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

all patiently

make tacos?” Ashton asked when he saw me come

nodded at him and washed my hands before helping him out. “My grandma

know how to make tacos, even in the older generations. My mom didn’t know how to make

to a lot of places.

get this feeling that she’s a Northerner born

think she’s ever told me about her past, though. So all my memories of her are from

why

my head.

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 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

you know your grandma’s

Stovall. I took on her last

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

she gave you. Have you ever taken a

in disbelief. “No,

open it tonight!” Ashton

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