She's My Sleeping Pill

Among the kids, only Chloe didn't play. She was waiting for Justin to come. She wanted to play with him for one last time.

After ten minutes, Kyle counted and calculated the points and their equivalent prizes for Cayenne to give. The children were very happy with the money that they received. They could already buy a lot of things with the prizes that they got.

"Next game is..." Kyle continued with the games since the main lead for this party didn't arrive yet.

A few minutes later, Jillyanna Madrigal came with her daughter. Seeing that Raizel wasn't with her, everyone already knew that the kid must have gone to the office with this father. In fact, Travis would invite Jade to visit the office with him as well, but her daughter didn't like corporate stuff. She likes to play with Shein by cracking passwords instead.

Luiz also came and since Collins arrived with him, Cayenne instructed him to look after Addie starting from the party.

Blushing, Collins walked to Addie who was playing with Jahzara by identifying the items around them. "Miss Addie, I'll be working with you from now on."

Addie looked around and saw Collins there. "Hi. Thank you for choosing to stay with me. I hope we'd get along really well."

Collins nodded his head and looked down at his shoes. He just couldn't directly look at her face.

Observing them from a distance, Zaire and Callum couldn't help but smile. After all that happened to her, someone still likes Addie despite everything.

"Do you think Addie knew that Collins likes her?" Callum asked Zaire while eating dried fruits that he found from one of the cuisine stalls.

"I don't think she knows and Collins will have a hard time winning her heart after what she went through,' Zaire answered before popping the small piece of cake that he got from the desserts area.

Varieties of food could be seen surrounding the second-floor tables and anyone can get whatever they like. It was an eat-all-you-can restaurant that offers many kinds of cuisine. There was even a stall where you can choose the seafood that you like and ask the chef to cook it for you. You can also make a hotpot if you want.

Another ten minutes later, Dominic finally came with a blindfolded Justin. The latter was slowly making his way to the second floor while Dominic assisted her.

"Where are we?" Justin asked since he could hear a lot of people talking around him.

"Don't worry. We're almost there," Dominic responded and stopped at the entrance to the second floor. He loosened the handkerchief that covered Justin's eyes and showed him the people who waited for his arrival.

"Surprise!" Everyone said and Chloe was at the forefront of everyone. She was holding a small gift bag for him.

Justin almost cried in front of everyone. He didn't expect that he would get to experience this kind of party before leaving. Everything happened because he met Cayenne and Stefan. Looking back to the time when he almost died while protecting Cayenne, Justin teared up. Though, he blinked them away before they could fall.

"Thank you, Chloe," he said and accepted the gift bag from her. He also wanted to give his gift to her right now, but since there were so many people, he decided to do it later. He shifted his attention to Cayenne and bowed his head 90 degrees in respect. "Miss Yen, thank you so much. All the wonderful things happen in my life after I met you and Sir Stefan."

Cayenne nodded her head and gently pat the kid's head. "You deserve these blessings because you have been very good. As I've said, as long as you remain kind, helpful, and generous, you will receive a lot of blessings."

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Everyone turned their attention in the direction of the entrance when they heard the sound of applause. Most of them were unfamiliar to the visitor, but not Cayenne and Ferdinand.

"What are you doing here?" Ferdinand asked sternly and it was obviously showing on his face that the woman was not welcomed to the gathering.

"Grandpa, did you forget me already? Didn't we just meet at uncle's funeral?" Julia retorted shamelessly and even approached Ferdinand to give him a quick hug. "I came here to eat. How would I know that you'd be here, too? But since you're here, why don't we just join you? After all, I haven't been able to spend time with my cousin-in-law."

Cayenne raised her eyebrow when hearing Stefan's cousin talk. She'd bet her life on the line to the fact that this woman came to mess with her. She knew it! She was certain that Julia had never forgotten the incident during her wedding. Aside from that, Stefan no longer takes her as his cousin after leaving Tuscany.

