Turning Of The Tide

Chapter 563

Angie’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot as she watched her daughter scamper away in a hurry. She smiled awkwardly. She was so happy chatting with the in-laws that she forgot about the potential problem upstairs.

It was fine if Stella was dressed neatly, but she came down as she always did when she was at home.

Frank, who had been leaning against the door, suddenly stood up straight and said to the people in the living room, “I’m heading out for a while.” Emma nodded and did not ask where he was going. She simply instructed, “Drive slowly.”

“I know,” Frank replied calmly.

Actually, Frank had straightened his mindset. His relationship with Ava was no different from being married. Since he was living at the Turner Manor, it meant that they had long accepted him into the family. He might as well get familiar, especially since the Yamin family was here. After all, he and Ava would be married sooner rather than later.

After Frank left, Emma retracted her gaze and began to persuade Angie. “Don’t be angry. This means that Stella is treating this place as her home. This is a good thing. You don’t want your daughter to lose sleep over it, right?”

“No matter what it is, you can always put a positive spin on it. Nothing can make you angry.”

Emma said with a faint smile, “That’s because I think about the positive side of everything. You can’t get angry when you think about things that don’t make you angry. Children have their own way of living. We have our own ideas. Once Stella gets married and has children, it will be difficult for her to sleep late every day. There will be little fellows waiting -to be fed beside her and wailing like alarm bells.”

Angie was amused by Emma. “Your emotions are always so stable. It’s great that Joseph is like you. I’m just impatient. I’m extremely irritable when something happens. Sometimes I just explode into a temper. It gets me so angry every time.”

After Ava brought Jasper upstairs, Natalie did not ask Ava to bring Jasper to get his toys. Instead, she communicated with her son for a while about

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going to see his little cousin before getting his toy.

In Christina’s room, three women were sitting and chatting. Jasper was sitting beside the cradle. His gaze met with the eyes of little baby in the cradle. It was as though both of them wanted to see who could maintain eye contact the longest.

Natalie said, “Jasper, he’ll be shy if you look at him like that.”

Jasper said, “No. He doesn’t know how to speak.”

Natalie blinked at his response.

Christina raised her hand to her mouth. Such behavior was expected of the son of Trevon. “Your mother-in-law is taking care of the twins?”

“Yes, we came out to relax for a few days. Rachel and Theo insisted that we come out. If we don’t, Theo might chase us out.”

In order not to burden Christina, Natalie told half-truths.

Ava’s phone vibrated. She took it out and saw that it was from Frank. [I’m going to buy a toy for Jasper.]

Ava replied, [Alright. Drive carefully.]

Frank responded, [Sure.]

hour later, Stella came out of her room fully dressed. When she heard the laughter overflowing from Christina’s room, she knocked a few times before pushing the

her head awkwardly. As soon as she entered, she received a cold look from Christina. Christina criticized sarcastically, “You can still sleep for a few more hours. Why don’t you sleep until after lunch,

realized her mistake. After all, she was in someone else’s house and was a guest. It was indeed not good to

thought to herself, “When I leave, I must ask Ava what brand their mattress is. Actually,

did not dare to say this to Christina. She only thought about

like this too. Perhaps Stella can’t get used to sleeping in a different bed,

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right. Perhaps I

not understand the etiquette and the ways of the world

really was on

the door and entered the room. “What’s wrong?” The atmosphere in the room

understood what she meant, walked to Christina’s side with a smile and winked at his sister. “I thought something was wrong. Since this is Stella’s first time visiting our house and she slept late, it can only mean one thing. Guess what the reason is.” Joseph threw the question at Christina, who was still glaring at Stella. Neither of them treated Natalie as an

family. Stella, can you wake up before 9:30 tomorrow? Everyone wants to go out and play. If you wake up late, you can only admire the flowers in the courtyard at home.” Stella nodded vigorously. Seeing that Joseph was so protective of Stella, Christina was too embarrassed to say anything else. In fact, she knew in her heart that Stella was at

for the child from Trevon and me. We don’t know what to buy, so

He smiled and accepted it because he knew that he had to accept this card. Natalie was here to give a gift. It was their act of kindness. Natalie would only be happy

that Joseph accepted it so readily,

do you keep looking at your little cousin? Come and let Uncle Joseph hug you. Wow. You

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the bed and handed the card to Christina, indicating

who was sitting on the chair and rubbed his forehead against

could have gone to the day-care center on September 1st this year, but Theo felt that Jasper was too young and didn’t want him to go. He wanted him

didn’t go either?” Ava asked.

Jasper next year.” After staying in Christina’s room for more than half an hour, they went downstairs as they did not want to disturb Christina’s rest, Joseph didn’t follow them downstairs immediately. Instead, he accompanied Christina in the

felt that there was a scorching gaze glaring at her from afar. It was so intense that she felt uncomfortable. She looked up and saw that it was indeed

Can you don’t look at me

at the house came from

and looking at toys with

big toy with the

did you

his hand as an answer to her question.

to teach Jasper how

“Yeah,” Frank replied.

Even she could feel how cool it was through the box. She held Frank’s hand as they entered the door. She raised her voice and shouted, “Jasper, come and take your

Frank had specially gone out to buy. When they saw the toy in Frank’s

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very generous.”