In Love, Never Say Never

I choked up while hugging her. “I’ll bring you to K City to see Daddy. You’ll be just like your little friends, spending time with Daddy every day, okay?”

Bewildered, she widened her eyes. “Really? Mommy, you’re not lying to me, are you?”

“When have I ever lied to you? Hmm?”

“Then, can we bring Michael along?” She gave me those puppy-dog eyes.

“Summer, Michael needs to live with his daddy. If he follows us to K City, he has to part ways with his parent. Do you want to see him live separately from his daddy?”

She shook her head. “No!”

“Each of us has something that we hold close to our hearts. We get what we ask for.”

She fell silent for a while, then lifted her head to stare me in the eyes. “Mommy, I’ll go with you to K City.”

I nodded my head as a response to her decision. We all have different needs and wants. Hence, our priorities are different.

I had not fixed a date to return to K City. First, I needed to ensure that all tasks in R Province were completed thoroughly.

Thanks to the back-to-back appearance of the Stovalls and coupled with the special treatment from Colin, I was ostracized by others at the hotel.

Where there are more girls, there are more dramas.

When I was in the bathroom, I heard some people talk behind my back.

“Who do you think is the father of Scarlett’s child? Would it be John’s?”

highly unlikely.

and enjoy a lavish life as a Stovall? Don’t you find it strange that she came all the

the father of the child, let along meeting

She got pregnant and hid herself here in a small county to avoid

is ridiculous. I cringed. Such was

“Oh my, I think I’ve got my period. Who

“No, not me.”

the date and wore

in an

and handed a pad over to her without saying a word. Subsequently, I washed my hands and

a few peeps

was so used to all these talks and had heard

and continued arranging the files. I wonder how I should tell Colin about my

now.” The embarrassed girl placed

a blushed face. It was the girl whom I met

it sounded a tad bit harsh. So, I added,

she looked down. “So

seemed like she could not squeeze the rest of the words

she wanted to

at her. “Don’t

bothered by the vast rumors about me that I’ve heard

what we said is true. Why are you apologizing? The

Abby?

for almost two years and I don’t remember a colleague with that

studied her name tag carefully. Abigail