Chapter 563
Angie’s face was as ck 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 inws that she forgot about the
potential problem upstairs.
It was fine if Ste 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 rtionship with Ava was no different from being
married. Since he was living at the Turner Manor, it meant that they had long epted 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 thanter.
After Frank left, Emma retracted her gaze and began to persuade Angie. “Don’t be angry. This means
that Ste is treating this ce 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 Ste gets married and has children, it will be difficult for her to sleep
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
10.23
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-inw is taking care of the twins?”
“Yes, we came out to rx for a few days. Rachel and Theo insisted that wee 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.]
Half an hourter, Ste came out of her room fully dressed. When she heard theughter overflowing
from Christina’s room, she knocked a few times before pushing the door open.
She scratched 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, too?”
Ste lowered her head as she realized her mistake. After all, she was in someone else’s house and
was a guest. It was indeed not good to sleep in. It was just that the bed was toofortable, and she
overslept.
Ste thought to herself, “When I leave, I must ask Ava what brand their mattress is. Actually, if not for
the loud noise downstairs, I may really have missed lunch.”
However, she did not dare to say this to Christina. She only thought about it silently.
Ava tried to smooth things over and said with a smile, “It’s fine, Christina. I used to sleep like this too.
Perhaps Ste can’t get used to sleeping in a different bed, right? Did you toss and turn in the first half
of the night because you couldn’t sleep?”
279
10:25
“That’s right. You’re right. Perhaps I just haven’t adapted yet.”
Christina was furious. She really did not know when Ste would be sensible. She did not
understand the etiquette and the ways of the world yet. Christina med herself for forgetting to remind
Ste to set the rmst night.
The girl probably thought that she really was on a long vacation.
As she was reprimanding Ste, Joseph pushed open the door and entered the room. “What’s wrong?”
The atmosphere in the room was a little serious.
Ava’s eyes indicated that Christina was angry and asked Joseph to persuade her. Joseph, who
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 Ste’s first time visiting our house and she sleptte, it can only
mean one thing. Guess what the reason is.” Joseph threw the question at Christina, who was still
ring at Ste. Neither of them treated Natalie as an outsider. “What other reason could there be?
She must have stayed upte to watch drama.”/
“It means that she’s integrated well with our family. Ste, can you wake up before 9:30 tomorrow?
Everyone wants to go out and y. If you wake upte, you can only admire the flowers in the
courtyard at home.” Ste nodded vigorously. Seeing that Joseph was so protective of Ste, Christina
was too embarrassed to say anything else. In fact, she knew in her heart that Ste was at ease
staying with the Turner family. Indeed, she was at ease wherever she went as long as she did not have
to go to work.
Natalie took out a card and gave it to Christina. She exined, “Joseph, Christina, this is a gift for the
child from Trevon and me. We don’t know what to buy, so we’ll let you buy it yourselves.”
“Then I’ll ept it.” Joseph did not stand on ceremony. He smiled and epted it because he knew
that he had to ept this card. Natalie was here to give a gift. It was their act of kindness. Natalie
would only be happy if he epted it.
“You are always so straightforward.” As expected, when Natalie saw that Joseph epted it so readily,
the corners of her mouth curled up and she could not help but praise.
“Jasper, why do you keep looking at your little cousin? Come and let Uncle Joseph hug you. Wow. You
seem to have gained a lot of weight.
10:25
You’ll be going to school soon.” Joseph got up from the bed and handed the card to Christina,
indicating for her to keep it.
He picked up Jasper, who was sitting on the chair and rubbed his forehead against Jasper’s.
“He 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 to y for another year,” Natalie exined.
“Sherri’s daughter didn’t go either?” Ava asked.
“Yes, she did not too. Sherri ns for her to go with 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 apanied Christina in the room.
Ste came downstairs. She darted around the room. She felt that there was a scorching gaze ring
at her from afar. It was so intense that she felt ufortable. She looked up and saw that it was
indeed from her mother.
“Mom, I was wrong. Can you don’t look at me with your murderous gaze?”
The sound of a car pulling up at the house came from outside the door. Without a doubt, Frank was
back.
