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.

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

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

to find

after, light but hurried footsteps stopped outside the balcony. I didn’t want to

inched inward soundlessly.

you out of your mind? What on earth is so good about that Lilac? Why are you

Once you graduate, you need to undergo security clearance if

government.

hers? She can’t compare

her own qualifications. Why must

startled It

It was Aunt Mel and

this was the White family’s

an

me to know

Even though I wasn’t doing it intentionally, it wouldn’t look

was a dead end. I had no way to leave unless

Felix

heels for Lilac. He began recklessly arguing with Melinda in a low

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

smiling, but there were tears in her eyes, and it made her

when, like an idiot, I began to feel sorry for

her? She was just a girl who had met a man that she liked and wanted

had happened between Felix and I, it was really nothing to do with the two

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