She clenched his fists weakly, choked his voice, and shouted in a low voice, “Why? Why? I don’t want you to pity me, I don’t need your sympathy, Hudson, if you don’t love me, don’t be like this, I don’t need your compassion, I don’t have the face to meet people anymore…”
She had tolerated grievance and helplessness for so long, the fear and anxiety, anticipation and loneliness, all emotions were intertwined. She couldn’t continue the load and vented all of it at this moment.
The screams faded, Winnie bit her lip and bowed her head silently.
She couldn’t help and her eyes were red, tears trickled down from her eyes, dripping down her cheeks, soaking the clothes on his chest.
When Hudson saw her, he felt her body trembling and felt her helplessness and confusion. He held her tightly into his arms. At this time, he could only remain silent.
“Let’s go home!” In the end, he only said, and then took her back.
Winnie’s crying gradually became lower and lighter, but she still kept choking. She felt like she was going to collapse from all the crying. Why was this happening?
Her hand dropped. Just being hugged by him, she felt a touch of warmth in her cold body at this moment.
At the house of the Perry family.
Elijah’s deep eyes flashed a few times when he heard Hudson’s message from the servant. “Grandpa, don’t worry, nothing will happen!”
“He said nothing would happen, so nothing will happen?” How could Tim trust Hudson? “Since Winnie met Hudson she has not had a happy day! Do you believe Hudson so much? Winnie is your sister, pick her up right away!”
“Hudson is a man!” Elijah said solemnly, with a hint of playfulness in his eyes. “This is something I didn’t expect! Maybe, things may have turned around, Grandpa you don’t have to worry too much!”
“Which shameless person sent the video?”
“Christ!” Elijah revealed three words.
“What…”
“Because he wants the land in J City, and he wants to connect the Perry family and the Ball family through marriage, so he used despicable methods, but the result was achieved! Hudson has to be responsible even if he doesn’t want to be!”
“Damn it! I’m going to see him!”
“Grandpa, it’s better not to interfere, I think Hudson will give us an explanation!” Elijah’s eyes flashed with a touch of calculation and unpredictability.
At this moment, Elijah received another call from Esther. “Elijah, what did you do? Why did the videos of Hudson and Winnie go online? What did you do? You are like a mafia boss every day. I didn’t expect your efficiency to be so low, people framed us, what will happen to Winnie?”
Elijah sighed. “So in your eyes, I am so useless!”
“If you were useful why would you make your own family suffer this insult. Who on earth did it? If I find out, I will kill him!” Esther yelled angrily on the other side of the phone. “Which pervert is so shameless!”
“Just focus on your study, and don’t care about adults’ affairs!” Elijah said, “I gotta go, hanging up now!”
“Oh! Okay, huh? Why did he come?” Esther was about to hang up when she looked up, she saw Christ standing there beside the car not far away.
“Who?” Elijah asked.
“My father!” Esther said, “Okay, bye!”
Esther didn’t expect Christ to come to school, but when she saw him, she walked over. “Are you alright?”
She still couldn’t get used to calling him “Dad”. In her heart, she was a bit repulsive for not knowing what happened.
“Esther, I am here to see you!” Christ smiled very kindly, “How have you been recent? Why didn’t you come back to see me?”
“I’m fine, I’m having a great time now. Don’t worry if you are so busy. You have seen me now. You can go back!” Esther said with a polite smile.
“You haven’t eaten yet right?” Christ was in no hurry.
“Not yet!” Esther was muttering in her heart why he was still not leaving when suddenly a low voice came.
“Esther…”
Esther was stunned, turned her head, and found that it was Philip, she hadn’t seen him for a while. “Huh? Why did you show up in our school again?”
Philip looked at her with complicated eyes, his fists clenched on his sides, as if restraining something, but still smiling, he walked over gracefully and then turned to Christ. The situation changed in a moment. He turned to Esther again, and said with a faint smile, “Do you have time to have lunch with me?”
“Okay!” Esther was anxious to flee from Christ, waved her hand, and said to Christ, “I’m going to have lunch with my friend!”
And Christ was startled, “Esther, who is this?”
“Oh! He is my friend, we are familiar, well, goodbye!” Esther wanted to leave hurriedly.
Philip didn’t rush to walk away but stopped. His eyes met with Christ. Within a split of a second, Christ felt that the man was handsome, but his eyes were so complicated that he couldn’t tell what it was. And there was an unspeakable familiarity as if he had seen him somewhere, but he was sure that he had never seen this young man.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, Philip nodded slightly and left with Esther.
Christ looked at their backs, squinted his eyes, his face gradually sank, but he still asked, “Esther, go home early, don’t let them worry!”
“Got it!” Esther continued walking without looking back.
