Sure enough, it was just like the waiter said. Outside, it was actually raining heavily. He walked out, and was drenched in an instant. His head, all of a sudden, ached even more, as if he was being flogged on that one brain nerve.
Zoey Baker …
Why did you lie to yourself like that? These two children, and which man did she have them with? What has she been through before? What she said about loving him for so many years was all bullshit, wasn’t it?
No wonder, she showed up the first night she brought KK home! No wonder, she is so well versed in everything about bringing up kids! No wonder, she always resolves conflicts between kids with ease! No wonder, she was able to get on with both kids right away! No wonder, too, that the kids don’t have to go home at all, and that no family worries at all!
Hehe, he is so stupid!
It was all just one big lie woven by Zoey Baker. It was clear to everyone but him that like an idiot, he was being played and deceived by her.
Is it possible that from the time she saved KK’s life, it was a deliberate approach that she set up? Instigating her two kids to lie to get close to him, is that what she should do as a mother?
“Damn it!” Jerry Xiao slammed his fist hard against the fence beside him, and the back of his hand was instantly drenched in blood. It was really damn hard to be cheated! Especially, it was still the three people he trusted like this.
He’d thought of them as family long ago, and even, with the Baker family’s takeover plan, he’d wanted to lay it out on the table with her today. But was it even necessary now?
It was raining, I don’t know how long it had been raining. He was all wet, walking woodenly through the rain, surrounded by strange looks. He was like a man with an empty heart, stumbling.
Zoey Baker, why mess with him when she already has a couple kids with someone else? If you’re going to mess with it, why don’t you hide that lie well enough for him to find out so quickly?
“Bang-” sound, the roof of the Simu restaurant, fireworks bright. When did the rain, surprisingly, stop!
The brilliant fireworks, all of a sudden, broke through the darkness that had just been there, and bloomed in the air in the best possible way, forming a single colorful ‘happy, birthday’ word that was slow to dissipate high in the sky.
It was the fireworks he had ordered half a month in advance, having arranged everything long ago just for her birthday today.
Very well! Instead of waiting for the surprise she brought, I waited for a shock!
“Wow! What beautiful fireworks! Who must be celebrating their girlfriend’s birthday? So romantic!” Around them, there were exclamations of surprise, filled with envy.
“Honey, next time I’ll do the same.” There were little girls rubbing up against their boyfriends.
“But … this is going to cost a lot of money.” The boy was embarrassed.
“Yeah oh.” The girl was a little lost, but soon smiled brightly again, “Never mind then, I’m happy just to have you. These fireworks may be pretty, but they’re just a flash in the pan. Maybe if this firework is let go, that couple will break up. Although we don’t have fireworks, we definitely won’t break up, right?”
“Wife, it’s good to have you!”
Surrounded by happy and sweet couples, Jerry Xiao only felt the coldness in his heart. After the fireworks, they broke up with the splendor of the fireworks? They had never even started!
Sofia Hotel lobby.
“Mr. Song, can you walk in?” The assistant assisted him. Owen Baker pushed him out of the way, “It’s okay, you wait here. I’ll go up and come right down.”
The assistant then couldn’t be bothered to go up more and just watched as he stumbled on his feet towards the hotel lobby.
Tonight’s socializing had been too much, and the mixture of foreign wine and white wine had almost burned through his stomach. The aftertaste of the wine was getting stronger and stronger, and he just felt so uncomfortable that he almost couldn’t fall down and huff and puff right away.
But, no!
His princess, still waiting for him to come to pick … up without her, how can he rest assured?
The waiter led him to room 2603, and he was just about to raise his hand to knock on the door when he realized it wasn’t even closed.
“Zoey ?” He moved in suspiciously, squinting his drunken eyes inward. The room was lit with a dim, ambiguous purple lamp that softly enveloped the room. No one else was there, only a petite figure arched over the bed.
She slept extremely restless, curled up on the bed, shuddering and making hard wailing noises.
Owen Baker just assumed she’d had too much to drink and was too uncomfortable. Hurriedly walked over and crouched down to the side of the bed. Sure enough, he saw her eyes wrapped up in the sheets with her eyes closed, revealing a tantalizing flush on her little face. He breathed a sigh of relief and tried to ignore those damn heartbeats in the back of his mind, only to probe his hand to pat her little face.
“Zoey , wake up, it’s time to go home!”
“Well …” Zoey, however, didn’t wake up, only suddenly probed and grabbed his large palm. The tiny arm reached out from the sheet, along with the bare shoulder.
Under the sheet she was actually wearing nothing?
Owen Baker was so completely stunned that his whole body felt like it was on fire and he almost immediately tried to jerk his hand away. But before he could take a step back, Zoey had deliriously reached out and wrapped her arms around his neck.
