“Hello, Can I help you?” Candice asked politely.
The landlord stood at the door and smiled at Candice, “today’s Mid-Autumn Festival, I cooked a table of dishes. My daughter and I can’t finish eating them. If you two don’t mind, you can go and eat together. Donna also said that she would like to play with Edward.”
Candice knew the landlord Max’s feelings for her.
When Candice first rented Max’s backyard room, his wife was still alive. She had advanced breast cancer and died within a few months. They have a three-year-old daughter who was brought up by max. Max was loyal, honest and kind. In Candice’s most difficult time, he not only did not want the rent, but also helped her from time to time. Although Candice found a job to make money and gave it back to Max, her gratitude to him was lifelong.
Candice fled the city and didn’t even contact Alice. She decided not to look for a man in her life. She just wanted to live with her son like this. So over the years, she pretended not to know Max’s feeling for her.
Now Max came to invite them to dinner again. Candice thought that it was better not to refuse Max to make him sad on such a good festival, so she thought that after the night, she will tell Max clearly when she finds a chance.
The dinner was very rich. Max was not good at words, but he put food for Candice from time to time, which made Candice very embarrassed.
Edward ate all the time without saying a word. Max’s daughter talked to Edward several times, and he ignored her.
The meal was spent in a strange atmosphere. After Candice helped Max wash the dishes, she left with Edward.
“Mom, you want Max to be my dad?” When Edward washed his feet, he suddenly asked his mother.
Candice, who was folding clothes, turned around and said, “What do you think of Max?”
Edward crooked his head to think about it, and then he said cautiously, “Max is honest, has a house, has a stable job, and won’t bully you. But you don’t love him. ”
Candice was stunned. “Edward, you’re only five years old. Do you know what love is?”
“Love is to like each other. It’s me who is good to you and you to me. Max picks up the meal for you, but you laugh at him worse than you cry.” Edward said solemnly.
Candice grabbed her neck, “is my expression really bad and obvious?”
Edward nodded solemnly.
“It looks like we’re going to change places soon,” Candice sighed.
Edward climbed into the bed with short legs and approached his mother and asked, “Mom, my father is a very good-looking and handsome man, right?”
“Why do you ask this question?” Candice raised her eyebrows. In her impression, this was the first time that her son asked her about his father.
“Because my father is very good and handsome, so you love my father very much and can’t accept other men.”
The logic and thinking of Edward always shocked Candice. Her genes couldn’t give birth to such bear babies!
Late at night, her son was sleeping by his side. Candice touched her son’s soft and tender face. Only then can she be sure that he was really five years old. But he was right. His father is really very handsome, very excellent. But whether she loved him very much, or whether she had loved him, even Candice couldn’t know.
It was a taboo love. For half a year, Candice endured all the psychological suffering, but also enjoyed a strong love.
There was a financial magazine in the drawer of the bedside table. Last month, Emerson appeared on the cover of the magazine.
In five years, Emerson didn’t seem to have changed. He looked tall and dignified in suit. He was still so handsome, so serious and cold.
The magazine also said he was getting married.