“Hey, Lina, Mom was really scared by the door guardian today!” Dave chuckled. “She used that feather duster for over ten years, and it suddenly met its demise!”

Lina was taken aback. “What? Did Zeke dare to lay hands on Mom?”

“No!” Dave described the situation to her. “Mom was furious because the kitchen was too messy. She grabbed the feather duster to make a point, but she got carried away and accidentally hit him for real…

“And the feather duster snapped in half.”

Lina widened her eyes.

Dave looked toward the porch and lowered his voice. “Sis, he’s not a door guardian but Ironman, is he?”

Lina could not help but laugh and told her brother to go back to sleep.

She looked at the plate of risotto on the table for a while, then went to the porch for no reason.

Zuko was in a vigilant sleeping position, his body tilted to one side, hands crossed in front of his chest, and the blanket only covering his stomach.

calves had well-defined and

retracting her gaze and all

peacefully spent their first

the next morning,

usually the busiest time at the store. Jesse and Melissa would

habit of reading in the morning and was

the porch and realized that Zuko was not there either. She was wondering when she heard footsteps behind her.Books Chapters

a T-shirt and shorts, walk toward her. It seemed like he had just finished exercising, his

damp with sweat clung to his body, outlining a

inadvertently fell on

at?” Zuko’s

turned her face

she said softly. “I just… wanted to

“Fine.”

his face

seemed so reserved, with no expression on his face, keeping people at a

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