When your father ran away from home, you didn’t even show a little reaction.
Paige held his chin up with one hand, turned it left and right, and analyzed his psychological state, “Do you think that if you go with me, you won’t have to go to class?”
“No, no,”
Gabriel hurriedly shook his head, “I’m worried about Daddy. I have experience running away from home, and I can help Mommy.”
“…”
You still have experience.
Why is running away from home also a tradition?
Paige silently looks at him.
Gabriel gradually can’t hold back in her eyes, and shamelessly rubs his little face against her leg, “Ouch, Mommy, just take me with you, such a good-looking and cute son, can you rest assured leaving him at home?”
Rest assured.
Paige thought to herself, as Gabriel lifted his little face and pouted at her, “Mommy, Mommy, I love you, I love you so much, you’re the best mommy in the world, MUA, MUA…”
So cute.
Paige looked at such a son and simply couldn’t resist, calculating in her heart the chances of taking her son to Enrico and getting blown up. The result was not low at all, after all, that was a man who had even the little dolphin on his revenge list.
“Mommy…”
Seeing that she was unmoved, Gabriel’s eyebrows wrinkled into little caterpillars.
Paige’s bones softened at his shout. Forget it, Enrico had laid landmines all over the place, so even if she did step on one, it wouldn’t matter. He couldn’t possibly put her son on his hit list.
Upon thinking about it, Paige felt relieved. She reached out and pinched his little face. “You can come with me, but I need someone to make Daddy happy.”
With Gabriel’s quick wit, he might even be able to help her out.
“I can! I can!”
Gabriel kept nodding, saying yes to everything as long as he didn’t have to go to school.
“Then let’s go pack our clothes and get ready to go.” Paige laughed and helped him up from the ground.
…
I don’t know how others feel about going out alone with a four-year-old, but I’m not tired.
Gabriel was born to enjoy himself. As soon as he got on the plane, he reclined back, crossed his legs and swung them back and forth, wearing a pair of big cartoon sunglasses on his nose and big headphones on his head to listen to music.
The flight attendant thought he was cute and gave him juice and a small bread roll.
Gabriel took a long sigh, looked out the window at the blue sky and white clouds, and said with a mature air, “Mommy, look, this is life.”
Real life doesn’t require studying.
“Behave yourself.”
Paige looked at him and almost wanted to smack him, and then she looked out the window herself.
The weather was particularly good, and the bright sunshine made people feel particularly good.
When the mother and son walked out of the airport, Gabriel was wearing a little straw hat, carrying a small school bag, and hugging a large coconut as he inhaled it crazily, “Wow, it’s delicious!”
“Have you forgotten why we’re here?” Paige looked at him helplessly. Is he here on holiday?
“I know, to find Daddy.”
Gabriel looked at her while hugging the coconut, “Actually, Mommy, you don’t need to look, Daddy will come out soon on his own.”
“Why?” Paige was puzzled.
“Daddy is poor, he doesn’t even bring any money when he goes out. I paid for the last hotel we stayed in. In this world, it’s hard to live without money. When Daddy can’t make ends meet, he’ll know he needs a wife…” Gabriel shook his head with emotion.
“You should watch less adult TV.”
Did he really say that?
Paige was speechless. “Besides, Daddy is running away from home with premeditation, which is unexpected. He must have brought enough cash.”
“Then he must be staying at a hotel. Shall we go to the hotel and look for him?”
Gabriel offered a plan. ‘Daddy always stays at a good hotel when he’s broke, and when he’s rich, he’ll definitely look for the best. Where is the best hotel?’
How could it be.
Enrico must have his reasons for choosing the southern border. He probably wants to take another look at the place where she spent three years. He should have gone to their family’s place.
Paige thought about walking a few steps forward, but suddenly she stopped.
No.
Whatever she could think of, Enrico must have already guessed, and he would not let her find him so easily.
Sure enough.
Paige took Gabriel back to the house on New Street, and did not see Enrico.
This was the place where Paige had settled after Gabriel was born in order to find a better environment.
It was a small duplex, and their home was on the east side of the house.
She pushed open the door to the small courtyard, and the doors and windows inside were tightly shut, so no one had been here.
Paige pushed the door open. The house was clean and tidy, with all the furnishings exactly as they had been before. Olivia had hired a cleaner to come and clean the house regularly after she left, and as she looked around, she couldn’t help but think about the years she had spent here.
Back then, her world had not included Enrico.
“You see, I told you that Daddy was staying at a hotel. We don’t have a maid here, and he likes to enjoy himself, so he wouldn’t stay here,”
Gabriel said, putting down the large coconut he was holding and sitting in a rocking chair, swinging back and forth.
“I think you know how to enjoy yourself even better,” Paige said, looking at him.
With a child in tow, Paige couldn’t go out and find someone right away, and there were no ingredients in the house. After thinking about it, she ordered some noodles on her phone to solve their dinner problem first.
The heat at the border was unbearable, so Paige turned on the lights in the small courtyard and divided a serving of beef fried noodles into two. The mother and son ate it at the small table in the courtyard.
She had previously got some small outdoor lights outside, and once it got dark, the lights on the trees, grass, and walls all twinkled, like stars adorning the small courtyard, which was very beautiful.
Gabriel hadn’t returned for a long time, and she suddenly missed him a little. She looked around while eating the noodles.
“It would be nice if Olivia came back too.”
Then it would be just like the old days.
“…”
And bring Olivia too.
Then, in Enrico’s eyes, would she appear to have come thousands of miles to chase after her husband, or would she have run back to the border to resettle?
Paige ate her noodles absent-mindedly, thinking about where Enrico would be at this moment. He had left home so slowly, so he must not have really wanted to run away. Where would he have gone?
It was getting dark, so they would have to find somewhere to sleep.
Could it be that he had gone to stay in a hotel?
As she was thinking, the doorbell outside the small courtyard suddenly rang. She looked up and saw an old lady wearing a flowered shirt standing outside the low fence with a smile on her face.
Paige quickly stood up and went out to greet her, “Fryday.”
This is a resident in the community, a neighbor, and Olivia usually gets along with her pretty well.
“Grandma Fryday!”
Gabriel jumped down from the small table and greeted her sweetly.
As soon as she heard Gabriel’s voice, Fryday was over the moon, and couldn’t stop smiling. “I said I saw your lights from afar, and now I see you’ve really come home. Look, Gabriel has grown taller and looks even better.”
“And Grandma Fryday is even prettier and cuter,” Gabriel said, flattering her.
Fryday was very pleased, and couldn’t stop smiling. Paige invited her in to sit down, but Fryday waved her hand, saying, “No, no, I still have to go to the square dance. When I saw your lights on, I thought that if you just got home, you probably didn’t have anything to eat. So I brought over some vegetables from home, all fresh, for you to cook yourselves.”
With that, Fryday handed her the vegetable basket in her hand.
“You’re too kind,” Paige smiled and took the basket from her, politely sending Fryday off. Looking at Fryday’s back, she suddenly remembered.
She knew where Enrico was now.