He made me so happy he loved me that I swallowed the heat in my eyes.
Footsteps approached from inside the door, and I swallowed hard.
Before I could leave, my brother had already opened the door.
The moment he saw me, panic flashed in his eyes.
"Vivian, how long have you been here?"
I pinched my fingers together, pressing them white under the strain.
I looked at him calmly and reminded him, "I just arrived. Today is the fifteenth."
The fifteenth!
It was the only day of the month when my brother agreed to have dinner with me.
During the eight years I’d been living away from home, my brother always told me,
Even if I couldn’t return to the Gardner family for a while, I would always be the eldest daughter of the Gardner family, his only precious sister.
The fifteenth of every month is the night of the family reunion.
For eight years, he had never missed this day.
My brother smiled suddenly and gently rubbed my head.
"Well, let’s go. I’ll have dinner with you."
I had just taken a bite of my food when the doorbell rang. Emily arrived uninvited. "Brother, I came specially to have dinner with you."
Just as I was about to refuse, she squeezed in.