Turning Of the Tide by Diana Sander

Early the next morning, Natalie woke up unusually early today. Recently, she had been too busy to send her son to kindergarten. Every day, Trevon would send and pick him up.

Trevon was very dedicated to taking care of the children and didn't rely on drivers or bodyguards to pick his son up.

But Jim needed to be on standby.

Since Natalie was free today, she was prepared to send her son off.

The man by the wardrobe carefully tidied up his suit. After putting it on, he even looked at himself in the mirror.

The small sequins embedded in his collar flickered under the light, as dazzling as him.

Trevon looked at himself in the mirror for a few minutes. Perhaps satisfied, he finally opened the drawer and chose a dark blue tie.

When Natalie saw this, she quickly walked over to help. Due to the difference in their heights, she stood on her tiptoes slightly. Trevon held her waist to support her so that she could save her strength. She helped him tie his tie while he lowered his head to kiss the corner of her mouth.

The lipstick stained his lips, and they glowed slightly.

"Daddy, Mommy." The twins were still asleep. They had had too much fun last night and could not get up in the morning. Jasper had already put on his school uniform and carried his bag.

Natalie pretended that nothing had happened and retracted her toes. Jasper was used to his parents’ intimate behavior and pretended not to see it.

"I'll drive you today. | don't have a meeting today, and | can go to work later." For Jasper, anyone could take him to kindergarten. "Yeah, that's fine." "Let's go together. It's rare that we both have ttoday. Let's send him together." Jasper carried his bag and walked out. He reminded. "There's only 30 minutes left." If his parents dawdled any longer, he would probably be late.

Trevon smiled slightly. "We won't let you be late. Don't worry." Jasper remained silent.

Natalie was afraid that Jasper would be late, so she took sbreakfast with her. Rachel even carefully prepared a smoothie. "Take this. Jasper has already eaten." Natalie took the smoothie from Rachel and thanked her. "Thank you, Mrs. Rachel." Rachel smiled. "Be careful on the way." Trevon nodded. "Okay." Natalie helped to open the door of the backseat with breakfast. Jasper got in. She went around the back of the car and opened the passenger door. She got in and fastened her seatbelt. She stuffed a piece of pizza into the mouth of Trevon on the driver's seat.

Trevon happily ate the breakfast fed by his wife. He started the car and drove in the direction of the kindergarten. He chewed a few times and swallowed the food in his mouth. He glanced at the rearview mirror and said to his son, who was sitting quietly in the back seat, "Take care of Ruby at school." Jasper glanced at his father's dark hair and replied, "No one bullied her." Hearing his son's words, Trevon continued to eat the breakfast fed by his wife and stopped talking.

Twenty minutes later, the car stopped in the parking lot of the kindergarten. The couple had already finished their breakfast and got out of the car together. Jasper opened the door to the backseat and got out of the car on his calves. He waved at his parents and said, "Goodbye, Daddy and Mommy." Natalie felt inexplicably that her son had grown up, and she no longer needed to worry about him. With mixed emotions, she waved. "Goodbye, callif you need anything." Jasper nodded. "Yeah." The two of them stood side by side, watching as their son entered the school gate. Ella greeted Jasper at the entrance, smiling and nodding at Trevon and Natalie.

After seeing their son enter, the two of them returned to the car hand in hand. As soon as they got into the car, Natalie started talking, "I realized that Jasper has grown up a lot, not only in terms of height but also in terms of thinking. He's becoming less and less talkative." Trevon's gaze was fixed ahead as the car drove toward the Roberts family. He said indifferently, "There's nothing wrong with being quiet. It's easy to be disliked like the talkative Hackett." Natalie smiled and did not continue the topic. Regardless, Trevon felt that his children were the best, no matter what.

There was always a convincing reason to defend the children. Natalie even suspected that Trevon used to be in the debate group and was very good at defending himself.

Trevon always used Hackett as an example, but it was just talk. If something happened, Natalie thought, he would definitely be the first to rush in and protect the not-so-skilled Hackett.

After saying that, Natalie realized that the car was not driving toward the base or the company. She turned around and asked, "Are we going to the Roberts family? Didn't you say we were going tonight?" Didn't Trevon say that he didn't want to see the tired Frank? Trevon was calm. "There's nothing wrong with seeing him. It's quite special." Frank would probably be angered to death if hearing this.

