Chapter 1689 Hide And Seek
Even after searching every inch of the living room, Zayden still could not find Joy, so he decided to ask a servant nearby.
“Where’s Joy? Have you seen her?”
The servant simply looked up without saying a word before continuing her duties.
After getting a hint, Zayden quickly moved upstairs. I guess it’s not cheating if all she did was move her eyeballs. There are only the study and bedrooms on the second floor, so which one could Joy be hiding in?
The boy then started going from room to room until he finally reached the study. Since Daddy forbids us from going into the study, could Joy be hiding in there?
After he looked high and low, his eyes eventually fell on the bookshelf. Could she be inside?
The boy reached out to pull the cabinet door open, but instead of Joy, he only found several small containers. Why would these containers be inside the cabinet?
Curious, Zayden opened one up and saw that there was something inside. After taking a closer look, he realized that it was a stack of bills. “Whoa, it’s money!”
The boy wondered why there was money in the container and if the others had the same content.
Naturally, he pulled the lid off of every one of those containers and found not just money but also two debit cards in them.
“Why is there so much money here? These cards probably have a significant amount in them too.”
As if he had found a treasure chest, Zayden excitedly ran to get Sheila.
“Mommy! Mommy!”
Sheila immediately rushed out of her bedroom when she heard her son crying out to her. “What’s wrong, Zayden? What happened?”
“Mommy, if I find you a lot of money, will you reward me?” asked Zayden as he stared at his mother with a pair of puppy-dog eyes.
“Money? Where did you find a lot of money?”
“You have to tell me if you’ll reward me first.”
“Of course!” promised Sheila convincingly.
“You have to promise me, Mommy.”
“I promise.”
“Okay. Follow me, Mommy.”
Holding Sheila’s hand, Zayden led his mother to the study room and showed her his discovery.
Sheila counted the bills and realized that she was holding nine hundred.
“I also found two cards, Mommy.”
Sheila tried to access the accounts on the cards using her birthday as the password, and unexpectedly, it worked. The balance available on both the cards was a total of one thousand and one hundred.
“How will you reward me for finding this much money, Mommy?”
“Mommy is going to take you and Joy out for some yummy food, but first, you have to put all these back where you found them, okay?”
“But why are we putting them back?”
Sighing, Sheila guessed that what Zayden had found was her husband’s secret stash. Even after all these years, the man only managed to stash away two thousand. That’s not even enough for me to get a set of beauty products or a decent dress. I’ll just let him keep it. “Because whoever this money belongs to is going to need it, so just leave it alone, okay?”
“Okay, Mommy.” Zayden nodded obediently.
“Good. Now go get Joy. We’ll be leaving in five minutes.”
The two children were just about ready to go out when Evan and Nicole walked in with a bunch of goodies.
“Mommy!” exclaimed Joy before rushing over to Nicole.
“I’ve brought you and Zayden a lot of presents, Joy. Do you want to see them?”
“But Aunt Sheila is taking us out for some yummy food.”
“Oh. Can’t you guys go tomorrow instead?”
“Sure! I want to play with Uncle Evan!” shouted Zayden excitedly.
“What do you say we go out to the courtyard?”
“Yeah!”
“We want to play hide-and-seek!” cried the two little ones together.
Seeing how delighted the children were to see Evan, Nicole and Sheila looked at each other before chuckling.
“It’s been a while. How are you, Nicole? Still keeping busy at the hospital?”
