Seems like I haven’t lost much.

“People say that wishes made at the Lotus Temple will come true. Do you want to try?”

Arching his brows, Colin handed me some candles.

I did not take it. “I don’t have any special wish to make besides hoping that the living is well whereas the dead rests in peace. Everything is fated and pre-destined.”

Summer came running towards me. “Mommy, do you have anyone you long to meet? You can ask for your wish to be granted in your dreams.”

I chuckled and took the lit candle from her hand to place it on the incense burner. “I don’t need to ask for that, Summer. I can see whoever I want to see in my dreams, always.”

Tilting her head, Summer did not quite understand what I said. She gazed at Colin. “Mr. Johnson, what about you? Have you made a wish?”

“My wish is for you and Michael to grow up happily.” Colin grinned with a candle in his hands.

Right when we were leaving, sullen dark clouds gathered along the horizon while cold wind blew in our direction.

Colin offered me his jacket. “Your body is weak, don’t catch a cold.”

I declined with a polite smile.

He frowned and then covered me with his jacket nonetheless.

arm, Summer asked softly, “Michael, does your father not

of few words, he lifted his head to look

would never

to Colin’s

a quick glance at the jacket on my shoulders. My heart did not skip a beat.

before the children dozed off. Colin drove us back

pulled over at the yard, he wanted to get down and carry

interrupted his action. “I’ll do it. It’s late, you should get going

he was already in his forties, Colin still carried himself like a young

the best form of reply to

middle-aged, it was

him off. Suddenly, my phone rang. It was Ashton. I shifted her to the other hand before answering

too abrupt for me to show up now?” a low,

under the dim street lamp. He was

sense a pair of eyes

dependable, exuding an effortless charm, and is still as attractive as

carry Summer,” I said over the phone. With the keys in my bag, a child

approached nearer, I noticed a

handing the bouquet to me. Grinning from ear to ear,

he would be back, but I didn’t expect

having a joyful heart is better than falling in

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