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.

able to go

questions, but Zachary answered them all patiently anyway. I decided

how to make tacos?” Ashton asked when

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

people from the South know how to make tacos, even

to a lot of places. She’d make tons of

get this feeling that she’s a Northerner

me about her past, though. So all my memories of her are from our life in

Fuller and why she trusted him enough to entrust him with you? Has he ever told you how they got to know each

shook my

about that before. Grandma didn’t have any friends or family in R Province, and she rarely even talked to our neighbors there. Macy’s mom once mentioned that Grandma

a little house there and found me some time after that. Thereafter, she raised me all by

know your grandma’s

Stovall. I took on

John’s father entrust Grandma with him? There are plenty of other families in R Province that are much wealthier, so

gemstone in the sandalwood box she gave you. Have you ever taken a look inside?” Cameron

in disbelief. “No, I

it tonight!”

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