Audrey and Gregory were ecstatic. “I heard that!”

“Me too! Daddy’s the best!”

Everything seemed like it was finally falling in place, and our life would become peaceful once more.

 

My hopes were shattered two days later. That afternoon, Joseph entered our house with an anxious expression on his face, tipping me off that I had been too naive about our situation.

“Go on. What’s wrong?” I was not in the greatest of moods at his arrival. My frustration grew at the problems that never seemed to leave us alone.

Sometimes, I wondered why people preferred havoc and chaos over a peaceful life.

 

“Nora met Shaun alone.”

 

Surprised, I asked, “Alone?”

 

“They even made sure to keep Ms. Audrey

 

I trailed off, sighing at Shaun’s

relieved at his choice at the Hall residence, yet three days was all it took for Shaun to change

children are less impervious

wholly unfounded. Perhaps Shaun had never forgotten how he was abused at the hands of his previous

the newspaper in his

pursed my lips in thought. Sometime later, I turned to Ashton and stated, “You don’t

ghost of a smile appeared on his face as his eyes pored through the financial news as if it was some piece of juicy gossip. “If I were in Nora’s shoes, I wouldn’t let

offered weakly, “But Shaun said no to them in the beginning.” Frankly, I was curious to understand how Ashton

folded his newspaper and met my gaze. “To a businessman, anything can lead to a deal. The only obstacle is price and

words, and I

village are the ones scheming for profit. Shaun is just a kid, and we’ve given him a

shifted into a cross-legged position and placed the folded

Still, we can’t really let him pass on

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