Hearing the sound of the car, Ava, who had been sitting on the ground and looking at toys with Jasper,
quickly stood up and ran out. She ran too fast and bumped straight into Frank’s arms.
Frank held Ava’s waist with one hand and held a big toy with the other. It was a cool ck submachine
gun.
“What did you buy?”
He raised the gun in his hand as an answer to her question.
“Are you going to teach Jasper how to shoot a gun?”
“Yeah,” Frank replied.
Ava nced at the gun. 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,e and take your gift.”
Trevon and Natalie stood up to see what Frank had specially gone out to buy. When they saw the toy in
Frank’s hand, Trevon smiled. “You are
10.25
very generous.”
It was obvious that the price of the toy was not cheap. When Trevon was young, he had often bought
the brand to collect, but his grandfather supervised his education and confiscated them.
“He’s my nephew after all,” Frank said naturally. He bent down and. handed the gun to Jasper. “Your
father didn’t buy you this before, did he?” There really weren’t any. There were nes, cars, Lego…
The only thing he didn’t have was a gun. It was because Trevon was afraid that Jasper could not
control his strength well and was also worried that the older people at home wouldn’t be able to
manage the brat, so he didn’t buy it. Jasper nodded. He liked it very much. He had wanted to buy it for
a long time but his father did not agree. “Thank you, Uncle Frank. I like it.”
Frank rubbed Jasper’s head after he made sure he outdid Trevon. Jasper was very happy to receive
the gift and did not object. He was so excited that he wanted to open it right away. Frank added, “Your
father was stopped from ying this when he was young so he could not y with it. That’s why he did
not buy it for you.”
Natalie sat down and helped Jasper to open it. “If you want to y, let Daddy show you first. You can’t
turn it on people.”
Frank leaned against the door with his arms crossed. He said to Natalie, “It’s very safe. The water
pellet will shatter when it hits someone.”
Angie stood in the living room and listened to what was going on. She did not expect Frank to be so
meticulous. She really could not tell he was like this before now.
When the gun was removed from the packaging, Trevon walked over with one hand in his pocket. He
took the submachine gun from his son’s hand. The weight was nothing to him. It was light and did not
require any strength. He raised his eyebrows at Frank, who was standing by the door. “Shall we have a
In an instant, Jasper’s toy was used in apetition by the two men. The people gathered in the
courtyard also actively helped, especially Ste, who really wanted to participate. “How are you guys
going topete? I’ll be the assistant.”
When Angie saw that the children were going to y, she nned to go upstairs with Emma to see the
baby. On the stairs, Angie said, “No matter how many there are, they’re all children when they’re
yful.”
Emma agreed. “No matter how old they are, they’ll still be children in our
10:28
eyes. It’s the same.”
Ava suddenly remembered that there were still balloons left at home from the previous gathering. “Shall
youpete at shooting balloons? There were many balloons left from before. Frank, can the bullet
prate the balloons?”
Frank stood up and pinched Ava’s neck. He replied, “No.”
The gun was for children to y with. He had bought the safest one there was, so it could not even
burst a balloon. It was very harmless. “Oh. What shall we use for thepetition then?”
Natalie stood up with her son in her arms and coaxed, “When your daddy and Uncle Frank finish with
theirpetition, we’ll have them demonstrate how to use it for you, okay?”
“Yes.” Jasper’s emotions were neither high nor low. It was not high because he could not participate
and could only watch. It was also a little. high because his father waspeting with Uncle Frank. He
was quite looking forward to it.
Natalie suggested, “How about we use disposable cups? Whoever hits more wins.”
“It’s too easy if we ce them on a stool. I think we can increase the difficulty a little. For example…”
Just as Ava was still thinking about it, Ste had a sh of inspiration and spoke up first. “I know. We
can hang the disposable cups on branches, that way, they will move. You guys can aim at them. Is that
more
difficult?”
Ava nodded in agreement. “That’s good. Frank, what do you think?” Frank said, “I’ll listen to you.”
Trevon turned around and gestured for the person who had suggested the idea to take action. “Show
us how to hang it.”
Ste was happy to do such a thing. However, she did not know where the cups were ced. She
asked Ava, and then Ava and Ste turned around and went into the vi to get the cups from the
kitchen.
