Chapter 32: How to Fake a Father-and-Daughter Bonding

The dining table in the morning was suddenly filled with thunderstruck silence after the shocking announcement.

'I'm grounded because I'm closer to my grandparents and cousin than I am to him?!'

Lady wonders if he can hear himself right now. She also wonders if Maximilian even knows what the word, 'grounded,' is supposed to mean.

'Isn't that for kids who'd done naughty things…?' she pondered with a raised brow, regarding her father quietly from the other side of the dining table. 

'So, is he saying that being close to our relatives is a naughty thing?'

It's true that Lady has been spending too much time with Benedict and Penelope.