As soon as they got home, Scarlett started to make preparations for Skyler’s arrival. She arranged everything by herself, right from the necessities in the bedroom to the utensils she would need for tomorrow’s lunch. After that, she came to the study looking for Francis.“Francis!” She peeked in and yelled. She was wearing a loose white shirt, which revealed her long legs. She looked, as always, extremely sexy and charming.“What’s up?” Francis asked as he looked up.“Would you like to go shopping with me?” She asked in a meek voice, scared to disturb his concentration and inflamed his temper. Scarlett just stood there without moving. She stared at him with big puppy eyes, anxious to please.Francis beckoned her in, a

“You are my woman now, and everything you have represents me. And I don’t want others to think that I don’t have the ability to provide a good life for my woman, okay?”Scarlett held his arms and said, “But I’m always afraid that one day, God will bring disasters upon us to punish me for being so happy.”When Francis heard that, he felt sad for Scarlett, and he understood why she felt like that. He knew Scarlett was very grateful for the happiness she had now, but she was afraid of losing it all because she had never lived with such abundance before. She was afraid of going back to her old life when she had to scrounge and make do with what she had. “Baby, we’ll never be bankrupt. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.” Francis tried to comfort h

Scarlett took his arm and rested her head on his shoulder, and said, “Skyler, there is one thing you need to remember, my home is also yours. Don’t feel like you don’t belong here. The relationship between you and I, brother and sister, will never change, no matter what happens. I’m always here for you.” Scarlett looked up at Skyler and said. She realized that her little brother had turned into a man overnight. He was gentle, kind, and full of wisdom and experience. She felt deeply proud of him and started feeling emotional all over again. Skyler smiled and said, “Sis, do you still remember the days that you took me to collect the bottles after school and exchanged them for money? You saved up money for months to make sure we ate well! But there you were, practically on the verge of fainting from exhaustion, with not even a bite of food in your stomach to keep you going….”

“Claire? Does she still have contact with Scarlett?” Anna was surprised. “It’s not what you thought! She just happened to run into them. My aunt must know the president of the Sandler Company!” She explained. Anna’s eyes brightened. The president of Sandler Company must be filthy rich. Scarlett didn’t have many close relatives, and she hated her father, so Anna figured that Scarlett might invite her to attend the wedding.  “Caroline, go and ask about it! How are they doing? Are they going to have a huge wedding?” Anna patted Caroline’s shoulder excitedly and asked. “Why are you so excited about this, mum? There is no way that she will repay us, okay? We’d better hope that she doesn’t hate us or decides to take revenge.” Caroline said.

When the four of them went out to eat dinner, Scarlett was still unhappy even though hours had passed since her conversation with Skyler. She ordered her favorite dish off the menu– fettuccini doused in black truffle and garlic aioli– but found that even those beloved flavors could do nothing to drive her bad mood away.“What’s wrong with your sister?” Francis asked Skyler when he saw Scarlett twirling her pasta around her fork absent-mindedly.“Well, it might be that the pregnancy made her silly!” Skyler answered as he fed Carlos a spoonful of chocolate-banana pudding.When Scarlett heard that, she just stared at him and said, “What do you know about being pregnant anyway, Skyler? Just let me be.”“Francis, you