Then again, I would never compliment him, but neither would I dare censure him.

After all, I wouldn’t want to provoke someone as vindictive as Ashton.

Even though I held my tongue, he wasn’t about to let me off that easily. “Ms. Stovall, you were the one who wanted me to behave myself, yet you’re now hugging me so tightly.”

He leaned in even closer and looked into my eyes. “Aren’t you being a little hypocritical here?”

As if he wasn’t annoying enough, he even had to emphasize the word “hypocritical.”

The entire process had felt like an eternity to me, but it couldn’t have been more than a minute. I doubt Gregory had seen or heard everything that transpired.

Even if he had, at his age, the boy probably wouldn’t have understood any of it.

True enough, Gregory was still waiting by the side and waving his little hands. “Ms. Stovall, I want a hug too.”

He looked and sounded so sweet and innocent that my heart immediately softened.

a smirk on his face that I could only imagine the evil intentions

to him, Gregory was an

about it, the angrier I got. Without any care for how I looked, I mustered up all my strength to wriggle out of Ashton’s

loudly, just to irritate Ashton. I then held my head up high and strutted toward

I want you to hug me the way you did with Ms.

Ashton

“Yes! Ms. Stovall! Hug!”

with a lilt in his voice. “No

meant and exclaimed,

at his son and picked him up. The hallway

heart to hear them having so much fun, and I couldn’t help but

documents I had read earlier. The more

decided to give Emery

me having taken

calm as possible. “I have something I need to discuss

tell

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