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“Dad, what’s wrong with me? I still didn’t get it, why did she have to make things hard for me at the quilting contest? I didn’t even know what I did to upset her. Anyway, she changed. She just wasn’t who she used to be anymore.””
Terrence was so angry that his stomach hurt. He just hung up
the phone and got ready to go to the school to catch that little
brat and ask her how she could say in the hospital that her mom
was the nanny.
After Terrence left the house, Bethany’s phone rang. It was a
call from Kyson.
“Beth, tonight was Christmas Eve, your movie was about to
start full–on promotion, I brought Damari and the others over,
and tonight I invited you all to spend Christmas Eve together.“”
“Where was it?”
Bethany was looking forward to it.
“Riverspire Bistro, I booked the biggest private room, there was
a big screen, Damari said if we wanted to watch the whole
movie, we could watch the whole movie, if we wanted to watch
the trailer, we could watch the trailer.””
“Are they all here? I’ll be right there. I haven’t seen them for a
long time and I really missed them.”
“On the way, I’ll come pick you up.”
“Okay, thank you so much.”
This was the Christmas Eve she wanted.
About twenty minutes later, Kyson’s car stopped at the
entrance of Vespera Villa.
Bethany heard a car coming, so she came out of the villa.
Kyson got out of the car, holding the hand of a little girl about
six years old. The girl had two pigtails, big round eyes, and fair,
soft skin. She looked super cute and was holding a nicely
wrapped clear box. Inside the box was a bright red, round apple.
Bethany looked at the little girl and felt she looked really
familiar.
She asked curiously, “Kyson, whose kid is this?”
Kyson bent down and said softly, “Shyla, this is the Auntie Beth
I told you about. Go say hi to Auntie Beth.”
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Shyla called out sweetly, “Auntie Beth, hi, I’m Shyla, this is for you, wish you a happy Christmas Eve.”
Bethany was a bit surprised, “Is this for me?”
“Yeah, it was a Christmas Eve gift from our school, I gave it to auntie as a present when we met.”
“What a sensible kid.” Bethany took the apple and asked Kyson, “Is he a child of the Duarte family?”
“She was my aunt’s granddaughter, but she was a poor kid. My aunt and uncle passed away early, and two years ago, her
parents also died in a plane crash. Grandpa took her to the
Duarte’s villa. There wasn’t really anyone at home to take care
of her, so after she started elementary school, she lived at a
boarding school. Her school was foreign–owned and cared a lot
about Christmas, so they let out early for the holiday!”
Turned out he was an orphan.
So sad.
Bethany bent down, gently touched her little head with
concern, and said softly, “Shyla is so good, and she’s so pretty
and cute. How about Auntie gives you a gift too?”
“Thank you, auntie.”
in with Auntie.”
Kyson followed and walked into the villa.
Bethany took Shyla to the study. On one shelf of the bookcase,
there were a bunch of quilting story illustrations she had made.
Some were her own originals, and some were little stories she
had posted on her social media account.
