Her face twisted into a frown. “It’s fine. I can sleep in the living room or anywhere else. I don’t want to disturb his rest.”

Jason silently placed the bowl on the nearby table and respectfully bowed to Sean before walking out of the room. He was even kind enough to close the door behind him as he left.

He waited outside the door for a few minutes, listening in on what was going on inside before softly laughing and pulling out his phone.

“Hello, Madam.”

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As he whispered into the phone, he quietly tip-toed down the stairs.

“Good news, Madam. Mr. Sean has just brought home a beautiful girl. They are in his room right now,” he said.

The elderly woman on the other end of the call shrieked. “What? Jason, what did you say? Say it once more!”

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She did her best to suppress her excitement and lowered her voice as she instructed, “Jason, make sure to serve him a bowl of very nourishing soup today. Just in case. Finally, he’s paying attention to a woman. He has been living a celibate ife for 32 years, so he might not be very proficient on this. Make sure nothing goes wrong. Do not let my future daughter-in-law get away.

Understood?”

Jason’s lips seemed permanently carved into a grin as he was still chuckling by the time he arrived at the foot of the stairs. “Very well. I’ll get to it right away. Don’t worry.”

“No! This won’t do. I should take care of this myself!”

Just as she said that, a man’s voice could be heard booming from her end of the call. “To do what? He hasn’t even proposed! If Sean really has a

girlfriend, he would tell us.”

“What do you know? Sean is always so proud and moody. What if he scares th girl off because I’m not there to keep an eye on him?”

Every time she introduced a potential date to Sean, he would always act like they were just children to him and refused to respond to a single comment they made. Watching them interact was enough to make her panic.

her away, then

quarrel, Jason hurriedly chimed in, “Madam, please listen to Master Vanderbilt. Also, Mr. Sean is treating the girl very well. He does not put on any airs. Rest assured, he will not be scaring her off as every word he speaks is so very soft

with disbelief. “Really? He’s actually controlling his

nodding. “Their relationship hasn’t even

for her to meet you two. If you come, you might actually scare

the kitchen to heat up the nourishing soup she had asked him to stock up on

was needed, so he decided to heat up one whole serving of soup. As he stirred

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a pack of the herbs used and added it to the pot. Even then,

spread across his face after he poured in another pack of

inside Sean’s room.

of soup from the table and beckoned Claire over with a wave. “Come

on the bowl in his hands, she did not dare move any closer to him

way. What if it was just an excuse to lure her in before he pounced on her? It would be impossible to escape

fall to his side before turning to sit down on

True …

was only then that she remembered she was here because he offered to take care of her

how properly he acted before, she slowly

she tentatively asked,

“I’ll sleep here and you’ll

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to be slept in, Sean was a tall man with long

and walked over

present in the soup, she frowned and pinched her nose before forcing herself to down it.

spiciness of the ginger instantly filled her mouth. She frantically stuck her tongue out and exclaimed, “It’s

disgusting as traditional herbal

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