Chapter 1899

Caprice got into the car first.

Then came John and Sherry. They entered the car from each side of the car so that they could have Caprice seated at the center, squished between her parents.

She felt like had been transported to ages ago when she was just a child. She cast a strange look at them.

John curled his lips into a gentle, doting smile.

Sherry smiled tenderly and took her hand.

Caprice was confused.

Had she truly been away for so long? Were they beginning to miss her this much already?

The ride back home took several hours.

Caprice tended to get sleepy on lengthy car rides. She spent half of the ride sleeping against her father’s shoulder and the other half burrowing herself into her mother’s arms, drowned in sleep.

It was a wonderful journey.

Upon her return home, Madam Stockton stuffed her full of her favorite food. Aunt Queenie

showed up as well with her three-year-old son. Her son was adorable. He was a little devil who ran amok.

of the day with the boy latched to her every waking second. It was only

collapsed

Ding!

rang suddenly.

her phone. Her sleepy eyes immediately pried

her. The message read, “Are

was he asking her this?

I just got back to Glanchester. Did you need something from me

end of the phone, Liam regarded the message with a morose frown.

these days and finally managed to free up his schedule tomorrow. He was planning to take Caprice shopping and spend the day with her only to receive the unexpected news that she had returned

him that she was

curtly, “Never mind.

texted him, “Okay then. It’s getting late,

Clack!

was halfway through composing a paragraph of text when he deleted the entire thing and tossed the phone onto the table. He had barely finished his piece and Caprice had already brushed him

so opposed to a brief chat with

was only nine o’clock!

against his temple to

He reached for his

phone was connected within the first few

is it?” Sylvia’s gentle voice

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