“Honey, actually I didn’t want to go through all that matchmaking either…”

Michael cut Sophia off before she could finish, his voice hushed. “I know.”

He already knew all about Old Master Fletcher’s meddling; every detail of it.

Old Master Fletcher should have gone doing some other geriatric activity since he was now old, so why did he still insist on pulling something like this?

The air this night was somewhat muggy. The Imperial’s management were a little too efficient in ensuring that the place had sufficient greenery to liven things up, for hordes of mosquitoes circled the streetlights.

Sophia had only been walking for a few minutes, but her face was already covered with a thin sheen of sweat. Several red bumps riddled her face, thanks to the mosquitoes.

The two of them continued onward, silent.

Michael didn’t blame Sophia for deliberately posting weird photos to her Instagram stories, and neither did Sophia remain angry about those scandalous rumors of Michael. The pair simply continued to walk quietly.

Sophia reached out to wrap an arm around Michael’s torso, but then she unwittingly felt a hard item in his trouser’s pocket. “What is this?”

Michael did not miss a beat as he answered, “The MP3 player I normally use for my nightly jogs.”

 

What era are we in? Who would still carry such a huge music player around? That’s very obviously a gun! Sophia mentally grumbled about that, but she didn’t expose his lies. Michael gripped her hand tightly, and the pair walked back together hand in hand, sweat dripping from their bodies.

Gary was busy tossing bags of various sizes into the trunk of the car by the garage when they reached the gate of No. 8. When he saw them approach the house, he called out to them. “Boss, Madam, Young Master Nate said that he wants to stay with Old Master Fletcher until the semester starts. He won’t be coming back until then.”

 

Nathan should really leave. If he stayed behind, he would most likely end up on the receiving end of a beating. What he did couldn’t be described as taunting a tiger anymore; he had practically poked the tiger in the eye!

Michael strode forward with large steps and swung open the car door to see Nathan sitting inside, a blank look on his face. Chrysanthemum the cat was in his arms, and in his hand was a tiny book with the title ‘How to Protect Yourself as a Minor’.

Sophia was unamused.

Michael let out a

while backing away, his expression nonchalant as he calmly and forcefully stated, “It’s illegal

reached over mercilessly to haul the ginger cat away. Then, he shut the door and said to

ginger cat into the house

stay a day or two whenever he had to stay over. Even his longest stay was only a few days long, and that was during the new

Master Fletcher would drag the boy out to run through some drills with the rest of the troops

Michael’s adoptive son, Michael had thought of the boy as his own flesh

left, Hale suddenly returned with a

living room since the morning started, Sophia

wrapped up the box that Hale had brought back, adding a large pink bow as a finishing touch. She did this all by herself without allowing anyone to help her before sending Hale off with

coldness that was radiating from it, his expression as sharp as

remained frosty as he answered, “The

had sent over to the Fletcher Residence, where he was hiding. Nathan opened it to find that it was filled with workbooks that spanned a variety of

love’

to come home

Nathan remained silent.

semester starts. From now on, you’ll be running drills with the rest of the troops! Once you’re done, it should be time for Bayside University’s military training to start again. You’ll

to stay

about gaming either. All of your

Nathan’s silence dragged on.

have been confiscated. Be punctual for your drills. You’re not allowed to be late. Joel will be monitoring you. In short, if you don’t finish those workbooks—all one hundred of them—then Michael won’t acknowledge

to study hard on her own so that she could sit for the entrance tests as

run to a different country, just not his precise location, and Kayla Harper was dead. Even if Sophia hadn’t killed

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