In Love, Never Say Never

I brooded for a good long while. “Isn’t Nick Cameron’s biological son?” I asked Ashton, breaking the silence.

It was obvious how much Cameron loves Rebecca. But she treated Nick completely differently. She was negligent and dismissive of him.

Ashton started the engine. With his eyes on the road, he grunted in acknowledgment. “When Nick’s father married Cameron, his birth mother had already passed away from an accident. He was in his early teens when Cameron became his stepmother.”

Early teens. He was old enough by then. Nick did not feel much affection towards Cameron as well.

“Why did Cameron invite all of us for a meal?” Logically, I would be the last person she wants to meet.

At a red light, Ashton pulled the handbrake and turned to me. “Are you still feeling a grudge?”

“What grudge?” I was startled.

“Towards Cameron and Rebecca?”

I bit my lip and glanced towards Summer, who was fast asleep. “Life is long, we have to move forward one way or another,” I answered evasively.

It wasn’t possible for me to stay where I was. The matter with Macy and the child was out of my control. What was within my control was the ability to make my peace with it.

weren’t doing so

relations and decent

my household register and smiled. “There’s a third

always been at R Province?”

move it over here. But I was thinking of Grandma. She would

you and

father sent him to us, he was almost a grown man. The Stovalls found him at Grandma’s and took him

influential in K City. Have you ever thought about why John’s father

the circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty years ago, who could

lonely old lady in a forlorn county town was somehow acquainted with the heir apparent of the Stovall family from K City, and a famous merchant in J City. Scarlett, don’t you think that this is

about Grandma knowing old Mr. Fuller in the past. I did think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of R Province, she told me

Grandma spent her entire life

me. Now that Grandma was gone, I couldn’t find out

investigating about the past. Forget about it. It’s cold outside, let’s

to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson and I agreed to have her at Peakville Estate

got home late

the car pulled up and I threw open the door, Ashton appeared to lift me up in his arms before I had the chance to react. He carried me all the way

of startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me