Elijah and Tim looked at each other quietly. Did the words just come from a three-year-old child? They were really shocked.
“Elijah, old master, I am going upstairs to call my mum. Enjoy your meal, I'm not hungry!” Hugo said calmly, “I am going up first.”
“Alright, come down to eat when you are hungry!” Tim really liked that smart child.
“Grandpa, I'm going to look for Babe!” Elijah couldn't bear it anymore. He wanted to leave to meet her. He placed his daughter there. He was distressed and satisfied to see her mouth full of oil.
“Go ahead!” Iris said again. “Daddy, go. Mummy must be looking at your picture and cry!”
“Go! I don't know if she is still angry with me because I scolded her so badly last time!” Tim felt so regretful when he recalled it. But he just needed to do it at that time, he had no other ideas!
“Sweetie, you stay with grandpa and daddy will come back tomorrow, is it okay?” Although Elijah didn't want to be separated from his daughter, he must bring his wife back first.
“Okay!” The little girl replied obediently. She could just go anywhere with food!
Elijah kissed his daughter's forehead reluctantly, “Daddy is going now! Grandpa, I'm going!”
At Elijah’s apartment.
The small apartment where he lived with Esther four years ago.
Esther came back and she went there.
Philip had let people clean up there and the furnishings inside were not changed. She looked at everything which she was familiar with and cried uncontrollably.
It was the sadness of waiting for four years or maybe it was the joy of reunion after parting. All kinds of complex emotions intertwined, and she just couldn’t control herself.
She saw him today!
Finally, she saw him!
However, she ran away!
He did not catch up. She left her daughter to him. She was their daughter who was the fruit of their love. She didn't expect to discover her pregnancy after separating from him for a month. She cried with joy. No one knew how worried she was to get a child like her previous child. She waited nervously for the check-up until she found that the child was healthy and then finally her heart was relieved.
On the day of giving birth, she was accompanied by her brother and Hudson. After that, she gave birth to the naughty little cute girl.
She curled up herself on the sofa, letting her tears flow violently.
No one knew how long it had passed until she heard the sound of the key turning and looked up in shock. The door was opened. The tall and familiar figure appeared in front of her.
She didn't even have time to wipe off the tears on her face. She looked very indecent as her face was of tears. Then, she wiped it off immediately with her sleeve.
She raised her head and looked at him. The door was closed. He leaned against the door and just looked at her like that.
They looked at each other. Esther blushed inexplicably. Maybe it was because she hadn't seen him for a long time. She felt like they had been apart from each other for a century and it was such a long time for her to wait which had made her anxious. After suffering for such a long time, she finally met him and there was a familiar flame in his eyes.
It had been too long and she seemed to be a little not familiar with him in that way. His gentle watery gaze made her heart beat wildly. It was actually because she missed him too much.
Elijah looked at her gently and then she stood up without saying a word, getting ready to enter the bathroom to wash her tear-stained face.
But he rushed to her in a big stride. He stretched out his arms and hugged Esther tightly who was about to flee. He hugged her so tightly as if he wished to put her body into his body and so they could never be separated again. It had been four years. There were so many days and months in the period. He had waited long enough.
“Let go of me!” It seemed like her body was about to be severed by him. Esther said in a cold voice, such a close embrace made her heart beat wildly.
“Babe, I'm sorry!” He knew that it was a mistake to choose the way. However, he was really afraid that he would not bear it and also he worried that he couldn’t come back. What if she kept waiting for him?
His word ‘sorry’ broke Esther pretended strength and finally the tears that she swallowed just gushed out.
“Uuuuu...” Esther was sobbing again. She stayed in his arms and the familiar breath rushed into her nose. His embrace was as warm as usual, as broad as before. Her little fist just fell on his shoulders. “Aren't you dead? Didn't you blow up? Didn't you scare me that you are dead in the explosion? What are you doing? Why are you coming back? Why are you coming back? Uuuuu...”
“I'm sorry!” The low noise was choked. Elijah closed his eyes, preventing anyone from seeing him humble and fragile at the moment but he finally came back. No one knew he had been in so much danger and no one knew how dangerous a situation he had gone through in the past four years. He thought it would need to take three years for him to legalize LN Group. But it took more than four years for him to do so. Everything was far more complicated than he thought. If it weren't for Josh Gunn, the person whose face had been deliberately changed into Elijah’s face, if he hadn't helped Elijah, he must have gone to heaven early now!
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...