“We just came. Why isn’t Godmother here yet?” Jewel asked. Brian took off his jacket and hung it on the coat rack. “She’s at home with Mrs. Fritz. She says she’s not coming so that we young ones can have our fun by ourselves.”

“Oh, but I wanted to talk to her!” He chuckled. “You sound a lot better when you speak now, Jewel.” She smiled. ‘Really? I can’t talk a lot, though.”

“You keep getting impatient, but you’ve improved a lot now. Don’t you agree, Brian?” Alex remarked. “Yeah. You’ve improved very quickly,” Brian agreed.

As they chatted, Eugene and his little family, along with Nathan and Kate, had arrived. This was the first gathering with so many of them present. They all exchanged their greetings before taking their seats.

The three women sat together while the four men and one little guy all sat on the other side, staring at the women who were busy talking among themselves. “Has anyone placed an order yet?” Eugene asked.

You’re buying, so we wouldn’t dream of ordering before you came,” Alex explained. Eugene side-eyed him. “You sound so convincing. I’m starting to believe that

“I’ll leave the order to you since it’s your

to the server. As they waited for the food to

as ever. Nothing particularly dull, or exciting, or bad, or amazing,” Kate replied. Olivia gave her a look. “That’s as good as not

don’t know if it’s because I was too badly hurt by him, but I don’t seem to like him as much as I did before. I don’t think I have feelings

was exasperated. ‘Look at you. Do you even hear yourself?

you think

him well!” Kate retorted. Olivia tugged on Jewel’s arm and asked, “Look at her! Doesn’t she sound

three women had a jolly laugh together. Alex was looking at Jewel. He had an uneasy. feeling in his heart as he kept

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