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 well

Ashton’s influence within J City. He had good relations and decent financial capabilities. He must have pulled some strings to get the matter

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

your Household Register always been at

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

raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you and John create

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

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

to the circumstances at that time,” I replied, nonplussed. It was twenty years

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.

the past. I did think that it was a coincidence. When she brought me out of

it now, however, it did seem strange. Grandma spent her entire life in a tiny county within R Province. How on earth did

I thought about it, the more it gnawed at me. Now

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

towards the plan of moving with Summer to Peakville Estate. She may not like the sudden change, so Jackson and I agreed to

a hectic day, we got

lift me

moments of startled silence, I said, “Ashton, let me down.