{"id":13141,"date":"2026-01-22T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:06:50","slug":"married-at-first-sight-chapter-1164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/married-at-first-sight-chapter-1164\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight Chapter 1164"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fpm_start\"><\/div>\n<div>Chapter 1164<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI stayed up late today,\u201d Duncan lied. He didn\u2019t mention to Liberty that he had breakfast at a friend\u2019s house, and it had left him wanting more.<\/div>\n<div>The affectionate couple had dampened his appetite, but now that they were out of sight, his hunger had caught up to him. As a result, Duncan decided to stop by Liberty\u2019s diner to satisfy his cravings.<\/div>\n<div>Noticing Duncan was showing her son the ropes in the middle of breakfast, Liberty approached, sat next to her son, and said, \u201cI\u2019ll help you, Sonny.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>She glanced at the assembly instructions and stared at the pile of Lego bricks, feeling a headache creeping in.<\/div>\n<div>Oops. It appeared that Lego bricks weren\u2019t really her thing.<\/div>\n<div>However, Serenity was quite skilled at it. She had a talent for crafting, so Lego bricks posed no challenge for her.<\/div>\n<div>As a customer entered the diner, Liberty set down the assembly instructions and told her son, \u201cTake your time, Sonny. I\u2019ll be right with you.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cMom, you don\u2019t know how to do it, but Dunc does,\u201d Sonny replied.<\/div>\n<div>Sonny had formed a bond with Duncan while they assembled Lego bricks together, as Duncan had a talent for it.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWould you like to come over to my place later? You can assemble the bricks there, and I can help you if you get stuck.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Sonny considered the offer before asking, \u201cWill my mom come too?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cYour mom is busy, so she can\u2019t join us.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Sonny shook his head. \u201cI won\u2019t go if Mom doesn\u2019t come.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Gently running his fingers through the boy\u2019s hair, Duncan said to Liberty, \u201cSonny is being cautious.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Liberty smiled.<\/div>\n<div>A little while later, Duncan finally satisfied his hunger. Though he was tempted to stay and help Sonny build a robot, his schedule was full.<\/div>\n<div>He instructed his secretary to move his appointments to the afternoon so he could spend some time at Liberty\u2019s diner in the<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLiberty, I sent the money through Apple Pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rising to his feet, Duncan addressed both Liberty and Sonny, \u201cI need to head to work now, Sonny. We can continue this conversation when I get off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBye, Dunc,\u201d Sonny replied.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny was much nicer now that he had received Lego from Duncan. At least he was saying goodbye unprompted.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan gently pinched Sonny\u2019s little face. The boy was adorable; he almost wished he could nibble on his cheek.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief chat with Liberty, Duncan made his way outside.<\/p>\n<p>As he walked to his car, the person in the vehicle parked next to his rolled down the window and greeted him with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuncan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It was Lily, and her presence dampened Duncan\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n<p>He approached her with furrowed brows and asked, \u201cWhat brings you here, Ms. Harmon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made you breakfast, but you didn\u2019t come home last night, so I went to your office. I thought I was imagining things when I saw your car parked here,\u201d she explained, being direct about her reason for visiting.<\/p>\n<p>Fixing her gaze on the breakfast place Duncan had just exited, she inquired, \u201cDuncan, is the food good there? Is the hygiene at that diner acceptable?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lily was not someone who typically dined at small businesses, and she was concerned about cleanliness.<\/p>\n<p>However, she recognized that Duncan was unpretentious and laid-back, as he had mingled with alternative crowds before. He was perfectly happy to eat from a food truck, let alone a diner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hygiene is definitely up to standard, and there\u2019s a health permit to prove it,\u201d Duncan assured her, choosing not to mention that Liberty owned All You Can Eat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fpm_end\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 1164 \u201cI stayed up late today,\u201d Duncan lied. He didn\u2019t mention to Liberty that he had breakfast at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-married-at-first-sight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13241,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}