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

all patiently anyway. I decided to go help

make tacos?” Ashton asked when he saw

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

you grow up in the South? Not many people from the South know how to make tacos, even in the older generations. My

been to a lot of places. She’d

she’s a Northerner born in the body of a

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

Mr. Fuller and why she trusted him enough to entrust him with you?

shook my

rarely even talked to our neighbors there. Macy’s mom once mentioned that

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

you know your grandma’s name?”

Stovall. I took on

Grandma with him? There are plenty of other families in R Province that are much wealthier,

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

disbelief. “No, I

it tonight!” Ashton

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