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!”

still in her bedroom without Cooper, Carmen, or her sons. Her

hand reached up to touch her face, she

What is going on?

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 her computer. She found the surveillance footage of her residence at Bayside City and played it from the morning

Carmen, who was wearing a Snow White costume, coming over

remembered the promise she made

that were tugging at Anna’s heart strings. Her heart ached so

remained silent the whole time. He

visible

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 being able to control it, she

a good cry and let out all

the hell

they were done with what they were doing, they watched the surveillance footage at

as well. This kid was too cute and they couldn’t bear to be the reason

Cooper was acting

a replacement for his late wife but they realized that when Anna was gone, he would still come and stand by

What is Cooper thinking?

and assumed that something must have happened that

most straightforward way to find out was

What’s going on with your dad?” Cade asked as soon as the

added, “Sorry our family isn’t good enough for the

hanging up, Callum and Cade

her father who was acting like a playboy and making Anna sad, yet

family has a mine? So what if you’re from the Michel

families had decided to not

and Anna worked together, they would

their current lives; they

destroyed and they could

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