Chapter 176 How About You Come Home with Me?

Cleo quickly looked at the box, and then turned away, grumbling, "I don't like it." She really wasn't into it. After all this time without a visit, just showing up with a few tacky dresses and thinking that would do the trick? Not happening. The nanny watched, sweating bullets, as Cleo started to throw a fit. Nova wasn't surprised; Cleo was never warm to her. But she didn't take it to heart. She asked the nanny to remove the clothes and looked at Cleo's drawings instead. The picture showed a family of three, all smiles, the parents holding their daughter's hands, clearly having a great time. It tugged at Nova's heartstrings. Cleo had known her mother's love but never felt her father's affection. She couldn't even proudly declare who her father was because her birth was a societal taboo. Cleo's life was marked by incompleteness. Cleo spotted Nova peeking at her drawing and quickly grabbed it away, exclaiming, "You shouldn't be looking at this!" She held the drawing close defens