Chapter 316

When Zachary saw how shy Jessica was, he stopped teasing her and guided her to sit in front of the vanity instead, helping her with her hair. Jessica enjoyed being taken care of this way. He picked up the comb with practiced ease and started fixing the hair of the woman he'd been longing for. That day, he styled her hair into something soft and elegant, leaving a few loose strands by her ears and pinning the rest loosely at the back. The remaining locks fell gracefully between her shoulder blades. Then he helped her put on a pair of long pearl drop earrings. The necklace she was already wearing was in the same style. "These pearls Grandpa gave you look perfect on you," Zachary said, running his hand through her hair as he looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Do they have some special meaning? When he gave them to me, he took them out of a really old box," Jessica asked as she lightly touched the necklace. "Yeah. They belonged to Grandma. It was her favorite piece of jewelry.