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Chapter 24
The rain stopped completely. Lots of people are already rushing into each of their destinations with no more worries of another traffic or flood. Although there is still some flood and a little bit of traffic in most of the areas in the metropolis, the scenario is much better now. Among the people who are on the road and were stuck in traffic is Cassandra who had just come from her visit to a clinic. Her son, Elijah was seated behind her, playing with his toy plane(the old one). While they are waiting for the go signal, Cassandra took the chance to call her mom and inform her about her condition. Her mom was glad to hear the good news and told her that she is going to inform her husband regarding it.
"Cassandra, dear, congratulations! Another addition to our family! I do hope that it's a girl this time. Having two boys might spell chaos, you know!"
The heiress knows that her mom was joking. Of course,
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