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.

be able to go

them all patiently anyway. I decided to

you know how to make tacos?” Ashton asked when he saw

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

South know how to make tacos, even in the older generations. My mom

lot of places. She’d make tons of them every year because

feeling that she’s a Northerner born in

about her past, though. So all my memories of her

asked, “Have you ever wondered how your grandma got to know Old Mr. Fuller and why she

shook my head.

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

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

you know your grandma’s name?”

I took on

plenty of other families in

box she gave you.

“No, I

open it

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