Chapter 412: Delusions of Grandeur

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

“I made an appointment with Owen , and asked him to drop the kids off at the cafe across the street in a little while. It will be fun for them to meet their grandparents. Last time they asked if the grandparents didn’t like them.” Zoey whispered in his ear, softly. Her delicate fingers played idly with the scarf around his neck.
“I’m sorry this has happened so far. I didn’t expect my mom to be so confused. She was the one who was worried about our condition back then, so she forced my brother and I to keep our sperm in the hospital, and then when we came to England, the sperm was transferred to England with us. It was supposed to be a precautionary measure, but …”
Jerry Xiao was going to say more, lips, but was gently covered by her small hand. She came around to his front, squatted down, and looked up at him, “Jerry, Auntie’s heart, I can understand. You should also stop complaining about her.”
“Fool, why do you always think so much for others?” Jerry Xiao looked at her with heartache, “You’re so stupid, I’ll go away later …”
Zoey shuddered and cut him off sharply, looking a little angry, “You know I don’t like to hear that! Don’t say it, don’t say it!”
Jerry Xiao stretched out his arms and took her into his arms.
God knows how much he wanted to live a little longer, hold her a little longer, love her more, spoil her more …
And the kids …
Not being able to see them teething, how he wished that God had given him the opportunity to be a part of their growth, but it was all …
It’s all just delusion …
“Uncle, you said we’re going to meet grandpa and grandma?” Nini sat on the passenger side, picking at the seatbelt on her body and asking Owenwith her little head sideways .
“Uh-huh. And be a good boy and call out to your grandparents when you see them later, so you can’t be naughty.” Owen Baker urged the two children as he drove.
KK peeked her little head out the back and looked at Owen , “But Nini and I have so many grandparents yay!” In addition to grandpa and grandma at home, and grandma in Qatar, now we have grandparents.
Oh, that’s a lot! KK’s little frown is so torn.
Owen Baker patiently calmed the two tangled children, “This is your daddy’s daddy and mommy. In a little while, you guys are going to behave yourselves. Grandma and Grandpa are going to love you guys.”
“Oh! So it’s Daddy’s Daddy and Mommy.” KK realized. “So will Daddy be there too?” Nini asked.
It’s been another day since I’ve seen Daddy. I really miss him!
“Uh-huh. Will definitely be there.” Owen replied, rubbing Nini’s little head.
KK nuzzled her little mouth and muttered, “I wonder if Daddy’s cold is getting better. Daddy is so stupid, he got sick when Nini and I didn’t.”
When KK said this, there was some worry in his eyes. Looking at him, Owen suddenly felt heartbroken. Although the two children were still young, their temperament was excellent, and they also valued their feelings. If, in the future, they knew that their daddy was terminally ill or had completely disappeared, how should we explain to them? And Nini, her WIID disorder is a bomb that may explode at any time, is it true that one day in the future, she will have to endure what Jerry Xiao is suffering now?
It’s a picture too grim to contemplate. In the future, will Zoey be able to handle all this?
“Uncle, why don’t you say anything?” For a long time, he didn’t hear his uncle’s voice, KK’s jaws were wide open, and he looked at him with some strangeness as his complexion changed again and again.
Owen snapped back into a trance now, barely managing to squeeze out a smile at the sensitive, slender children, “No. Uncle was thinking about work.”
“It’s vacation time! Uncle should be relaxing, don’t abuse yourself so much.” KK advised her uncle.
Owen Baker couldn’t help but listen, turning slightly sideways and pinching the little one’s tender little face, “Roger that, Uncle does what you say.”
“Ah! Uncle, focus on driving!” Nini exclaimed, looking ahead in horror, her little hand reaching over to break the steering wheel, “Uncle, there’s someone up ahead! Turn left!”
“Squeak–” a loud bang, Owen Baker was so shocked that he immediately stepped on the brakes. But, at this moment it was simply too late, only to hear a painful grunt from outside, a young girl, with a large honorarium on her back, rolled to the side with a few ‘grunts and grunts’.
“Oh shit!” Owen Baker yelped and immediately unbuckled his seatbelt. KK and Nini froze in their chairs in shock.
“Well … it seems to have hit someone …” Nini stammered out.
“It’s a very pretty big sister.” KK’s focus, obviously, was not quite the same as Nini’s.
“You guys go ahead to the cafe, Zoey and Daddy and the guys are already here. Here, just five meters ahead. Uncle will come back after he settles this first.” Owen said as he instructed the two children. The two kids didn’t hesitate and hurriedly climbed down from the car.

