Chapter 270

The last week before Christmas arrived bringing the joys of the Christmas season.

The fact that it was Christmas, however, helped her to be busier with a lot of orders and she did not have the time to think about Gale only during the night when she lay all alone she would wonder if he was thinking about her too but everything was her wishful thinking. 

Mrs Harris planned a pre-Christmas party for the children of the orphanage and asked both Darcy and Shelly to help. Shelly accepted it happily as she wanted to get closer to Gale’s family it was too obvious. 

Darcy went to the manor with no shadow of regret in her heart that afternoon. The house was full of children, as it had been long ago, and their laughter found an echo in her heart.

When Gale put in a rare appearance at his home that day, he found her in the center of the drawing room in between the excited children who were surrounding her and asking her for candies. She looked like she would b