Jeffrey was utterly shell-shocked.

His words came to an abrupt halt.

Langston was wide-eyed as he glanced between Mr. Turner and Aunt Karen.

Abigail, blissfully unaware, had been too preoccupied with her candy to notice anything amiss. But once the silence sunk in, she edged closer to Langston, "Brother, what's wrong with Aunt Karen?" Langston quickly clamped a hand over her mouth. "Uh... Mr. Turner, Aunt Karen, I'm going to check why mom hasn't come in yet with Abigail!" With that, he whisked Abigail off by the hand and darted out.

back to reality and stood up abruptly. "Enjoy your meal, I'm heading home." Before she could

taken pills for prevention." "l wasn't actually—" "Even if I did sleep with my blind date and got pregnant, I wouldn't come to you. You can record that for evidence! So, Mr. Turner, there's no need to keep up the charade. Everyone finds it quite disgusting, don't you think?" Her words sounded almost casual, but each one was laden with biting

on being a gentleman who wouldn't speak so harshly to a lady —whenever he was around Karen, it was as if his mouth disconnected from his brain and started spouting nonsense! "Hold on a sec! Let me get this straight..." Jeffrey's

to see what else he could possibly say. Maybe it was time to clear

his hair in frustration, licked his dry lips and

exactly am I supposed to chase you?" He had been holding back for a week! He hadn't called Karen and hadn't loitered under her apartment,

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