Chapter 147
Bowen came home just to change his clothes. He quickly gave Seraphina a brief hello before heading upstairs. Sandra watched his retreating back with a stern expression.
“What happened?” Seraphina picked up on her mood. “Did you guys have a fight?”
Sandra scoffed. “He hasn’t been home for ages, how could I fight with him?”
“You sound like you’re feeling hard done by?” Seraphina asked.
Sandra shot her a look. “Let’s not talk about him. Go do your cooking thing.”
After a while, Bowen came down, all dressed. He stopped by the kitchen to greet Seraphina: “Seraphina, I’ve got things to do today. I won’t be able to hang out with you guys. Have fun with Sandra We’ll properly host you some other time”
Seraphina offered him a smile, “Alright, go do your thing.”
Bowen ruffled Sandra’s hair. “Take care of your friend. Gotta run.”
Sandra swatted his hand away and moved to stand next to Seraphina.
Bowen shrugged at Seraphina, gave a quick wave and left.
As Seraphina was learning how to wash vegetables from the Smith family’s maid, she glanced at the gloomy Sandra, “All because he’s not home?”
Sandra listened to the sound of the car driving away outside and murmured, “Actually I have a brother, but he didn’t care about me at all.”
Back when they were in high school, the Smiths parents passed away, leaving only Sandra and Bowen Sandra was actually quite lonely, which is probably why she and Seraphina were so close.
earlier and chuckled, “Even if he’s not around, he still cares about you. You two seem to
heard this and
didn’t care about her, and Seraphina had a mother who didn’t love her at all,
didn’t dare to broach the topic. She just stood there watching
the cooking lesson, After the lesson,
she picked up Valerio and headed straight to
high alert. But since she brought Valerio, he couldn’t leave the boy downstairs, so he quickly went down to bring them up.
Valerio’s arrival, not Seraphina, Leandro
as if she owned the place, walked into Leandro’s office
working. When they entered, he just glanced up
him with a smile, then took Valerio to the guest area, unpacking the food she brought and arranging
suddenly, someone was tugging
and
meal with Valerio? He’s here
Leandro slowly
eyes were clear, full of concern and
could she maintain this sweet and gentle persona?
put away his documents and walked over to
of cutlery. Seeing Leandro and Seraphina approaching, he clamped his mouth shut, a barely detectable
and went over to pat his head, “Let’s eat”
on Seraphina until she sat down next to him, then he
afternoon, Seraphina said.
his food. The
behaved and not picky at all. Whatever Seraphina served him, he ate
resting on Seraphina’s
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