This interruption recurred, but Ariana took it in stride.

“It’s alright,” she assured him, “Attend to your family. We’re fine here.”

With a brief nod and an apologetic look, Mitchel dashed off.

Melon, in the meantime, sat engrossed in the grandeur around him.

When he tried to place his juice back on the table, a slight miscalculation resulted in it cascading over Ariana’s skirt.

“I’m so sorry, Mommy!” Melon’s eyes widened in alarm.

“It’s alright, darling,” Ariana consoled, patting her wet skirt.

and behave while I clean up, okay?

his mother make her way to the

Ariana exited, refreshed, she wandered close to the terrace. And there, in a fleeting moment, a familiar silhouette caught her

Ariana caught sight of the recognizable silhouette, her astonishment

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“Judy?” she breathed out.

of astonishment washed over her features,

a second thought, she rushed to Ariana,

been half a decade since their last meeting, and Judy’s heart had ached for Ariana throughout. Fate, however, had

struggled to hold

to be

tears, Judy replied, “After the Anderson mansion was sold, we, the staff, were all let go. But fortune smiled on me when a friend introduced me to the Chadwicks. I’ve been serving as their housekeeper since

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