"Sis, should I call Stefan?" Luiz whispered with his hand ready to press the call button.

"No, it's fine. We should not give her any reason to have the upper hand," Cayenne whispered back and walked toward Ferdinand. "Grandpa, it's alright. Julia is part of our family and it's been a long time since she returned home. Let her join us."

"I knew my cousin-in-law would agree," Julia said and even held Cayenne's hand to express her fake happiness. "Why are you guys having a farewell party? Who's leaving?"

"One of my trusted helpers is leaving the country," Cayenne said but did not introduce Justin to the woman. She didn't want anything bad to happen to the kid just because he was someone that she trusted.

Julia turned around to look at her friends and beamed happily as if she was a kid who received her first candy. "I told you guys. My cousin-in-law is amazing. It's really a good thing that we bumped into them today."

"Yeah. I didn't expect to see Mrs. Dumrique here," said one of the women who came with Julia.

"Can we take a seat already?" blurted another woman and even sat on the chair next to Kyle. "I was really hungry so we stopped here since this was the closest place."

"Wasn't there any available table downstairs?" Jade questioned her mother after observing the event. "This whole floor was reserved by Auntie Yen, right?"

"Yes, she did. Anyway, your Auntie Yen is generous. It's not a big deal for her to help a few additional hungry people," Jillyanna retorted that made the helpers laugh in silence.

It was obvious that Stefan's cousin came to mess up Cayenne's farewell party for Justin. Unfortunately, Cayenne wasn't a pushover and Jillyanna was also around. Jill was someone who would never allow her family and friends to suffer.

Her quick remark implied that Julia and her friends were hungry and poor. They even needed to crash Cayenne's party just to eat something.

Ashamed of Jillyanna's response, the woman could only bite her lower lip. She didn't want to make enemies with Jillyanna Madrigal.

"Who owned this restaurant, by the way?" expressed another friend of Julia's. "I thought your cousin is rich. How come his wife could only afford a place like this?"

"Well, she knew nothing about the expensive restaurants in the city," Julia responded and sighed. "I hope you'd pardon her."

Jillyanna faced the woman sitting next to Kyle and looked into her eyes which spelled trouble. "I wonder why you came into this place again. Someone said she was so hungry that you got into this restaurant. The tables on the ground floor aren't even fully occupied, yet you came to this floor knowing that someone reserved the whole place.

It really makes me wonder the kind of manners your parents taught you."

"You - " Julia pointed her finger at Jillyanna but someone gripped her hand. "Aw! How dare - "

"Why won't I dare?" Travis spoke coldly and pushed the woman away from Cayenne. "Don't get too close to her. Your nasty character might affect the heir of the Dumrique Empire. Yen, go and sit next to Jill."

Cayenne didn't need to be told twice. Carrying her son, she walked toward Jillyanna and sat on the chair next to her. "Your husband is really cool," she whispered to Jill and the latter chuckled.

"Don't ever let Stefan hear you say that. Your husband is a jealous freak."

"Yeah. I know."

Meanwhile, Travis stood imposingly in front of Julia and her friends, except for the one who sat next to Kyle – Travis had his back on her.

"Julia, after so many years, your manners remained poor. There's no improvement at all. Your fake façade still makes me sick. Even if you are a family member, since you are not invited you should not come here, or let us say you want to eat in this place; you could have stayed on the ground floor where vacant seats are available."

"Julia, let's just get out of here," one of her friends said and tugged her arm. "I don't want to be enemies with the Madrigal and Dumrique families."

"Juls, this is getting out of hand already. Let's go."

Julia yanked her hand from her friend's grip and glared at Travis. "One of these days, I'll make sure you'd regret doing this to me."

"Yeah. Sure. Good luck!"

Before she could leave the place, Ferdinand spoke. "Julia, is your mother aware that you're doing this?"

Julia turned to her grandfather in anger and clenched her fists. "It doesn't matter if my mother knows or not. The only thing that matters is that you fail as her father and as a grandfather to me!"