Thinking of his strong resistance to the child at the lunchtime meal today, Zoey couldn’t even begin to imagine how he would have behaved if he had known of the child’s existence.
“What’s on your mind?” Jerry Xiao sat down next to Zoey and could smell the scent of sunshine and grass that belonged to her. Very comfortable … very comfortable …
Hearing his question, Zoey drew back and shook her head, “Thinking about the kids.”
Jerry Xiao raised an eyebrow, “Do you think they look like me too?”
Of course I think so! Both children have his blood in them, how could they not?
Zoey laughed shallowly and deliberately pretended to be interested, “It can’t really be your child, can it? With the children’s current age, if it’s really yours, then it’s possible that it’s the one you left behind five years ago…. Think about it, five years ago, weren’t you …”
Deliberate, intentional reminders. Even, it was hoping that he would think of something with it. But, to Zoey’s disappointment …
He just blandly, interrupted her, “That’s not possible!”
“How could it be impossible? What if it was an accident?” She was undeterred.
Instead, he pursed his lips, “Accidents aren’t possible!”
Over the years, the only time he had an accident was that night five years ago. But that night was with Nabi Yan, and if the children were hers, how could she have hidden them for so many years? With her nature, when she found out that she had a child, she would not have kept it. Not to mention, she would have given birth.
So, Zoey’s hypothesis, it doesn’t hold water at all.
“It’s getting late, take the kids back.” Jerry Xiao looked down at the watch on his wrist before standing up.
This, heralded the end of the conversation that had just taken place.
Zoey felt an indescribable loss. Originally, she wanted to find a chance to talk to him about the child, but, after his remarks at noon, she backed off again. Now it seems … that night five years ago, he really forgot all about it!
Yes, it’s just a one-night stand. What kind of man remembers that kind of thing so clearly? I guess only a fool like her would find that night, meaningful!
Standing up and patting the dust off her body, Zoey before raising a smile and waving at the kids from afar, “KK, Nini, we should get back!”
Zoey quickly drew a tissue from her bag and knelt down to wipe their sweaty faces, “Two naughty kittens.”
The two children giggled, their eyes crystal clear.
“Ajussi, Nini and I talked it over, we’re going to stay at your house tonight.” KK hugged the butterfly kite and said.
Jerry Xiao hooked his lips, this proposal, very good. “Relying on Uncle’s house for dinner?” Zoey thought this, she could barely accept. She was going to stay and cook for him anyway.
“No!” Nini shook her little head, her little hands obediently patting the weed roots on her body and wiping away the sweat on her forehead, “It’s to stay at Uncle’s house for the night oh! Uncle, you will welcome us, right?”
She raised her little head and eyed someone.
Jerry Xiao smiled, “Of course.” Last time KK stayed here, he thought the little kids would be annoying, but the truth …
Instead of feeling annoyed, it was more hilarious, and in my heart, it didn’t feel so empty.
“No!” Zoey’s answer, however, was very different from his.
Three people, one large and two small, all sidled up to look at her in a babbling manner. He raised an eyebrow, “Why not?”
“Yeah, why not?” The two children blinked their big eyes.
Zoey, of course, is afraid of wearing out!
“When you guys stayed at someone’s house for the night, did you ever think that your mommy would be worried at home? Do you have the heart to leave your mommy alone?” Zoey secretly winked at the two children.
KK is fine, he has a tight little mouth, and he’s a little more cautious, so he can’t easily spill the beans. However, Nini is different from him, Nini’s small mouth is comparable to a loud speaker, moreover, this little girl’s heart is straight and fast, it is easy to break the words in one go.
“Then I’ll make a phone call to mommy now!” KK was absolutely intentional, directly abandoning Zoey’s eyes and spreading her small hand in front of Jerry Xiao, “Uncle, lend me the phone. In a moment, when Mommy answers the phone, Uncle will talk to her.”
“Uh-huh. I’ll do the talking, you quote the number.” Jerry Xiao took out his cell phone and asked KK directly. KK looked at Zoey smugly , “139…”
This asshole! Zoey was going crazy.
“Forget it, forget it, it’s better for me to make the call.” Zoey So helplessly interrupted KK. Jerry Xiao looked at her strangely and she hastily made an excuse, “I’m a woman, their mommy might trust me a little easier.”
Jerry Xiao agrees with her and leaves the matter in her hands. Zoey breathes a sigh of relief. The two kids also applauded with excitement because they were staying tonight.
Of course …
This, by no means, is their true purpose.
Two kids were stuffed into the back of the car, adults took their places, and the car drove on the tracks …
It was only then that Nini leisurely revealed the real purpose.
“Zoey , why don’t you stay tonight too and stay with us at Uncle’s, okay?”
Ah?
Jaw dropping in shock at Nini’s sudden invitation, Zoey looks back. Was she being set up by the kids? Otherwise, why did the two little things, look so savvy?
“Yeah. Uncle’s house is so spacious, if he can keep us, he can surely keep Zoeytoo.” KK also helped.
Zoey didn’t dare to look at Jerry Xiao’s expression. What the hell do these two assholes want?
