She didn’t want to like her father.

“Grape…” Josie held her, her words tinged with a hint of sorrow. “Don’t dislike Daddy…”

Adult matters should not involve children, after all.

Grape pursed her lips. “But Daddy… he doesn’t like me either.” Her tone could hardly conceal her sadness and despair.

Josie understood what Grape was thinking.

After all these years, she, as a mother, had ultimately failed her.

“If I have to choose between Mommy and Daddy, then I…” Grape’s eyes were filled with determination as she hugged Josie’s neck. “I choose Mommy…”

A warmth spread through Josie’s heart, and tears began to fall uncontrollably.

“Grape—” Josie held her quietly.

Little did she know, at that very moment, Dexter’s car had already pulled up at the door downstairs.

As the car engine turned off, the car window slid down, revealing the man’s profound profile. His brows were tightly knitted as if burdened with worries he couldn’t untangle.

The unfathomable eyes gazed at the house, illuminated by light.

certificate…” Larry handed over the information

down, his heart still ached slightly when he saw

It’s hard to imagine.

foreign land, raising her child

back first…” Dexter

that he had

Larry expressed with

waved his hand dismissively, and Larry understood his meaning. Without delay,

stayed with Grape, coaxing the little girl to

the large bed, looking at the face

owes you an apology—” Josie murmured

in Grape, she stealthily slipped out of the

Nightfall descended.

evening breeze brought a hint of chill, causing the loose strands of hair at her temples

glance, her gaze involuntarily

began to pound as if she had

if it could see right through her. Overwhelmed, Josie

he manage to

that moment, the phone in her

a

his slightly

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