Chapter 1568:

“Mr. Shaw’s so handsome. Why doesn’t he have a wife?” Nina mused aloud.

“And if he gets married and has kids, will he still come play with me?”

“Focus on your homework,” Jesse muttered, sidestepping the question.

That scenario wasn’t even on the table.

After what he heard last night, it was clear—Kristian was a lifelong bachelor in the making.

“You can’t just care about schoolwork all the time,” Nina scolded, determined to inject some emotional sense into Jesse. “You’ll never get a girlfriend at this rate.”

“I don’t need one,” Jesse shot back without missing a beat.

Nina activated her smartwatch camera, her eyes gleaming mischievously. “Say that again to the camera.”

“I don’t…” Jesse started, then clamped his mouth shut.

playful glint in her eyes. “Finish your thought,” she said with

words short to avoid saying something

say you don’t need a girlfriend?”

her a blank


gaze, her

of their silent

off her smartwatch’s camera, puffed out her cheeks, and let out a dramatic huff. “You’re

said, steering the conversation back on

she grabbed her homework from the desk. As she flipped it open, she shot Jesse a sideways glance. “You’re

sweetest, huh?” Jesse replied, his

tales at g αℓ ησ ν𝒆 𝓁s,

lit up with a bright smile. “You bet he

older,” Jesse said softly, his eyes flicking

bubbling with

her smug expression and raised an eyebrow. “What if someone even better-looking than Jerome showed

he?” Nina blurted out,

at a loss for


that moment, he felt a bit silly even thinking about it. Why had he imagined Jerome as his future

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