When Audrey called Alea, the child had just woken up from a nap.Alea was very excited when Audrey called her."Hello, Mommy," she greeted the child cheerfully. "Mommy's coming home?" she asked later.Audrey found it hard to tell Alea, she was afraid that the child would be disappointed, but she had no other choice."Alea, Mommy's sorry, honey. Mommy can't come home right now."There was silence for a moment. Audrey was sure that Alea was saddened by the news she had just delivered."Didn't Mommy promise me?" her tone sounded weak and sad.Audrey couldn't bear to hear it. If it wasn't for the weather that didn't allow the plane to fly, Audrey would have been able to leave at whatever time she wanted by private plane."Sorry, sweetheart. Mommy just got word that the weather here is bad and it's not possible to fly, but Mommy will try to get home as soon as possible if there is news from the airline."Alea sighed in disappointment. She fell silent again and Audrey couldn't bear to hear
Audrey snorted with a small smile. She knew that Daniel would do such a thing.He must have thought that the numbers on the check meant nothing."What's all this about?" Daniel asked, not understanding. How Audrey had insulted everything he had done with the money.Audrey turned her face away. "Go away. Don't try to get close to me again," Audrey said softly.Daniel looked at her intently. A moment later he moved closer to Audrey and hugged her from behind. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Is being with me so painful for you?" he added later.Audrey was silent. What she felt was more than painful. If only that pain could bring happiness to herself and her child, maybe Audrey would have stayed.However, she did not see that opportunity. Not even a speck of it could Audrey see. Her future was dark with Daniel.She could not sacrifice Alea's feelings and happiness for her selfishness.Audrey remained silent without saying anything."You are mine, Audrey. And no one else can sleep with you
Audrey's body dissolved as Daniel disappeared from her sight.She was shaking with all kinds of thoughts in her head right now.Right now she had made Daniel angry. She knew for sure that it would not be easy to face Daniel later, but Audrey would not give up. The strongest man must have a weakness. And Audrey would use his weakness to attack him.Audrey would not give up so easily. Especially for Alea. Her only daughter who she would defend to the last drop of blood.Audrey's eyes accidentally found a flash drive on the table. Earlier she had glimpsed Daniel's hand putting something on the table. She did not expect that it was a flash drive.She stood up and immediately grabbed the pendrive. Audrey plugged it into her laptop to find out what was on it.Unexpectedly, the flash drive showed a collection of photos and videos of Kenzie over the past five years. As soon as she saw it, Audrey was mesmerized.A photo of Kenzie as a baby and red. Audrey remembers what the child looked like a
Audrey started the action today. Contacting her lawyer to transfer custody of Kenzie to her. The sooner it is done, the better.Audrey lowered her hands from her ears after telling her lawyer what she had planned. She took a deep breath."I won't give up, Daniel. You know that very well," Audrey muttered.Meanwhile, somewhere else.The Larson residence. Bryan had just gotten home from work and was entering the house when Patricia ran out past him.He was confused and asked Lidya. "What's wrong with Patricia?"Lidya walked after the boy. "Kenzie's test results are out," she replied and walked back to the front to catch up with Patricia.Bryan, who had heard this, was also curious and went back outside.However, what he found was Patricia standing there in shock.Lidya was rubbing her back trying to calm her down."Patricia, what's wrong, sweetheart?" Bryan asked with astonishment.But Patricia just stayed silent with a blank look. Then Bryan grabbed the paper in her hand.He read the r
The truth she found out about Kenzie hit her hard.Patricia couldn't even sleep last night just thinking about this matter.This morning she dressed up beautifully and went to the Anderson residence. Patricia knew that Kenzie's school was going on a tour of the zoo. She thought it was a great opportunity.She had just gotten out of her car which was parked in the courtyard of the Anderson residence. Patricia entered the house with confidence. This time she had her plans for Audrey's son."Morning, Grandpa," she greeted him as she walked in and found Abraham sitting in the living room chair with a cup of hot tea in hand.Abraham was surprised by Patricia's early arrival. He smiled as he welcomed his favorite future daughter-in-law."Morning, Patricia. How early in the morning?" he asked. Because it was rare for her to come this early."Today Kenzie is going on a school trip. I'll take her," Patricia said confidently.Abraham smiled happily. He felt that Patricia was indeed a woman wort
