The room reeked of alcohol and mustiness. A housekeeper knocked on the door and came in. Then, she covered her nose at the smell. She held her breath as she moved a box into the room and placed in before him.
“The recycling center sent this back, Mi Ford. They said these were the things Ms. Food threw away before leaving. They seemed valuable, so the center didn’t dare do anything to them an sent them back untouched”
After that, the housekeeper turned and left without another look at him.
Cameron is murks eyes lit up when he heard the things used to be Clementino’s Everything in her coom had been thrown out after her departure. She’d even changed the tamily photo inside to one with Jocelyn in het spl. He’d scoured every corner of the house but had failed to anything that had to do with her.
Cameron pulled the box to him, ripping it in the process. Perhaps he’d lost control of his stength after temaining immobile for too long. The things inside spilled out.
Ha eyes widened when he saw what they were–the gifts he’d given to her over the years! The body bear was the one he’d given her on her first day at the Ford residence…
e’d be so scared that she couldn’t ship at night, so he’d sneaked into her room and held the bear wi uld protect her on hai tai b
The dancing shows beside it were the first birthday gift Cameron had given Clementine. At the ti and gifted them to her.
ng her bedtime stories. He’d even told her the bear was a part of him. It
sho’d formed an interest in dancing. He’d had someone buy a pair of shoes from abroad
The rest of the things in the box were birthday gifts he’d given to her every year. When the clock hit midnight an bir burthday, he would always place the gifts he’d prepared outside her bedroom doen. He’d never missed a year
That bad dunged when she’d turned 18 and he’d discovered her journal. He’d never given her another gift since then
segern intensified as he looked at the items. Clementine had preserved them well If not for the signs of aging on them, one would think they were new. Bruched out to touch them with a trembling hand. Suddenly, something caught his eye. He pulled out a journal from the bottom of the box When he saw the cellophane tape all over it, he
he’d ripped to pinces.
ben Gemeonine had Est started acessing him differently, he’d thought it was because she’d grown up and wanted to distance herself from him. He didn’t think much of IL
- lowryn had told him about Clementine’s feelings for him. Only then did he realize she’d fallen for him ages ago–le’d initially been surprised. Then, it had given way to feat.
mentia had told jorelys er deepest secret, and Jocelyn couldn’t keep it if she were to blurt this out one day, the whole Ford family would have to suffer the consequences, let alone him be wanted to nip the marter in the bod before it could get out of hand
