Chapter 251 No Room For Others Between Them
Scott glanced at her. “Is that so? In that case, I won’t insist on you staying. Are you still coming over tonight?”
“Yes.” Courtney nodded, concealing the sorrow in her eyes as she lowered her head. “Tina, let’s go.”
When they were about to leave, Jordan suddenly tugged at the corner of her clothes and cried with much difficulty, “Mommy…”
The atmosphere at the dining table instantly froze, but Alexander seemed indifferent.
It was not the first time that Jordan called her ‘Mommy’ although he seldom addressed her as such in front of others. Alexander, who seemed unfazed by the incident, hoped to see how she dealt with the situation.
Nevertheless, Scott’s expression became cold. “Jordan, you shouldn’t address a random person as ‘Mommy’.”
Jordan, who suddenly felt aggrieved, tightly held onto Courtney’s clothes without any intention to release it—even if his little hand was reddened. He sobbed, “Great-Grandpa is bad. I want Mommy…”
At that moment, the entire atmosphere in the dining room was indescribable as the maids looked at one another with complex expressions.
“Jordan.” Courtney’s tone revealed that she was caught between a rock and a hard place. In fact, she hoped that she was able to just take Jordan away from there at that point of time. Why are we putting a 5-year-old child through all these complicated situations? “If it is possible, I would like to take Jordan to my place for two days.” She forced herself to ask for something that even she herself thought was impossible.
“No. Do you think that it will be appropriate for Jordan to just leave with an outsider?” Scott’s expression was cold.
Upon hearing that, Jordan cried even louder.
Scott snapped at Alexander. “Alex, take Jordan away and calm him down!”
Alexander sat firmly on his seat without budging. There was an impassive expression on his face even after he was scolded by Scott. He shrugged his shoulders and calmly replied, “I can’t calm him down. Nobody is able to calm him down when he starts crying.”
“You are trying to piss me off, aren’t you?” Scott’s body trembled in fury. He immediately rose to his full height, approached Courtney and grabbed Jordan’s arm before tearing the young child away from her embrace. With a cold expression, he instructed, “Miss Hunter, you may leave now.”
No matter how reluctant she felt, she had to force herself to leave.
Her heart ached when she saw Jordan crying his eyes out until he had breathing difficulties.
After leaving the Duncans’ ancestral home, Courtney buckled up her seat belt and drove away from their house.
Tina’s sobs were heard from the backseat. “Mommy, Jordan cried so badly. Are we really not going to care about him?”
Courtney fixed her gaze in front, but her fingers were clutching the steering wheel for dear life. “It is not that I don’t care about him; it’s just that I am not in the place to care for him now. Once the lawyer hired by your daddy returns to the country, I will find a way to bring Jordan home.”
Tina snuffled and her red eyes made her look like a little rabbit. “Mommy, why did I was with you when Jordan followed Mr. Alexander? Did Daddy and Mommy give Jordan away when he was still a baby?”
A child’s mind was simple and it had a rather fixed way of thinking. Without much life experience, they did not know that there could be one too many coincidences in life.
Tina had always thought that she and Jordan were both Elijah and Courtney’s children, but for some reason, he had left them when he was still a baby.
Courtney did not know how to explain the situation to her. After keeping quiet for a long time, she explained in a small voice, “That was because I wasn’t careful enough when I gave birth to you two. I accidentally lost Jordan.”
Tina did not reply.
After Courtney left, the dining room in the Duncans’ home was in a state of mess.
Alexander seemed to have decided not to care about everything around him and he had no intention to calm his own son down. The maids around them were flustered. Jordan bawled even louder; it did not matter who came close to him and it stopped everyone from having the courage to get near him.
“You guys are useless.” Scott slammed the table. As he also felt disconcerted, he bent over and tried to coax Jordan. “Jordan, you are a good boy. Please stop crying… Okay?”
Jordan snuffled and his cries came to a sudden halt. Just when everyone thought that Scott had miraculously succeeded in calming the boy down, his little hand gave the older man’s face a slap while he stomped his foot in fury. “Bad guy!”
Everyone in the room was aghast as their eyes widened. Even the butler, Harry, was shocked as he watched the scene before his eyes in disbelief.
Scott had been thriving in the business world all his life and he gained respect from everyone wherever he went. Now that he was an extremely old person, he was now embarrassed by his great-grandson when the latter gave him a slap. It was obvious to everyone that Scott’s expression had darkened.
“Old Master Duncan, Jordan is still young.” Mikayla immediately stood up and tried to console him.
Alexander remained calm. He took a sip of water and placed the glass on the table while he watched everything that happened before his eyes indifferently.
Scott took a deep breath with his brows furrowed. After a moment, he bent over again and forced a smile on his face. “Yes, I’m the bad guy. Jordan, you can whack me as much you like if you are able to calm down after hitting me. I will not be angry at you and I won’t cry as well. Therefore, Jordan, please stop crying and you have to finish your meal.”
Everyone in the house was astounded. Even Harry’s eyes widened at his reaction.
As expected, Scott was practically unprincipled when it came to pampering his great-grandson. It was not obvious in the past because they had not spent much time together and they never had to experience such a peculiar moment.
“I want Mommy…” Jordan sobbed. His little hands hit Scott and pushed him away in resistance while he himself took two steps back. The boy’s tear-stained face seemed to have made him look extremely pitiful.
Scott sighed. He finally understood what Alexander meant by ‘nobody is able to calm him down when he starts to cry’. Nobody except Courtney is really able to calm the child down.
The maid took Jordan away. Although he continued to cry, at least the people in the dining hall had a peace of mind without him crying in front of them.
However, everyone had lost their appetite to eat by then.
Now that the atmosphere in the dining hall regained its silence, the aura seemed to be stiffer. The tactful Mikayla cast a glance at everyone and rose to her full height. “Old Master Duncan, Alex, I’m full and I have something else to attend to. I shall take my leave now.”
Scott politely uttered, “You are full after eating so little? There are still some dishes in the kitchen that haven’t been served.”
“It’s fine. I have a small appetite and I’m on a diet now. Let’s chat again some other time.” She politely smiled. “By the way, I have something else to do tonight, so I won’t be coming over later.”
With that, Scott nodded and Mikayla left the Duncan Residence.
After getting into the car, she tapped open the call log on her phone and stared at the number for some time before mustering the courage to make a call. “Hello, it’s me—Mikayla.”
Before the person on the other end of the phone could even respond, Mikayla continued speaking, “Are you free? I noticed that you didn’t have a proper meal earlier. Let’s have lunch together. I don’t mean anything; I just have something I wish to discuss with you.”
The call lasted for a short while. After hanging up on the call, she picked a kraft paper bag from the passenger seat and took out a parentage testing report. Her initially cold eyes were tainted with shreds of darkness.
Life was full of uncertainties. She initially thought that Britney had lied to her, but when the evidence was presented in front of her, she had no choice but to believe in the existence of fate in the world. The two people, who had been brought together by fate, had no room for a third person between them.
