Holly had put twenty-six candles on the birthday cake.

The sight of it stirred Noah’s heart.

He thought that Holly would forget all about her mother when enough time passed. To his surprise, the little girl kept asking about her mother. She’d ask him where her mother had gone off to and when she was going to come back.

After that, time flew by like an arrow. Days, months, even years slipped away.

On Gwynn’s twenty-seventh birthday, he took Holly to Silvercrest for a leisure trip.

On Gwynn’s twenty-eighth birthday, he bought an office tower for the Sanders Group, and bought back the old villas he used to share with her.

It had been three years since she left Brookesville. It was the year when he had regained his former glory in terms of both personal and company wealth. He was in a place where he could compete with the Templetons again.

In that same year, Anderson’s wife gave birth to twins.

Noah attended the christening celebration party with Holly. He prepared wonderfu