Angie’s face was as ck 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 inws that she forgot about the
potential problem upstairs.
It was fine if Ste 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 rtionship with Ava was no different from being
married. Since he was living at the Turner Manor, it meant that they had long epted 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 thanter.
After Frank left, Emma retracted her gaze and began to persuade Angie. “Don’t be angry. This means
that Ste is treating this ce 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 Ste gets married and has children, it will be difficult for her to sleep
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
10.23
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-inw is taking care of the twins?”
“Yes, we came out to rx for a few days. Rachel and Theo insisted that wee 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.]
Half an hourter, Ste came out of her room fully dressed. When she heard theughter overflowing
from Christina’s room, she knocked a few times before pushing the door open.
She scratched 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, too?”
Ste lowered her head as she realized her mistake. After all, she was in someone else’s house and
was a guest. It was indeed not good to sleep in. It was just that the bed was toofortable, and she
overslept.
Ste thought to herself, “When I leave, I must ask Ava what brand their mattress is. Actually, if not for
the loud noise downstairs, I may really have missed lunch.”
However, she did not dare to say this to Christina. She only thought about it silently.
Ava tried to smooth things over and said with a smile, “It’s fine, Christina. I used to sleep like this too.
Perhaps Ste can’t get used to sleeping in a different bed, right? Did you toss and turn in the first half
of the night because you couldn’t sleep?”
279
10:25
“That’s right. You’re right. Perhaps I just haven’t adapted yet.”
Christina was furious. She really did not know when Ste would be sensible. She did not
understand the etiquette and the ways of the world yet. Christina med herself for forgetting to remind
Ste to set the rmst night.
The girl probably thought that she really was on a long vacation.
As she was reprimanding Ste, Joseph pushed open the door and entered the room. “What’s wrong?”
The atmosphere in the room was a little serious.
Ava’s eyes indicated that Christina was angry and asked Joseph to persuade her. Joseph, who
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 Ste’s first time visiting our house and she sleptte, it can only
mean one thing. Guess what the reason is.” Joseph threw the question at Christina, who was still
ring at Ste. Neither of them treated Natalie as an outsider. “What other reason could there be?
She must have stayed upte to watch drama.”/
“It means that she’s integrated well with our family. Ste, can you wake up before 9:30 tomorrow?
Everyone wants to go out and y. If you wake upte, you can only admire the flowers in the
courtyard at home.” Ste nodded vigorously. Seeing that Joseph was so protective of Ste, Christina
was too embarrassed to say anything else. In fact, she knew in her heart that Ste was at ease
staying with the Turner family. Indeed, she was at ease wherever she went as long as she did not have
to go to work.
Natalie took out a card and gave it to Christina. She exined, “Joseph, Christina, this is a gift for the
child from Trevon and me. We don’t know what to buy, so we’ll let you buy it yourselves.”
“Then I’ll ept it.” Joseph did not stand on ceremony. He smiled and epted it because he knew
that he had to ept this card. Natalie was here to give a gift. It was their act of kindness. Natalie
would only be happy if he epted it.
“You are always so straightforward.” As expected, when Natalie saw that Joseph epted it so readily,
the corners of her mouth curled up and she could not help but praise.
“Jasper, why do you keep looking at your little cousin? Come and let Uncle Joseph hug you. Wow. You
seem to have gained a lot of weight.
10:25
You’ll be going to school soon.” Joseph got up from the bed and handed the card to Christina,
indicating for her to keep it.
He picked up Jasper, who was sitting on the chair and rubbed his forehead against Jasper’s.
“He 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 to y for another year,” Natalie exined.
“Sherri’s daughter didn’t go either?” Ava asked.
“Yes, she did not too. Sherri ns for her to go with 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 apanied Christina in the room.
Ste came downstairs. She darted around the room. She felt that there was a scorching gaze ring
at her from afar. It was so intense that she felt ufortable. She looked up and saw that it was
indeed from her mother.
“Mom, I was wrong. Can you don’t look at me with your murderous gaze?”
The sound of a car pulling up at the house came from outside the door. Without a doubt, Frank was
back.
Hearing the sound of the car, Ava, who had been sitting on the ground and looking at toys with Jasper,
quickly stood up and ran out. She ran too fast and bumped straight into Frank’s arms.
