Isn’t he like Carrie, hypnotized and unconscious, his whole body numb and sluggish?
Without waiting for the two to speak, Gabriel saw them, “Eh?”
Gabriel’s big eyes lit up, and he pounced towards Paige, but it seemed that he suddenly thought of something, and he stopped in his tracks, grabbed Rafael, as if he hadn’t seen the two of them, ‘Dad, this way.”
Rafael also saw them, and his eyes relaxed, ‘Paige-”
“Shh!”
Gabriel glared at him fiercely and dragged him away.
Paige followed them for a while before she realized why Gabriel was acting like that, so she walked up to him and said, “Gabriel, no one is watching us here, so don’t worry about saying the wrong thing.”
Upon hearing this, Gabriel’s little legs froze, and he slowly turned around to look at her.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, the little guy threw the roast chicken cake in his hand, his little mouth fell, his eyes reddened, and he ran towards her, tripped, and exclaimed, “Mommy!” before flying towards her.
Paige quickly reached out and caught him.
“Mommy, I missed you so much. Why didn’t you and Daddy come find me?
The little guy cried out loudly.
“I’m sorry, Gabriel.”
Paige’s heart ached at his cry, and she hugged the little guy tightly in her arms. “It’s Mommy’s fault. Mommy didn’t take good care of you…”
Before she could finish, Paige felt the little guy’s plump body and was momentarily speechless.
Paige carried Gabriel back to where he lived.
Gabriel and Rafael were being taken care of by a couple from the extended Folsom family. According to the generation, Paige had to call them third uncle and third aunt. At the moment, the two of them were looking at Gabriel, who was sitting on Paige’s lap and crying his heart out, with a face full of embarrassment.
He was crying really hard.
It was as if he had suffered a great injustice, and his big eyes had instantly become swollen with tears.
“Paige,” said Uncle 3, standing there looking at Paige uneasily, ‘I have to say that we are seeing Gabriel cry for the first time today. Do you believe it?”
What’s there to believe?
They both suspected that they had been hypnotized, and had abused Gabriel, otherwise why would the child cry like this?
Paige also laughed awkwardly, ‘Uncle 3, Auntie 3, I know you are very good to Gabriel, I don’t doubt you, he just misses me too much.”
On hearing this, the couple let out a sigh of relief and silently wiped the sweat from their heads.
“Ooooh…”
Gabriel cried out as he hugged Paige tightly, “Mommy, I’ll never leave you again. It’s just too hard for me to be away from you, ooooh…”
“Don’t cry, you’ll scare the elders,”
Paige said as she sat on a chair and hugged him, her eyes looking over at Rafael, who was sitting next to her.
Rafael sat at the table, raised one hand to get the teacup, his fingers were obviously stiff. He used all his strength and barely touched the teacup, which fell over, spilling the tea all over the table.
“I’ll wipe it up.”
Third Aunt seemed to be used to this, and quickly reached out to wipe up the water stains.
“President Rafael, are you done?”
Paige was surprised. The last time she saw him, he was like a puppet without any senses.
Hearing her ask, Rafael slowly turned around and looked at her, saying, “Halfway better.”
His speech was halting, without the rhythm it once had.
It was as if he had some kind of speech impediment.
Paige looked at Uncle San strangely, and Uncle San hurriedly said, “It’s already much better. When he first woke up, he couldn’t make any sound, and his hands and feet were uncoordinated. Now it looks like he’s slowly recovering.”
“How did he wake up?” Brangelina asked from the side, Justin just sent outside to be treated, so how did Rafael wake up.
“Well… it’s thanks to Gabriel.”
Uncle San smiled awkwardly.
Rafael’s eyes once again came alive, filled with an angry expression.
It seems like there’s a story.
Third Uncle sat down and began to tell the story slowly. “We were afraid of causing you trouble if we went out, and we were also worried about running into someone from JT in the city, so we wouldn’t let Gabriel leave the courtyard. At first, Gabriel was quite happy eating and sleeping, but after all, he was a child, and he couldn’t stand being cooped up every day, so he started to find things to do for himself.”
Gabriel sniffled and sobbed, pricked up his little ears and listened to his own deeds.
“Find things to do?” Brangelina was stunned.
“Yes, we have to cook and do the laundry, and we can’t always keep him company, so he decided to… target the president.”
Having said this, Uncle San looked at Rafael with some sympathy.
In the past few days, President Rafael can only be described as miserable.
When Gabriel didn’t want to move, he would chat with Rafael. Since Rafael couldn’t speak, Gabriel could just keep talking with a small mouth, from dawn to dusk, and even when Rafael fell asleep, Gabriel wouldn’t let go, pinching his ears and continuing to chat.
No one understood why a four-year-old’s body would be inhabited by a chatterbox.
When he wanted to move, it was even more unbearable. He drew pictures on Rafael’s face, posed Rafael’s hands and feet in various ways, completely treating him like a large puppet, and occasionally climbed on his back and yelled, “Giddyup, giddyup”…
And so, the night before last, when Gabriel talked about the heroic repelling of the terrorist organization with his father for the fortieth time, President Rafael suddenly woke up and was able to speak.
The first word he said was not pronounced very accurately-
“Shut up!”
“So you’re saying that… President Rafael was awakened by Gabriel’s loud noises?”
Paige looked at Rafael, not knowing whether to feel happy or sad for him.
Rafael was sitting there, his face unable to show much expression, but Paige could still see the effect of his anger.
He stared at her, word by word, “Get rid of your son.”
Immediately.
Right now.
Right away.
Don’t delay for a moment!
Hearing this, Gabriel refused to take it anymore. He sat in Paige’s arms and stuck out his tongue at Rafael, “Stupid daddy, don’t be so bad. After you got lost, I’m the one who found you!”
Rafael became even more angry.
Third Uncle, who was standing nearby, hurriedly explained, “It’s like this. President Rafael probably can’t accept that he has become like this, so he keeps running off, and every time it almost ends in disaster. It was Gabriel who cleverly found him again every time, and now everyone nearby thinks he’s Gabriel’s silly father.”
Paige felt that smoke was beginning to come out of Rafael’s head.
She put Gabriel down and walked up to Rafael to take his pulse. Seeing this, Rafael looked at her nervously.
“The pulse is very stable. I think you have suffered some impact to the central nervous system, possibly due to hypnosis, or possibly due to being forcibly awakened. Judging from your condition, you should be able to recover, so don’t worry too much,” Paige said.
After these words, Rafael let out a sigh of relief, ‘That’s good, where’s Enrico?”
“He hasn’t woken up yet,’ Paige’s gaze darkened.
Rafael stared at her and said with all his strength, “Your son can awaken a city!”
Although he obviously had a speech impediment, Paige could hear the bite in his words.