When the two arrived at the gate of the school, Esther said to Philip, “I suddenly remember that there is something I need to take care of. I can’t eat with you. You’ll have to eat alone, sorry!”
“You just used me before!” Philip spoke lazily, raised his eyes to Esther, with a warm smile on his handsome face, as he was just looking at her.
“Hey! You are so smart!” Esther didn’t expect to be caught by him, so she had to say frankly, “Yes, I just used you!”
“You don’t like him? Isn’t he your father?” Philip asked calmly.
“Uh! I don’t dislike him, just not used to him yet, I can’t tell why, I really should go!”
“Can’t we eat together?”
“I promised my husband not to eat with other men, so I can’t break my promise!”
“Uh, you are very good!”
“Yes, good people will be happy!” Esther smiled brightly. “I am leaving!”
Seeing Esther’s clever smile, Philip’s heart was controlled by an inexplicable emotion. He wanted to say something else. Esther had already walked out of the school gate. At this time, a car was coming quickly that Esther didn’t notice.
“Be careful…” Philip quickly stepped forward, dragged her, and pulled her aside.
But the car didn’t stop. Esther was in shock. It seemed that every time she touched Philip’s body, she would be shocked for a moment. The feeling was very complicated, strange, and kind. And it made her feel unusually warm and at ease.
And Philip was equally stunned, the feeling strongly impacted his heart once again, holding her nostalgic, Philip’s hand trembled slightly, with such an abnormal feeling.
“Thank you!” Esther thanked him sincerely. If it weren’t for him, she was afraid she might have been knocked over by the car.
Philip’s gaze was still looking at the car that had driven far away. The car drove so fast on the campus, almost hit someone but didn’t stop. It was really weird, but he remembered the car’s license plate number.
Reluctantly he let go of her, Philip shook his head. “Still not going to lunch with me?”
“Hehe, savior, okay, I’ll give it up, I invite you to dinner, should we go to eat the steamed buns?” Esther squinted.
“Let’s go eat something else this time, my treat!” He insisted but smiled warmer.
“Where should we go?”
“You know some fine dining restaurants in the city?”
“I don’t like fine dining!”
“Why?”
“It’s too fake, I just want to eat in big bites and have fun!”
“Then let’s eat buns!” he said.
So the two walked into the bun shop where they were last time.
Two baskets of freshly baked steamed buns came up. Esther didn’t care about it being hot and quickly stuffed one into her small mouth, her cheeks were so cute when they were bulging. “Um… it’s so delicious, like my mom’s cooking…”
Just a sentence made Philip’s hand shake in an instant.
Seeing her satisfied look, he smiled quietly, gracefully held the tea on the side, and poured her a cup of tea. “They taste like your mother’s cooking?”
Esther was stunned when she heard his rhetorical question. She swallowed the bun, frowned, and then said in a puzzled manner, “Hehe, it’s kind of inexplicable. I don’t remember the appearance of my mother. It seems that this is the feeling that has only been in fairytales …”
“You don’t remember your mother?” Philip said casually but kept paying attention to Esther’s expression.
“Hmm! I don’t remember!” Esther smiled bitterly, she didn’t even remember what was going on, she just didn’t remember. “Eat, it’s delicious!”
“Eat slowly, don’t choke, why are you always so hungry? You starved in your last life?” He said softly, watching Esther eating like a monster, Philip was concerned but smiled, a layer of gentleness rose on his face, which caused Esther to lose her mind for an instant. It seemed that someone had said this to her a long, long time ago.
Seeing Esther who was lost again, Philip pursed his lips and smiled, “You don’t like Christ?”
Esther was surprised.
“You don’t seem to like talking to him!”
“A father who popped up suddenly is a bit hard to get used to! It’s better to say that you are my dad, that would be easier to accept!” Esther’s lips curled up in a bad manner.
“Okay, you will be my daughter from now on, good daughter, call me Daddy!”
“You are taking advantage of me!” Esther raised her eyes and glanced at the weird Philip with a smile, only to see the corners of his mouth raised slightly. “Philip, don’t you work? You are so bored all day?”
Philip just pursed his lips, there was an imperceptible petting look in his eyes.
After the two of them had finished their meal, they walked out of the steamed bun shop and raised their heads, just in time to see a pair of slender legs of a handsome person, which were wrapped in suit trousers, it looked like this silver-gray suit was so familiar, looking along those legs and up and it was a man’s exquisite body, of course also wrapped in suit pants, and going further up was a handsome face that couldn’t be darker…
Elijah was here.
Esther was so scared that she swallowed, and immediately raised her flattering face, and whispered, “You, why are you here?”
Elijah’s eyes looked at Philip, and Philip also looked at Elijah, the eyes of the two met in the air.
Philip?!