sobs.
Why did he go and enter the competition in the first place? Sobs. It’s over, completely over.
Paige is amused and leans down to look at him, “So, do you regret entering the competition to vent your anger at mommy now?”
“… No.”
Gabriel sniffs and wipes away non-existent tears, “It’s still very important to vent my anger at mommy.”
Those people were talking such nasty things, and calling him a little idiot.
Daddy told him what they were saying behind his back. It turns out that if he’s not smart, other people will blame his mommy, and he doesn’t want that!
Paige smiles.
“Mommy, did you have fun?” Gabriel asks her in a sulky voice.
“Of course. Although I know that I shouldn’t pay attention to rumors and that I should know how wonderful my own son is, I was still so angry these past few days.”
Paige rubbed his little head and said, “Thank you, Gabriel, for taking such good care of me.”
Sheryl, who could no longer take care of Steve, was distraught. She had to face a lawsuit and no longer had the energy to deal with those ridiculous rumours.
Gabriel let out a long sigh as he looked at the smile in Paige’s eyes. “That’s fine, as long as mummy is happy. Even if I get tired from studying, it’s fine, really fine.”
He sounded so sad.
Was he trying to be cute again, trying to make her feel bad?
He had the talent, but he wasn’t studying hard enough to learn knowledge and do something useful. It was a waste.
Paige pretended not to understand the backhanded compliment in his words, and Gabriel became even more sad, almost depressed.
After dealing with her son, Paige straightened up and, when she looked up, met Enrico’s unfathomable eyes. He looked at her with pursed lips, and it was clear that he wasn’t happy.
And there was still the problem of Enrico.
She followed Enrico to his new car, took a breath, and was about to speak when she saw a few cars approaching and pulling over.
The driver opened the door and got out, then went to the back to open the door for someone.
Seeing this, Enrico suddenly opened the door, grabbed her wrist, shoved her inside, and then tossed Gabriel in as well, before slamming the door shut.
Not far away, Kevin got out of the car and walked towards Enrico.
Where was Paige?
I just saw her in the car.
Enrico stood there, expressionless, looking at him with an air of detachment.
“Where’s Monteo? Paige asked me to come and persuade him.”
Enrico was no longer the man who had lost his memory. Kevin didn’t want to offend him, so he simply cut to the chase and said that his visit was purely business.
“Inside,” Enrico replied in a cool voice.
“Okay, I’ll go take a look,” Kevin nodded, glanced at the tightly closed car door, and said, ‘Then you guys be careful on your way back.’
With that, Kevin turned around and hurriedly walked towards the building.
Enrico got into the car and sat in the driver’s seat.
Paige sat in the back and, taking a look at Kevin’s back, couldn’t help but say, “Monteo’s conditions are so clear, Kevin won’t be able to persuade him.”
Why bother letting him go? In the end, all that talking will be for nothing.
Enrico glanced at her in the rearview mirror, still expressionless. “Oh.”
He just wants to waste Kevin’s time, is that so bad?
“…”
Paige took out her phone to send Kevin a message, but Enrico glanced at her again and made the car make a loud noise.
She silently put her phone away, sorry Kevin, you’ll have to chat with Monteo for a while longer.
…
Back at Enrico’s house, Paige received a message from Kevin.
She had never seen Kevin so angry before. He scolded her for being unfaithful to her friends, for not even saying hello to him when he arrived in a hurry after getting her phone call, for obviously chatting with Monteo and asking him to persuade him again, for putting on a good face and asking Monteo to join the club, for being so patient for more than an hour, and for asking Monteo if he had a son, if his son was a genius, if he had an excellent memory…
Then he added slowly and leisurely, “If you don’t have a son, there’s no point in talking about it.”
He felt insulted.
He felt really insulted.
In his text message, he shouted, “Now I can’t go out if I don’t have a son, is that it? So what if you have a son?
“…”
Paige watched as her phone vibrated non-stop, as Kevin attacked her with text message after text message, silently suffering, and then replied to him apologising.
You’ve been wronged, leader of the Lautners family.
“Bang.”
There was a noise from upstairs.
Gabriel slumped on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. Paige heard the noise and put away her phone before heading upstairs.
She thought Enrico was going to the bathroom, but the noise clearly came from the bedroom.
Paige walked to the door and saw Enrico open an oversized black suitcase at the end of the bed and put clothes in it. His shirt sleeves were raised to his elbows, showing the firm lines of his biceps, and his every movement was very pleasing to the eye.
But Paige’s eyes could not take it anymore.
Seeing this scene, her heart instantly sank, as if she had fallen into the center of an icy pond.
She knew Enrico had heard her footsteps, but he did not turn around and continued packing his suitcase.
He had said that if he was unhappy, she would not be able to find him so easily the next time he ran away from home.
He really was leaving.
Paige leaned against the door and watched his movements quietly. Her eyes gradually darkened. After a while, she said indifferently, “Before I came here, I didn’t know that Monteo was also at the border. The reason I ran into him at the mall and didn’t tell you was because I was afraid that you would think I was there for Monteo and I didn’t mention it.”
“…”
Enrico continued packing without pausing, his head bowed as he worked, his expression hidden.
It must have been unpleasant.
“As for today’s competition, you dragged me there, and it wasn’t even on my schedule. Meeting up with Monteo was even more of a coincidence.”
She stared at his back as she stated, “Asking Kevin to lobby for you was because I promised myself that this time I would only come to see you and deal with personal matters, not talk about work. But I didn’t want to miss Monteo like this, so I just dumped this on him.”
“…”
Enrico pretended not to hear, opened the closet next to him, and took out clothes from inside and threw them into the suitcase.
Seeing this, Paige smiled helplessly, ‘Then help yourself.’
Since her explanation seemed so useless to him, she really didn’t know what else to say.
She also didn’t want to see such a glaring scene of him packing his luggage, so she turned around and left.
“Get back here!”
The man’s unhappy low yell came from behind her.
Paige looked back at him, her pale face expressionless.
“Is this how you coax your man?”
Enrico stood in the bedroom, his eyes staring at her coldly.
“I was trying to communicate with you, but you weren’t cooperating. Besides, running away from home is a chilling act,”
she said, panicking the first time she ran away from home and just wanting to get back to him.