Immediately, Nathan stuffed a jelly in her mouth and ran away.

After that, Carmen quietly stood next to Stanley, who stiffened and was afraid to move or even make eye contact.

She then tugged at his sleeve. “Stan, I want—”

Pretending to be serious, Stanley scolded sternly, “Don’t even think about it!”

After being silent for a few seconds, Carmen started to bawl. All at once, Stanley panicked and backtracked, “Wait; please don’t cry! I’m sorry!”

While everyone was comforting her, Cooper quickly switched to a different channel to keep Carmen from seeing another one of those reality shows.

To their surprise, a loud voice came on the TV as soon as the channel was switched. “Thank you for tuning in to watch the largest parent-child reality TV show ‘My Grandpa In Shining Armor’! Please welcome Grandpa No. 1 to the stage!”

Instantly, Cooper’s hairs stood on end and he felt his skin crawl.

The entire room became eerily silent before Carmen, who had just been throwing a tantrum, was now standing behind Cooper silently and looking up at him with innocent puppy eyes. With a sweet voice, she asked, “Grandpa, am I still your favorite little baby?”

At that point, Cooper had broken into cold sweat and it started to roll down his skin. Under Carmen’s intense gaze, he was terrified of making a sudden movement, or any movement for that matter.

 

At Ronney City, Anna and the rest had safely arrived from Bayside City after more than a forty-hour bumpy ride.

 

In fact, it had been some time since Anna was away. Hence, she was swamped with work and could only get three or four hours of sleep every night. She would often overwork herself to the point where she would fall asleep instantly as soon as her head hit the pillow.

She was afraid that her mind would wander endlessly if she had even a second of free time.

Despite that, she hadn’t been well-rested since she returned because she kept having nightmares.

At one moment, she would dream that her body was torn open and something crawled out. Then, she would see her two sons being lifted up high before being thrown onto the ground.

“Miss Beautiful, where did you go?” Carmen’s cries would echo in her ear from time to time and the dream would center around Cooper’s deep, yet emotionless gaze.

“Anna, Annabel—”

“Ah!”

woke from her dream, only to realize she was still in her bedroom without Cooper, Carmen, or

to touch her face, she realized she had been

What is going on?

the morning. Suddenly, she shot up and turned on her computer. She found the surveillance footage of her residence at Bayside City and played it from the morning after

who was wearing a Snow White costume, coming over with Sophia

adorable dress, she suddenly remembered the promise she made with Carmen the day before and realized she

tugging at Anna’s heart strings. Her heart ached

whole time. He was

his face wasn’t visible but Anna knew he was

were still rolling down uncontrollably. Even after all these

but want to have a good cry and

the hell is

were done with what they were doing, they watched the surveillance footage at the Yard Residence too and found that Carmen had come

her sobs, they both felt unhappy as well. This kid was

thought Cooper was acting

when Anna was gone, he would still come and stand by the door for an hour or two. Every day, he would

What is Cooper thinking?

peculiar and assumed that something must

way to find out was to ask

Cade asked as

family isn’t good enough for the

Callum and Cade

a

has a mine? So what

to not stay in touch for a

win Cooper over. If he and Anna worked together, they would definitely be able

up with their current lives; they had to

they could only rely on themselves or look for

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