"Er... I haven't gotten my driver's license yet."
"I'll arrange a coach to teach you how to drive this weekend."
"Uh... actually, I don't like driving. I have a terrible sense of direction, even walking I get lost... don't force me to drive, don't we have a driver at home?"
Marilyn disagreed, "Knowing how to drive is a must-have skill for young people nowadays, Steph. No slacking off... there's no harm in learning more."
"But Mom..." she began, an edge of trepidation in her voice, "I have a dreadful sense of direction, and I fear colliding with someone... if I were to strike someone whilst driving, I believe the shock alone might be the end of me."
Sebastian then said, "You'll be acting in contemporary dramas in the future, right?"
"Huh? Yeah, I will."
"What if you need to drive in a scene... are you going to hire a stunt double to do it for you?"
"It seems... not a good way."
"So, are you going to learn?"
Stephanie made a face, "I'll learn... but I've read online that driving instructors are mean and scary."
"This is a private instructor. He wouldn't dare yell at you."
Who would dare yell at the wife of the Skyline Corporation's president?
"So... I'll come back every weekend for lessons?"
"Yep, are you heading to school tomorrow?"
"That's the plan... but if my mom needs to move into the dorm, I'll go the day after tomorrow. I'll take my mom to the staff dorms tomorrow and spend some time with her."
"You take Mrs. Bishop to pick out a car. It would make her commute to work easier."
Stephanie's eyes lit up, "Mom! Silver Fox is buying you a car!"
She was willing... to abandon him and his ill father.
In the beginning, his fondness for Stephanie and Marilyn sprang from the pain he could not get over.
Marilyn was seriously ill and didn't want to burden her daughter. She was prepared to die. But the person she was most worried about was her daughter.
In the bloom of her youth, Steph found herself toiling away in a nightclub... the substantial wages serving as a means to stash away funds for her mother's impending surgery... Amidst their dire circumstances, neither mother nor daughter forsook the other's plight.
Even when Marilyn was kicked out of the hospital, humiliated by Mrs. Klein... Steph, who was initially reluctant to marry a man she didn't love, changed her mind for her mother and asked him to take responsibility.
At first, Sebastian was resistant... but later, he felt lucky to have these two warm-hearted people in his life.
Marilyn's cooking was delicious... much better than Judith's. And their daily care and concern, though just a few simple words, were things no one had ever done for him in his world.
They already considered him a part of their family.
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