It was a tense moment, but a tender voice broke the icy atmosphere.
“Daddy, Daddy!” Sweety opened her arms and smiled widely. She ran toward Michael with her adorable stubby legs. She was too fast, and Chester did not manage to stop her in time. When he realized what she was about to do, the girl was already in the strange man’s arms.
“Daddy, Daddy!” Sweety really missed her new daddy. She kissed him on his cheek after he picked her up. Michael’s heart crumpled into a puddle of soft mud. He was only a slave to his daughter. Elena was deeply troubled when she saw that.
Michael and Chester looked at her. “Mommy, who is he?”
“Someone…irrelevant…”
“Your mommy is my wife.” Michael had a serious look on his face. Even though they were Elena’s children, he was surprised by the boy’s appearance.
Chester’s face sank, and he was angry. “Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Nonsense?” Michael frowned. The boy was the same age as Sweety, was he not? Michael was surprised by the child’s word choices.
“You seemed to know a lot,” he snorted.
Was that how Luacs taught his son? Cold and expressionless, but why did he look so pleasant nonetheless?
Michael’s was in a complicated mood. He probably would not like the little boy with such a bad attitude, especially if he was Luacs’s son. He studied the boy’s face from every angle—he did not look like Luacs at all.
Suddenly, his heart trembled, and he clasped onto Elena’s wrist. “He… He is…”
“He is mine and Luacs’s son!” Elena’s face changed dramatically with the fear that she felt. Michael squinted his eyes, but some thoughts became more apparent in his mind.
“Woman, has anyone told you that you are not a good liar?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? I didn’t lie. He…he is the same as Sweety, both of them are mine and Luacs…”
“I will do a paternity test with them. I don’t need you to tell me this.”
Luacs’s son? The boy looked so much like him! They even had a similar aura!
The toddler was quite knowledgeable for his age, the same as he did when he was younger. Who else could the toddler have taken after?
“You want my children to call another man, father?” He was furious!
“Let go of my mommy!” Chester ran toward them, but he did not attack the man because he knew it would not be a fair fight. Instead, he softened his voice. “Let go of mommy. Otherwise, Sweety will be unhappy.”
Michael immediately relaxed his fingers around Elena’s wrist, but he was still outraged. At the same time, he was quite nervous too. Not only did he have a daughter, but he also had a son.
“Boy, I can let go of your mommy, but you’ll have to call me Daddy first.” He lowered his head and looked at the little toddler in front of him.
Could he threaten Chester? With a gloomy face, the little boy said, “I can call you Daddy, as long as my mommy agrees.”
Oh, they had taught his son well!
Michael’s gaze returned to Elena’s face. “How dare you let my children call Luacs ‘Daddy’?”
“They are not yours.”
“Do you want to go to the hospital now for the test?” As long as they had money, they could enjoy priority services at any time. Elena was well aware of that, but how could she burden the kids at such late hours? She was so angry that she wanted to stomp her feet, but there was nothing she could do!
“Michael, let me go!”
Michael finally let go of her, because he had already discovered the answer in her eyes. Sweety was his daughter! He was so moved that he nearly cried.
He had a daughter! As for the boy with a stinky attitude, he did look like Michael, but it did not seem as if he had a lot of respect for his father. So, he had a daughter and a son; he felt like he was in paradise.
Elena was in a horrible mood. The one thing that she had been worried for the past two years had happened. Luacs had left for a business trip, and that bastard had managed to barge in and mess up her life.
“Daddy, Daddy.” Sweety liked her new daddy. She kept her arms around his neck, and she claimed that she did want to let him go.
Sweety was not a sensible child, but how could she explain her feelings to the sensible Chester? Her son stood in front of her, and Elena looked at him awkwardly.
Michael took the initiative to clear his doubts. “Your mommy and I were engaged once, and she was pregnant with my child. Then, some misunderstandings happened, and we quarreled.
“We did not expect Luacs would abduct your mommy when she was angry with me. After that, your mommy came to this place and gave birth to you. Luacs took the advantage and lied to you that he was your father.”
“Don’t speak ill of Luacs. He has never done any harm to us!” Elena glared at him.
“The kid knows how to discern right from wrong.”
Michael looked at Chester, who then hugged Sweety and went to sit down on the sofa.
“Sweety, what’s your name?” he asked her gently—it was so different from when he had spoken to Chester. He was a loving and gentle father to his daughter.
Sweety blinked innocently at him; she could not answer his question. She was only a little over a year old, so it was a difficult question for her. She was nothing like the brat who seemed to have a better grasp of knowledge.
“What about you? What’s your name?” He was a stern father when he was with Chester.
“Chester.” Even though Chester did not treat him with a good attitude, he was not hostile toward him either, and that was an amazing feat!
Chester… Michael had been pleased when he realized that his children carried his surname. Then he realized that Luacs had the same family name as well. He was upset about it, but he decided that it was a problem for another day.
As he looked at Elena, he asked, “Now, what else do you have to say?”
She had carried his babies and went into hiding with another man. After the children were born, she even made them address another man as their father. If she were another woman, he might have destroyed her already!
However, he would never have children with another woman. He would have to let the matter slide as she was the mother of his children.
“Come to Bentson with me tomorrow. I want my children to acknowledge their ancestors!”
Of course, he wanted to give her a grand wedding, as well.
“No!” Elena immediately shook her head in refusal. “I don’t want to go back to Bentson, and I won’t be with you! I won’t go anywhere with you!”