After that incident with Celine and Hunter, Belinda seemed to have aged more than a decade overnight.

In the past, she took great care of herself and looked like she was only in her fifties.

Now, she looked like an old lady in her eighties.

Caroline stayed silent.

It was not appropriate for her to comment on her parents’ marriage.

“Your dad was even harping on about how I had feelings for someone else, but I never cheated and that was all in the past. Who doesn’t have a past? Before he married me, he had an endless stream of women by his side. Doesn’t he have a past too?

“I never held it against him even after we got married, but he had the gall to use the fact that I had feelings for someone else as an excuse.”

Caroline’s eyes sparkled. “Mom, that person you loved must have been someone outstanding, wasn’t he?”

“Very. He was a hundred times better than your dad. He’s the old friend I’m going on a trip to see in two days.

“We haven’t seen each other in decades. I wonder if he