On the chessboard, Ashton was down to his last few pieces. Gazing at me, he asked in a gentle tone, “What are your plans for this afternoon?”

“I don’t have any plans,” I replied. Then, I attacked his knight.

He didn’t seem to mind and openly surrendered to me.

Emery walked away, probably tired of witnessing Ashton’s obvious submission. Meanwhile, Cameron stood by the side and rebuked, “Didn’t I tell you both to visit the aquarium in the North District today? Summer has been going on about it for a long time.”

“That’s a good idea. The weather today is suitable for an outing,” Ashton answered with a nod.

I refused flatly, “I can’t. I’m busy.”

 

Both Cameron and Ashton looked at me, and the former asked quizzically, “Busy with what?”

My eyes stayed focused on the board and I only lifted my gaze after taking Ashton’s king. “Didn’t I tell you I’ll be visiting Uncle Louis today? I haven’t seen Hannah for a long time too. I wanna see her baby.”

 

Cameron was momentarily taken aback, but she managed to squeeze out a smile. “But Mr. Fuller is here. It’s a good time to take Summer out to play.”

“Oh.” I paused, then countered, “But I’ve already called my brother and made dinner plans with him tonight.”

Trying hard to patch things up between Ashton and me, Cameron proposed, “Well, that’s great too. You can all go together. Summer has never seen Hannah’s baby. Since Summer likes babies, I think it’s a good idea to-”

baby too and she likes him. It might be troublesome to bring her along. It’s better if I go alone.” I stood up and was

stairs barefooted and ran

Speak of the devil…

his voice drifted across the phone.

see you’re

dinner together tonight. I

I was coincidently planning to see Hannah and the baby, then visit Uncle

while

my lips,

speculated, “Did you and Hannah

the two of us?” From his

softly and concurred, “Fine. You

hung up after

upstairs and change, but she wanted me to

room and prepared to

City and continue working on the Lavelian Village project. I didn’t bring much of my own belongings back with me and the large suitcase was actually for all the cute toys I bought

look for me because I noticed that the bed was still unmade. After tidying up the bed slightly, I arranged my skincare

“Summer, you need to make it a habit

maids at home, she needed to learn how to do these things on her own because not being able to do something and not wanting to do it were

hear her response, I frowned and glanced behind me to

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