Chapter 27

At the end, Paige grumbled.

“Don’t worry, my boss… is super generous.” Rosalynn chuckled, pushing a cup of ice cream towards Paige, “Calm your jets.”

“You’re just too nice. That’s why those cowards in your company dare to throw their problems at you!”

It was all thanks to Paige that they found Trevor’s mom’s account.

After dinner, Rosalynn and Paige walked home hand in hand.

“When I was young, my parents and I would often walk on this street holding hands after dinner,” Paige patted a thick sycamore tree by the roadside, “Back then, these trees weren’t as lush as they are now.”

Paige’s father passed away in a car accident when she was ten. A few years later, her mother married a rich businessman, and also that year, with her stepfather’s help, Paige went to study abroad.

“Missing your dad?” Rosalynn asked gently.

Paige bit her lip and nodded, “Yeah, a lot.”

Rosalynn caressed the back of her hand, in a comforting gesture.

She didn’t even know who her own father was. Her mom got pregnant and returned to the L City. Her grandparents had no idea who the father was.

from her mom’s drunken ramblings that her father had just proposed when he got caught cheating. Afterward, Rosalynn never asked about her dad again.

Paige didn’t stay overnight.

door, snuggled into a corner of the couch, opened her phone, and

Garden Lakeside. The key is on the

sending the message, there

started to pack her belongings for her business trip to Q

packing,

grabbed it, and the caller

1/2

ridiculous. She actually thought the call was

forgot to take you out for dinner and

cheerful as ever, “In that case, how about you treat

Rosalynn said helplessly, “I’ve gotta go to Q City for a week-long business

“Q City?”

“Yeah,” Rosalynn replied.

early trip tomorrow, I won’t bother you any

“Goodnight, Evan.”

Evan quickly hung up.

think much of the

old house, the banquet

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