Kenzie entered the foam and selected two empty seats. He did this deliberately so that Alea could sit with him later. By now all the female students were stealing glances at him.Kenzie looks excited because this is the first time he will be traveling with Alea.Kenzie was all smiles when the bus picked up Alea and the girl boarded the bus.Kenzie waved his hand, signaling Alea to sit with him. Alea smiles and rushes over to Kenzie.All the girls looked at Alea unhappily. They also watched her movements and pouted behind her.As Alea sat next to him, Kenzie helped the little girl buckle up."Thank you, Brother," Alea said.Kenzie was surprised, as were the rest of his friends.They could be heard exclaiming and whispering to each other. Then one of the other female students chimed in. "Brother? Alea, you call Kenzie brother? Then we want to call Kenzie brother too."Hearing this, Alea was not happy. "No way! I'm the only one who can call Kenzie brother."Kenzie nodded and agreed with
Alea went straight into the line to queue for the card check.Meanwhile, Kenzie was still busy looking for his license. He thought he had put it in his bag, but he couldn't find it.The queue of students had begun to thin out, and some were already entering. Kenzie saw that Alea was close to the examination and ran to catch up with him.The teacher asked for Alea's permission card and Kenzie arrived at the same time."Where's your card?" The teacher asked for Kenzie's license, but Kenzie was silent and looked panicked."Kenzie?" The teacher asked again as Kenzie remained silent. Alea turned to Kenzie anxiously. He was afraid that Kenzie would get angry with the teacher."S-sorry, Miss. I lost my card," Kenzie said timidly.The teacher sighed tiredly. "Alea, you can come in." Alea stepped through the door as Kenzie walked beside her."Eh-eh! Where are you going?" The teacher stopped Kenzie.The boy immediately stopped in confusion. Even Alea, who was still standing next to him."You
"Mrs. Patricia, it's a good thing you came just in time. Kenzie is lucky to have such caring parents like you." The teacher praised Patricia's attitude.She applauded Patricia's persistence in coming all the way just to deliver Kenzie's permission card. Her words made Patricia smile with a blush. She felt happy because she was praised, but on the other hand, she felt upset when she remembered that Kenzie, who she thought was her flesh and blood, was not.Patricia displayed a graceful smile. "Yes, as parents we would do anything for our children, wouldn't we?" she said wisely.The teacher nodded and admired Patricia's character even more. "One day, Kenzie will inherit your kindness. Even your faces are very similar," the teacher said again.Patricia only smiled a little this time. Although they were said to look alike, in fact, they were not related by blood. And Patricia hated that very much.While Patricia and the teacher were still talking, Patricia accidentally caught Alea enteri
Audrey let out a long sigh, she felt that Vincent was not her rival, so she was not interested in racing with him at all. Besides, she had more important things to do than just racing.Audrey shook her head. "I don't want to," she said, taking another swig of her drink and casting her eyes forward. "Why don't you take the other racers? With your family's last name, you can take them all instead of wasting time with me."Vincent chuckled. He just wanted to compete with Audrey, the woman who had beaten him out of boredom. The more Audrey rejected him, the more curious Vincent became about her."How can you like car racing? From the looks of you, you're not the type of woman who likes a challenge."Audrey laughed. "What you see is not necessarily the truth," Audrey said ambiguously.That was also what was currently happening to her. What she had seen from Daniel, how he had tried to convince her that he would love her for life and it turned out to be nothing but nonsense.Audrey was now
Audrey broke away from Vincent, she took a deep breath before returning her facial expression, trying to look normal.No, she wasn't crying. She must not cry. Daniel couldn't make her like this."Are you okay?" asked Vincent as he searched Audrey's eyes.She then squinted at Vincent. "Yes, I'm fine," she said firmly. Refusing to be looked at with a pitying gaze.Vincent pointed at Audrey's wet under-eye. Audrey immediately wiped it away and said loudly that she was not crying. "I got dust in my eyes earlier," she reasoned.Vincent smiled at her. Even under these circumstances, the woman still showed her pride.Audrey's hand looked up at Vincent. He frowned, not understanding what she wanted."The car keys. Give it to me, let me drive. You're too slow to drive." Audrey complained.She wanted something to get her adrenaline going right now. That way, it would be easy for Audrey to forget for a moment what made her heart so disturbed.Vincent seemed hesitant to give it to her, so Audre
Seeing that, Audrey couldn't resist going deeper and checking further.Audrey moved into the living room without Lili's permission. She knew she shouldn't have done such an unethical act, but her heart couldn't resist finding out more information.Asha was too clever to manipulate Audrey's feelings right now, so she could no longer think clearly and only suspicion dominated her mind.Audrey examined the living room carefully, then who knows what wind made her step back in without the owner's permission."What exactly are you looking for?" Lili asked Audrey. She knew that the woman in front of her right now was her boss's ex-wife. And because Lili had a specific purpose, the woman deliberately ended up confessing."Do you live alone here?" asked Audrey who seemed to be still examining in detail everything she passed."No, I don't. This is my house and Daniel's too."Audrey flinched for a moment at that, before she went back to her normal demeanor, trying to hide the hole in her heart.
