“A child?” At the mention of the child, her heart was even more like a thorn in her side. That cruelty of his back then, she thought she had forgotten all about it, but now that she thought back, she realized that she actually still remembered it that clearly. In these past few months, she would always dream of the child covered in blood in the middle of the night, crying out, making her toss and turn every time.
It was clearly that departed child, accusing her.
She really didn’t know how he could come to talk to her about children with such peace of mind after such cruelty!
“A cruel man like you was never qualified to be the father of a child. For so many years, without your presence, the children lived happily as usual! They have an uncle, a grandmother and a grandfather, and they live in endless love every day!”
“But they want a daddy too!”
“Yes, but you’re not a good father! You hate children that way, don’t you? Can you promise that you’ll stay with them all your life, take care of them until they’re grown up, and not even get bored?!” Her voice, quivering, almost pressed him.
A lot of eyes around them were looking towards them, and each one was curious about what this foreign couple, or rather couple, was making a scene about. Apparently, there was a lot of commotion!
Her pressing question made Jerry Xiao’s eyes grow darker and more desolate.
He wouldn’t get tired of it, of course not! He would feel happy to be able to watch them grow up, and would feel that it was a gift from God.
But where did he have extra time to watch his children grow up? All the time he had now was given to him by God in pity. When it would be ruthlessly taken away, even he did not know.
His silence, his hesitation, all made Zoey instantly disheartened. Unable to hold back her tears, she glared at him with red eyes, “You’re such an asshole! Asshole!” .
Without waiting for him to say anything more, she turned and ran. The back, under the slanting sun of the desert, looked so hurt. Shoulders, shaking uncontrollably. The back of her hand wiping her tears.
Eight months gone, and he’s still as cruel and desperate as ever! She, actually foolishly, still held a trace of expectation for him! She really wanted to slap herself hard, so that she would remember the lesson of this time!
…
Zoey runs to the car and starts it right up.
Thankfully, the children were riding in Oldwood’s car, so she didn’t have to rush to explain to them all that had just happened, nor did she have to rush to hide her tears. Thick with aggravation, cathartic, she shook her hands and wiped the taste belonging to him off her lips.
Fung said he was not feeling well, so he did not attend the meeting. Now it seems that he is actually very well! She had actually lost her mind for the whole day today and only thought that he had not recovered from his old illness! It’s really undeserved and not worth it!
Complaining at the thought, more and more tears flowed, blurring the path ahead.
“Did Zoey and Uncle just have a fight?” Sitting in the car, Nini asked KK in confusion. KK nodded her head, “Yes, Zoey slapped Uncle. I’ve never seen Zoey like that before. She’s like a tigress.”
He finished with an exaggerated scowl.
“But they obviously had a kiss!” Nini had a puzzled look on her face. “Uncle said that only people who are in love can play kissing oh!”
“Yeah oh.” KK couldn’t figure it out either, and couldn’t help but sigh, “The world of adults is so complicated.”
Nini fell on the car forlornly, looking back at the ever receding scenery, gently biting her ear with KK, “KK, Uncle was beaten by Zoey so pitiful. Let’s go back to him, okay?”
KK really wanted to go too, and was almost swayed by Nini’s words. However, shaking her head again, “Zoey was angry with Uncle and cried, if we still mutiny, Zoey will feel even worse. I don’t want Zoey to cry.”
That would be hard for him, too.
“What then?” Nini had a distressed look on her face. It’s really troublesome! She had to choose between the two sides of her hand, so what was she going to do?
“Uncle will definitely come back for us again! You forget, we have a pulling hook! He said he’d never leave us again!”
Nini’s gray eyes lit up at that when KK said that. “Really oh! Then we’ll wait for Uncle to come back for us.”
…
Two cars, carrying the three most important and significant people in his life, gradually disappeared into that horizon. At that instant, it was as if even the sunset had lost its luster. In his eyes, only a piece of gray remained.
Closing his eyes, he tried to ease the pain in his heart, but the pain was like a crazy creeping vine, instantly penetrating through his limbs and bones, making it difficult for him to even breathe for a moment.
There were locals, who could see something was wrong and were saying things he didn’t understand at all. He wanted to try and smile back at them, but he didn’t have the strength, so he sat down on the desert floor and called Feng.
Thankfully, this time, he didn’t faint again. If he fainted again, he didn’t know how long it would take him to wake up again.
When Feng arrived, it was already half an hour later. Fortunately, he slowed down, not as uncomfortable as before, and his face looked much better. Ah Feng ran over to help him up and asked, “Is it still holding up?”
“Uh-huh.” He just answered faintly.
“President, why don’t you, go back to your country? This side of the world will not be able to get used to the water. Just leave everything to me.”
“No need.” He refused.
Even though, the water and the soil are not suitable, but, there are people here who are more important than his life, …
So, he, uh, can’t go! Nor, can he go.
Afon couldn’t help but sigh and looked at his red, swollen cheeks, slightly surprised. “Did something happen?”
