When Veronica Parker saw him, she felt nervous and a little absent-minded.
She didn’t forget what Nick Cage did to her in the office yesterday.
Presumably, the senior management would never have thought that the solemn and imposing Nick Cage would have such an evil side.
Therefore, she felt a little uncomfortable when she put down the coffee cup. Her hands were slippery and trembling, it made a sound when she put it down the table, she even spilled some coffee.
Veronica Parker went numb. It was over.
The high-level executives who were talking stopped immediately.
“Veronica Parker, don’t you know how to do that properly? Mr. Cage’s coffee was spilled you need to remake it.”
Veronica Parker was ready to say yes when Nick Cage said coldly, “Mind your own business.”
Then, his slender fingers clasped the handle of the cup, carried it over to his thin lips, and sipped.
The silence was better than the voice in oppression.
The senior management who just wanted to show off in front of Mr. Cage panicked.
He seemed to have done something wrong.
Mr. Cage had no tolerance for people who made mistakes, let alone work close with them.
“Go on.” When the senior executive panicked, Nick Cage opened his mouth again, he looked a little impatient.
“Yes!” The senior management continued his piece.
Veronica Parker went out as soon as she saw what happened.
She breathed out a sigh of relief after she got out. Why was it thrilling to enter Nick Cage’s office every time?
When the senior executive came out and went to the elevator, he hurriedly asked the other one, “Have I done something wrong?” I don’t think I said anything wrong, did I? That employee is really careless. ”
“It seems that the employee is not ordinary. Did you forget that Martin Hutt was transferred because of her? ”
“How will I know that?” The senior officer broke out in a cold sweat and wiped his face heavily.
“Pay attention to it from now on!”
Veronica Parker really wanted to talk to Kay Tours. She wanted to ask him not to let her inside Nick Cage’s office again but she knew that even if she would be successful to bring that subject up, Kay Tours won’t let her get what she wanted, right?
Veronica Parker went to the baby store after work to buy milk powder. She couldn’t carry so much so she bought four buckets only.
The four buckets of milk powder made her breathless.
After a few moments of walking, she was knocked down by a child, she sat down on the ground.
“I’m sorry. Are you all right?” Veronica Parker put down the milk powder because she wanted to pull him and check his hand.
John Cage did not cry, he just looked up at her.
Veronica Parker was looking at him in the eyes. Wasn’t he the brother of Nick Cage?
“What are you doing?” The lady who followed hurriedly picked up her precious son and checked to see if he had any injuries.
“How do you walk? Are you blind? If you hurt my son, I do not know what I will do to you. ”
Chloe Bowen was still scolding her but when she really looked at Veronica Parker’s face, she froze because she felt familiar.
Veronica Parker’s eyes trembled and looked at Chloe Bowen in amazement. A distant memory flashed in her mind.
A memory with a lot of sorrow returned.
“V–Veronica? ”
Veronica Parker regained her wits and tried to suppress her surging emotions. “You’ve got the wrong person and your son shouldn’t have been hurt.”
With that, she picked up the milk powder next to her and went hurriedly to the entrance of the subway.
Her posture would look normal from afar.
The subway stopped in front of her and roared past her frozen features. Veronica Parker stood as if she never noticed the train as it went past her.
There were bags of milk powder at her feet while she was holding the pole of the train. People in the subway were visible in the glass frame, each had their own posture, each had their own face.
Veronica Parker stared at herself but somehow, she seemed hollow.
She heard the words of her colleagues from the company.
She heard that the child was Mr. Cage’s brother.
A half-brother.
Mr. Cage broke off relations with the Cage family a long time ago. Everyone understood that the younger brother’s mother was not a person, she destroyed other people’s family and took office as a mistress.
Veronica Parker never expected to meet the mother she didn’t see for almost ten years.
She even thought that they would never see each other again for the rest of their life.
It had something to do with Nick Cage.
She thought of the way she protected her son and worried about the child and Veronica Parker felt that she was a little out of breath. It looked like she was very protective of her son.
Veronica Parker’s hand gripped the train’s pole very hard that her knuckles turned white. She was trying really hard to suppress her emotions.
Before she entered the door, Veronica Parker took a deep breath first and shouted. “I’m back!”
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
Her little babies, who were still playing a moment ago, immediately ran towards her, they ran with their short legs and they all tried to climb her. Peter climbed directly onto her shoulders and would not come down.
Veronica Parker squatted, she looked at them happily, she was thinking that this feeling was so good. She had her own children to worry about, why think so much about that, isn’t it right?
But, a few days later, Veronica Parker didn’t expect to meet Chloe Bowen again and this time around, it was not a chance encounter, she deliberately waited for her.
Veronica Parker saw Chloe Bowen and she walked away in a hurry.
“Veronica! Wait a minute! ”
Veronica Parker’s footsteps faltered subconsciously.
Chloe Bowen chased her and said, “I came to see you on purpose. I want to talk to you. Can we find a place to sit down and talk? ”
At the coffee shop, near the window, the lazy light outside refracted the cup on the table into a yellow, warm but not soothing light.
“If you have nothing important to say, I have to go back.” Veronica Parker said.
“Where do you live now?”
“If that’s what you’re asking me, I don’t think it’s necessary to waste both our time.”
“I’m sorry, I know you’re still blaming me, but you know, I couldn’t take with me.”
Veronica Parker looked out of the window and looked at Chloe Bowen afterward. “Couldn’t take me with you or you simply didn’t want to, at all?”
“I — Yes, I can’t get married if I have you with me. That’s what I thought at the time. But even so, I’ve been thinking about you. ”
“Thinking about me?” Veronica Parker looked at her with red eyes. “But I didn’t even have your contact information and you haven’t made an effort to see me not even once, right?”
“Veronica, I’m sorry, but I have my reasons.”
To say she was sorry was to admit her selfishness but she still didn’t realize all the hardships she experienced when she left her.
She could raise six children by herself, not like her own mother who wasn’t able to raise her own daughter.
Veronica Parker was not asking for anything from her except one, “I know you’re married to the Cage family. I work for the KING Group. Nick Cage is from the Cage family, right? So, from now on, don’t come to me again. Also, please treat me as if you don’t know me.”
“Why? You are my daughter! Also, you mentioned about working in the KING Group, I can help you. “