I couldn’t help but feel indignant.

Right before the elevator doors closed, Ashton caught up with a gloating smile playing on his lips.

I rolled my eyes at him and refused to speak throughout it all.

As soon as the elevator stopped, I stepped out without hesitation, went to the car, picked Audrey up, and sat inside.

“Mommy, what did you leave behind?” Audrey asked innocently.

Her question left me even more exasperated. I’m pretty sure I left my dignity behind.

“Nothing.” The last thing I wanted to do was recall the reactions of those store employees. Hence, I hastily changed the topic. “Let’s go home now, okay? I’m exhausted and don’t have the energy to talk anymore.” I purposely inserted a whine in my tone.

“Mm, okay!” Audrey got down from my lap and sat obediently. Mimicking the way adults spoke, she instructed Joseph, “Mr. Campbell, you may drive now!”

Ashton bent over to get into the car just in time to hear Audrey’s words, casting her a wounded expression as he settled down in his seat, as though saying, “Don’t you want your father anymore?”

him and cheekily

that moment, how I wished I was sitting in the same car as John.

let Ashton believe that he was the Stovall family’s live-in son-in-law just for the fun of it, but

to find a way to cure him of his

solution, I didn’t realize we arrived home

gates, I noticed several trucks parked in the yard, seemingly here to

way out, so I surmised that they were

as they made sure to avoid coming when there were many people at home, so as to

returned to the bedroom on the second floor at

but Ashton’s master bedroom had been expanded to double its original size and was currently connected to the bedroom next to

bed in the room was replaced by an excessively enormous one. If it wasn’t for the elaborate linen, one might even think that it was

over and saw the large bed, she instantly bolted in and flopped

scene before them. Similar to me, they had grimaces on

ignorant one in this family, who was also

persuade her. “Audrey, we haven’t seen each other for so long. Why

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