Chapter 2082

Outside, two bodyguards trailed them like silent shadows, arms loaded with crisp shirts, tailored trousers, and ribbon-tied shopping bags that bumped against their knees.

Nathaniel cast a downward glance at Jonathan, who still wasn’t tall enough to reach his thigh, and asked, “What business did you have in a men’s boutique in the first place?”

Jonathan didn’t miss a beat. “Oh. Ms. Kennedy wanted me to pop in and pick out a few outfits for Uncle Zachary. This is just a quick errand on her behalf.”

He added, in the privacy of his own mind. Dad hardly knows Ms. Kennedy, and Mom’s best friend would never check up on this, so the story is airtight.

Nathaniel nodded once, expression unreadable. “Your Ms. Kennedy certainly trusts you,” he murmured.

Yet a small, sour note curled inside his chest. Vivian remembers to buy clothes for Zachary, but Ceci never thinks of buying any for me.

His mood darkened like a sky before rain.