“Grandpa?”
Harvey tightened his brow and eyed the middle aged man in front of him warily.
“Yeah ……”
Edward Ford nodded repeatedly, his hands trembling with excitement, “Harvey, I am your grandfather oh, I don’t suppose you’ve ever met me?”
“No, I haven’t.” Harvey cocked his head with a look of innocence, “But why didn’t Mummy ever mention it?”
“It’s ……”
“It’s Mummy and Grandad’s business, Harvey doesn’t need to care that much.” Elena Bush rubbed his little head.
Harvey nodded obediently and ducked into a corner to get his phone out, Elena Bush glanced over but saw that he had the game screen open and didn’t care at the moment.
On the other hand, Harvey took advantage of Elena Bush’s lack of attention to send a quick message to Logan Brown.
“Daddy, if you don’t come back Mummy will be abducted!”
The latter quickly messaged back, “?”
Harvey nodded, quickly stating the reason why and then immediately snapped his phone aside and stopped looking at it.
He’d already told Daddy that he’d be angry if he let Mummy get bullied for being late.
Elena Bush squeezed her palms, her tense nerves relaxing as she looked at him again with a much more open gaze.
“Edward Ford, tell me, what did you want to say when you came over here specifically to see me today?”
There was clearly some hurt when he met the quizzical eyes, “I just wanted to see you.”
Elena Bush looked away for a moment, “It’s useless for you to say that now.”
“Elena,” Edward Ford was still looking at her, “after all these years, have you never thought of forgiving me? Even if …… just had a few good words with me .”
“You couldn’t be sitting here already if I didn’t have a nice word with you.”
Elena Bush’s words were soft, but soft enough for him to hear.
Harvey immediately rubbed up against Elena Bush and said curiously, “Mummy, Grandpa’s still alive, so why is Grandma dead?”
“Harvey!” Elena Bush’s face instantly went cold and stony.
Harvey immediately sat up straighter, knowing he had said the wrong thing and biting his mouth to keep quiet.
Elena Bush, distressed and helpless, had to say, “Harvey, some things are between adults, so even if you knew, you wouldn’t understand.”
” Oh.” Harvey responded, “I’m sorry Mummy ……”
Elena Bush shook her head and took him into her arms.
And Edward Ford had guilt written all over his face, “I guess I didn’t come at the right time either, I’m sorry for disturbing you.”
He got up a little shakily, not knowing how to place his hands, and simply hid them behind his back.
He looked cautious, afraid that she might be upset, which caused a strange thought to rise up in her for no apparent reason.
“Wait!”
“Me?”
Edward Ford turned quickly and looked at her with an expectant expression.
Harvey looked up in confusion too, he could clearly detect the displeasure and rejection in her mind, yet he was still retaining this man?
As he thought, Elena Bush’s hold on him tightened slightly, as if she had made a decision.
Several people had different thoughts, and there was silence for a few seconds before her lips opened and closed slightly, “Stay for dinner, if you don’t mind.”
“May I?” Edward Ford quickly returned to his seat, just afraid to sit down.
Elena Bush gave a ‘hmm’ and stopped looking at him.
Edward Ford got permission and knew her mind was hesitating too, so he didn’t worry about anything else.
Logan Brown returned from parking just as the food was being served, and he naturally sat down beside Elena Bush, taking Harvey beside him as soon as he could, tending to Harvey himself.
“Sir Ford,” Logan Brown said, smiling slightly at the man across the seat.
Edward Ford answered, his hand shaking slightly with his chopsticks, finally landing on a piece of fish and carefully picking the prick before placing it in Elena Bush’s bowl, “Elena, eat the fish.”
“Thanks.”
“Is your name Harvey?” Edward Ford looked to Harvey.
Harvey nodded , “Well, because Daddy said I was a sleeper when I was little, so he named me Harvey.”
“……”
Logan Brown was speechless, he had just said it off the top of his head, but he remembered it perfectly.
Edward Ford was amused and reached out to pat his little head.
Harvey was not repulsed, but looked at him with a sense of pity, “Grandpa, I haven’t seen you, but I’ve kept all the presents you’ve given me.”
Although none of them had been opened ……
Edward Ford didn’t care about anything else, his ears only heard the words “keep it”, he was so happy that the corners of his mouth almost grinned behind his ears, “Really, did Harvey like it? If so, I’ll have some sent over next time!”
His eyes lit up with excitement, and he looked at the little child in front of him with indescribable emotion ……
Three years ago, this child was lying in his arms, but at that time he did not even have the time to look at him more than once, and when he saw it again three years later, his heart had already been touched by a few more feelings.
Harvey nodded in response, his little face lifted in a smile, his cute little tiger teeth showing through.
Logan Brown and Elena Bush watched the exchange between them without interrupting.
Elena Bush enjoyed Logan Brown’s service with all her heart and soul.
The meal went by in a blink of an eye, and Edward Ford didn’t even have time to move his chopsticks before Harvey had already cleaned his hands with the wet wipes handed to him by the waiter.
“Elena!”
Edward Ford suddenly looked nervously at Elena Bush, “If I get a chance, can I go to H City to …… see you?”
He asked for little more than to know that she was doing well. But once in a while he could be selfish, even if it was only to have a meal with her and not say anything.
Elena Bush hesitated for a moment, her eyes falling on Logan Brown in confusion.
The latter hooked a smile and whispered, “Elena, you’re the one who makes the decisions.”
He had no right to interfere in what happened between father and daughter, all he could do was to be there for Elena Bush.
“Elena ……” Edward Ford added again, fearing that she might backtrack, “Don’t worry, I’m just going to see you, I won’t do anything!”
He didn’t want to do anything else either, because he knew that would only make her farther away from him too, until he couldn’t reach her even if he reached out ……
Elena Bush squeezed her palm and said, “As you wish.”