It was past midnight and a new year had arrived.

Anna gazed at the glamorous fireworks, a garish display of intense colors reflected in her eyes.

With the new year comes a new fight.

Sooner or later, I will completely break off from Jordan’s control and achieve freedom!

Now that her sons had grown up and did not need her protection anymore, she desired to live for herself as there was still plenty of time to enjoy life.

Two of them stood by the window and marveled at the fireworks outside.

Every firework that exploded in the sky would light up Cooper’s facial features, and it seemed like different stories of Cooper were reflected through the glow each time.

Anna was extremely curious about Cooper.

She had come across too many men—the domineering ones, the gentle ones, the wise ones, the foolish ones, even the obscene ones… Nevertheless, she had never met someone as infatuated as Cooper.

She had noticed the photos on his bookshelves the moment she entered the study room. Browsing through them, she realized many were the pictures of him and Annabel.

True enough, this man remained lonely for the past thirty years for the sake of one woman.

“I guess your prompt agreement to my request is very much due to my resemblance to your Anna,” she murmured. Anna seemed to be talking to Cooper but at the same time it seemed like she was talking to herself.

Cooper maintained his silence.

You are my Anna…

and left a night light on for her. Sleeping soundly, Carmen had no idea that she dozed off while petting the dogs just

a kiss on her forehead and

was past twelve and it was time for Anna to leave. As Cooper sent her off, the two chattered buoyantly and their relationship seemed to be much better than before. No one knew what their discussion was about, but they could figure that it must be some serious

his brother

all night while Sean carried the

play mahjong throughout the night. Nevertheless, she was caught by Cooper who came back from sending off Anna. Cooper commanded in a serious manner, “You should

she pursed her lips

“Dad, please stop calling me ‘darling’ in front of outsiders next time.

was referring to, Cooper said in an even stern

Sophia was on the alert as she stared at Cooper in

loud? Is he going to get back

what did the both of you talk about just now?” she

conversation. “Kids shouldn’t meddle with adults’ affairs,”

Anna and him had chewed over plans to deal with Jordan, and Cooper was

knew, the heavier his

would not sit by anymore regardless of Anna’s real

so many sufferings in the past twenty years. The hard times had molded her to become a completely different person. Nonetheless, Cooper still felt that his responsibility was the greatest. If he was not blinded by hatred back then and could think

who had gone through many tribulations,

Have

he patted Sophia’s shoulder and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Thereafter, he went upstairs without turning back and entered

scene in which Cooper kissed Sophia. While kissing was a common etiquette in the Western culture, it seemed awkward in the current

“Ew…”

disgust. It felt like he would be indirectly

morning when Anna arrived at her home in Bayside City

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