Serenity understood why her mother-in-law pretended not to know her and did not take it to heart.

After walking back to her parking spot, she unlocked the car and placed the clothes she bought for Zachary on the passenger seat before driving away.

A short while later, she arrived at Brynfield. Zachary had yet to return, so she fiddled with her small garden on the balcony.

The roses were blooming in overabundance, so she took a pair of scissors to cut a few off. However, she was reluctant to throw them away, so she took them back to the hall to trim them and arranged them into a vase.

Ring ring ring...

Her cell phone rang.

She answered and it was from her neighbor at the store. It was inconvenient to take the pets with her since she was going to shop for Zachary’s clothes, so she asked the neighbor to look after the pets for her.

“Mr. Charles, I’m so sorry. I completely forgot. I’ll go over and pick them up now.”

Serenity would have forgotten about the pets if she had not receiv