Chapter 304: They are the two exceptions

Book:The Selfish CEO Published:2024-6-2

“Oh.” Zoey, that’s when she remembered. The two little ones had whispered it in her ear last night when she was about to fall asleep, and she’d been so confused that she’d forgotten about it first thing in the morning. “Sorry, it’s Mommy’s bad memory.”
“Zoey , KK and I can leave school after lunch. Will you take us out this afternoon?” Nini was looking forward to it in a very expectant and anticipatory tone.
Zoey feels guilty about mentioning it.
I used to be so busy with work that I never had time to spend with my two children.
“Where do you guys want to go play? Mommy will go with you.” Zoey agreed almost without thinking.
“Yes!” Nini squealed, “Then you have to ask Uncle to join you!”
“Call up Uncle?” Zoey was surprised by the child’s suggestion, but rightfully so. She tugged at her heart for a moment before saying, “Uncle may not have time this afternoon.”
Just had to hear that he has a meeting this afternoon.
“No time?” Nini’s so frustrated and dejected tone makes Zoey’s heart ache. “KK, Zoey said uncle has no time …”
“Oh …” KK’s voice, lower.
Her heart was twisted into a ball, she didn’t even know how to comfort the two little ones, in the end, she could only say, “Don’t be upset, if you guys want to see Uncle, then let Uncle Driver send you to Uncle’s place in the afternoon, okay? Mommy is also here.” .
“Zoey too?” KK was so surprised.
“Uh-huh. But you guys have to promise Zoey …”
“No betraying Zoey!” The two little ones replied in unison.
Zoey bursts out laughing, “Come on over then!”
Hang up the phone and purse your lips …
It is really hard to imagine, four people together, what kind of situation will be. It must be very lively, right? In my heart, I can’t help but feel a ripple …
When she finished cooking, Zoey’s movements were deliberately light for fear of disturbing someone in the hall. After bringing the food to the table, she untied her apron while probing to see.
He was only seen on the couch, sleeping heavily. One hand resting on his abdomen, one hand resting on the back of his head, he looked peaceful.
Zoey couldn’t help but see a slight curling of her lips as more and more softness crept into the bottom of her eyes. She stepped closer to him, wanting to wake him up, but not wanting to. She sat down beside him and gently ruffled his hair from his forehead, her fingers touching his cheek, but she didn’t want to let go.
Soft fingertips, deeply flowing over each of his delicate features. Deep pupils of the eyes, high nose, thin lips … All of this, are so clearly engraved in her heart, no matter how long it has been, no matter, she is in how far …
She thought, no matter what happens, this man in this life, she will never forget …
Heart throbbing, she suddenly bent her head, her lips, gently kissed on his forehead, with endless tenderness and fascination for so many years.
Under her lips, that brow furrowed, and she panicked in her heart, and in the next moment suddenly straightened up immediately like a thief, staring at him in alarm.
Jerry Xiao grunted, and those eyes fanned out before slowly opening. Into his eyes, there was a small reddened face, eyes flashing as they looked at him like a small rabbit.
Just now, did he miss something?
“What did you just do that was so bad?” He narrowed his eyes chaotically and looked at her languidly. It was a blessing to see her with his eyes open, and he’d thought that after he’d missed it in Japan, he’d never get another chance.
But now … this happiness, just so good in front of their eyes …
“I didn’t do anything!” Zoey almost subconsciously denied. However, the faster she denied, the more she showed her weakness. Jerry Xiao was in a good mood, his hand grabbed her wrist, and with one force, she let out a soft cry, and fell onto his chest.
The powerful heartbeat was right next to her ears, “Bang bang bang-” one after another, hitting her heart. Her heartbeat, too, was in disarray. He rested one hand behind his head and lifted her lower jaw with the other, so that her startled gaze met his misty, sleepy eyes.
“Are you spying on me?” He smirked, and the sensuality that seeped through the laziness under his eyes almost made her lose her mind.
Pursing her lips, she shook her head in denial, “I didn’t …”
The voice, however, was so light and completely unconvincing that it didn’t even believe itself.
“Is it?” Clearly unconvinced, he seemed to delight in teasing her, his burning fingers slowly rubbing her jaw, letting the ambiguous current hit her before he asked slowly, “So that’s stealing kisses from me?”
She sweated. Naturally, she didn’t dare to admit it, and only moved her tingling lower jaw away from his fingertips, climbed up with a red face, and pretended to be fine, “Don’t guess, get up and eat. In the afternoon you do not still have a meeting to open?”
Without waiting for him to catch her again, she had quickly turned her back and breathed a long sigh of relief. How can you be so perceptive? Wasn’t he sleeping the whole time? How could he have caught her in the act?
Jerry Xiao smiled brightly and stopped teasing her, stretching lazily before getting up from the couch.
At noon, the sun is just right. It spilled in through the floor-to-ceiling windows and crashed onto the floor, raising layers of clear light that filled one’s heart with clarity.
He smiled, and the sunlight fell into his eyes in tiny pieces, like the surface of a sparkling lake. Five years later, his eyes have never been so please through. As if, once sunk in the heart of all the depression and bleakness, are in a little by little diffusion, and finally, the end to turn into nothing …

