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!”

was still in her bedroom without Cooper, Carmen, or her sons. Her body was still in one piece and

up to touch her face, she realized she had been

What is going on?

was anxious all night and couldn’t fall back asleep although it was only three o’clock in the morning. Suddenly, she shot up and turned on

a Snow White costume, coming over with Sophia early in

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

like a pair of invisible hands that were tugging at Anna’s heart strings. Her heart ached so much that she

the other hand, remained silent the whole time. He was just looking down at the discarded pot of

footage, his face wasn’t visible

couldn’t bear to watch the footage any longer so she shut her computer. However, her tears were still rolling down uncontrollably. Even after all these years of fighting her own emotions and

a good cry and let

hell

watched the surveillance footage at the Yard Residence too and found that Carmen

both felt unhappy as well. This kid was too

Cooper was acting

for his late wife but they realized that 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?

too peculiar and assumed that something must have happened that they were unaware

most straightforward way to find out was to ask Sophia

with your dad?” Cade asked as soon as the

the line, “Get lost!” Then, she added, “Sorry our family isn’t good enough for the Yard Family. Carmen

up, Callum and Cade

was clearly her father who was acting like a playboy

has a mine? So what if

to not stay in touch for a

Callum was eager to win Cooper over. If he and Anna worked together, they would definitely be able to get rid

mother and sons were fed up with their current lives;

they could only rely

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