Allyce gave Alonzo the bottle of water, picked him up and went to sit on the sofa opposite Tajo.
As soon as he sat down, Tajo spoke up and asked him: “What took you so long to go?
Tajo hadn’t changed much in the last two years or so, she’d noticed the last time she’d seen him in J.
Her tone was neither warm nor deliberately cold, but Allyce could still sense that Tajo still didn’t like her.
This antipathy was even greater than before, one might even say disgusted him.
Because Tajo had always wanted to control Severo, and Severo had almost become Tajo’s enemy because of him.
Before, Tajo might have had some remorse in his heart about the baby, but now that Alonzo is healthy again, the remorse Tajo had in his heart has disappeared.
It was replaced by a deeper distaste for Allyce.
“I ran into a friend and we had a little chat”. Allyce raised her eyes to look at Tajo and spoke casually.
Tajo sniffed and merely raised an eyebrow, before turning his head and continuing to talk to Neto.
Allyce was not embarrassed by Tajo’s cold treatment and merely whispered to Alonzo on the side.
Shortly afterwards, Neto received a phone call and had to leave.
Neto hung up the phone with a smile on his face: “Sorry, I have to go, I’ll come back later to talk to you.
“Okay, okay, hurry up, the young have to be with the young, don’t mind me, an old man.” Although Tajo’s tone sounded displeased, Allyce knew Tajo wasn’t angry.
On the contrary, he was fond of Neto.
When Tajo finished, he looked at Allyce and frowned slightly: “Accompany Neto.
“Hmm.
Allyce responded lightly and got up to see Neto off.
He escorted Neto to the door, Neto looked into the room and saw that Tajo was drinking water, before whispering in Allyce’s ear, “I can only help you so far, he is very cunning, if I stay too long, he will know that Severo sent me here on purpose, I have to go now, you should come in. ”
Neto couldn’t help but shake his head.
Allyce didn’t take Neto’s concern to heart, he was asking a different question, “Did Severo send you?
“Ah!” Neto nodded and said, “You didn’t know that, did you?”.
“I know now, go away, I can do it here”. Allyce waved her hand.
Seeing Neto turn and leave, Allyce stood for a moment, slightly dazed, listening to a sudden “pop” in the room before slamming the door and going inside.
When he entered, he saw Tajo standing at the coffee table, looking sternly at Alonzo.
Alonzo, who had been sitting on the sofa, stood mute on the other side of the coffee table, staring at the floor, as if he didn’t understand what was happening.
Allyce’s heart clenched, and she rushed up to him and asked aloud, “What’s wrong?
“Is this the son you taught?” Tajo shouted directly at Allyce as soon as he saw her.
Alonzo looked at Allyce and looked at her with pity: “Mom”.
Her mouth deflated and her dark eyes glistened with water, pitifully, but she managed not to cry.
Alonzo is only two years old and Tajo is a stranger to him, so he was frightened when Tajo spoke so loudly.
When he saw Allyce, he wanted to approach him and ask him to hug him, but he didn’t dare.
Children are very sensitive, and although I didn’t know the identity of the old man who appeared out of nowhere, I could sense Allyce’s respect for Tajo.
So when Tajo said nothing, he didn’t dare move.
“Grandpa, what’s wrong?” Allyce didn’t rush to hug Alonzo either, but turned her head to look at Tajo.
Unlike before, I no longer called him “old Mr. Betances”, but “grandfather”.
When Tajo heard his name, he frowned again: “How did you teach your son to be so grumpy? He has no rules, he breaks things as he pleases!
With that, he looked down at Alonzo’s heel.
Allyce followed Tajo’s gaze and then saw a broken glass on the floor in front of Alonzo.
After a slight pause, Allyce turned her head to Alonzo: “Alonzo, did you break the glass on the floor?
Alonzo was obviously shocked, he looked at Allyce and then at Tajo without saying anything.
Allyce knelt down and held him by his little shoulders and asked patiently, “Alonzo, tell Mommy, did you drop this?
Probably because Allyce’s tone of voice was rather soft, Alonzo nodded.
At the age of two, children begin to understand some things, but sometimes their minds are not quick enough to grasp the struggles of adults.
Allyce thought for a moment before whispering, “Why did you drop the glass, that’s not right?
“You don’t learn at a young age!” growled Tajo at the time.
There was a glint of coldness in Allyce’s eyes, but she quickly hid it.
If Tajo wasn’t Severo’s grandfather, he wouldn’t have stood for it.
When she had met Tagus two years ago, he had struck Allyce as a gentlemanly old man, even if he had tried to banish her from Severo’s side by some means.
But such tactics did not come cheap.
And at this point Allyce felt that Tajo’s methods were really very low.
Even if Alonzo admits to dropping the glass, does that make Alonzo uneducated? Must he have dropped it on purpose?
And Tajo’s tone of disgust was nothing more than a transference of his displeasure with Allyce to the child.
“Alonzo is only two years old, children don’t know how to behave and it’s easy to correct them. I’m sure grandpa, who is so open-minded, wouldn’t bother with a small child, would he?
Allyce’s words were directed at Tajo, but she did not turn her head to look at him.
It was a lie to say she wasn’t angry, she could simply address her if she had something to say, so she didn’t need to show it to Alonzo.
Tajo raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Allyce without moving.
Women were protective of their children when they became mothers.
He hadn’t expected Alonzo to admit that he had broken the cup, and Allyce hadn’t gotten into a big fight with him.
Indeed, two years had passed and many things were different, and the woman had grown up a lot.
Only …
A wry smile spread across Tajo’s face, and disappeared in an instant.
In the next second, Allyce heard Tajo say, “Since you said so too, I wouldn’t mind bringing Alonzo to live with me in J”.