Arriving home close to ten o’clock, Leo was still in the living room, sitting across from a man in a suit who seemed to be talking business.
After a long day of tossing and turning, I was a little tired and didn’t want to interfere, so I was just about to go upstairs when Leo called me back.
“Clara, come here for a minute.”
“What is it?” I said as I walked over towards them.
Leo did not answer, but the man in the suit respectfully stood up, “This is Miss Kennedy, about the matter of Clarie’s transfer, still need your personal nod of approval, some procedures also need to make an appointment with you to facilitate the signature.”
“Clarie’s transferring?” I looked puzzled and froze for a moment before looking down at Leo, “What’s going on? What’s the big deal?”
Leo had little expression on his face and replied perfunctorily, “I’ll explain this to you afterwards, now let’s discuss the time with the principal first, the procedures for transferring to another school are still a bit troublesome.”
“Miss Kennedy, you are too busy, turn around and instruct your secretary to send me the itinerary, I’ll arrange the other things and then inform your secretary on the line, this is my business card with contact information.” This principal smiled nervously and handed over the card in his hand.
“Got it.” After taking the card and looking at it, the obsequious man in front of him was actually the vice principal of a well-known international school, and seeing his attitude so attentive, Leo should have promised a lot of benefits.
“Nothing is wrong, you go back first.”
Things were settled and Leo sent the people away.
I was just about to ask for clarification when Clarie suddenly ran down the stairs, hugging my leg and started crying, “Mom, I don’t want to transfer to another school! I don’t want to transfer to another school! I don’t want to transfer!” …
“Okay, okay, don’t you cry yet.”
After coaxing for a while, Clarie’s tears stopped and I squatted in front of her and asked patiently, “Tell mommy why you don’t want to transfer to another school?”
“I just don’t want to!” Clarie sniffled and held her mouth, her face full of written aggression, “I’m so hard to get friends, I like my classmates there, I like the teachers even more, I don’t want to not see my friends not see Mr. Alton!”
I sighed, a little distressed.
Children know what it is, like things, do not want to leave their line of sight for a moment.
Turning his head to Leo, he stood up with his hands in his pockets, standing next to him like a stake, looking down at our mother and father with an indifferent look and a slightly furrowed brow that seemed to harbor suppressed anger.
My intuition told me that Leo was hiding something from me.
After thinking about it, I didn’t ask a question right away, but asked Nanny to take Clarie upstairs first, to make sure their figures disappeared at the stairway, before turning back and looking at Leo with a serious expression.
“Say, what’s going on? Why did you suddenly let Clarie transfer to another school?”
Leo went to Clarie’s school in the afternoon, originally to find out more about Mr. Alton, could it be him?
Leo gritted his teeth, seemingly in some difficulty, and after a moment, spoke again, his voice a little hoarse, “That man came out.”
A few short words, as if a thunderstorm struck the sky, the taste of indignation made me subconsciously clench my fists.
I knew all too well what Leo meant by that demon that almost took Clarie’s life and separated Dennis from me, who else but Mario.
Leo’s expression is no less relaxed than mine, “he behaved well inside, and soon got a chance to reduce his sentence, and the Bennett family to facilitate relations, a few months ago, they were given the opportunity to parole, Folly found out the information, should be Mario moved, that international school, there has never been such a young but He was using a false identity to get closer to Clarie and take away her trust, a real scumbag!”
Hearing this, even my breathing became much sharper.
No wonder the last time I went to Clarie’s school, that Mr. Alton would deliberately avoid me, but now that I think about it, it all makes sense.
Mario simply planned everything long ago, identity name, perhaps even appearance also did some modification, in order to be able to always lurk around Clarie.
In the matter of disguising himself, no one can do it better than him.
I barely hesitated and turned around and rushed upstairs, reminding Leo as I went, “Have the principal arrange the paperwork for me tomorrow.”
Mario is too dangerous for me to let Clarie stay with him for a moment longer.
When she walked into the room, she was already lying on the bed and Nanny was telling her a story with a storybook.
“I’ll do it Nanny.”
After taking the storybook from Nanny, I took a seat next to Clarie’s bed.
Clarie leaned back on the pillow, her face cleared of tears, just a pair of big eyes, moistened by tears, refracting the light, extraordinarily crystalline, flashing at me.
“Mom, can I not transfer to another school?” Clarie asked me with a beep.
Looking at her aggrieved and serious look, I really can’t bear to let her know the truth.
Reaching out and stroking her head, he digressed, “Clarie, would you still be happy if my mom and uncle were gone and you were the only one left?”
“Why are you guys not there?” Clarie blinked her little eyes with an inquisitive look.
“Well …” I pretended to think for a moment before answering, “Because now your own school, is very far from home, mommy and uncle have to walk a long way to bring you home, and now, what about some bad people that want to hurt mommy and uncle, if you continue to stay at your current school, mommy and uncle will probably get hurt, maybe a little more seriously, and never get to see Clarie again, and wouldn’t that be out of the question?”
As soon as Clarie heard this, her cheeks immediately puffed up and she whimpered in aggression, crawling out from under the covers and hugging my arms, “Mom! I don’t want you and my uncle to be away! I don’t want bad people to hurt you! I’ll transfer to another school, I’ll go to another school, you don’t leave me behind, ooooooooo …”
The child is so sad, I also feel bad, but there is no way, a good-intentioned lie can save her from Mario’s harm, I can only do this.
Gently patting Clarie on the back, I said soothingly, “Don’t be afraid, the driver is the mother’s eldest daughter, and will have to take care of her younger siblings, so she can’t keep crying.”
When it comes to her younger siblings, Clarie suddenly lifted her head up and reached out to wipe the tears and snot off her face, looking serious like a little adult, “I’m not going to cry, I want to protect my mom and my younger siblings! Mom, you ask uncle to help me transfer to another school, I can make friends again!”
Suddenly, it felt as if Clarie understood a lot more.
After returning from the chemical plant, not to mention the initiative to make friends and adapt to the environment, even if the family, it took a long time to gradually become familiar with Clarie.
There is a vague suspicion that Clarie’s change could have something to do with Mario.
But the thought only stayed in my head for a second before I immediately killed it.
How can someone who has been scheming for more than a decade and almost cost Clarie her life change at the drop of a hat?