Well, of course you can,” Nicole promised.

Hearing Nicole’s promise, Nolan added, “What about some ice cream?”

“You can have that too,” Nicole agreed.

Then, she turned to Max and ordered, “Let’s go to a hamburger restaurant.”

“Sure thing,” Max replied, and drove them to the nearest highway. As soon as he spotted a hamburger joint, he pulled up in front of it.

The family got out of the car, entered the restaurant, and ordered two sets of hamburger and ice cream, which the kids enjoyed. As for the couple, they had only bought some fresh fruit juice for themselves.

While sipping on her glass of apple juice, Nicole caught sight of two peculiar figures near their car. ‘Wait, what’s up with that?’ Nicole was perplexed at the sight of Cherry locking hands with a man, both of whom were smiling from ear to ear. As the news from this morning was still fresh in her mind, she could not help but wonder what was going on.

“What are you looking at?” Jared asked, noticing Nicole’s fixation on the sight outside of the establishment.

“Oh, it’s nothing,” Nicole replied, before averting her gaze.

Though she was maintaining a calm facade, she was also feeling very conflicted.

about what she had just seen or not. If she did not inform Stanley about Cherry, it would be difficult for Stanley to help her out if any issues arose. But if she told Stanley, there was a possibility that the misunderstanding

moment,

her composure, and asked, “Are you ordering something to

eat when we get back home,” Jared shook

Nicole replied, shrugging

was fine with the idea of them eating

after the kids had finished their lunch. Much to their surprise, however,

are my parents?” Nicole turned to the house

butler greeted. “They said they went out for a

might have gone to the Riddle family

there’s no lunch prepared, right?”

that, the house butler answered, “Yes, we have eaten. Therefore, we have

had eaten lunch, Nicole said, “It’s fine, you

beeline to the kitchen and asked, “Since that’s the case, should we have some pasta? I’m thinking of whipping some Aglio Olio up for us.

“Sure thing,” Jared replied.

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