He touched his cheek, and the pain made him bare his teeth, and he couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, “Her handiwork.”
Her?
“Secretary Baker?” Afon shook his head, sighing, “That’s pretty hard to imagine.”
It seemed that the president had really pissed off Secretary Baker. Otherwise, with such a soft nature, she wouldn’t have slapped her like that. This is not light at all! It was estimated that it would not be able to subside without a half day or a day.
After a few steps, Jerry Xiao suddenly stopped in his tracks.
“What’s wrong?” Feng stopped as well.
His line of sight, which fell deeply on the pair of high heels with half of the heel buried by the sand, didn’t move away for a long time. What floated in his mind was still the way she kicked off her shoes earlier and darted to him regardless. Only, unfortunately, it wasn’t because of the eagerness to see him, but …
The color of his eyes, slightly became dark. He stepped forward, bent down and picked up the pair of shoes, lifting them in his hands. Afon looked at his movements rather puzzled, but he had no intention of explaining, ”Let’s go. By the way, how did the interview go today? Did you explain the process of the project?”
“It went well, with Ms. Baker as the interpreter. I didn’t realize that she was smooth in Arabic as well.”
“Yes?” He just casually responded, the corners of his lips, floating slightly in a bit of an arc, just waiting for Feng to continue.
“Mrs. Cenri said she would have someone take us into the natural gas construction site in two days. The process of development will be discussed in detail by both teams at that time.”
Jerry Xiao nodded slightly, his eyes looking far out over the pale desert.
On the horizon, the remnants of the sun were gradually going to fade away, leaving only half a head to shroud the vast expanse of yellow sand.
Looking at such an atmospheric scene, his mind couldn’t help but become open, he slightly side-eyed and said with Afon, “This project is an attempt in a new field, and it is also considered a great leap forward. The head office has invested two-thirds of its energy and financial resources here, so we only allow success, not failure in this cooperation. Even the slightest mistake is not allowed. Once there is any fluctuation, it could directly affect the stock’s up and down arc.”
“I know. I’ve already explained it up and down the line, so that everyone will use 12 points of heart, and try their best to facilitate this cooperation with Mrs. Shamli. The good thing is, Mrs. Shamli desperately wants to extend her tentacles into the country, and also happens to want to use our platform this time to make the first shot. So, good cooperation is not a problem. Only … “Afon paused for a moment, looked at the president’s face, and then didn’t continue his words.
“You’re worried that Mrs. Shamley is helping Zoey and Owen Baker to get back at me?”
“It’s not impossible. If the cooperation, is interrupted in the middle of the day … our losses will be far more than theirs.” Afon was a little worried.
Compared to him, Jerry Xiao was much more calm. As if he hadn’t taken these things to heart in the slightest, he only nodded his head calmly, “I’ll keep an eye out.”
Zoey tried desperately to calm herself down a bit and clear the mail from her inbox. But the intentional voices of the two children on one side of the room always burrowed into her ears.
“KK, tell me, are you happy today?” I wonder when the always heartless Nini started caring about her brother’s emotions like this.
“Hmmm. It’s been the most, most, most fun day ever!” Weirdly enough, even KK was cooperative in returning her.
“Oh?” Nini acted like a little reporter, leaning under his chin with a pencil in her hand, very carefully, “And may I ask Mr. KK, did you do anything meaningful today? Was it because of the camel ride?”
“Not only did I ride a camel, but I also met the most wanted – ‘Uncle’!” The little guy stretched his neck and deliberately raised the word ‘uncle’ high, which was simply meant for someone who was staring at the computer.
“And who is this ‘big-uncle-‘ you speak of?” Nini echoed his emphatic yell, her big, childish eyes raking right over to Zoey.
“‘Uncle’ is Mr. KK and Miss Nini’s favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite ‘uncle’ oh!”
“I see! So Mr. KK, would you like to have Uncle as your daddy?”
“Wanted it badly, badly, badly oh!!!” He expressed himself strongly.
Seeing that the person staring at the computer with his back to them remained indifferent, the two children looked at each other in frustration. Nini dropped her pen in chagrin and couldn’t go on with the play, but she didn’t forget to echo KK’s words, “Nini-san also hopes that uncle will be her daddy, oh!”
One ‘daddy’ after another, eventually completely disrupted her heart. Taking a deep breath and hiding the surging emotions in the bottom of her heart, she turned around and looked at the two children with a smile on her face, ”Had enough? If you’ve had enough, it’s time to go and get cleaned up. All covered in sand, you guys are really bad yeah.”
She acted as if nothing had happened, frowning shallowly in disgust.
“Zoey …,” Nini sputtered, looking at her with a flat mouth.
The look that made her heart, tug hard.
“Forgive Uncle!” KK also had a pleading look on his face.
She was depressed. Why did he manage to buy both kids at once? It was really unfair.
She slid out of her chair and sat down on the carpet in a childlike fashion, “Honey, we’ll take care of things on our own with Uncle and Zoey. So don’t worry about us, okay?”