"Auntie Yen!" Jade ran towards Cayenne and hugged her. "I missed you so, so much. How have you been?"
"I'm pretty good little princess." Cayenne answered and kissed Jade's cheeks. "How about you? Why didn't you come with your mom?"
"She's pretty busy since my father's birthday is coming soon."
"I see. Well, it's good to have you here." Cayenne gently pats Jade's head and brought her back to the couch where she was sitting earlier. "I hope Jackie didn't mind my small place." Cayenne told the other woman who looked exactly like Riley.
"I don't really mind. I am not a choosy person. I'm glad that you are doing pretty well after what happened."
"Stefan made it possible for me." Cayenne sat on the couch facing her classmates and friends. "By the way, let me introduce my friends from the university. This is Faith and Noah." Then she turned to Noah and Faith to introduce Jackie and Jade. "This is Jillyanna's daughter, Jade and this pretty woman is Riley's twin sister, Jackie."
"By Jillyanna, you mean the goddess YNA, right?" Faith asked while looking at the little girl with great interest. Cayenne nodded in acknowledgement and this made Faith widened her eyes in surprise. "You really are friends with her?"
"Not just my mom, she's friends with everyone at home." Jade replied to Faith's statement. "Auntie Yen is like a sister to my mom and uncle Stefan is like a brother to my father. They're very close with my family."
Cayenne just chuckled and kissed Jade's head. "What brought you here by the way? It's really surprising that your mother allowed both of you to leave home."
"It's not really surprising." Jade muttered and leaned closer to Cayenne's ear in order to whisper something. "Look outside and you'll see why. Besides, auntie Jackie can fight better than our bodyguards so, my mother isn't really worried for us to come over here."
Cayenne did look outside the window and found many bodyguards loitering around, waiting for their young miss to come out of the house. "I see. So, what brought you here? It's impossible that you'd come here out of boredom."
"I come over to see how big brother is doing. I sent him a message this morning to play with me but he said he's not feeling well. Is he sick?"
"Hn. He's down with a fever. Just few minutes earlier, Clarisse came over to check on him."
"Oh! It's good that she's here."
"Do you want to check on him now?"
"No way! I don't want to disturb their quality time. I'll wait here. Do you mind me helping you with the designs of your activities?"
"You want to help me with my activities?"
Cayenne didn't really expect this but since Jade wanted to do it while passing the time, she just let her be and gave her some crafting material. Thus, for almost an hour, Faith and Jade worked on crafting some designs for Cayenne's activities and projects. Lucia prepared some refreshments for them in the afternoon and at some point, Daisy and Dahlia started helping Cayenne with the layouts as well.
When Stefan came to check on his wife's progress, he was a little surprise to see a lot of people helping her. The projects and activities that she missed, which she was supposed to pass in two weeks, were done in less than a week. Jade was very happy and satisfied to see her designs on Cayenne's work.
"I like how you make this butterfly cut out. How did you make this?" Jade asked Faith while pointing on the butterflies pasted on the workbook.
"I'll teach you how." Faith taught Jade how to easily cut butterflies for design ideas and Jade was really having fun doing so. Around 4:00 in the afternoon, Clarisse came out of Luiz's room.
"Are you going home now? Aren't you staying for dinner?" Cayenne asked when she saw her.
"Luiz said that he's feeling a lot better and I still have some things to do. I'll have dinner some other time."
"O-okay. I'll have someone send you home."
"There's no need." Clarisse stated, refusing Cayenne almost instantly. "The driver is already waiting for me outside."
Seeing her nervous expression and restless eye movement, Cayenne knew that something was wrong. "Okay. I won't insist for now." She said but she still walked her to the door. "You don't have to force yourself to come here if your father isn't approved of it. Don't worry, my brother won't change his feelings just because of this trivial matter. Just focus on your studies.
We will take care of him."
"Thank you so much, sis Yen. I feel a lot better now."
"No problem. Take care of yourself." Cayenne gave the other woman an encouraging hug and watched her leave along with their family driver. When she came back to the living room, Jade was nowhere to be found. "Where's Jade?"
"Kyle took her away and brought her upstairs."
"Oh! I see. Well, let me keep my things first. Do you guys want to see the fruit trees in our backyard? I think our rambutan trees have fruits now. I am not just sure if they are ripe already."
"You have an orchard at the back of your house?"
"Not really an orchard but there are fruit trees planted in this area and we didn't have it cut since it would be a waste. I love to eat fruits so, it's quite convenient to have them near you."
"I'd love to see your fruit trees." Faith commented with an anticipating smile.
"Sure. Let me just bring these things in my room."
"Don't worry about those. I'll take care of them." Cayenne looked up and saw her husband descending the stairs. "You can have a short tour around the house. I'll keep your things."
"Thanks hubby." Cayenne grinned and gave him a flying kiss. "We'll go out for now. Do you want to join as Jackie?"
"Yup. I'd be bored waiting for that little girl here."
The four people left the living room and went out of the house to have a short tour of her property. It isn't as big as the ones that Jillyanna and Travis owned but it was something that Cayenne received from her biological father so, she was very attached to it. However, it won't be long for her to move out again.
After all, the house that Stefan personally designed for them to live after the wedding was almost finished.