"There's no reason!" Samuel Noah Jackson pressed his lips together, answering uneasily.
"..."
In the many years that followed, Michelle Campbell asked this question numerous times, but Samuel never answered.
But none of that was important anymore.
What mattered most was that their family of six would live happily ever after.
That was enough...
From today on, Samuel Noah Jackson, who was once a solitary individual, had become a happy man with a wife, a son, and a daughter. Despite never admitting it verbally, the ice in his black eyes had already slowly melted...
In the future, on every festival, every birthday, every anniversary, his wife and children would always be by his side.
The formerly cold and quiet mountainside villa had, without anyone realizing it, gradually become livelier and more like home.
This was just as Samuel had said at the wedding.
Michelle Campbell could not escape from the palm of his hand in this lifetime.
