“Mom, let’s have breakfast,” Nicole suggested to divert Gloria’s attention when she saw how conflicted Stanley was.

“Grandma, we’re joining the parent-child event.” Nolan and Lana added, eager to finish their breakfast and make a run for school.

Understanding what Nicole’s intention was, Gloria looked at Stanley and agreed, “Okay, let’s have breakfast first.”

After the family were all seated in the dining room, they had breakfast, though with a lingering sense of awkwardness in the air. Gloria was also feeling antsy, prompting Daniel to pat her on the hand to comfort her while signaling to her to maintain her silence until their children had all left.

All Gloria could do at that point was put up with it. She shot a glance at Stanley before lowering her head to eat what was left of her meal.

After Nolan and Lana had scraped their plates clean, they pulled Nicole and Jared along and walked them to the front door with great enthusiasm.

“Grandpa, Grandma, we’re going to school!” they yelled.

“Alright, have fun.” Daniel said.

“Thank you.”

leave, but her

urgent meeting today. I need to leave now.” Stanley hurriedly

decided not to explain the situation to them by himself. Instead, he would bring Cherry over to clarify everything to

Gloria shouted, but Stanley had

kid handle it by himself,” Daniel comforted her when he

defeat.” Look, it’s even on the news. And now he’s telling us that it’s not what we think it

idea of a relationship being taken lightly is

misunderstanding. After all, we’ve only heard it from the entertainment news, which is not known for

true, Stanley was well within the ideal age of marriage. It was just

Gloria replied, adamant that this was not an issue she could allow

Stanley owed them a clear explanation, one way

his head and chuckled. “Okay, let’s just wait until they come back

were on their way to preschool

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