Chapter 618

Logically speaking, Shawn shouldn't have been seated at the Stone family's table since he wasn't a member of the family. But Old Mr. Stone wasn't an unreasonable man. After all, he was just a child. Besides, the Stone and Morris families had business ties, and Old Mr. Stone knew Shawn had been staying with Lucian at the Stone Family residence these past few days. Thinking it might ease Lucian's loneliness, he had tacitly allowed it. As for the seating arrangement? That was even simpler—Aster had taken her grandson back to the second branch's villa, leaving a spot open. It was a holiday, after all, and the old man didn’t want to sour his own mood. So he refrained from banishing the entire second branch from the gathering, merely agreeing to his wife’s suggestion that the second son’s wife take Collin and leave. The second branch breathed a collective sigh of relief. At the long dining table, the lingering tension from Old Mr. Stone and the matriarch’s earlier outburst kept most of the f