Owen Baker ran down, only to see a strangely dressed girl lying in front of the car. He took one step forward and rolled her over. The girl’s long red hair covered her face, and Owen didn’t bother to ruffle it to get a better look at her, only patting her face, “Miss, wake up! Wake up!”
The girl was patted a few times, finally moved. A glance did not look at him, not to mention pay no attention to whether he was bumped into the matter, only seized the showy fine eyebrows, small hands around to the back of the haphazard touch, “wand … my wand …”
A wand? Where did you get a wand?
Owen Baker just thought she was strange, but didn’t dare slack off and hurriedly grabbed the ceremonial stick that had rolled to the side and rested it in her hand, “Is that what you’re looking for?”
The girl pushed the hair out of her face, revealing the small, clean, sunny face. Taking a look at the ritual in her hand before sighing in relief, “That’s it.”
Owen Baker couldn’t see what was so important about this at all. However, since she was still able to speak and her mind was sort of clear, it proved that there were no major problems. Sighing in relief, he simply picked the girl up in a cross body, “I’ll take you to the hospital first, to get checked out.”
“To the hospital?” The girl was lying in his arms, and when she heard him say that, she snapped out of it. Just now she was still dizzy, all of a sudden it was like she came to her senses, “I almost forgot, I just got hit by you! Eh, I say you this person, how did you drive? I was standing on the side of the road, fine, not in your way, and you rushed over. You know, it hurts to run me over …”
“I’m sorry. Where do you hurt? Let the doctor examine it properly in a moment.” He apologized sincerely, placing her on the passenger side and bending his head, looking at her warmly and earnestly.
Those eyes, soft and moist like water, looked at the simple girl’s heartbeat so fast that it almost jumped out of her chest. She exaggeratedly covered her chest, averted her eyes and muttered, “Darn it, actually using the beautiful man trick!”
“What pretty boy scheme?” Those were the only three words Owen Baker heard clearly.
“No, no.” The girl squared herself, pretended to cough dryly twice to remind herself not to be too indisputable, and said with a strained neck, “Didn’t you want to take me to the hospital? My neck hurts now, my hands hurt, my feet hurt, my brain hurts, even my chest and liver hurt! It hurts like hell!”
Instead of worrying, Owen Baker looked at her and smiled away. A smile, crisp and warm in the sunlight.
Still in such good spirits, it doesn’t look like things are going to get any worse.
“Hey! I’m hurt like this and you’re still laughing, very unsympathetic!” The girl protested loudly, her whole body full of vigor, where does it look like she’s hurt?
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have laughed.” Owen’s admittance of fault was great. Immediately apologizing and bending over to fasten her seatbelt for her before he jerked the ‘wand’ away from the one she was holding in her hand … “Eh! My wand!” The girl was about to snatch it back.
Owen Baker looked at her somewhat helplessly and explained, “This stick is too long, so I’ll put it in the back seat for you. You’ll take it away when you get out of the car later.”
“Oh!” The girl flattened her lips and nodded, then contradicted him the next second, “But it’s not a stick! It’s my Cosplay wand! Don’t underestimate it!”
If the two elders of the Xiao Family were originally skeptical of their son and Zoey’s words, thinking that they would find two random children to fool them, but the moment they saw KK and Nini, all their doubts and suspicions disappeared in an instant. Because, these two babies are really too similar to Jerry when he was a kid!
Mrs. Zhan’s eyes were drenched in tears as she looked at the two children excitedly, as if she wanted to see them enough. Even Zhan Qingtian’s face, which had always been devoid of much color, surfaced with a gratified smile after seeing the two children.
The two little ones, KK and Nini, were not afraid of being born, and without waiting for Zoey to teach them, they obediently and sweetly called out ‘grandpa’ and ‘grandma’ twice.
This cry could be directly called into the hearts of the two elders. They were so excited that they couldn’t speak for a long time.
Zoey and Jerry looked at each other and Jerry took a sip of lemonade before smiling and offering, “Mom, you hold them.”
After her son reminded her, Mrs. Zhan then pulled herself out of her excitement, and busily squatted down to be at eye level with the children. Carefully opening her arms toward the children, “Come, let grandma hug you, okay?”
Of course! The two little ones threw themselves into Mrs. Zhan’s arms. Holding that soft pair of children, Mrs. Zhan was so excited that she fell into tears. Her hand gently stroked the children’s backs, and she kept murmuring, “Good, so good … You guys are so good … With you, the Xiao Family is also considered to have accumulated blessings… …”
Zhan Qingtian also watched this scene and felt very joyful in his heart. Reaching out, he hugged Nini and sat on his lap, asking Nini a number of questions, most of which were related to his life over the years.
Jerry Xiao and Zoey were sitting across from the two elders, and it was a little funny to watch them holding a child each, lovingly. Where was the free time to even out the two of them?
“The way I see it, we’ll just be good and eat. We’ve become completely superfluous.” Jerry Xiao ladled a bowl of soup for her and passed it in front of Zoey, “Drink more soup, you’ve lost a lot of weight lately because you’ve been so tired.”
“Good.” Zoey nodded cooperatively, but, in fact, he was the one who was thin …
“Zoey ?” He called to her in a sudden low voice. One of his free hands reached under the table and gently took hold of hers.
“Hmm?” A slight sideways glance met his deep eyes.
“It really is a family sitting together now.” He smiled, with longing and reluctance in his eyes. Complete happiness, it had only just arrived, could he be greedy and ask God for a little more time?
“So when are you going to accompany me to the civil office?” Zoey tried her best to ignore the sadness in his eyes and put on her best smile.
Tightening her hand, he said, “I’ll go back when I’m better.”
“Good. I’ll wait for you. You must get well too!”
The two were whispering when Jerry Xiao’s new cell phone suddenly rang. He looked at the screen and said to Zoey, “It’s a call from the UK, probably something from the company headquarters.”