The sheet slides down …
The scene in front of him made Owen Baker swoon, and his whole body froze there, and for a moment it was as if even his soul had leapt out of his body.
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All night, tossing and turning, without closing his eyes. Only when the pain on his forehead eased a little as the sky dawned faintly did he reluctantly brace himself. The mind was the first to think of the children in the restaurant …
Oops! They were so young, and I can’t believe I damn well left them there!
Without hesitation, he fished out his car keys and rushed out the door. Along the way, he didn’t know how many red lights he ran through, he only knew that there was a lot of cursing coming from around him. When he rushed to Simu Restaurant, the restaurant hadn’t started business yet, only a few waiters were busy.
He casually caught a young man and anxiously asked, “Where are the pair of kids that stayed in your restaurant yesterday? Where did that pair of kids go!”
“Sir, calm down!”
“I ask you, where did they go!!!” His face was grim and ghastly, and the other man shivered in fear. What bad luck? Running into a ferocious man early in the morning! He didn’t even go to work yesterday, so how would he know about any children?
“Sir, you are talking about the pair of dragon and phoenix children, right?” Someone nearby who was in the know recognized Jerry Xiao. Jerry Xiao instantly let go of the young man in his hand and turned to the other one, “Yes, where are the two of them?”
“The two kids cried so hard last night after you left. The whole restaurant couldn’t watch. Originally the lady who said she was their aunt and uncle was going to take them back, but the manager said he wasn’t comfortable with it and sent me specifically to send them back.”
Sent it back?
“Was it delivered to the Baker family?”
“I don’t know if it’s the Baker family, but it’s this address.” The man pulled out the address that was left on the note. Jerry Xiao took it over and looked at it. Jerry Xiao took it over and looked at it!
He breathed a long sigh of relief, but … in the next instant, the bottom of his eyes was all obscure again. At the bottom of his heart, the astringency was unbearable.
All night, his cell phone was on, so why didn’t Zoey Baker call once? The kids must have told her that he already knew the truth, but why didn’t she even say a word of explanation? Was it weakness, fear, or did she just not care!
Doesn’t she realize that he hates being lied to like this by everyone else?
Doesn’t she realize that he damn well cares and cares about which man she was this close to in the past, close enough to go out of his way to have two children for him! Is this the man she betrayed Chuck five years ago because of?
Yes! If you count the age of the child, it’s really that man …
He sneered and leaned back against one side of the wall, disheartened.
He is not a saint, even in the past, he will be petty nagging, and even care, she loves that man is not more than love him! However, he is not a brutal and unreasonable person, as long as her explanation, her apology, he will also slowly learn to let go, to accept.
Every bit of his affection for the children came from the heart!
But after waiting all night, his phone, never rang …
Walking out of the Simu restaurant, he didn’t go to the office right away, just found a random breakfast place and sat down.
“What would you like to eat, sir?”
“Whatever.”
“We don’t have random yay at the store, just doughnuts and soy milk.”
“…”
He didn’t say anything else, his face was so gloomy that people were afraid. The shopkeeper didn’t dare to ask any more questions, and only chattered a sentence of ”strange and weird” before hurriedly ordering people to make doughnuts and soybean milk and bring them up.
This time of day happens to be an active time for office workers. Two young women came in, ordered breakfast, and then sat down at the table opposite him.
His noble temperament and dress were out of place in this small store, so he couldn’t help but cause the two young women to look at him with frequent sidelong glances. There was no lack of amazement in their eyes, but the two were also forced back three feet by the chill that was on him.
This man, he’s a little too cold! It’s like someone owes him millions.
“Hey, don’t look.” Of the two, the woman with the long hair patted her friend, “Look at today’s financial paper, it’s brilliant!”
“What’s the news?” The short-haired woman had little interest, only asking casually.
“The front page headline actually features our general manager, Owen Baker!”
Jerry Xiao continues to eat his breakfast, which is tasteless.
“Scratch that! What’s with the recent trend of racy photos? It’s actually so explosive that it’s actually with his own sister! Holy shit, he doesn’t look like this kind of person. Whoops, my idol is gone …”
“A real sister? It can’t be! Our GM doesn’t look like such a shameless person! How come their family always explodes pornographic photos?” Another person was equally shocked and went to grab the newspaper, but before he could get it, the financial newspaper was snatched away by a big palm.
“Hey sir, this is me …”
The woman’s words hadn’t even been spoken yet, but she choked back all of them by Jerry Xiao’s chillingly cold look.
He held the newspaper in both hands, his fingers trembling uncontrollably, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, revealing his extreme anger at this moment. In the bottom of his deep eyes, there was a huge fire burning, as if he couldn’t burn the two people on the newspaper into ashes.