#Chapter 291: Couple-Specific Dining Arrangements

When we finally made it downstairs, it was as the others were beginning to make their way toward the dining room for dinner. Julian spotted me first, standing at the bottom of the stair, and began laughing his head off. Veronica, beside him, noticed me a moment later, and gave me a hint of a smile, a big deal for her. Elva looked up at me and laughed. “What are you wearing, Mommy?” I held open my arms and she ran into them. Then I lifted her up. “I forgot all of my clothes,” I told her, not wanting her to know about the sabotage done to our bags. I would protect Elva as much as I could as long as I could about the harsh cruelties of the world. As the others walked by, Jessica followed them. She glanced at me but appeared indifferent to my appearance. Bridget, however. Her gaze went ice cold as she inspected me from my shoulders down to my toes. She didn’t say anything, she kept on smiling. But I felt like the air in the room dropped a few degrees. “Nicholas,” she said. She dragge