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

and asked a lot of questions, but Zachary answered them all patiently anyway. I decided to go help out with the tacos and joined the others in the

to make tacos?” Ashton asked when he saw me come

my hands before helping him out. “My grandma taught me

Not many people from the South know how to make tacos, even in the older generations. My mom didn’t know how to make them either,” Sally

my grandma has been to a lot of places. She’d make tons of them

chuckled. “Haha, I get this feeling that she’s a Northerner

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

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? Has he ever told you how they got to

shook my head.

Grandma didn’t have any friends or family in R Province, and she rarely even

raised me all by herself, and no one really bothered to ask her where she came from as time went

you know your grandma’s

Stovall. I took

with him? There are plenty of other families in

you a topaz gemstone in the sandalwood box she gave

in disbelief. “No, I couldn’t get it to

open it tonight!” Ashton

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