“I’m sure you’ll welcome Zoey, too, Uncle. Right?” Nini patted someone on the shoulder.
Zoey turned to look at him. It just so happened that his eyes were also looking towards her at that moment, and their eyes collided in the air for a moment, and then, flew apart.
In the carriage, there was silence for two seconds.
Following that, he, with a somewhat uncomfortable cough, asked her, “You have other plans for the evening?”
“No.”
“Oh.” He nodded, “So what the kids just proposed …”
“I’d better go back.” The truth was, they weren’t related to anything, so what was she doing staying with him?
The two children’s little brows knit tightly. Jerry Xiao raised an eyebrow, “The kids seem like they’ll be disappointed.”
Would he, with his tone of wanting to keep her, be a little too obvious? However, a woman as dumb as her wouldn’t necessarily be able to hear it.
“Definitely!” The two children spoke almost in unison.
KK raised her eyebrows and looked at Zoey, “Then Zoey will go home first, and Nini and I will have Uncle send us home later.”
Zoey’s eyebrow twitches.
Is this little thing threatening itself? If they send Jerry Xiao to the door of the Baker family, it’s all out in the open, isn’t it? He’d hate to strangle himself!
Jerry Xiao naturally didn’t know that there was a dark current going on between a large and small group around him. He was pondering what to say to keep both her and the children.
Results …
She didn’t need him to say anything, she was already helpless and skimming her lips, “Fine, I’ll stay!”
“oh…,” Nini applauded.
KK, on the other hand, raised an eyebrow in the rearview mirror at someone in the driver’s seat in front of him with a look of godawful disbelief.
Jerry Xiao almost laughed out loud.
This little thing left Zoey down here, did she do it for herself?
It can not … be that those thoughts of his are seen by the two little kids, right? However, someone, it seems that he is still unaware of it.
He, glancing at someone beside him.
…
Zoey was cooking when she got a call from home.
“Zoey , the driver said that the two kids went to your place, why haven’t you guys come back yet?”
“The two kids are with me.” Zoey probed and glanced out from the kitchen, only to see Jerry Xiao in the hall, sprawled out on the floor with two kids hugging pillows and stacking blocks.
With the kids, he looks more and more childlike as well. It’s amazing how much fun you can get out of stacking a block.
Zoey purses her lips and smiles knowingly.
This is so much like family …
“What are you playing at, not going home now. Hurry up and bring the two kids back, dinner will be served in a little while.” Yami Hu said over there.
Zoey drew her eyes away from the three large small children in the hall before speaking to her mother, “Mom, don’t wait for us to eat, none of the three of us are coming home tonight.”
“Not coming back?” Yami Hu thought it was quite strange, “Where else can you go if you don’t come back?”
Zoey laughs, “These two kids had to stay at my friend’s house, so I had to stay with them too.”
“Friend?” Yami Hu then laughed, “Is it a boyfriend or a female friend?”
“Mom …”
“What’s the use of calling me that, Zoey, if there’s a good man out there, you’ve got to hold on to him. Bring one back next time to show mom and dad too.” Here we go again …
Zoey, holding her forehead, “Mom, I know, so don’t worry about me.”
Yami Hu was about to say something else, when the kitchen door was suddenly pushed open. Zoey saw Jerry Xiao poking his head in, and said, “Mom, I still have some things to do, so I won’t talk to you first.”
“Don’t be so perfunctory again, Zoey, if you don’t find a boyfriend, your dad and I are going to look for one for you! Look at you, you don’t know how to treasure Lucas Wang, do you? Now that his ex-wife is back, I heard that the two of them are going to remarry soon.”
Zoey was relieved to hear the news. I should have known that Lucas Wang was hiding someone in his heart, probably still in love with his ex-wife!
“That proves I’m not meant to be with him.” As Zoey said this, Jerry Xiao, who had been scanning the kitchen, looked toward her with an uncertain expression.
“With your negative attitude, you won’t get along with anyone.”
“Mom, no more chit chat, I really have other things on my mind right now.”
“I don’t care, you have to find a boyfriend this year and bring him home to show mom and dad, otherwise, go on a blind date!” Yami Hu gave the mandatory order.
Zoey nodded her head so helplessly, so hopelessly, “Okay, mom, I’ll listen to you. I’ll definitely look for it with all my heart, and if I can’t find it, I’ll follow your arrangement and go on a blind date!”
Jerry Xiao glanced at Zoey again, and without moving, he took his glass and went to pour the water.
After hearing this assurance from his daughter, Yami Hu let her go. After hanging up the phone, Jerry Xiao was still standing there, Zoey turned back to him, “You hurry up and get out, it smells bad in here.”
“I came on behalf of the children to ask how long it would be before we could start the meal. They seem hungry.” Just now, the phone call was about a blind date?
“Must get hungry fast after a crazy afternoon.” Zoey said as she put the phone away, “It’ll be ready in a minute. Give me ten more minutes.”
He nodded. Taking a sip of water from the cup, he doesn’t go out either. Just those sunken eyes glanced at her and asked, pretending not to care much, “What? Is your mom worried that you won’t get married?”
He heard everything?