Chapter 808

“Kari, I admit I rushed things before,” Ronald said, his voice hoarse with emotion. “I was afraid you’d marry Nathan. Now that you and Nathan have split, I won’t pressure you to accept me. All I’m asking for is a chance.”

A wave of heat rushed to Kari’s cheeks. “I’ve always seen you like a brother…”

And if it hadn’t been for that brotherly image, she wouldn’t have felt such strong aversion, such disgust, to Ronald’s affections.

“Well, from now on, stop seeing me as a brother.”

Her lips pressed into a thin line. She really didn’t have feelings for Ronald, but her mom trusted him implicitly.

She didn’t want to make a scene.

Ronald took her silence as consent.

“Come on, I’ll drive you home.”

Following Ronald, Kari returned home only to be greeted cheerily by Willa, who then pulled Ronald inside.

“Ronald, you’ve been such a help with Kari lately.”

Kari rolled her eyes at her mom’s approval of Ronald and retreated to her room.

“This child…”

Please don’t

yourself. You’ve worked so hard over the

shouldn’t have, Ronald.

to regard Ronald as her own son, nearly crying her eyes

down. You’re always welcome here. I’ll make you some chicken soup

rare smile, “I’ll make

shivered behind him.

need for such

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Willa to stop

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be the one to break them up. But her husband had died at the hands of the Jarvis family, and she couldn’t let

with the Jarvis family. You

repeated assurances that he would keep an eye on Kari, Willa finally

gave a subdued smile.

indeed gave Kari more space, and Kari felt a weight lifted off her shoulders, even beginning to see Ronald in a better light.

Kari was called into Brittany’s

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