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

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

Ashton asked when he saw me come

washed my hands before helping him out. “My grandma taught me how to do it when

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

has been to a lot of places. She’d make tons of them every year because she prefers

chuckled. “Haha, I get this feeling that she’s a Northerner born in the body

don’t think she’s ever told me about her past, though. So all my

asked, “Have you ever wondered how your grandma got to know Old Mr. Fuller and why she trusted him enough to entrust him with you?

my

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

bought herself a little house there and found me some time after that. Thereafter, she raised me all by herself, and no one really bothered

you know your grandma’s name?” Sally asked

Stovall. I took on her last

reminds me… Why did John’s father entrust Grandma with him? There are plenty of other families in R Province that are

left you a topaz gemstone in the sandalwood box she gave you. Have you

disbelief. “No, I couldn’t

open it tonight!” Ashton

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