“You're not just excited, Mom. You're literally so eager you couldn't even control yourself. Did you even notice how you frightened her just now?” Camille sat down.
Betty remained silent.
She didn't mean to frighten Kathleen, but she just couldn't keep her emotions in check.
“But Mom, Kate sure does look like a Lester.” Xenia smiled.
“Yeah. Her father is a handsome man.” There was tenderness in Betty's eyes as she spoke, and she soon began tearing up at the thought of Kathleen's father.
Immediately, Camille and Xenia walked over to comfort her.
“Mom, don't cry. We're lucky enough to be able to find Kate,” soothed Camille.
“Yeah. When Anthony and Yusef are back, we can have a discussion on how to tell Kate the truth. By then, the both of you can finally reunite,” Xenia chimed in.
“I know. I’m just too happy, that's all.” Betty wiped her tears.
In the meantime, Yvonne led Kathleen to one of the rooms.
Kathleen didn’t expect the Lesters to prepare such a large bedroom for her.
Thus, she said to Yvonne, “Ms. Lester, I can't stay in this room. This should be the master bedroom, right? I'll just stay in one of the guestrooms.”
“No, I can't let you. You're our... savior, after all. See, I've even asked the maids to prepare you some clothes,” said Yvonne, pausing in between.
The way they treated her was precisely why she didn't dare to stay.
The Lesters are weird. If they want to thank me, they could just give me money.
“Ms. Lester...” Kathleen began.
“You're around my daughter's age, so you could just call me... Aunt Yvonne. You don’t have to be so polite,” said Yvonne with an inscrutable tone.
Kathleen was speechless.
I'm not the one who's being too polite. They are all too friendly, and it's weird'.
Yvonne said enthusiastically, “Take a look around and tell me if you need anything else.”
“Oh, it's okay.” Kathleen found it hard to turn her down.
“All right then. You should get some rest.” Yvonne turned and left the room.
Kathleen sighed and went to look for Levi, who was supposedly in the room next to hers.
Nevertheless, he wasn't there when she opened the door.
She descended the stairs and went to the garden, which had a pretty scenic view.
As she couldn't see Levi anywhere, she decided to take a walk around.
At that moment, she saw two kids huddled together in the garden, each holding a tiny shovel and trying to scoop a flower out from the soil.
“Why are we doing this?” the little girl asked with a melodious voice.
“A new aunt has come to our house. We shall give this to her as a gift,” replied the little boy.
The girl asked in excitement, “Is she pretty?”
“Yeah, probably. My mom says she’s a celebrity.”
“I love celebrities!” the girl exclaimed.
Kathleen glanced at the poor Juliet rose that was almost mutilated to death by the two children and said slowly, “The flower's going to die.”
The two chubby children paused in their tracks and turned to look at Kathleen.
“She's so pretty,” whispered the girl before she put on a wide grin and asked, “Who are you?”
“Are you the new aunt?” the boy questioned in surprise.
Aunt?
Kathleen answered, “I'm the doctor who's here to treat Old Mrs. Lester.”
“You're our new aunt!” The boy threw his shovel away and dragged the girl over, greeting Kathleen, “Nice to meet you!”
The girl imitated the boy. “Nice to meet you.”
Kathleen replied wryly, “Nice to meet you, too. Stop shoveling the flower.
It's going to die.”
Juliet roses were precious flowers.
The Lester family was apparently quite wealthy to be able to plant such valuable flowers in the garden like it was nothing.
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