Candice originally wanted to come down to grab a glass of water, and return to her room directly. She was insomniac again this night.
The following day, Candice dressed her son in clean clothes, got him onto Emerson’s car, and watched as the car drove away, then only she turned back to join Robert to find a kindergarten for her son.
It has been five years, Robert’s incident years ago had been extremely infamous, but now it was forgotten in the passing of time. People are forgetful, they could not even remember their own business, no one could have that much of energy to remember someone that was not related to them. So now as Robert and Candice went out, they were just as non-attention drawing as the normal person.
The duo looked around for the entire morning, and visited a few kindergartens, at last they picked a kindergarten that was close to home, bilingual and had a full day system. Once they sorted out the processes, Edward could go to school on Monday.
At noon, Robert and Candice went to a restaurant to have lunch. Robert always could not help but be careful and tender around Candice, but Candice always looked indifferent, her personality quiet, even a little formally distant.
Robert did not blame Candice, it might be due to the long time, and she had not got used to his changes, he believed that in time, Candice would not behave so anymore.
After lunch, Robert received a call, it was from the prison, asking him about his life after being released, and reminded him to register for the community, report at the police station and a series of miscellaneous matters.
Hanging up the call, Robert told Candice, “Candice, I still have something to do later, I’ll send you home first.”
Candice shook her head, “No need, you can go settle your matters, I can get back home on my own. It’s easy to hail a cab here.”
Robert saw that Candice was adamant, so he said nothing else, he watched as Candice got on the cab, then he drove away.
On the car, Candice suddenly wanted to go home to have a look. It has been too long since she went back, the keys should probably be with Emerson. Since Robert had just returned to the Stewart family. So Candice got the cab to turn around, and headed for Emerson’s company.
The receptionist at Emerson’s company asked Candice a few questions and called the boss’ secretary. After a while, the secretary came down herself to show Candice up.
This was Candice’s first time coming to Emerson’s company, Emerson’s office. The office was large and extravagant, Emerson sat behind the office desk, looking proud and dignified, like a king who ruled everything.
Emerson indicated for the secretary to head out, and got out of his chair, “Candice, what brought you here?”
“I…” Candice looked around, “Where’s Edward?”
Emerson’s happiness faltered, so she came for her son.
“He slept after lunch, he’s inside.” Emerson pushed opened the resting room in the office, Candice saw that her son was sleeping soundly on the large bed, his little mouth slightly open, clutching a copy of The Wonderings of Sanmo in his hand.
Emerson stood by Candice, they were alone here, he wanted badly to get her into his arms, and tell her he missed her. But Emerson did no such thing, god knows how much of toleration it took.
The two came out of the resting room, Candice said, “Brother, I want to go back to my parents’ place to have a look, are the keys with you?”
Emerson nodded, “Yes, they are with me. Let’s go, I’ll bring you there.”
Candice replied hurriedly, “There’s no need, I don’t want to hinder your work, I’ll be fine going on my own.”
“I don’t have much going on in the afternoon. No one has lived there these few years, I don’t know what it’s like now. I was going to have a look at it too.” Emerson said while he took his coat and wore it, his style of handling things was always adamant, no one could sway him from what he decided.
Candice knew that it was fruitless to argue more, so she went with Emerson. Out of no reason, the bottom of her heart quivered, but she could only hide it forcefully, her face was as calm as stagnant water.
Emerson told his secretary to take good care of Edward, if he woke up accompany him to play. The secretary naturally promised with care.
Emerson drove himself, while Candice sat on the passenger seat. The two did not speak for the entire journey, while the song ‘Crazy for Love’ by Rene Liu kept playing on repeat in the car.