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?”

he hung up his phone. “Spencer heard this through the grapevine as well.

with each other?” As she was searching for Lucas during the past couple of days, she had

reason, she immediately made the connection upon hearing the Frasers and the Fields. “Don’t tell

nodded his head. “I heard a little girl has started living with the Field family recently. It’s highly

“Sure.”

woke the

eyes, she was greeted with the sight of a good-looking couple

like a

to look at this

“Lucas,” she murmured.

she apologized guiltily, “Did my illness act up again? I’m so sorry to have

chided her gently as he got up and poured

matters

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

greeted

touching caused a pang of pain in her heart. “Time really flies. Even Lucas has landed himself

Ashlyn’s smile froze.

Thought of you first?

indirectly that you’ve always been the most important person

wasn’t sure if she was overthinking

Claire was looking at Lucas

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