The Reunion After Seven Years

When Nicole reached out her hand, Jay managed to pull the phone away just in time.

Eyeing Nicole warily, he clutched the phone in his small hands. The corners of his mouth rose in a slight, but unmistakable, smile.

"Mommy, you really should pay more attention in future. If you're not careful, you could damage me. As a parent and an adult, you're responsible for everything you say and do. I'm only six years old. There's no way a child should be seeing stuff like this!

I'm saving the photo as evidence for now. And if it ever happens again, I think you need to kick the old man out, you know?"

It had taken Jay a lot of effort to get hold of this photo and he wasn't about to hand it over to his mom without a fight. Besides, the old man had taken her away from him last night. This time, Jay really wanted to teach him a lesson!

Jay couldn't help feeling happy when he imagined the scene of Kerr being rejected by Nicole. The old man would surely be angry. Jay definitely wasn't about to let the old man win every battle.

Nicole looked at her son's earnest little face. He really meant business. In response, she could only nod in agreement. Jay was such a naughty kid sometimes that it gave her a headache.

She could never have predicted that she'd have a paparazzo living in her own house.

"If I remember rightly, the room I slept in last night was mine. You should sleep in your own room too," Kerr said. He had heard what Jay had said.

Sitting next to Nicole, he regarded Jay with a cool, calm gaze. After all, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what he'd done last night.

"You didn't get home on time after work, and even when you did come back it was obvious you'd been out drinking wine. Mommy was worried!" Jay took a deep breath. "Is that the way you take care of my mommy? And she's pregnant with my little sister, too. You must know that worrying is bad for my mommy and my little sister?"

behaved like he didn't care. How could the boy put up with

possible. He had a point. Last night had been Kerr's fault, even though there had been

he'd worried Nicole so much that she couldn't sleep well. He stretched out his hand until it found Nicole's on the table. He covered her fingers softly with

a look at today's news, then maybe you'll see why I was so late back last night. And maybe you'll wish

and Avery's engagement party yesterday had been covertly planned in advance by Zachary. He'd kept it a secret from

Avery's best friend and Kerr was sure she'd been looking forward to seeing her settle down with a good man. It was a shame that

through her. What on earth could have made Kerr get

Kerr, a folded newspaper under

"Here's today's paper, sir."

Kerr took it out of the man's hands, handing it to

find out what was going on. Clutching the edges of the paper, she scanned the headlines quickly until she found the news she was looking for. It was a full-page spread, all about Avery and Zachary. It turned out that they were engaged to be married! Nicole's jaw dropped open in undisguised

the couple acting more like brother and sister. Although, come to think of it, Zachary had always treated Avery very well, and of course they weren't actually

though. Nicole really hadn't been expecting

was shocked, and Kerr

Kerr's mistakes when the man had just swept in and changed the subject, distracting his mom so easily.

I called Harley. After breakfast, I'm taking you to

He wouldn't miss a single moment of Nicole's prenatal appointments. He wanted to witness in

staring at the newspaper, totally transfixed. She didn't hear a word of what Kerr was saying. As if in a trance, she stood up, walked to the living room and picked up her phone. Her fingers danced over the keys as she tapped in

and she stirred in her

says in the paper?