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?”

and

how I wished I was sitting in the same car as John. At least there, he would expose

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

a way to cure him of

didn’t realize we arrived home until after a good

several trucks parked in

the workers were making their way out, so I surmised that they

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

returned to the bedroom on the second floor at night, every trace of happiness was wiped from my

for a day, but Ashton’s master bedroom had been expanded to double its original size and was currently connected to

one. If it wasn’t for the elaborate linen, one might even think that it was a communal bed stolen from

on, when Audrey came over and saw the large bed, she instantly bolted in and flopped onto

before

the most innocent and ignorant one in this family, who

for a while, Summer walked up and tried to persuade her. “Audrey, we haven’t seen each other for so long. Why don’t

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