Hugh smiled but returned after taking a few steps. He approached Kevin and asked cautiously, “You won’t tattle to my parents about me, right?”

“I won’t as long as you promise to do the same.”

They had some control over one another.

Kevin was afraid of Hayden getting mad, while Hugh feared his parents urging him to marry.

Even if Donald and Sophia did not urge Hugh to marry, they would give him a good scolding.

Kevin had become their new favorite person. He was more adored than Hugh, the