Chapter 222 Daughters Should Be Raised in Abundance
After Shay and Casey left, Courtney called Alicia. “Aunt Alicia, where’s Tina?”
“She just had her lunch. Your uncle put her down for a nap.” Alicia’s voice was heard from the other side of the phone. Her voice was much gentler than before.
“Uncle William is with her? Is he not working today?”
“Oh, we haven’t told you yet. He officially retired last week. At first, he went to Mayberry to attend an event held by the Calligraphy Association. But, when he heard that Tina was coming, he came back as soon as the event was finished. I told him he couldn’t take care of kids, but he insisted that he was good. Look at this man.”
Upon hearing Alicia’s complaint, Courtney let out a chuckle. “Uncle William has just retired. He’s probably just trying to keep himself busy.”
“That could be true.” Alicia grinned in response. “By the way, there’ll be a gathering this Friday night. The whole family will be having dinner together. No outsiders; just us and Stephen’s family. You should come too.”
Courtney hesitated for a moment. “We haven’t met for so many years. I don’t think I should go.”
“Why? You don’t want to get close with your grandpa’s family anymore?”
“That’s not what I meant, Aunt Alicia.”
“Come, then. I’ll pick you up at your place this Friday.”
Since Alicia insisted, Courtney couldn’t reject her again. Besides, the only family she had nowadays were the uncles from her maternal side.
She could actually understand Alicia’s effort.
On Friday night, Alicia came on time to pick Courtney up to bring her to the hotel for dinner.
got into the car, Tina plunged
caressed her little head. “Okay, okay. Sit down properly. The car
looked up and greeted her uncle who was sitting in the passenger
about my new dress? Is it nice?” Although Tina had already sat down, she couldn’t stay still. Lifting the hem of her veiled dress, she showed it to
of the company, Courtney had been researching a lot on
the outfit, she still noticed the double-G logo on Tina’s
buy anything for Tina to wear. There’s
doll her up? Daughters should be raised in abundance. Otherwise, they
rich. Even so, we’re
felt a little
so they were very fond of Tina. Tina is so young, yet she wears branded items all over her body. How is this not pampering? They might even promise
should extol her
to bring her up under pressure, you can stop talking now. I grew up under pressure, so I know that it’s not good to
to her,
she heard Alicia saying that she was bad-tempered. From the rear-view mirror, she could see that her uncle was
many rare things in this world. Isn’t it rarer for someone to abandon their wife and child and end up with a broken family compared
touched something
in the car who didn’t understand what
say something like that in
cold. “Although Tina is still young, children have their own ability to distinguish the bad and the good. There is no need to create
William
she was about to explode, but Courtney quickly stopped her. “Aunt Alicia, the past is in the past. We don’t have to keep on mentioning it. Tina is all grown
Mom, Great-Aunt Alicia,
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