After receiving Aurelia’s assurance, Rachel nodded in satisfaction.
Rachel felt that Aurelia was pretty good, not scheming, and was very down-to-earth. She was also lively when she was with Callum.
Laura sat down next to Callum, resting her chin on her hands, smiling sweetly. “Rachel is so nice to Aurelia! I’m so envious!”
Rachel was amused by her. “Laura, if you get married in the future, your mother-in-law will definitely treat you well!”
“Rachel, it’s too early for me to get married!” Laura put down the glass of water handed to her by the maid, and lowered her head embarrassedly.
Rachel smiled and continued chatting with Aurelia. “What year are you in? Are you busy with school?”
“I’m a junior in college. Not too busy…”
“What major are you in?”
At this moment, the maid who had followed Nelson upstairs ran down in a panic, “Mr. and Mrs. Finnegan… Something has happened!”
“What’s wrong?” Laura asked.
The maid glanced at Aurelia and said, “The boy… Mrs. Finnegan, I didn’t mean to do that. I was just cleaning up the things he had messed up, and I didn’t pay attention… I tried to stop him but he didn’t listen…”
Speaking of this, the maid almost burst into tears.
Aurelia suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly stood up from her seat and walked upstairs.
The others all followed.
The doors of several rooms upstairs were all closed, only Aurelia’s room was open. When she walked into the room, the originally tidy room was thrown into a mess.
There was no sign of Nelson in the room, but the sound of water splashing could be heard from the bathroom.
When she passed by the dressing table, she accidentally noticed that the skin care products that were neatly arranged on the dressing table were now in a mess, and some were missing.
The door of the bathroom was pushed open, and the boy was playing with the faucet, applying the skin care products she bought at EliteMart to his face. There were a lot of them on his body, but the key point was that he dropped more of them into the wash basin and watched them being washed away by the water.
Aurelia had always had a bad temper. When she saw this scene, she didn’t even think about talking to the child nicely. She trotted over and scolded angrily, “What are you doing?” She turned off the faucet and took the skin care products from him.
But it was too late. Several bottles of cream, essence and toner were ruined.
Nelson saw her angry face and was so scared that he threw the bottle of cream in his hand at Aurelia before he could finish it. “Bad woman!”
“Shut up!”
It didn’t hurt too much when it hit her thigh, but the rest of the cream was all over her clothes, and Aurelia couldn’t help but jump.
The people behind were all dumbfounded when they saw this scene. Only Callum held Aurelia in his arms. “What’s wrong?”
The empty bottles of skin care products on the sink made Aurelia feel so distressed that she couldn’t say a word. She glanced at the little boy who suddenly threw himself into Laura’s arms and cried, then she bit her lower lip and suppressed her temper.
These skin care products were very expensive. Aurelia’s heart was bleeding when she bought them. Now they were ruined by a naughty child before she could even use them.
Laura continued to comfort Nelson in her arms. Without waiting for Aurelia to speak, she whispered, “Aurelia, it’s just a few bottles of skin care products. There’s no need to be so harsh on a child…”
Were they just a few bottles of skin care products? These bottles of skin care products cost tens of thousands! Callum worked hard to earn tens of thousands of dollars! She didn’t want to let the little boy waste it like this!
Aurelia couldn’t help but feel distressed and her eyes turned red. She took a deep breath and told Laura in a stiff tone, “Call his mother.” Her voice was neither loud nor soft, and one could not hear her emotions.
“What are you calling for?” Laura was a little confused.
“Tell his mother what he did! How to educate a child? Shouldn’t he apologize if he doesn’t pay compensation?” At the end, Aurelia couldn’t hold back her emotions and raised her voice slightly.
Laura looked at Aurelia in astonishment. “Aurelia… It’s just a few bottles of skin care products. No need to make a fuss about it.”
Aurelia insisted, “Yes! They’re just some skin care products! But these were bought for me by Callum! I couldn’t bear to use them, and now he has ruined them like this. Can a child like him bear this? Shouldn’t his parents apologize?”
Laura looked at Callum, who was silent beside her, in embarrassment. Callum seemed not to notice her gaze and just stood beside Aurelia without saying a word.
Rachel also stood there quietly, watching this farce.
Laura could not get help, so she could only say softly, “I brought Nelson here. Aurelia, don’t be angry. I’ll compensate you, okay? I’ll have someone buy a new one and send it over. Don’t bother with a child!”
Was she arguing with a child? Laura was really good at talking. “I don’t want money. I just want an apology! Call his parents!” Then Aurelia ignored Laura, looked at Rachel beside her, and said guiltily, “Sorry, Rachel. I need to clean up here first.”
Rachel smiled faintly. “Aurelia, you come out first and let them clean up!”
Callum grabbed the woman who was wiping her tears from behind them and said, “Come out.”
Aurelia couldn’t refuse, so she lowered her head and followed Callum out of the bathroom.
Callum took Aurelia to the cloakroom, closed the door, and wiped her tears. “Why are you crying? It’s just a few bottles of makeup.”
The more Aurelia thought about it, the more distressed she felt. She said angrily and anxiously, “That cosmetics brand is one I’ve always admired but couldn’t afford. If it weren’t for your card, I might never have used it in my life. I finally bought it, and so much money was wasted… Tens of thousands of dollars!”
“It’s only tens of thousands of dollars. Be good and stop crying. If you really like it, I’ll have someone send you a few more sets!”
Aurelia wiped her tears and glared at the man angrily. “Tens of thousands of dollars! Aren’t tens of thousands of dollars earned by you through hard work? Why should you waste it? Maybe one day you will work hard and stay up late for these tens of thousands of dollars, and drink with clients! And the attitude and reaction of that naughty child… How can I not care?”
If Nelson hadn’t intentionally destroyed her skincare products, she would have felt bad but wouldn’t have taken it too seriously. But what happened? Not only did he not apologize, he also threw things at her.
If it were her before, she would definitely pick up this naughty child and spank him!
Callum could tell that Aurelia felt sorry for him and was also concerned about the boy’s attitude. “Well, don’t cry. You know, tens of thousands of dollars are really nothing to me, so don’t be too upset. Change your clothes first, and I’ll ask Laura to call his parents, okay?”
He wiped the tears from her eyes with his thumb and kissed her eyes gently.
Aurelia, his girl, would make him feel so distressed if she shed a few tears.