Zoey plopped the most beautifully fried piece of egg and placed it in his bowl, urging him, “Eat more.”
He faintly hooked his lips and took a big bite of it and ate nothing left. She then smiled, glancing at him, suddenly thinking of something, her expression became a bit cautious. The chopsticks paused before speaking tentatively, “The day at school, I saw you with KK, and his sister.”
“Hmm?” He glanced at her with a sideways glance, not thinking much about why she suddenly brought up the subject, but simply nodding, ‘hmm’.
“I think they’re calling you Daddy.” Zoey continued to ask again, her eyes looking straight at her.
Thinking of those two children, his expression softened a bit. Thin lips, picked up high, while nodding, “Yes. I heard that there was a little fat kid in the class who often bullied them, so they came running to me to make me their father. Of course I couldn’t refuse. Those two little things are quite cute and pitiful …”
It surprised Zoey more than a little that he could say so much at the mention of his children. “You seem to like them a lot?”
Jerry Xiao thought about it for a moment, not frowning slightly, and then stretching before looking at Zoey , “You should know that I’m not much of a child person.”
Zoey looked dark for a moment, “So you don’t like them either?”
This will make KK and Nini very, very sad …
“The two of them, though, are the exceptions.”
His answer, again, pleased her. Without looking at him in a good humor, “You’re talking in a really big breath!”
“You’re the one who’s too eager.” He took a sip of his soup in disbelief, then felt strange and turned his face sideways, narrowing his eyes at her, “You seem to care about these two children?”
“Ah … no. No … of course I care.” She was a bit incoherent by his look, and hastily explained, “I saw how cute those two kids were the other day, so I couldn’t help but care the same. Besides …”
She paused deliberately to get his attention.
“Say what again?” He turned his face sideways.
Zoey slowly and methodically served a bowl of soup and tried to stabilize herself as much as possible before she pretended to speak in a joking manner, “Don’t you think that those two children’s facial features are quite similar to yours? If I hadn’t known that KK was someone else’s child, I would have mistaken him for your real son.”
Zoey’s heart pounded like a drum as she said those words. Whether it was a test or a hint, she wondered how he would react.
“Bullshit!” Jerry Xiao denied Zoey’s ‘hypothesis’ without even thinking. His expression became incredibly serious and earnest, “There’s no way I’m going to have a child, nor will anyone else’s!”
The two simple words made Zoey’s hands, holding the chopsticks, freeze. Her heart sank again and again, as if she had fallen into an ice hole, so cold that she shivered. Her lips trembled, and her voice, light as a feather, came out with difficulty, “Why?”
“No reason, don’t like it, so don’t!” He answered dryly, not seeming to realize she was out of sorts.
“But …” she took a deep breath, trying as hard as she could to fight for the kids, “what if, they’re cute and cuddly?”
“Even if it’s cute, there’s no way I’d want it!” He answered her without hesitation, not even needing a single space for consideration. It seemed that a child was really just an annoying thing to him. No wonder, he was preventing pregnancy, preventing it that tightly …
Thinking of the two children who are always looking forward to their father, Zoey’s heart was a bit sad. Over there, Jerry Xiao’s food-picking action suddenly paused, and he turned his face to stare straight at her, “Zoey Baker, you’re very strange today! What kind of inexplicable questions are you asking?”
Zoey shakes her head and lowers her head at his look, sips her soup before managing to raise a smile and says, “I was just asking. But I really didn’t realize that you really dislike children that much.”
Jerry Xiao looked at her again, but she never looked up again, and he thought she was strange, but couldn’t guess why …
In the next few days, Zoey’s mood seemed to go downhill, and when Jerry Xiao talked to her several times, she was indifferent and looked angry with him.
It made him a little mildly annoyed that he had approached her several times to strike up a conversation that was clearly meant to curry favor with her. This was as far as he could go! This woman, what did she want? What was she doing messing with him for no reason? Could it be that she was feeling that the words she just said about not wanting a child lacked love? But, he really, really disliked and disliked those little brats who could only cry! Besides, he couldn’t have kids at all!
After the meal was over, when he put down the dishes, Zoey collected them in silence. Zoey went into the kitchen and came out again, only to see Jerry Xiao carrying the soup to the kitchen. His movements were so clumsy that Zoey was shocked. I was afraid that he would spill the unfinished bowl of soup on the floor.
“I’ll do it.” Busy walked over to take over.
“No need.” He was gambling, too.
“Just leave it to me, you go ahead and rest.” Zoey was adamant about serving it over.
He was also too stubborn to give it and snatched the soup back again. It didn’t matter if he didn’t grab it. This time, all the soup in the bowl really spilled out.
Zoey gasped and tried to save herself, but it was too late. The soup spilled all over her, the greasy soup staining her from her chest down to the hem of her dress, making her look like a mess.
The bowl, on the contrary, was salvaged in his hands.
Not bothering to get angry with him, she looked at him with a face that was about to burst into tears and looked at him pitifully “What should I do?”
If she had known, she would have tied her apron on just now.