While Catelyn and Maia ran into one another, Miles also happened upon a man he had not seen in years. 

Getting bored while waiting for his mother, he went over to the child department for a walk, but then he overheard a cringy conversation coming from past the rack. 

“Darling, do you think our baby is going to be a boy or a girl?” 

The man wrapped his arm around the woman’s waist and in a seductive voice, he endearingly cooed, “I’m happy with either, as long as you’re the mother.” 

“That sweet tongue of yours!” The woman said while hitting the man’s firm chest playfully. “The Mason family is developing swiftly right now, so my future mother-in-law would probably prefer a boy to inherit the family business…” 

Miles shivered and thought, ‘Ew, grown-ups are so gross.’ 

He curled his lips into a pout and moved to leave, only to accidentally see the faces of the couple through the gaps between clothes. He tripped and came close to losing balance. 

That man was Jamie Mason, his biological father. 

Ever since he could remember, he had asked about his father. Catelyn did not intend on lying to her, and with how intelligent Miles was, it did not take long for him to find out about Jamie. 

lip and decided he did not need

pouted in contempt before trying to leave. All of

that it was a spam message, but the sound of the

shoved the rack away to grab Miles by the arm, only to realize that it was

long to begin with, and despite the pain of being grabbed, he could not escape.

“Let me go!” 

beginning to

Louella walked over slowly and felt dazed when she saw how much Miles resembled Jamie.

to have noticed as well and asked, “Whose child are you?”

his fists as he thought back to Jamie’s betrayal and abandoning Catelyn. He immediately put up an innocent expression like he had been wronged and said, “Daddy, you haven’t given us any money for four years.

as her eyes widened in

around Miles’s arm. “Say

I can’t even afford to go to school! Pretty lady, we really can’t survive like this…” whimpered Miles in a choked, soft voice while looking at

Louella’s face stiffened as she realized that this child could be Jamie’s

years and plenty of eligible bachelors were after her. She had picked Jamie out of her many pursuers,

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