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.

love, so the only thing I could do was

and rather secluded as well. I hid

to find me.

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

inched inward soundlessly.

What on earth is so

graduate, you need to undergo security clearance if

government.

pass with that family background of hers? She

background or her own qualifications.

was startled

was Aunt Mel and

really wanted to leave, as this was the White family’s private affairs, after all. It

an

to know

though I wasn’t doing it intentionally, it wouldn’t look good if

dead end. I had no way to leave unless I jumped off of

Felix

obviously head over heels for Lilac. He began

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

were tears in her eyes,

when, like an idiot, I began to feel

What did her parents‘ problems have to do with her? She was just a girl who

what had happened between Felix and I, it was really nothing

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