Chapter 23

“Luna, Lili’s timid and shy, so you’ve got to treat her well. Don’t disappoint me.”

I wouldn’t disappoint him, but he had really disappointed me.

We’d known each other for 19 years, and I was sure he knew very well what kind of person I was. But he was giving me an indirect warning in front of everyone as if I was some kind of sly, spiteful person.

I wasn’t that kind of person, but I was really disappointed.

I said, “Okay.”

Uncle Austin and Aunt Mel probably knew about Lilac’s family and were very unhappy about it. When

dinner started, they kept plying me with food while ignoring Lilac completely.

Lilac shrank back helplessly in her seat while Felix continuously comforted her in a low voice.

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My parents couldn’t say much as this was the White family’s affairs. As for me. I focused intently on

eating and enjoyed the food thoroughly like the connoisseur I was.

This was the most boring dinner I had ever eaten.

When I had had my fill, I put down my cutleries and went out on the balcony for a breath of fresh air.

to see them being so in love, so the only thing I could

secluded as well. I hid myself there so that it would be

to find

hurried footsteps stopped outside the balcony. I didn’t

inched inward soundlessly.

your mind? What on earth is so good about that Lilac? Why

you need to undergo security clearance if you’re going to

government.

pass with that family background of hers? She can’t compare to Lulu

or her own

startled It

Aunt

was the White family’s private affairs, after all. It

an

me to know too

this was obviously eavesdropping. Even though I wasn’t doing it intentionally, it wouldn’t look good if people

balcony was a dead end. I had no way to

Felix

for Lilac. He began recklessly arguing with Melinda in a

I could see in my position, Lilac was standing beside them, her hands clasped together helplessly as she watched them. She

in her eyes,

moment when, like an idiot, I began to feel

She was just a

Felix and I, it was really nothing to do with

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