Her consciousness seemed to fall into some kind of weird loop. The image of Mrs. Fraser flashed before her eyes over and over. She got so frightened that she hugged herself tightly.

Go back… Lottie doesn’t want to move forward anymore… Lottie has to hug herself tighter… She’s got to go back…

Heartbroken, Mrs. Field pulled the little girl into her arms and turned to Mr. Field, “James, let’s put a pin in this for now. It’s been hard on her. She’s probably scared out of her wits.”

Mr. Field could only nod his head exasperatedly.

Deep down, however, he was quite worried. The vicious and merciless Haddock family had close ties with the Frasers.

There may be dire consequences.

Sigh…

The sound of his phone ringing woke Lucas up.

“What did you say?”

“The Fraser family made a scene at the Fields?”

His weariness immediately disappeared without a trace as he straightened up on the couch.

Slowly stirring awake from his voice, Ashlyn asked bleary-eyed, “What happened?”

phone. “Spencer heard this through the grapevine as

those two families get involved with each other?” As she was searching for Lucas during

and the

“I heard a little girl has started living with the Field family recently. It’s highly likely that girl is

“Sure.”

were whispering, their voices woke the woman sleeping on the

with the sight of a good-looking couple sitting

a match

bear to look at

“Lucas,” she murmured.

they were in a hospital, she apologized guiltily, “Did my illness

say that?” Lucas chided her gently as he

matters the

he finished, he turned around and took Ashlyn’s hand. “Claire,” he introduced, “This

greeted

smile touched Claire’s lips. The sight of their hands touching caused a pang of pain in her heart. “Time really flies. Even Lucas has landed himself a girlfriend. He always stuck to me like

Ashlyn’s smile froze.

Thought of you first?

trying to tell me indirectly that you’ve always been the most important person

wasn’t sure if she was overthinking

feeling that Claire was looking at Lucas in a

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