Chapter 564:

After all, he believed that Maia’s boyfriend was Melanie’s dad, Hurst! Hurst was way older than Maia — nothing like what Kathie probably expected. This kind of situation might be hard for Kathie to accept at first.

But Ethan saw it another way. He’d read somewhere that older men tended to be more caring with women.

As long as the guy truly cared for his sister Maia, Ethan figured there was no problem at all.

With that in mind, he quickly jumped in, saying, “Maia, I got you a birthday present too.”

Ethan’s cheeks turned red, and he looked shy, managing to pull Kathie’s focus away.

Kathie looked at Ethan but spoke to Maia. “Ethan went out of his way to find this gift for you. He spent the whole day on it.”

Maia’s eyes lit up with excitement. “What kind of gift?”

Ethan stood up, empty-handed, scratching the back of his head. “I wasn’t sure when you’d get back, so I hid it away first. Give me a moment.”

he turned and headed to his

came back, holding a wooden box carefully with both hands. The box looked pretty heavy,

a brief moment. A flicker of doubt gripped her chest

between Ethan and the

“Ethan, is this…?”

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a clay sculpture of

a boy with short hair; the other was a girl whose

to her eye level. She was certain that the

as Maia’s hand rested on the tall man’s head. “That’s our dad, and the other is our

wearing dresses. I asked the sculptor to make it just

Maia had blown out the candles with Ethan and Kathie, she had wished for

heart fluttered with feeling. Emotions bubbled up inside her. In her dreams, her parents’ faces had always been blurry, but now they looked so

aback. Seeing his sister cry for the first time, he asked, “Maia, why are you crying? Don’t you like my

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