"I can't come with you! I have something important to do!" Audrey refused when Vincent tried to force her to sit in his car.Audrey tried to leave, but Vincent pulled her back."All right, I'll drive you. Anywhere, I'm ready. As long as we can talk," Vincent said with a little force. He didn't mean any harm by forcing Audrey, all he wanted was a one-on-one talk with her.Audrey knew that he wouldn't mess with her. She looked at Vincent's face with an expectant expression.Not wanting to be the center of attention of the many people who were already glancing in their direction, Audrey was forced to follow Vincent and sat in his sports car.Audrey told him the address of her current destination and Vincent agreed to drive her. Along the way, Vincent continued to talk to Audrey about many things.He was still talking about what happened a few years ago.Audrey was not interested at all. Moreover, Vincent is one of the Anderson family members. First Daniel, then Asha, and now Vincent. It
Savi realized that she was being influenced by Asha's words. The woman was either intentional or not, but now Audrey began to think about it.Audrey admitted that she could not just close her ears and heart to what Asha said.And now she is very upset and has a prolonged dilemma.Initially, Audrey wanted to give Daniel a chance to fix everything. Start all over again. Maybe a new relationship would be much better for them.Especially now that Alea and Kenzie are filling their days. However, now Audrey feels that she is too naive.Daniel doesn't need her. Audrey should have realized that. Audrey felt that she was very stupid and she was sure that Daniel would consider her a woman who was easily tricked.Audrey exhaled slowly. Swallowing her heart so as not to affect her mood and behavior today. Some children were currently watching her.Audrey did not want the children to feel that her mother was not okay. Earlier, when they found out that Audrey's hand was injured by a knife slice, th
Audrey used the contact name viewer app even though she did not save the number.Asha. What else could she want? As Audrey remembered, Joni would take care of her.Audrey thought for a moment whether she should answer or not. Finally, she decided there was no harm in answering the call. Audrey wanted to know what the woman wanted to tell her."I thought you wouldn't answer my call," Asha said in a voice that sounded like it was smiling."What do you want?" she didn't want to waste time on small talk. After all, Asha wouldn't have called her just to say hello.Asha laughed. "I admit that you are indeed a smart woman. Unfortunately, your intelligence can't make Grandpa Abraham melt and accept you. You will never be accepted into the Anderson family. So don't even dream, Audrey."Audrey rolled her eyes in disgust. "So, you called me just to talk about this insignificant matter?"Asha was surprised that Audrey was not affected by her words at all.She thought Audrey would be upset or some
"Stop meddling with my personal life, Grandpa," Daniel warned Abraham. He took the last sip of his glass and left.Daniel briefly glanced at Asha who was currently choosing to look away.As the man exited the living room, Daniel bumped into Vincent who had just come down the stairs.Vincent didn't know what Daniel was here for and why. What was clear was that he didn't care. Vincent nodded in greeting to the man and Daniel nodded back. Afterward, they went their separate ways.After Daniel left, Asha looked very upset. She growled and held back her frustration. Asha did not expect that Daniel still liked Audrey. Even though five years have passed, the man still harbors his feelings for Audrey and Asha hates that right.Abraham saw Asha's unhappy expression."What's wrong, dear?" asked Abraham who immediately approached Asha."I hate Audrey, Grandpa. That woman always takes what I want. I'm upset and sad because Audrey has damaged a car that is very valuable to me." Asha bent her face
"Audrey!"When Asha said that name, Daniel immediately went silent.Now he knew the reason behind Audrey's morning rage and her coldness towards Daniel. She didn't like the car being given to Asha.If that's true, it means that the car is a special memory for Audrey so she doesn't want Asha to have it ...Knowing this, Daniel secretly smiled faintly.He felt happy, because that way, Audrey had shown her jealousy."You have to talk to Audrey so that she doesn't do whatever she wants. That car means a lot to me because it was given to me by you, but out of jealousy Audrey just destroyed it. She should realize that now-""Asha, enough," Daniel warned her. He didn't want Asha to sneer further at Audrey.Asha's mouth fell open when Daniel said that.She knew from that that he was still very much in love with his ex-wife.Asha did not like to see it. After five years, the woman should not have to come back and create new problems.She hated Audrey, and now Asha should be able to try to get
After finishing their porridge, the two children grabbed Audrey's attention and asked her to read them a royal fairy tale.Alea loves stories about kingdoms and now she wants to hear a fairy tale about a princess who is rescued by a prince. Kenzie, who has rarely heard a fairy tale, is eager to experience the same thing as Alea. He wanted to hear Audrey tell the story.So he readily agreed and looked very enthusiastic.Audrey was going to take care of some work that had previously been emailed by Joni, but once she saw the hopeful eyes of her two children, Audrey decided not to do it and instead chose to accompany them.Daniel, who was still struggling with the laptop in front of him and the pile of documents on the side of the table, occasionally glanced at Audrey.He noticed how Audrey gave warm affection to their children. Daniel's heart warmed instantly. He secretly smiled, though not fully.As he was enjoying this warm scene suddenly the ringing of his cell phone distracted Danie