Chapter 8
Anna’s meeting that day was quite confidential, so I couldn’t attend.
She left me at the coffee shop downstairs, eating ice cream and reading a book.
Halfway through my reading, I felt someone staring at me. I looked up and saw a man in a suit, his brows furrowed.
He was just looking at me. I was stunned, feeling that he looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn’t remember who he was.
Later, when Anna finished her meeting and came down, I picked up the coffee I had bought in advance and went to find her.
As I passed by that man, I heard him say, “Pretending not to know me?”
This sentence came out of nowhere. I glanced at him but didn’t pay much attention, carrying the coffee out the door.
But that man followed me out, “Hazel Winters, you don’t even say hello when we meet?”
I turned around, and Anna turned with me.
Anna saw the man and smiled, “Mr. Parker! Long time no see.”
Caleb didn’t acknowledge Anna, just staring at me.
I looked at the man and quietly asked Anna, “Is he Caleb?”
“Yes, the CEO of Parker Group. Do you know him?”
“…Um, I think he’s my… ex–husband…”
Anna was stunned. She looked at me, then at Caleb, then back at me.
Caleb stared at me. I thought for a moment and extended my hand, “Hello.”
Caleb didn’t shake my hand. He looked at me, his eyes contemptuous and mocking, “Hazel Winters, I underestimated you. I thought you were really a good mother! In court, you fought so hard for Zack and Ava, but after getting the money, you haven’t even come to see them once… It’s a good thing I didn’t give the children to you. Someone like you doesn’t deserve to be a mother.“”
A wave of inexplicable sadness welled up in my heart, but as the sadness dissipated, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember what Zack and Ava looked like.
“Hazel Winters, you’d better come back this weekend. Otherwise, you’ll never see Zack and Ava again in this lifetime.”
Caleb left, leaving behind a confused Anna and a pensive me.
