Chapter 88 Mommy, Are You Afraid of Daddy?
It was indeed Lily. No one knew what had happened early in the morning. In pink pajamas, she was holding a long-eared bunny doll and crying at the door to Haley’s room.
Haley fidgeted and quickly squatted to hug her. “What’s wrong? Sweetheart, why are you crying? What happened?”
She thought that the girl was not used to this place.
After throwing herself into Haley’s arms, the girl sobbed, “Mommy, my brothers are going to kindergarten. I want to go too, but… they wouldn’t let me, Mommy…”
She burst into tears.
kindergarten?
She had been hospitalized for a while and had forgotten that the two children needed to go to kindergarten.
She immediately asked, “Why wouldn’t he let you go with him? Are you studying in the same kindergarten?”
“No… After Daddy brought us back, he sent my brother to the same kindergarten as Roy and ignored me. Daddy… he wouldn’t let me go…”
The girl cried her eyes out till she trembled in her mother’s arms.
Haley listened and figured out the situation.
She felt a pain in her heart and a surge of anger in her chest.
But then what?
Going to see her dad?
No, that was not gonna happen. He didn’t even know that she was his daughter, and she didn’t want him to know.
So, she had no reason to see him.
Haley held her daughter tightly and tried to comfort her, “Well… how about I send you back to the former kindergarten?”
“No, I want to be with my brother. Mommy, don’t you love me anymore? Like Daddy, you don’t want me?”
The girl looked at her mother with tearful eyes. Her sad look broke Haley’s heart.
“Okay, I’ll take you to the same kindergarten as your brothers.”
Haley disregarded everything, let her daughter wait in the room, packed up, and left for the third floor.
“Jason? Jason? Are you up? We need to talk.”
Haley was resistant because every time she came to the third floor, she would argue with the man. It was terrible.
There had never been good talks.
Haley stared at the bedroom door and intentionally stood a little further away since the matter they were going to talk about was not a pleasant one.
She waited for a minute or so and finally heard a sound from inside. No one knew what he was doing. She heard his footsteps as he came to open the door.
“What’s up?”
The door was suddenly opened. In a thin, dark, handmade shirt, the man was standing there with his collar unbuttoned. His delicate collarbone was exposed. His legs were long and straight. The iron buckle of his belt gleamed with a cold light. His overall image was noble and elegant.
Haley watched, and her edge was somehow blunted.
“Well… it’s not a big deal. I just heard that you sent Ian to the same kindergarten as Roy. Can you… get Lily there too?”
“Why should I? She is not my seed!”
The man rejected bluntly.
Haley felt even more diffident. “Well… even if she is not your seed, she is still Ian and Roy’s sister. For the sake of that, can you take her to the kindergarten?”
“No!”
The man rejected again, turned around, and prepared to close the door.
Haley got so anxious that she forgot to keep a distance from him. She rushed over and stopped him from closing the door. “Please don’t, we can discuss it.”Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.
“Get lost!”
“Mr. Black, I’m sorry for being disrespectful to you. Can you let it pass? Whatever you need me to do, I’ll do it!”
Haley went all out, swallowed her pride, squeezed into the room, and looked up at the man.
Was she willing to do that?
Showing a sullen face, Jason was going to throw her out but stopped when he heard that.
“Everything?”
His dark eyes stared at her condescendingly. His emotions were unknown, but his look was terrifying.
Haley blinked. The pressure was so great that her mind instantly went blank. She swallowed and knew not how to answer.
Did he have to be so scary?
“What? Scared?”
Jason cornered her, detected a hint of trepidation on her face, and suddenly gave a sarcastic smile.
Haley’s eyes widened.
“No, just name it. By the way, do you want me to treat you? Okay, I’ll do it right away.” With that, she saw the blue in his eyes and reached out for his face.
Jason was stunned.
Before he could react, he felt two slender fingers on his eyebrows. Because it was early morning in winter, her fingers were cold but soft. She quickly and accurately found the acupuncture before pressing it with her soft finger pulps.
Jason was dazed.
Probably, he hadn’t expected the woman to be so bold that she made a move on him.
Or he hadn’t expected that his eyes soring from a lack of sleep would feel better under her massage.
“How are you feeling? Better? Busy and ill people like you should receive massage therapy every morning. It will help you recover.”
Haley treated him carefully.
She was counting on it to help her daughter.
Too absorbed, she was unaware that she was getting ever closer to him. She was short while the man was over six feet. To reach his head, she had to lean over.
Jason’s eyes dimmed.
He had noticed the close distance between them. Once he lowered his head, he would see his reflection in her limpid eyes.
There was a faint fragrance of lemon on her body. When she was speaking, her breath was warm. Her light, attractive lips got clearer in his eyes and mind.
“Ow…”
Haley used too much strength, and her unhealed wound was strained.
She immediately tilted to the side.
Without hesitation, Jason reached out his hands and yanked her back. Haley bumped into his chest and hastily raised her head. Her soft lips inadvertently brushed across Jason’s shirt that had been torn open…