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

as well. I hid myself there so that it would

to find me.

outside the balcony.

inched inward soundlessly.

is so good about that

her? Once you graduate, you need to undergo security clearance if you’re going to work for

government.

She can’t compare

family background or her own

startled It

Aunt Mel

as this was the White family’s private affairs, after all. It wasn’t appropriate

an

to know too much.

Even though I wasn’t doing

end. I had no way to leave

Felix

obviously head over heels for Lilac. He began recklessly arguing with Melinda

position, Lilac was standing beside them, her hands clasped together helplessly as she watched them. She

was smiling, but there were tears in her eyes,

a moment when, like an idiot, I began to feel

parents‘ problems have to do with her? She was just a girl who had met a man that she

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

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