Love Once Addicted For A Lifetime

"The flight number 2024T03N01 has landed, passengers please check your belongings before leaving!"

At the onset of summer, as directed by the chairman of the Parks corporation, Clara Lawson returned to Harborview at his request, to help him sign a contract with the McDaniel corporation, and while at it: “help" him manage the Harborview branch, ending the favor with the provision of a powerful black card.

Honestly, she wasn't short on money, but when money comes knocking at your door, why not take it?

The silhouette of a woman in an extremely elegant outfit, beside her a boy about four or five years old, stepping out of the airport, Clara Lawson said:

"Six years, finally back home."

But the boy next to her looked at her, tilted his head and said:

"Mami, isn't it true that uncle Parks didn't allow mom to come back? Clearly, mom was avoiding debts, that's why mom didn't dare to return."

Clara was speechless, okay, she really didn't know what debt she owed this kid in a past life, but since he could speak, every word was a jab at her sore spots. Then when it came time to be scolded, he would play the victim, lamenting that his mom wasn't like other moms, always just scolding him.

But think about it, with a mouth like that, how could she not scold?

"Weston, do you believe mom would kick you back to Victor Parks?"

"Mami won't kick me out, because mom knows well that if I stay with uncle Parks, he would call to bother mom eighty times a day, disrupting the time mom searches for a dad for me."

"You! Consider your words sharp. Wait a bit, mom will kick you to aunt Kimberly's class, let's see how you'll survive there."

Kimberly Moore is her close friend, currently running a childcare and teaching class, it's because of her that Clara had the confidence to bring Weston Lawson into the world.

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Recalling six years ago, she was just a bit too frivolous, looking for someone to confide in at a bar after a heartbreak, her senior crush married the girl she absolutely detested, drowning her sorrows in alcohol, who would have thought... That kind of confiding led to her getting pregnant a few months later!

Clara herself was an orphan, having to fight for food to grow up from a young age, she didn't want her child to live in poverty either, moreover, at that time Clara was only twenty years old, she wasn't ready to be a mother.

But Kimberly Moore held her hand tightly, saying:

"Clara, how about I take you to Ashwood? There's my cousin there, his name is Victor Parks, a director of the Parks corporation, though the company isn't big, it'll still provide for you. Moreover, Clara, you're smart, I'm sure you'll live well in Ashwood."

"But this child..."

"Clara, anyway, it's your child, just yours. Besides, I've heard men in Ashwood are very open-minded, might as well find a father for the baby..."

Pausing a bit, Kimberly then said: