Genevieve couldn't help but feel all warm and fuzzy inside. When she saw Amanda hopping down the stairs, she quickly beckoned the latter over.

“Sweetie, do you think these flowers are pretty?”

“Wow! Those are bi-color roses!” Amanda exclaimed. “They're so beautiful!”

“That goes without saying! Your father planted them himself!” Genevieve said proudly. “Did you know he built a few greenhouses to plant flowers just for me? Are you envious?”

“Very much so!” Amanda replied with a pout. “Doesn't Daddy love me the most? Why isn't he planting flowers for me too?”

Genevieve playfully pinched her daughter's nose. “That's because I'm his wife, and his roses are for me only. When you grow up, there will also be someone who'd do the same for you.”

“I doubt it,” Lucian muttered as he strutted down the stairs, dressed coolly in sports attire. “Given how much of a crybaby she is, whoever marries her must have the heart of a lion.”

“I'm not a crybaby!” Amanda whined. “Mommy, why was I born a minute later than Lucian? If I were the older twin, he wouldn't be able to bully me!”

Lucian pursed his lips. “Even if you were born earlier than me, you'd still be an idiot.”

Unable to put up with the siblings' bickering so early in the morning, Genevieve brought the roses into the dining room and placed them in a vase.

Steven had long laid out a breakfast spread, and thankfully, the food was still piping hot from having been kept in a thermal bag.

“Steven, have you had your breakfast?” Genevieve asked as she sat down at the table.

“I've eaten at Golden Restaurant.”

Genevieve was happily savoring a scone when she suddenly recalled something and looked up at Steven. “By the way, Steven, do you have a girlfriend?”

“No,” the latter replied, his mouth twitching ever so slightly. “I like my life the way it is now.”

Before Genevieve could say anything else, Amanda interrupted in her sweet, saccharine voice, “But isn't it better to have someone by your side, Mr. Sullivan? It'd be just like my daddy and mommy! Mommy always said Daddy was lonely until he had us.”

“Only two people truly in love will be happy together,” Steven explained while pouring a glass of warm milk for the little girl. “Unfortunately, there isn't anyone I love. Besides, I like spending time with you and your brother.”

“I like you too, Mr. Sullivan!” Amanda remarked with a megawatt smile as she gave him a heart-shaped hand gesture.

Genevieve, on the other hand, couldn't get over how heart-rending the conversation was.

She knew Armand had always regarded Steven as family and vice versa, but she still hoped the latter could find someone special to be with for the rest of his life.

“That reminds me, Mrs. Faulkner, I've sent you Mindy's information earlier,” Steven added.

“Okay,” she answered as she unlocked her phone and skimmed through the material. “Ah, so she's a top graduate from an arts college in Petalgrove. No wonder those photos went viral so quickly on Instagram.”
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