A night of absurdity, except for the negative distance contact, all done.
It was dawn when Tess Baker opened her eyes. She glanced at the man still asleep next to her, tiptoed out of bed and went to the other room, not seeing that the man in bed had opened his eyes.
She closed the door, pressed her sore wrist, looked at her reddened right hand, and had a moment of confusion.
What is this between the two of them? Reconciliation?
“Don’t think about this uselessness, you can’t leave now anyway.” Tess Baker let out a bitter laugh and reached out to touch her still-bulging stomach.
As soon as Bowen Carter was the least bit nice to her, she couldn’t help but sway and want to get back on her feet with him. … She became the kind of woman she once disdained the most.
It was getting late, so Tess Baker changed her clothes, washed up and went downstairs for dinner.
Bowen Carter, already downstairs, pulled up the seat beside him and continued eating.
Tess Baker hesitated for a moment, but sat down beside him and ate in silence. Just looking at him, she couldn’t help but think of the giggling him last night in her mind, never being able to take it as the same person.
“Dinner or eat me?” Bowen Carter looked up at her with a cold frown, but his hands were sweating. He’d played dumb yesterday and apologized to her, and she was still angry?
Tess Baker was caught peeking and had a little embarrassment, “… dinner.”
She should have taped Bowen Carter’s stupidity last night, maybe she can threaten him at some point!
The two were halfway through their meal when the maid arrived with the family doctor.
Tess Baker was wondering who was sick when the family doctor approached her and said respectfully, “Young lady, what has been bothering you lately?”
“I’m fine.” Tess Baker didn’t dare say she was unconscious after the infusion for fear the doctor would find out about her pregnancy.
Bowen Carter put down his chopsticks, “No more fever, nausea and vomiting.”
“Nausea and vomiting?” The doctor asked softly, “Is it possible that the young grandmother is pregnant?”
Tess Baker’s pupils crinkled and she hastily denied, “No way! How could I … I be pregnant?”
Her reaction was so great that Bowen Carter’s brow knitted slightly and he looked at her thoughtfully.
“I’ve just been having a stomach bug lately, and I didn’t feel well after eating yesterday, and then I threw up.” Tess Baker also realized that she was overreacting and deliberately slowed down her voice when she spoke again.
Bowen Carter’s bony fingers tapped a few times on the table and glanced at the doctor.
“This does happen when you have a serious stomach problem. Let me tell you this, I will give young grandmother a list of meal taboos, so that the kitchen staff will pay attention to it in the future.” The doctor said.
…
After dinner, Bowen Carter went to work at the group, while Tess Baker was called by Grandpa Carter to the old Carter family home.
In the hall, Carter’s old man is playing chess with the little one, while Carter’s mother is watching the little one with a proud and proud face.
Seeing an old man and a young woman playing chess, Tess Baker sat quietly on the sofa, afraid of disturbing them with her voice.
“You can tell Dad later that the company has things to do, I’m going.” Carter’s mother, who was uncomfortable all over at the sight of Tess Baker, gave an explanation to the maid and walked out with her bag.
Tess Baker has no love for her mother-in-law and is happy to fall in peace.
As soon as the little one saw his mommy coming, he happily accelerated the process of destroying the old man and won the old man with a devastating victory.
“Who’s this mommy, so pretty?” The little guy ran up to Tess Baker, came up to her face, and gave her a kiss.
Tess Baker pinched his cheeks, “Whose son is this, so cute?”
“I’ll say cute only if I can’t find the adjective, mommy has to say I’m handsome!” The little one was not satisfied.
“Not true.” Tess Baker was in a particularly good mood once she saw her son, “I should say very handsome, exceptionally handsome is right!”
The mother and son were mushy for half a day.
“Little heartless, once you see your mother, you don’t care about your grandfather! Fortunately, I have a good heart, otherwise I would have been sick from that move you just made!” The old man pretended to be angry.
“Hey,” the little one ran up to him and barks a kiss, “to make amends to Grandpa Tai.”
“You think that will do?” The old man was still tense.
The little guy’s eyes curved, came over and took another bar bite.
“That’ll do!” The old man grinned, revealing his not-so-tidy teeth and smiling unusually brightly.
The three of them played around for a while before the old man said, “Tess, Cable is studying now, I’m going to send him to school, what do you think?”
The old man is good at giving orders now, and it’s more like a threat than a threat.
“Mike has his own ideas, and as long as he agrees, I have no problem with that.” Tess Baker usually asks her son’s opinion before doing anything for him.
The old man laughed loudly, “Cable luggage are packed, just waiting for your nod!”
The heavy grandson was afraid that his granddaughter-in-law wouldn’t say yes, so he asked him to ask!
“I agree.” Tess Baker smiled and looked over at Mike Baker.
The little one shrank his neck and weakly explained, “Mommy, the school is very good, I wanted to go before.”
Mommy is smiling like a faculty member!
“When does school start?” Tess Baker asked helplessly as she was too late to blame her son.
The little one’s momentum is even weaker, hiding behind the old man, the voice is small like a mosquito call, “Tonight …”
Tess Baker, “…”
I want to beat this kid up!
Although angry, she followed the little one to see his packed luggage, added a few more little things for him, and then dropped him off at the airport in the late afternoon.
“Mommy, I’ll come back every week and I won’t let you be bullied.” Before boarding the plane, the little one wrapped his arms around Tess Baker’s neck, with tears under his eyes, but they didn’t come out.
He wants to be stronger so he can protect Mommy!
Tess Baker patted him on the back, “Mommy won’t be bullied, and Mommy will be happy when you are well at school.”
Mike is still too small, if he is older and has the ability to protect himself, she will advise him to run first, and then she will find a way to contact him.
After sending the little guy off, the old man made a special trip to talk to Tess Baker, “I don’t want to be in charge of all the bad things between you and Mike, and I can’t be in charge of it. But–”
Tess Baker kept her head down, no matter what was on her mind, but she didn’t show it on her face.
“As long as you are my grandson-in-law of the Carter family, you should do two things: one, abide by the ways of women and draw a clear relationship with other men. Two, I do not ask you to give Mike a hand in the mall, but you should at least not drag your feet.” The old man had a serious face.
Mike recently secretly tripped up the Gate family kid, he, the grandson in law, may not know, but he knows all about it.
“I can do anything Grandpa says.” But if Bowen Carter does something particularly wrong to her, that’s a different story.
The second half of the sentence Tess Baker did not say, the old man has a bad heart, she did not want to make him angry.
Seeing her on the road, the old man was satisfied and praised her twice in passing, “The child is well taught.”
“Thank you for the compliment, Grandpa.” The corners of Tess Baker’s mouth slowly ticked up, and it was always nice to hear someone praise his son.