Miles Xavier looked at their tightly clasped hands, his gaze deep as ink.

Listening to him say this, Tiana Thorne suddenly felt a twinge of sweetness in her heart, a feeling that only those in love might understand.

It was as if her heart was held in his palm, cherished with care.

Meredith Ford suddenly widened her eyes: "Fourth brother, do you know what you’re saying?"

Rouge Jarvis’s breathing suddenly became rapid, his eyes filled with shock; he glanced at Maxim Ford, then at the two hands clasped tightly together. For a moment, his heart was thrown into disarray.

After a long while, she finally spoke in disbelief: "Sixteen?"

Aiden Shaw’s dark chestnut eyes were not as unfathomable as before but carried an air of responsibility. Holding her hand, he replied, "It’s what we call each other."

Rouge Jarvis’s last glimmer of hope faded away.

The "Sixteen" from the fourth brother’s lips was Tiana Thorne, and the seriousness in his eyes revealed a stubborn deep affection.

It seemed that in this lifetime, he would marry no one but Tiana.

He knew this son too well.

Rouge Jarvis tried to suppress the fainting sensation, asked in a deep voice, "Previously, the one you mentioned was your beloved, was it her?"

"Yes."

"And the one whose presence improved your condition, that was also her, right?"

Aiden Shaw’s alluring Adam’s apple rolled painfully before he answered once again, "Yes." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Rouge Jarvis closed her eyes, her emotions understood only by a mother. After a long while, she opened her eyes again and asked, "When did you and her start?"

"On the night of the family banquet."

Just as he finished speaking, Rouge Jarvis slammed her hand on the tea table with a loud bang that left everyone’s eardrums aching.

"Great! Just great!"

Rouge Jarvis was genuinely angry.

Since Aiden Shaw spoke those words, she hadn’t glanced at Maxim Ford, fearing to see his desolation.

She glared angrily at the fourth brother, swallowed hard, and finally croaked out, "Since you were little, how have I educated you? Do you remember the family rules of the Ford family?"

Tiana Thorne suddenly didn’t know how to start acknowledging kinship.

She looked back at Aiden Shaw, only to see his solemn gaze, and he pronounced word by word, "Respect the elderly and cherish the young, honor brothers, love younger siblings, do not bully the weak, fear not the evil, be steadfast and loyal."

Rouge Jarvis’s eyes were slightly warm, frustrated by iron that couldn’t become steel: "Now tell me, what have you done right?"

"I believe I’ve done it all."

Rouge Jarvis angrily questioned, "Done it all, yet you steal your elder brother’s girlfriend?!"

Chloe Vance only felt that the family affairs of the Fords were too complicated.

But at this moment, her heart was full of excitement because the betrayal of Maxim by Tiana Thorne and Aiden Shaw had become a reality; Rouge Jarvis would certainly not forgive them in her rage.

At that time, all she had done would seem, in Rouge Jarvis’s eyes, like justice served.

Meredith Ford gripped her hands tightly, staring at the hands intertwined with a gaze as if poisoned, wishing she could separate them.

Tiana Thorne saw her mother’s heartbroken expression and finally couldn’t hold back: "Mom..."

Maxim Ford didn’t expect her to speak and quickly said, "Mom..."

The voice of a man and a woman mixed together, yet Rouge Jarvis still understood it.

Tiana Thorne called her "mom" once.

At this moment, she finally understood why she called her "mom" in front of May Sloane when she was napping on the couch that day.

Because she had already privately decided to spend her life with the fourth brother, becoming his fiancée.

This "mom" was just a matter of time.