“Gabriel Gustin.”
Gabriel pronounced his name word for word, extended his own short index finger, hooked his sunglasses down to reveal big dark gray eyes, and glared at Rafael, who was all classy and elegant, “Who doesn’t want a baby, you say, Uncle?”
His daddy wanted him alright.
His daddy even gave him gifts and loved his alright.
“…”
The scene was nothing but silence when this pair of eyes were revealed.
As if a pair of gray pupils wasn’t enough of an indication, the little nose, mouth and even the shape of the eyebrows were all born exactly like Paige.
It didn’t even need a DNA test, it was a combination of Paige and Enrico.
They just said they wanted Paige to have a baby, and the baby’s already this big?
Were they collectively going into a hallucination?
“Enrico’s son?” Rafael stood still, looking incredulously at Gabriel in front of him.
So he was the only one who planned not to have a child?
And here he was trying to explain to Paige that he really was …
…
The window of the study was opened, and the scent of flowers blew in with the wind.
Enrico stood in front of the window, looking out into the distance, playing with a box of matches in his hand.
“The young lady led the president and a few people from the Peak Club on a tour of the estate all the time, and even played a few rounds on the golf course, went to the river and fished for an hour, laughing and joking along the way, it seems that the young lady is in high spirits.”
Beau butler stood behind him dutifully reporting.
Fishing and playing ball games and chatting, it didn’t stop all afternoon.
Surely the excitement was high.
Enrico slowly closed his fingers and crushed the matchbook in his hand flat, a face grim to the core.
“Knock knock.” There were two knocks on the open study door.
Enrico turned around with a cold face, only to see Rafael and Jaden standing in the doorway, one in front of the other, standing straight up, both of them looking at him in a somewhat coy manner.
“President, Jaden.”
Butler Beau stood and bowed his head respectfully toward them, and seeing as they had something to say, he said, “I’ll go down first, then.”
Jaden follows Rafael into the study and closes the door when Butler Beau exits.
Only silence remained in the large study.
“Snap-”
Enrico casually tosses the matchbook into the trash can and takes a seat at the desk.
Rafael gave him a deep look and sat down across from him, and when he saw that Jaden was going to step aside and stand, he said, “Jaden, come and sit down, and the three of us will have a nice chat.”
Jaden looked over to Enrico, who sat back lazily and without disallowing it, and walked over to Rafael and sat down.
His eyes are a little red.
Rafael looks at Enrico, wanting to say something.
“What are you two trying to say?”
Both looked out of sorts.
Enrico looked at them with cool eyes, his voice icy.
“Nothing, it’s not like the dinner hasn’t started yet, come and sit with you.”
Rafael was the first to speak, his voice was a little low, he put his hand on the armrest of Jaden’s chair and smiled a little reluctantly, “Jaden, do you remember when we were little and in school, we lay on our backs waiting for Enrico on the wall of Rose Estate, sometimes I think of it as yesterday, I didn’t realize that so many years had passed. ”
At those words, Jaden’s eyes became redder, he lowered his head, “Yes, it was years ago.”
At that time, the three of them were still children.
The period of children, they could not do anything, but on the contrary, it was also a time that could not be returned.
“It wasn’t thought back then that we’d be where we are today, with me becoming president and Enrico capturing The Gustin family’s villa consortium.”
Rafael put his hand on Jaden’s shoulder again, “You two have a better relationship, you’ve been with Enrico all the way, thorns and difficulties, you’ve always gotten through them together, but I’ve been farther away than you.”
Jaden’s head lowered even more as she listened, her shoulders shaking a little.
Enrico teetered on his legs and looked at Rafael breathlessly, “You got your head bitten by a dog?”
What’s with the sudden nostalgia at him.
“I’m just feeling nostalgic, I just met your son back there.” Rafael sits and looks to Enrico, “I didn’t realize that out of the three of us, you had a child the earliest.”
Just because of that?
Enrico crosses his arms casually in front of him and lets out a low chuckle, “There’s no use lamenting about such things, the life of having a child is not something every man has.”
To make a woman willingly give birth to a child for herself is not a simple matter.
“…”
Rafael exasperated, just about to refute do not know what to think of and do not say, only sadly said, “you are right, Gabriel looked a smart, no wonder you will make such a decision.”
“What?” Enrico’s smile faltered.
“Paige just approached Jaden and I and told us all about you, Enrico, you really are a good father.”
Rafael looked over at him with eyes that could be described as respectful.
“…”
The corner of Enrico’s eye twitched, was this another wave of people knowing about him dying?
She was really letting him enjoy the funeral early.
Enrico gritted his teeth, “I don’t suppose she sent you guys here to talk me into medication?”
Jaden looked up with red eyes, “The lady said that no one can take away a father’s right to love his son dearly, she asked us to respect your decision and called me and the President over, not for anything else, but just because she thought that the three of us should get together again since we’re hairdressers.”
Get together for what.
He just wanted to hold her until the moment he died, the rest of them he pressed on.
“Paige lived through it, and I think so too, instead of all being there to grieve, why don’t we talk more about what we really mean.”
Rafael said with a heavy tone, “You’re about to leave, and there are some things I can’t keep to myself anymore, do you remember the time you broke your shoe and went back to get beaten up by the maid at home? In fact, that was me who broke it, I saw that the bottom of that shoe you wore was almost worn flat, and I wanted to say that I would give you a complete break, so that your family would give you a new pair of shoes, but I didn’t expect …”
At that, Enrico’s face turned green.
“I’ve been there.”
Jaden guiltily confided, “I didn’t bring a paintbrush once, and wanted to ask boos you to borrow it, but you weren’t in the classroom, so I just took it and used it, and I didn’t expect to run out of colored ink, causing you to go back and get beaten up again, and I didn’t dare to admit that I took it for fear that you’d get mad.”
“…”
Enrico looked at the two hairdressers in front of him with the eyes of an idiot.
Shouldn’t he be lying in a coffin right now, listening to them come to confess one by one?
“You know I’ve never been on good terms with my family, when you first held me up for the election, I really didn’t have any money on me, so I falsely blackmailed quite a bit from you, when in fact, the election wouldn’t have taken that much.” Rafael said in shame.
Jaden followed up with, “boos you always change my cars at your whim, one time for a good one, one time for a bad one, so every time I change a good one, I buy a used one with the money I got from your batch of new cars, and the money I saved in between time and time again has already allowed me to buy two new houses in The Capital.”
“…”