Frank held Ava’s waist with one hand and held a big toy with the other. It was a cool ck submachine
gun.
“What did you buy?”
He raised the gun in his hand as an answer to her question.
“Are you going to teach Jasper how to shoot a gun?”
“Yeah,” Frank replied.
Ava nced at the gun. 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,e and take your gift.”
Trevon and Natalie stood up to see what Frank had specially gone out to buy. When they saw the toy in
Frank’s hand, Trevon smiled. “You are
10.25
very generous.”
It was obvious that the price of the toy was not cheap. When Trevon was young, he had often bought
the brand to collect, but his grandfather supervised his education and confiscated them.
“He’s my nephew after all,” Frank said naturally. He bent down and. handed the gun to Jasper. “Your
father didn’t buy you this before, did he?” There really weren’t any. There were nes, cars, Lego…
The only thing he didn’t have was a gun. It was because Trevon was afraid that Jasper could not
control his strength well and was also worried that the older people at home wouldn’t be able to
manage the brat, so he didn’t buy it. Jasper nodded. He liked it very much. He had wanted to buy it for
a long time but his father did not agree. “Thank you, Uncle Frank. I like it.”
Frank rubbed Jasper’s head after he made sure he outdid Trevon. Jasper was very happy to receive
the gift and did not object. He was so excited that he wanted to open it right away. Frank added, “Your
father was stopped from ying this when he was young so he could not y with it. That’s why he did
not buy it for you.”
All content is ? N0velDrama.Org.
Natalie sat down and helped Jasper to open it. “If you want to y, let Daddy show you first. You can’t
turn it on people.”
Frank leaned against the door with his arms crossed. He said to Natalie, “It’s very safe. The water
pellet will shatter when it hits someone.”
Angie stood in the living room and listened to what was going on. She did not expect Frank to be so
meticulous. She really could not tell he was like this before now.
When the gun was removed from the packaging, Trevon walked over with one hand in his pocket. He
took the submachine gun from his son’s hand. The weight was nothing to him. It was light and did not
require any strength. He raised his eyebrows at Frank, who was standing by the door. “Shall we have a
In an instant, Jasper’s toy was used in apetition by the two men. The people gathered in the
courtyard also actively helped, especially Ste, who really wanted to participate. “How are you guys
going topete? I’ll be the assistant.”
When Angie saw that the children were going to y, she nned to go upstairs with Emma to see the
baby. On the stairs, Angie said, “No matter how many there are, they’re all children when they’re
yful.”
Emma agreed. “No matter how old they are, they’ll still be children in our
10:28
eyes. It’s the same.”
Ava suddenly remembered that there were still balloons left at home from the previous gathering. “Shall
youpete at shooting balloons? There were many balloons left from before. Frank, can the bullet
prate the balloons?”
Frank stood up and pinched Ava’s neck. He replied, “No.”
The gun was for children to y with. He had bought the safest one there was, so it could not even
burst a balloon. It was very harmless. “Oh. What shall we use for thepetition then?”
Natalie stood up with her son in her arms and coaxed, “When your daddy and Uncle Frank finish with
theirpetition, we’ll have them demonstrate how to use it for you, okay?”
“Yes.” Jasper’s emotions were neither high nor low. It was not high because he could not participate
and could only watch. It was also a little. high because his father waspeting with Uncle Frank. He
was quite looking forward to it.
Natalie suggested, “How about we use disposable cups? Whoever hits more wins.”
“It’s too easy if we ce them on a stool. I think we can increase the difficulty a little. For example…”
Just as Ava was still thinking about it, Ste had a sh of inspiration and spoke up first. “I know. We
can hang the disposable cups on branches, that way, they will move. You guys can aim at them. Is that
more
difficult?”
Ava nodded in agreement. “That’s good. Frank, what do you think?” Frank said, “I’ll listen to you.”
Trevon turned around and gestured for the person who had suggested the idea to take action. “Show
us how to hang it.”
Ste was happy to do such a thing. However, she did not know where the cups were ced. She
asked Ava, and then Ava and Ste turned around and went into the vi to get the cups from the
kitchen.