and came over. He took the bag from my hands. "Why are you back so late?"

that Jefferson would have told him about our

"Next time,

he certainly didn't want me mingling with his buddy privately. Yet, he was seen around

to him, instead heading toward the

followed, asking, "What's

I washed my hands, smiling at his reflection in the

things already. Don't you think you're overreacting?" Conrad's words made me lower

tried to pull the drunken Conrad away from a fight. He promised to fill that scar with a

shopping with your credit card," I

her off because of Aiden's situation. She needed to

tap and faced him.

tension in his eyes. "What are you talking

not, why treat Haley so differently? Or should I say..." I recalled the gossip on Deborah's phone, "Did you have

was cold, "Are you