Melody Summers opened the door, and Zoe Kane walked in, helping a limping Caleb Summers.
As soon as they entered the living room, Caleb Summers couldn’t wait to put on the facade of a loving father. He spoke softly to Nina Summers, "My dear daughter, Daddy knows you’ve had a hard time lately. It’s all my fault. I came specially to take you home today."
Sitting on the sofa, Nina Summers looked up at his words. Seeing Caleb Summers and Zoe Kane walk in arm in arm, she instinctively gave a huge eye-roll.
’Seeing this first thing in the morning... What awful luck!’
’Who wants to watch a middle-aged cheater and his mistress showing off their affection arm in arm?!’
Caleb Summers felt a bit awkward at her reaction. He knew Nina Summers didn’t like Zoe Kane, so he had originally planned to come alone today.
But he didn’t know what was wrong with him. Lately, he’d been having constant headaches and dizzy spells, feeling as if worms were crawling inside his brain. He was so unsteady after getting up this morning that he could barely walk, so he had no choice but to let Zoe Kane accompany him.
Caleb Summers rubbed his throbbing forehead, walked over to Nina Summers, and said with a benevolent expression, "Alright, Nina, it’s been many days. You’ve thrown your fit long enough, haven’t you? Hurry and come home with Daddy!"
"Me, throwing a fit?" Nina Summers suppressed her disgust and sneered mockingly, "What, are you trying to trick me into going back and marrying some old man this time?"
Caleb Summers’s expression stiffened. He recalled the last time he’d come to take Nina Summers home, when he had indeed tried to force her to marry Jim Sheffield...
But so much had happened recently. Of the once-powerful Sheffield Family, some were dead, some were in prison, and some had been dismissed from their posts. To avoid any association, Caleb Summers had blocked every member of the Sheffield Family, and the matter of a marriage alliance had long since been tossed to the back of his mind.
Now that Nina Summers brought it up again, Caleb Summers could only laugh awkwardly and say, sounding a little guilty, "No, no, we’re not doing that. It was all Daddy’s fault before. I just felt that the world is a very dangerous place right now, so I was anxious to find you a good match."
"Now, Daddy’s thought it through. No one is good enough for my precious daughter, so we’re not getting you married! Good girl, you can just stay by Daddy’s side forever, and I’ll take care of you for the rest of your life!"
Caleb Summers delivered these lines with such sincerity, as if he were truly a father who would spoil his daughter rotten. Watching from the side, Melody Summers clicked her tongue in amazement, inwardly marveling at his acting skills.
But Nina Summers just watched Caleb Summers’s performance with cold eyes, feeling nothing at all.
Nina Summers didn’t speak, but Caleb Summers wasn’t fazed. He continued with a kind expression, "Nina, you’ve always been my favorite child. I raised you since you were little. Can’t you feel how much Daddy loves you?"
"I just favored your little brother a bit because he’s younger, but I’ve been reflecting lately. I know I’ve really wronged you these past couple of years... I promise you, it will never happen again!"
"Everything in the past was my fault. Please, just come back home with Daddy. Give me a chance to make it up to you. We’ll go back and live a good life, and from now on, you’ll always come first in the family, okay?"
As he reached the emotional peak of his speech, Caleb Summers even shed a few tears, looking for all the world like he was sincerely repentant.
But this display only made Nina Summers sick to her stomach.
’So many men are just natural-born actors. Look at Caleb Summers—he’s probably even convinced himself with this act!’
Nina Summers couldn’t be bothered to watch Caleb Summers’s "profound fatherly love" act. She just snorted coldly. Following what Melody Summers had taught her, she said slowly, her face devoid of expression, "That’s enough. Stop acting in front of me. I know what you came here for today."

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