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?”

her tongue at him and cheekily hid behind Summer, pretending to

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

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

way to cure him of his unhealthy tendency of living off

in coming up with a solution, I didn’t realize we arrived home until after

the gates, I noticed several trucks parked

so I surmised that

sure to avoid coming when there

the bedroom on the second floor at night, every trace

out for a day, but Ashton’s master bedroom had been expanded to double

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 a communal bed stolen from a

bed, she instantly bolted in and flopped onto it with her slippers still on. “Wow! There’s a

watched the scene before

most innocent and ignorant one in this

the bed for a while, Summer walked up and tried to persuade her. “Audrey, we haven’t seen each other for so long. Why don’t you sleep with me tonight,

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