Natalie was speechless at the fickle man.

The car was still moving at a steady speed in the direction of the Roberts family. Natalie thought of something.

"Ava and Frank are both sleeping at this time. Perhaps the children are still asleep. Why do you plan to go to the Roberts family? Are you an alarm clock?" Natalie knew what he was thinking. He just wanted to provoke Frank and tease him. He was so childish.

Seeing that Trevon still did not change direction, she continued, neither angry nor anxious. "The Roberts family doesn't lack money to afford an alarm clock. You don't have to wake them up personally. Be kind and sendto the base. We'll bring the three children with us tonight." Under Natalie's persuasion, Trevon turned the steering wheel with one hand and smiled slightly. His magnetic voice sounded in the enclosed car. "I'll listen to you." Hearing this, Natalie smiled and leaned back in her chair. She took out her phone and sent a message to her aunt, Emma.

At the stime, in the Roberts’ Villa, Emma received a message from Natalie informing her that she would bring her three children over for dinner tonight.

After reading the message, Emma said to Grace, who was sitting opposite her, "Natalie said to cover for dinner tonight. Why don't you get Rose also to cover for a gathering tonight?" Recently, Daniel had taken on Frank's job. He followed William to the company every day, nine to five.

At this moment, only Grace and Emma were in the living room. Natalie was right. The children were still sleeping, and so were Frank and Ava.

Hearing that, Grace agreed. "Alright, I'll go out now." Since the two children were going to wake up later, Emma did not follow her out.

Grace's mobility had always been okay. After saying that, she called her daughter, who was working in the hospital. At this time, her daughter was not at work yet. The phone rang a few times before it was picked up.

Rose's happy voice overflowed from the receiver. "Grace, what instructions do you have? I'm still eating. Don't worry. | just arrived at the entrance of the hospital. I'm walking now. I'll be in the hall in one minute." Grace held the phone and smiled. She said directly, "Cto the Roberts family for dinner tonight after work.

Natalie and the others will also cover. Call Sherri and the others." The children were born without a celebration or party. The Roberts family chose to keep it low-key and had no plans for a grand event.

Coincidentally, Natalie and the others were coming over tonight, so Grace might as well invite these friends to the house to have sfun. However, Grace had no intention of calling the elders over. She silently thought so, keeping this plan to herself without sharing it with her daughter.

Rose was extremely excited. She loved gatherings the most, especially gatherings like this. She agreed readily.

"Sure." Grace smiled. "Ask Stella and Chris if they have time. | am going out to buy groceries now." "Alright. Bye, Mom. | guarantee that the notice will be in place." Before hanging up, Grace reminded Rose worriedly, "Be careful." "es." In Athana Hospital, recently, Sherri had been living in the Landor family as a special consultant physician, so she took her brother's car to go to and from work. Every day, she would go to and from work with Rose. At this moment, she held Rose's wrist and walked toward the outpatient building. The two of them were very close, so Sherri naturally heard Grace's voice.

"Are we going to your house for dinner tonight?" "Uh-huh, that's right. Natalie and the others are all going. I'll ask Stella. Wait a moment." Rose looked up and asked, "You will go, right?" Sherri felt that Rose seemed less intelligent after becoming pregnant. She often asked nonsensical questions. "Of course, I'll definitely go. How can a gathering like this happen without me?" Sherri released Rose's hand, reminding her to pay attention to the road. "For the sake ofstaying alive, you better go to the office and send messages. Be mindful of your steps." If anything happened to Rose, her brother would bury Sherri on the ground. "I'll send Hackett messages. I'm leaving. Bye." Their offices were not in the splace, and twas limited. After Rose becpregnant, she often ran late for work, causing Sherri to almost be late too, creating a daily rush. Rose confidently pledged, patting her chest, that as long as Sherri kept up with her pace, they would never be late.

