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.

will we be able to go see the

them all patiently anyway.

Ashton

him out. “My grandma taught me how to do

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,”

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

that she’s a Northerner born

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

why she trusted him enough to entrust him

my head.

rarely even talked to our neighbors there. Macy’s

she 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 to ask her where she came from as time

you know your grandma’s name?”

Stovall. I took on

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

the sandalwood box she gave you. Have you ever taken a

shook my head in disbelief. “No, I couldn’t

it

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