Ashton nodded and went into the kitchen, leaving me alone with Zachary.

Despite us being father and daughter, we didn’t really have much to talk about.

“This bracelet looks great on you,” he said after a brief pause when he noticed the bracelet on my hand.

“Thanks. Ashton’s assistant bought it during his business trip in Venria,” I replied.

He simply nodded and kept quiet after that.

Summer looked up at us and asked, “What day is today?”

“It’s New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year,” Zachary replied with a gentle look in his eyes.

“Does that mean we have to celebrate it with the whole family?”

Zachary nodded.

Turning toward me, Summer asked, “Why aren’t Grandpa and Uncle John here, Mommy?”

“They’re a little busy. Aunt Hannah just had a baby recently and has to stay home for quite a while, so they’ll celebrate it at home instead,” I said with a faint smile after a short pause.

we be able

asked a lot of questions, but Zachary answered them all patiently anyway. I decided

make tacos?” Ashton asked

helping him out. “My grandma taught me how

make tacos, even in the older generations. My mom didn’t know how to make them either,” Sally said when she heard

places. She’d make tons of them every

get this feeling that she’s a Northerner born in the body of

me about her past, though. So all my

Old Mr. Fuller and why she trusted him enough to entrust him with you? Has he ever told

shook my

rarely even talked to our neighbors there. Macy’s mom once mentioned that Grandma was in her fifties when she moved to R

Thereafter, she raised me all by herself, and no one really

grandma’s name?” Sally asked

took on her last

plenty of other families in

a topaz gemstone in the sandalwood box she gave you.

head in disbelief. “No,

it tonight!”

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