Inside the house, Arwen was sitting with Beca when a maid came to inform them.
"Madam, the dinner has been arranged at the table."
Beca nodded and dismissed her before turning back to Arwen. "It’s already time for dinner. Let’s go."
"Uncle Gareth won’t be joining us?" she asked, and at the same time, Gareth’s voice came from a distance.
"How can I not?"
Arwen turned to glance behind, finding the man descending down the stairs with ease steps. Her lips curled up in a smile in reciprocation to the one he had on his.
"Like your Aunt Beca, even I was waiting to meet you today. How can I miss it then?" he said as he walked towards her and opened his arms to give her a side hug.
"Uncle Gareth, I thought you weren’t at home," Arwen said, pulling away from the hug.
Gareth shook his head. "I was here itself," he said. "The company abroad needed my attention, so I was just handling it in the study."
Arwen nodded in understanding. To her, Gareth has always been a person to maintain a balance between family and work life. He had devoted himself to his company and work, but that never kept him away from showing his care and love to Aunt Beca and Ryan —his family. Whenever they needed him —he had been there for them.
On the day Ryan graduated from university, he attended the event to celebrate it for him.
Even when she graduated, he came along with Beca to be part of happiness. It might not seem like a moving mountain for her, but still, she couldn’t help but be grateful for it because they took out time from their busy schedule when her parents didn’t.
It was since then she started being closer to them. Because they gave her the sense of family she always craved to have.
"Is everything going fine at the company?" she asked, a tinge of concern laced in her tone which didn’t go unnoticed.
Gareth smiled before moving his hand lovingly over her hair. "There is nothing to worry about, dear. Your Uncle Gareth still hasn’t gotten old enough to not handle a few things here and there. It was some trivial matter and I have already taken care of it."
Arwen nodded with a smile, and Beca couldn’t help but feel the loss again. Since the beginning, this was the kind of daughter-in-law she wanted. A girl who would be more like a daughter to them —a blessing that not everyone has. And she even found one —but his son didn’t cherish her enough. Explore stories at freewebnovel
His loss, unfortunately …
"So," Gareth suddenly turned to Beca and asked, "Are we heading to the dinner table then?"
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