Chapter 1293:

“Jasper, are you good at school?” Nina asked, launching her signature tactic like a practiced diplomat.

Jasper hesitated before replying coolly, “I do okay.”

“Can you help me with my homework, then?” Nina asked with a straight face, throwing her own brother under the proverbial bus. “Jesse gave me some assignments, but there are parts I just can’t figure out. And I don’t dare ask him. He’s a little scary.”

Jasper thought for a second before responding. “He looks nice.”

“That’s because he’s nice in front of others. When it’s just the two of us, he’s frightening,” Nina replied without the faintest worry of being caught. “Every time I ask a question, he calls me silly.”

Jasper instinctively glanced toward Jerome.

Jerome remained silent. Ever since Jasper arrived, Nina had been paying less and less attention to him.

again, determined to build a bridge to

expression didn’t thaw, but he

Nina cheered, nearly bursting with

Jerome to the study on

already seated with a

of guilt but pushed through. She pulled a worksheet from


looked at the paper

leaned in,

level,” Jasper said, quickly recognizing the third-grade

anxiously at Jesse, her little heart skipping a

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took one more look at the page, then went to Jesse for

came to lies,

him, he let it slide—for now. Deep down, he was already planning how to settle the

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