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?”

unlikely. Aren’t they

wouldn’t she stay in K City and enjoy a lavish life as a Stovall? Don’t you find it strange that she came all the way here to a small county with

let along meeting

and hid

cringed. Such was the frightening

girl ran into the bathroom frantically. “Oh my, I think I’ve got my period. Who has

“No, not me.”

should I do? I forgot the date and wore

was in an

open and handed a pad over to

appearance caused a few peeps to feel extremely

all these talks and had heard different versions

continued arranging the files. I wonder how

thanks for helping me out just now.” The embarrassed girl placed a glass of milk on my

up and was met with a blushed face. It was

then felt it sounded a tad bit harsh. So, I added, “It’s just a

her lips, she looked down. “So

not squeeze the

she wanted to

her.

the vast rumors about me that I’ve heard

true. Why are you apologizing? The fault isn’t ours,”

Abby?

working in this hotel for almost two years and

studied her name tag carefully.