What exactly am I to her?
Evan sighed as he stood straight by the window in the cold wind, without moving for a long time.
Since then, Evan didn’t return to Imperial Garden for a few days. Apart from working, he slept in Hillside Villa, and only visited his kids at Seet Residence occasionally.
When Nina saw him, she asked expectantly, “When will we return to Imperial Garden to live with Mommy?”
Wearing a cold face, he fell silent for a while. Then, he brushed her off by telling her that Nicole was busy at work.
He did not mention anything else about Nicole.
Noticing that something was off about him, Sophia wondered if it was because he had a fight with Nicole.
Therefore, she called Nicole after he left.
“How are you, Nicole? The kids miss you.”
“Mrs. Seet, can you let them come to live with me?”
Living alone in the empty yet huge Imperial Garden, she was kept awake by loneliness at night.
From her tone of voice, Sophia sensed that she was down in the dumps. She originally wanted to let her have a good rest for a few days, but seeing that she missed her kids so much, Sophia thought for a while and agreed to her request.
“Okay. You can pick them up at the kindergarten after school later in the afternoon. I won’t ask Davin to pick them up then.”
“No problem. Thanks, Mrs. Seet.”
After school, Nicole brought her kids back to Imperial Garden.
The deserted house came to life as the kids filled it with their laughter.
Nicole also felt her cold heart turning warm. She asked the kids what they would like to eat tonight as she was going to make dinner for them.
“Mommy, I wanna eat more vegetables. Grandma always makes us eat meat, and has fattened me up.”
As Nina spoke, she rubbed her tummy that was still flat.
Maya took a look at her, and then at her belly bulge which had turned even rounder. “Mommy, I also want to eat vegetables.”
Juan and Kyle glanced at each other. What’s the point of eating only vegetables?
“Mommy, should we ask Daddy to get us some food?”
After Juan finished speaking, Kyle nodded his head, thinking it was a good idea.
Nicole’s face sank. “Your daddy won’t be coming back tonight.”
“He won’t?”
Didn’t grandma say that the purpose of sending us to live in Imperial Garden for a few days is to let Daddy and Mommy bond so that they can give us more siblings?
Is it a lie?
“Mommy, why won’t Daddy be coming back?” Maya asked, blinking her big clear eyes.
With an expressionless face, Nicole said flatly, “Just ignore him!”
“Call Daddy and ask him to come back. I wanna play with him.”
The expressionless Nicole suddenly looked up at Maya with a serious expression, and told her, “Don’t call him. Don’t ask him to come back!”
The kids were at a loss for words as they looked at each other, feeling puzzled.
What happened?
Why does Mommy get angry at the mention of Daddy?
Looking at the clueless faces of the four kids, Nicole realized that she came on too strong just now, which would be a bad influence for the kids.
She thought for a while and cleared her throat before explaining, “Daddy is busy with work, so he has no time to come back here.”
Doubts appeared on the puzzled faces of the kids.
Maya spread her two little chubby hands naturally. “Is Daddy so busy that he doesn’t eat and sleep?”
“How is that possible? Daddy isn’t Iron Man!”
“That’s right. Call Daddy and ask him to take good care of himself, and to come back to eat and sleep. If he gets sick, we’ll be even busier having to go to school while taking care of him.”
Like an adult, Nina crossed her arms with a worried look on her face as she even rolled her eyes.
Juan immediately took out his smartwatch, quickly dialed Evan’s number, and waited for him to answer.
Nicole was rendered speechless.
What smart kids I have.
She wished to give herself a slap on the mouth. Why did I say that he’s busy with work? I should’ve directly said that he’s on a business trip.
Meanwhile, Evan picked up the call. “What’s the matter?”
“Daddy, come back to Imperial Garden for dinner. Mommy has prepared the food you like, and is waiting for you to come back.”
