章 57: Keeping the Spotlight Until the End

Too focused on taking delight in holding a child for the first time in a very long while, Cassidy ends up completely forgetting that they have a huge audience watching them from behind. 

Gertrude and her daughters are taken aback to find her doing the unthinkable yet again.

Everyone knows that these children are hardly ever genuine about anything - or at least, as genuine as they appear to be right now. The three brothers just kept making these expressions during the whole time they're talking with her - genuinely pleased, astonished, delighted and even flattered.

It's quite a sight to see since they never shared this kind of relationship with Cassidy. They never acted chummy nor even showed any sign of wanting to be close with this dull and somber aunt of theirs.

Yet within five short minutes only, they had gotten considerably close.

"That ever timid Hugo even agreed to let her carry him," Olivia mused out loud in slight awe.