“Sure." She was bored at home anyway.

"Great!" Cecelia went upstairs to get changed. She seemed to have forgotten all about her son.

Wesley, on the other hand, became more and more irritable. After hanging up on Niles, he called his father.

“Get a grip on yourself,

Dad! Don't make Mom unhappy after all these years. What's going on with the woman who is always around Mom? I have heard all kinds of gossips about her. Is she some slut you picked up when Mom was not around?”

Every time Niles called him, he would go on and on about "Mom's bestie." Wesley was tired of hearing it.

"What nonsense! She is your mom's friend, and they are very close,"

Baldwin said in a calm voice.

“Are you trying to protect her? That woman knows that you are home most of the time, yet she always stays at our place. I don't think she is a good woman. And ask Niles not to bother me again!" ‘Blair is so close to Debbie and Joslyn, yet she wouldn't go to their homes every day.

This woman should learn a thing or two from Blair and not get others into trouble!

Damn it! I miss her again, ' Wesley cursed inwardly.

“Watch your tongue, boy!" Baldwin spat. ‘You'll regret your words when you find out that this woman is your wife."

He had long wanted to tell Wesley about this, but Cecelia forbade him.

What else could he do? He could only play along.

“You are protecting her, yet you refuse to admit the truth! You had her investigated, didn't you? What does her husband do? Where is he? Does she have some hidden agenda for getting close to Mom? How about I look into it?"

“You don't have to. There's nothing suspicious about her. Her husband is in the military as well."

Wesley thought about it and realized that it made sense that the woman's husband was not home all the time.

“All right. I gotta go, Dad.

Ask Niles to stop bothering me." Then, he hung up.

Before the New Year, Wesley flew back to Askor, but he left in a hurry after paying a short visit to Keith.

He didn't even notice that the woman he had been missing all these months was standing on the second floor of his house, staring at him with longing eyes.

Carlos had decided to throw a grand wedding ceremony for Debbie. As

Carlos' best man, Wesley had to fly to Alorith.

After one of his missions, Wesley lit a cigarette and told his men, "My friend is tying the knot. So, I have to go.”

He started smoking again. Blair was not around anymore.