Sawyer took off the black gloves on his hands and put them on the hand of the old butler. Then he asked, "Simon, where is the Abner?"
Observing the man's expression, Simon carefully replied, "He must still be sleeping..."
Seeing his eyes suddenly darken, Simon hurriedly said, "Oh! But Abner usually wakes up at this time. Maybe it's because the weather is too good today, so he stays asleep after he got up."
The man turned his head and looked at a room on the second floor. After that, he opened his mouth and said, "Uncle Wang, go and wake him up."
"Yes." Simon answered, trembling with fear.
Because of Abner's personality and physical flaws, no school dared to accept him. Therefore, the master had invited seven teachers who graduated from the university with a professor degree to come home to teach Abner at home.
The subjects taught by the teachers were different from one another, so Sawyer had arranged for only one teacher to come each day, which happened to make up one week.
It was Sunday, so the teacher who came over should a French teacher. The French teacher had always had a habit of arriving early, so it would not be acceptable to let him stay in bed.
With this thought in mind, Simon hurriedly turned around to look for Abner.
Fifteen minutes later...
Savannah carefully went downstairs with Abner in her arms. Under the stern eyes of Sawyer, Savannah put Abner down nervously and bowed her head slightly. "Mr. Quartley, thank you for all the efforts you made..."
Seeing that Savannah no longer hugged Abner, the cold expression on Sawyer's face faded a little.
"Dad..." Abner, who had drooped his eyelids and showed no interest in everything, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard Sawyer's voice. His big black eyes were suffused with an imperceptible joy.
Sawyer took a quick glance at Abner's chubby little face and said, "Let's start eating."
Abner's originally dull eyes suddenly dimmed. Sawyer was clearly directing these words to Savannah.
Savannah responded quickly, "Yes."
An adult and a kid were sitting at the dinner table.
The kid would steal glances at the adult from time to time, while the adult was focused on eating. Simon and Savannah who were serving by their side seemed to be used to it.
Sawyer's deliberate ignorance about Abner was brought out since the day Abner was born. They felt sorry for Abner, but there was nothing they could do.
Suddenly, they heard Sawyer's phone ringing in the living room.
But no one paid any attention to it.
Even Simon and Savannah acted like they did not hear anything.
It was only the stubborn Abner who suddenly refused the soup spoon that Savannah handed over to him. He waved his small hand at Sawyer and said, "Dad... your hand phone..."
Sawyer ignored him.
Savannah sighed secretly, "Abner, let's eat."
After having breakfast, Sawyer slowly got up and walked towards the living room. He bent down to pick up the phone on the tea table and lit up the screen.
There was a missed call from Kaiden.
The corners of Sawyer's mouth slightly curled up as he called back.
Sawyer remained silent for a moment, then replied, "I'm hanging up."
"Hello! Sawyer..."
After getting rid of the noisy Kaiden, Sawyer's slightly cold gaze landed on Simon who was still by his side. He asked, "Did Kaiden bring a woman here a while ago?"
Simon was stunned for a moment. Hethen gave a detailed account of what Kaiden had told Sawyer on the phone.
"However, I didn't know that Abner fell off the stairs until later because I arranged a car for Mr. Wright and Ms. Amelia to return home at that time. I didn't go to the hospital with Abner. You can ask Savannah for the details when they were in the hospital."
Sawyer sat down on the sofa and said faintly, "Call Savannah over."
"Okay."
Simon then took over Savannah's duty. He led Abner back to his room to prepare for his homework while Savannah went to Sawyer.
After vaguely taking a glance at Sawyer from head to toe, Savannah then asked, "Mr. Quartley, do you have something to say to me?"
Sawyer glanced at her and said, "Some time ago when I wasn't here, something happened to Abner again, huh?"
Savannah's expression changed slightly. It seemed that Sawyer had already heard of Abner falling down the stairs. What was he going to do next? Punish her?
Just as Savannah was hesitating, Sawyer calmly asked, "Tell me all the details of what happened to Abner in the hospital."
At the same time, at Land of Fragrance...
In the study room, Patrick propped up his forehead with one hand and held a cigarette in the other. If someone pushed the door and came in at this time, he would definitely be choked to death by the smell of smoke in the room.
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