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?"

didn't want his mom to worry, but the old man behaved like he

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

Kerr's reasons had been, the truth was that it was down to him if he'd worried Nicole so much that she couldn't sleep well. He stretched

ever do anything like that again. But Nicole, you know, if you take a look at today's news, then maybe you'll see why I was so late back last night. And maybe you'll wish you'd

had been covertly planned in advance by Zachary. He'd kept it a secret from absolutely everyone, including

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 she'd missed the

the determined smile on Kerr's face and curiosity flooded through her. What on earth could have made Kerr get home so late, and why would she regret not having been

Kerr, a folded newspaper under his

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

out of the man's hands, handing it to Nicole without a second

news she was looking for.

thinking back. Everything she remembered seemed to point to 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 related by

so sudden, though. Nicole really hadn't

and Kerr

the man had just swept in and changed the subject,

Harley. After breakfast, I'm taking

to witness in person the safe birth of her baby. Nobody in this world would hurt her

a trance, she stood up, walked

Avery's dream and she stirred in her sleep, instinctively grabbing her phone and putting it

in the paper?