"Aunt Justine, Uncle Edward." Theodore ignored Susan and greeted Justine and Edward politely.
Justine and Laird had some contact over the years. After all, they were both among the oldest members of the Wells family. When Laird had a birthday party, they came together.
"Come sit down," Theodore warmly invited them while deliberately ignoring Susan. Susan pouted. Why was Theodore becoming more and more like a sycophant? She had never seen him so socially adept before.
At that moment, she also saw Little Bunny come in with Nicholas into the hall. Little Bunny politely greeted the elders before smiling at Susan.
"Hi, Susan."
"Theodore forced you to come here, didn't he?" Susan blurted out without any filter.
"Susan!" Justine's face darkened as he called out to her.
Susan rolled her eyes. She always seemed to be getting scolded for speaking her mind.
"Don't mind, Mrs Phillips." Little Bunny quickly said with a smile on her face. "I like Susan's personality, she says what she thinks."
"As for me and Theodore," she continued, "let me explain it to everyone here. I came voluntarily to celebrate Mr Wold's birthday party. I came here with a will."
"What do you mean?" Susan was surprised.
"That's what I mean," Little Bunny replied shyly while blushing slightly since it wasn't appropriate for her to say too much in front of everyone else present there.
Susan wanted to ask further questions but other people entered at that moment.
"Oscar!" Justine warmly welcomed her nephew, who arrived along with Salem and Una.
She was even happier than when she saw her own son. And of course, she intended to interrupt Susan.
Everyone rushed forward upon hearing Justine's voice calling out Oscar's name.
Salem and Una were hugged tightly by Justine, who couldn't bear letting them go from within her embrace.
"Auntie."
"Auntie."
Salem and Una sweetly called out while making Justine feel ecstatic inside.
The courtyard of the Wold family became even livelier due to all these people coming together. Meanwhile, Susan sat chatting away next to Little Bunny.
"You weren't forced by Theodore, right?" asked Susan again. She just couldn't believe that Little Bunny would fall for Theodore.
"No."
"Do you like Theodore?"
"No, but, I don't hate him anymore. He's really nice to me." Little Bunny told the truth, "So, I'm willing to be with him."
"But there is no feelings between you. You won't be happy!" Susan insisted.
Besides, she indeed didn't want to have too much involvement with Oscar. But she felt guilty to avoid Salem as well.
Today, she was finally persuaded by her parents, and her face was almost better, so she promised them to attend the party.
She knew her parents wanted her to remarry Oscar. But she didn't understand why her parents defended Oscar after all these years.
"Hannah!" Susan called out to Hannah, excited. She ran straight towards Hannah and hugged her tightly like a child. Salem was standing beside them, thinking that Susan looked more like his mother's child as well. "Hey, auntie, she's my mom!" Salem thought to himself, feeling jealous.
Hannah felt a bit embarrassed since Susan refused to let go of her.
Susan hugged Hannah for long, then let go and looked at her face. Her voice was still loud as she said, "Hannah, you had surgery on your face!"
"Can you please speak more quietly?"
"I think here, the tip of the nose needs to be adjusted a bit more. There's a difference compared to your original one, which looked better with its tip." Susan examined and evaluated.
"We'll talk about that later." Hannah said in a low voice.
"Okay, okay." Susan nodded quickly.
Then she held Hannah's arm affectionately and entered the hall with her.
Upon entering, Hannah saw Oscar standing there, whose gaze was fixed on her face without even blinking an eye.
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