After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire novel Chapter 979

Chapter 979 Besse, Hannah

"I want to go back to Jolencami." Doyle suddenly said behind Besse.

Besse withdrew her gaze and turned around to look at him.

"I think you've become very strange here. Let's go back home. I'll have my assistant book us the nearest flight out when we get there."

Besse didn't refuse. She also felt like she had become very strange here, as if she was familiar with this place yet it was just an illusion, which made her conflicted and even irritable.

"From now on, I won't let you come to Northfield again." Doyle huffed.

Besse chuckled lightly. She thought that Doyle was being childish but at that moment, he herself thought so too. She always felt like this place didn't belong to her.

When Oscar returned home with Salem and Una, Manuel and Susan were already there waiting for them. Oscar had anticipated their arrival so he had had Max prepare more dinner than usual.

"Has the earth spun off its axis? You took Sal out to play?!" Susan deliberately raised her voice as soon as they entered the hall.

Oscar ignored her and called for one of their servants instead, "Bring me the medicine box."

"Yes sir." the servant hurried off to fetch it while Oscar carried Salem over towards the sofa.

Susan saw Salem's injury and lost interest in teasing Oscar; instead, she became extremely nervous, "What happened? How did Sal hurt his knee like this?"

"Daddy took us out today to an amusement park but Sal fell down a staircase." Una quickly explained while looking worriedly at Salem too.

"How could you let something like this happen under your watch?!" Susan scolded Oscar angrily.

"Daddy already got scolded by a beautiful lady earlier today," Una interjected once more.

"Which beautiful lady?" Susan asked incredulously.

"The beautiful lady who showed up on the stage at last!"

"Besse?" Susan felt surprised.

"I don't know what her name is but she mentioned you, she thought Auntie Susan was our mom."

At that moment, Susan couldn't help but look towards Oscar, who had started cleaning up Salem's wound by then. It looked painful but Sal hadn't cried once.

"You can cry if it hurts," Oscar spoke gently after noticing how much pain his son must be in right now.

"I'm a man! Men don't cry." Salem firmly declared instead.

Oscar smiled softly despite feeling heartbroken inside himself.

Those words Besse yelled at him earlier today about how he wasn't being much of a father kept echoing through his mind. He just felt that as a boy, he had to grow up and be independent. Besides, Salem was the heir. He should have learned independence from an early age. Or, perhaps he was just using this noble excuse to avoid spending too much time on his child. He lived too tiredly, sometimes unable to take care of everything.

"Sal, you're just like your dad." Susan looked at Salem's wound and her heart ached. She continued, "You know how to endure!"

The boy always endures everything alone without saying it out.

"It doesn't really... hurt," Salem said with some difficulty.

His eyes were red from the pain but he refused to admit it. Susan's eyes also turned red. If Hannah were still alive with such an obedient child-like Salem, would she feel comforted or pained?

She touched Salem's head gently. Sometimes she wanted to give the best things in the world only to this boy who understood everything so well.

Oscar treated Salem's wound while saying towards Max, "Let's start eating."