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

good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must have pulled some strings to get the matter resolved for us without them asking us too

over at my household register and smiled. “There’s a third member of our little

Household Register always been at

here. But I was thinking of Grandma.

eyebrow. “Didn’t you

found him at Grandma’s and took him away.

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

at that time,” I replied,

lonely old lady in a forlorn county town was somehow acquainted with the heir apparent of the Stovall family from

think that it was a coincidence. When she

at it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in

gnawed at me. Now

about it. It’s cold outside, let’s hurry up and

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

we got home late

rather tired. When 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

startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down. I can walk