When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“There isn’t any relationship between the Moore family and me, to begin with. I came back to K City to give my daughter a better future. I haven’t thought about anything else beyond that, and I really don’t plan to!” If it wasn’t for Summer’s future, I would’ve stayed in R Province forever.

Emery knitted her brows and appeared displeased. “But you’re the Moore family’s daughter. No one can change that.”

“So what?” I looked at her, feeling somewhat agitated. “I never plan to acknowledge them as my biological parents. Since they’ve already adopted Rebecca formally, then Rebecca can just carry on being the official daughter of the Moore family.”

She sighed as she commented, “You’re still not over it then.” She paused for a moment before staring at me. “By the way, I’m getting married in October. Make sure to be there!”

I was stunned. “Who are you marrying?”

“A man! You’ll know who he is if you attend the wedding.”

I-

Ashton’s meeting had just ended. Seeing as it was late, and he still had things to discuss with Emery, I decided to fetch Summer from school alone.

As I exited Fuller Corporation, it was just my luck to bump into Jared.

I wanted to avoid him but he already spotted me. Waving at me enthusiastically, he asked, “Where are you going? I’ll give you a lift!”

“No need!” After the incident with Macy, my impression of his character had fallen significantly. I had no interest in hearing his side of the story. All I knew was that he shared half the blame for Macy’s incident.

His brows furrowed as he followed me. “It’s raining right now. I’m free and I can drive you.”

I stopped and turned around to look at him. “Do you want something?”

before nodding. “I want to have a

was referring to

 Summer

of silence, I replied,

bright

in a while. We can go together,”

he’d said. Traffic jams were a common sight in K City, and they

conversation. So he decided to start one himself. “I didn’t know

choosing not to comment on his relationship

her favorite food?” he asked, sighing

be in knowing her favorite

fine!” Summer had never been a picky eater. If I had to pinpoint a specific food, her favorite food would probably be

a conversation with him, he remained silent for the

hour later after the

parked the car, I saw Summer walking behind a teacher as she

she tugged on her teacher’s clothes and said goodbye to her

Why didn’t he come to

Summer were behaving more and more like a father and daughter. Summer had grown to depend

has a lot

She lifted her head and stared at Jared, who was standing

“Aren’t you the man standing in front of mommy