Selena jogged all the way into the kindergarten where the teacher and Juniper were playing with building blocks while waiting for her. âIâm sorry, Miss Monroe! Iâm really sorry.â She started apologizing the moment she stepped into the room.
The teacher, on the other hand, seemed used to such a thing. âItâs okay, Miss Yard.â âIâm really sorry to have troubled you. I promise there wonât be a next time.â
Juniper put away her things before walking over to Selena. âMommy, Iâll just go to the washroom for a while, okay?â As she said that, she all but skipped away.
âMiss Yard, weâll be having Family Day at the end of the month. This is the kindergartenâs monthly activity, so the school attaches great importance to it every time. Itâll be Juniperâs first time attending, so I hope you can make time for it.â
âFamily Day? Whatâs Family Day?â
âParents nowadays are always busy with work that theyâve got no time to accompany their children. Thus, we set up Family Day in hopes that parents will put everything aside to join and accompany their children. On that day, thereâll be competitions in which parents can participate together. Also, thereâs a mystery prize! Juniper is really looking forward to it.â
However, the smile on Selenaâs face froze. Juniper doesnât have a daddy. Sheâll surely be saddened to see other children attending with both their parents. Besides, other children will also know that she doesnât have a daddy at that time. Will they ridicule her? She couldnât help thinking about all this.
âRemember to come, Miss Yard. Put aside all your work and accompany Juniper for a day.â
At this exact moment, Juniper returned from the washroom, so they both left. Surprisingly, Juniper didnât utter a single word about Family Day throughout the drive back. Perhaps she doesnât want to attend as well, not wanting other children to know that she has no daddy. Thus, Selena didnât bother keeping Family Day in mind. JNS Corporationâs headquarters had also just been relocated to Astoria, so she was swamped with work. Hence, she put this matter at the back of her mind.
Selena was having a meeting with her subordinates in the meeting room when Linda silently opened the door and walked in.
Stopping before Selena, she leaned down and murmured, âYour father is here, President Yard.â
Taken aback, Selenaâs expression turned forbidding. âTurn him away.â
âIâve told him that you wonât see him, President Yard, but heâs now kicking up a fuss downstairs.â
Stilling for a moment, Selena then relented and said, âHave him wait for me in my office.â Linda nodded and left.
After wrapping up the meeting, Selena went back to her office. As soon as she stepped in the door, she saw Roland sitting on her chair as he flipped through the documents on her table, not regarding himself as an outsider in the least. âGet up. Thatâs my seat.â She strode in with a glacial expression on her face.
Upon hearing her voice, Roland cleared his throat. Still, he stood up from her seat. Selena then marched over and plopped right onto her chair, so he could only sit across from her.
Picking up the documents on her table, Selena started reviewing them. âWhy are you here? Spit it out.â
âWhat kind of attitude is this?â Roland was instantly pissed off when he saw her attitude. Who has ever seen a daughter talking to her own biological father in such a manner, expression cold and tone callous? Back during Meganâs wedding, she kicked up such a fuss that Megan is still afraid to leave the house to this day. Worse still, she made the Yard Family a laughingstock and humiliated me greatly.
In the blink of an eye, however, he put on an ingratiating expression since he was truly desperate. The Yard Familyâs company had been deteriorating, and he initially wanted to have the Lake Family help them out after Megan had married Finneas.
Unexpectedly, the Lakes disdained them, and he couldnât ask for Meredithâs help either since she hadnât yet married.
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