Chapter 1966

Xyla Quest nodded. “I’ll do it myself.”

“I’ll peel it for you,” Stanley Batton told her.

“But I would like to eat the roasted sweet potatoes first,” she said.

“You can have it first.”

Xyla happily began to eat a sweet potato after peeling one.

The sweet potatoes Zack Cassidy bought were all tiny but sweet.

Outside, it was snowing.

It felt right to be eating roasted sweet potatoes on a snowy day like this.

After taking two bites, Xyla brought the sweet potato close to Stanley’s mouth. “Here, have a taste. It's really sweet.”

He slowly took a bite. “Yeah, you can eat this. I don’t really like them.”

While Xyla ate without care, Stanley started peeling the stir-fried, sugary chestnuts for her.

It was such an ordinary moment, yet she felt extraordinarily happy.

Happiness should be simple like that.

After finishing the sweet potatoes, she started on the chestnuts Stanley had peeled.

Without realizing it, she ended up eating everything.

She rubbed her stomach guiltily upon rea