While Catelyn and Maia ran into one another, Miles also happened upon a man he had not seen in years. 

Getting bored while waiting for his mother, he went over to the child department for a walk, but then he overheard a cringy conversation coming from past the rack. 

“Darling, do you think our baby is going to be a boy or a girl?” 

The man wrapped his arm around the woman’s waist and in a seductive voice, he endearingly cooed, “I’m happy with either, as long as you’re the mother.” 

“That sweet tongue of yours!” The woman said while hitting the man’s firm chest playfully. “The Mason family is developing swiftly right now, so my future mother-in-law would probably prefer a boy to inherit the family business…” 

Miles shivered and thought, ‘Ew, grown-ups are so gross.’ 

He curled his lips into a pout and moved to leave, only to accidentally see the faces of the couple through the gaps between clothes. He tripped and came close to losing balance. 

That man was Jamie Mason, his biological father. 

Ever since he could remember, he had asked about his father. Catelyn did not intend on lying to her, and with how intelligent Miles was, it did not take long for him to find out about Jamie. 

out that Jamie had abandoned him, he bit his lip and decided he did not

trying to leave. All of a sudden, however, his phone started ringing.

a spam message, but the sound of the notification had caught

of them, shoved the rack away to grab Miles by the arm,

to begin with, and despite the

“Let me go!” 

was beginning to

much like you.” Louella walked over slowly and felt dazed when she saw how much Miles

to have noticed as well and asked,

to Jamie’s betrayal and abandoning Catelyn. He immediately put up an innocent expression like he had been wronged and said, “Daddy, you haven’t given us any money for four years. Mommy is running out of options, so

her

grip around Miles’s arm. “Say that again!”

Now, I can’t even afford to go to school! Pretty lady, we really can’t survive like this…” whimpered Miles in a choked, soft voice while

on Louella’s face stiffened as she realized that this child could

with wide influence in recent years and plenty

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