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 after the boy had grown tired from playing that she finally had

and collapsed on the bed,

Ding!

rang

reached for her phone. Her sleepy eyes immediately

Liam texting her. The message read, “Are

he asking her this?

Liam, I just got back to

phone, Liam regarded the message with a morose frown.

schedule tomorrow. He was planning to take Caprice shopping and spend the day with her only to receive the unexpected

tell him that she was going home?

darkened. He replied curtly, “Never mind. It’s nothing

him, “Okay then. It’s getting late,

Clack!

tossed the phone onto the table. He had barely finished

so opposed to a brief chat with him?

was only

and rubbed his fingers against his temple to

He reached for his phone again and called Sylvia this

connected within the

is it?” Sylvia’s gentle voice rang through the phone.

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