"Um, can I talk to you alone for a moment?" Ashley Bowen glanced at Adam Sinclair. When she met his deliberately evasive eyes, she felt awkward and looked away herself.
Claire Sutton stroked the timid little Melody Sinclair, who was staring with wide eyes, and said to Adam Sinclair, "Why don't you take our daughter back first?"
Adam Sinclair nodded, picked up his daughter, and announced loudly, "Let's go, time to go home."
However, after taking a few steps while holding his daughter tightly, he couldn't help but look back at Ashley Bowen's retreating figure.
His eyes held a mix of tenderness, restraint, and many other complex emotions.
Ashley Bowen and Claire Sutton walked side-by-side toward a gazebo.
"Claire, you seemed to be holding something back at the dinner table today. Were you deliberately hiding something from me?"
