"Why yes, Be~You can ask anything you want~"


    Cam said as she looked down at her daughter with tender eyes and brushed Be''s hair aside that was covering her eyes, which made Be feel warm and fuzzy from feeling her mother''s touch after a very long time.


    "T-Then let me ask you..." Be cleared her throat and pushed away her mother''s hand so that she wouldn''t be distracted.


    "...Since you seem to care about Kafka so much, value his opinions even more than yours, and say things about him that are awfully suspicious, what exactly is your rtionship with him, as the things you say and the way you look at him are simply not how one would see the son of their neighbour and something so much more?"


    Even though I couldn''t stand to hear that very question since the answer could potentially ruin everything I nned, I still decided to let Cam do whatever she wanted to do since it was her wish and I was ready to support her and step in if things got bad, like the good partner I was trying to be for her who was with her every step of the way no matter how crazy the situation was.


    And suprisingly, Cam didn''t go around the topic like I thought or slowly exin our rtionship to her daughter so that Be could understand everything from the start, and she directly said, with her pink lips curled up and with absolutely no fear at the consequences ahead,


    "What''s my rtionship with him, you ask?...Well, what if I said that both me and Kafka love one another and want to spend our lives together as a family?...What do you have to say about that?"


    I almost got a stroke when I heard Cam''s answer, which was a little too direct, and I immediately looked to see how Be was taking it. But suprisingly, her face didn''t change abruptly like I thought it would, and she simply stared at her mother like she was thinking about what Cam just said.


    And after processing Cam''s words and thinking of a few scenarios in her head, Be shook her and confidentially said,


    "No, that can''t be true...You''re simply saying that to throw me off."


    "And as much as your words do seem true with how you look at him with a certain love in your eyes that you never showed that man and how you talk about him so highly as if you''re proud of the person he is, I highly doubt that a mature woman like you, mom who''s already had a child of her own, and a young boy like him who hasn''t even graduated from school can form a rtionship because of so many obvious reasons..."


    Luckily, Be decided to usemon sense at the moment and deemed her mother''s suggestion as a lie to make her confused and y around with her daughter, as she simply couldn''t believe that two people who have such arge age gap and vastly different experiences in life could be in a rtionship, which made me let out a sigh of relief since I wasn''t really ready for Be to be calling me ''Daddy'' yet after finding out that I was basically her stepfather.


    "But at the same time, I also don''t think that there''s nothing going on between you two, as there''s no way that you can be sofortable with Kafka touching you all over for the first time like you are right now, and it''s almost as if he''s already done such shameless things to you before, mom, which is why you''re so carefree at the moment..." Be said as she gave me a vengeful side-eye, showing that she also inherited her mother''s intelligence as well as looks, which made me let out a wry smile as if I got caught in the act.


    And using this information, Be came to a conclusion that was quite reasonable to draw with what she knew, and she wasn''t too far off from the truth, as she gave both of us a look onest time and said with a sigh,


    "...So it''s probably not too far from an actual rtionship but at the same time not as serious as one, which is that Kafka is your boy toy, mom, who you call over and ''y'' around with whenever you want to after getting fed up with my father...And Kafka here has also already made it clear how attractive he finds you, so he wouldn''t really mind and would ept if the pretty neighbourhood auntie calls him over to spend some ''quality time'' with you."


    "That would also make a lot of sense in my head; as embarrassing as it is to admit, even I would be tempted toy my hands on the boy who moved in next door if he was someone like Kafka, who for some reason gives off a really good impression as if you don''t need to be on guard with him since heys his thoughts in front of you without holding back and also looks quite handsome as well...It''s especially likely to happen if I have to deal with a horrible husband and negligent daughter as well, just like my mother did."


    Be concluded and looked a little guilty that her noble mother went as far as to seek attention elsewhere when she was so obviously neglected at home, which made me wonder even more as to why she treated her mother in such a way while still being aware of what she was doing.


    ...Or could it be that she only started to understand how horribly she treated her mother in the time gap that she hadst seen Cam and had only recentlye to realise it and felt guilty about it now?


    Well, who knows...I''ll just ask Cam the reason after she has the long, much-needed talk with her daughterter on and find out if how Be treated Cam in the past was forgiveable or not since I hadn''t really forgotten what she did and said, even though Cam had totally forgotten the past and was more satisfied that her daughter was slowly starting to reconcile with her, which she never thought would happen in this lifetime.