How could Sherri, who had always cto the hospital early to gossip, not be anxious? Back in her office, Rose put on her white coat and sent voice messages to Stella and Chris. [Stella, cto the Roberts family for dinner tonight.] At this moment, Stella was in the waiting room of the airport, preparing to go overseas to discuss business with Leia. She replied with a text message. [I'm afraid | won't have the luck to eat this. If you send a message five minutes later, | won't be able to receive your message. Five minutes later, | will be flying in the sky.] Rose sent a pitiful emoji to Stella and another emoji to pat her head. [Alright then, we will meet next time. Take care.] After sending the message to Stella, Rose had already put on her white coat. She raised her hand and looked at her watch. There were still five minutes before work hours. She could complete the mission of calling someone to eat. She sent another message to Chris. [Frank wants you to cto the Roberts family for dinner tonight.] Chris replied, [I can't make it. There's surgery.] Her mom had suggested two people for her to invite, but neither of them could make it. Rose thought about finding someone just to make up the numbers, pondered for a few seconds, and decided to invite the solitary Charlie. "Why don't you let Mr. Charlie know and ask him to come?" Chris's rejection was especially thorough. [My dad probably doesn't really want to see Mr. William recently. He said that he was afraid that he wouldn't live past 70 and wanted to stay away from your dad.] Rose wondered what her father had done to make Charlie hide like this.

At night, in the Roberts’ Villa, the cars drove into the courtyard one after another.

The first to arrive were Trevon and Natalie. As soon as the car stopped and Jasper opened the door, the two girls in the car stepped over their brother's legs and got out of the car in advance.

Jasper seemed to be used to his sisters’ operation. He waited for the two of them to get out of the car without moving or being anxious before getting out of the car slowly.

He quickly followed, running into the villa behind his sisters.

Trevon politely brought a gift, a bottle of privately curated red wine.

Before he could enter the gate, Hackett and Edward's cars drove over one after another. The two cars were parked side by side. Natalie turned back and opened the door for the back of the two cars.

As soon as the car door opened, the little ones rushed down. When Natalie saw Hackett's son, she immediately reminded the dignified Trevon, "Keep an eye on Sophia. Don't let her bully Liam too much, understand?" Trevon answered perfunctorily, "Yes." Ruby politely greeted them, following her brother and reminding him, "You can't argue." Liam, who was being pulled by Ruby's arm, replied nonchalantly, "Yeah, | know." Seeing that Liam agreed, Ruby finally let go. However, she still followed behind worriedly. When she saw Jasper at the door, Ruby greeted politely, "Hello, Jasper." Jasper greeted her as well. "Hello." The little ones inside had already started playing.

Grace and Emma had already arranged the toys, fruits, and snacks on coffee so that the children could take them themselves.

While the people in the yard had yet to cin, still teasing each other.

Rose, supported by Edward as she stepped out of the car, saw Trevon carrying a few bottles of vintage red wine and teased, "Oh, you're quite generous." Upon hearing Rose's words, Trevon tugged at the corner of his lips and raised the bottle of red wine in his hands.

"I'm not someone without manners," he remarked, casting a glance at Hackett, who had empty hands, the implication quite clear.

Hackett was thick-skinned. "So what if | cempty-handed? Mrs. Grace askedto cwithout bringing anything. | treat them like family and don't need gifts. You're being too formal. Besides, isn't Edward empty- handed too?" Edward did not respond to Hackett's words. Sherri was too used to these people teasing each other. If it was an ordinary person, they would definitely be very embarrassed.

However, they never took their words to heart. They always found each other's pain points and angered one another.

The current scene was completely their normal interaction. Sherri opened the trunk and took out the fruits that she had prepared in advance. She held them in her hand and Natalie helped carry a little.

The living room was filled with children chasing and fighting. When they cin a few minutes later, Sophia and Liam quarreled again. The reason was that they were fighting for a gun and a submachine gun. Both of them learned how to shoot, so they were naturally very interested in guns. However, Frank only bought one at that time.

Seeing that the two of them were not giving in to each other, Natalie rubbed her temples and heaved a sigh of relief. They were really worrisome.

Sherri acted as if she was not Liam's biological mother. She held Natalie's wrist and watched the show. "Liam's combat strength today is not bad. Sophia seems to be showing signs of failure." Sherri finished speaking, and Natalie gave her a pat on the shoulder. "Liam is your own son. Hurry up and intervene, so they don't start fighting again. | even suspect they were sworn enemies in their past lives." Smiling, Sherri commented, "That's fate for them."