‘You are nothing!'
These words really hurt Bright. He was not Doris' father indeed, but just an outsider. Only Rose had the guardianship to Doris as her mother.
An unprecedented darkness spread out on Bright's cold face. He held Doris and looked directly at Rose with slightly narrowed and sharp eyes.
Rose's stubbornness was like a flower blooming on the top of a mountain, flickering in the wind and snow, not afraid of being snapped.
"Rose, say it again." Bright exhaled lightly.
"Mr. Bright, put Doris down." Rose didn't reply to him directly, "Doris, come down."
"Handsome uncle, put me down." Doris was struggling.
Bright was afraid that she would fell down, so he put her down. Doris walked to Rose once she got freed.
Doris took Rose by the hand and bit her lip, "Mommy, I know I have done wrong. Don't quarrel with handsome uncle."
"We are not quarreling." The two answered simultaneously.
Bright and Rose looked at each other and then looked away. Glancing at them, Doris pressed her lips together, lowered down her head and couldn't help smiling, but she didn't dare to behave evidently.
"Mr. Bright, I have no discrepancy if you want to eat these foods. You can eat as much as you want and I will buy for you. But the agreement between the child and me cannot be invalidated arbitrarily. If I allow her to eat junk food, this will be irresponsibility to her health and as a mother, and I will be a bad mother." Rose restrained himself and slowed down her voice, "What do you want to eat? I will go to order for you."
"Well, give me one portion for all the foods inside." Bright felt angry, childish like a kid.
"OK." Rose walked into the store with Doris.
She stood in front of the ordering counter, "One portion for each kind of foods in the store."
The attendant thought he had misheard, "Are you sure?"
How could the two of them eat so much?
"Yes." Rose confirmed, "Please be quick. Someone cannot wait already."
"OK. Please wait a moment." The attendant ordered all the foods and told Rose the amount.
Rose paid by QR code scanning. Looking at the amount, Rose felt a little distressed.
Ordinarily Rose was not a person who wasted money, and she was always economical. To her surprise, Bright came up with such a request, which made her lose a lot of money in her wallet.
But the promise had been made and she couldn't go back on her word.
After quite a while, the foods were finally prepared, which were put on several trays.
Rose passed them to Bright one after another, which were put on the rectangular table, "Mr. Bright, help yourself. See you."
"Stop." Bright shouted coldly, "Hasn't Miss Linder heard ‘It's easier to raise the devil than to lay him'? Since you have called me over, then I need you to look at me eating and to leave after I finish."
Rose bit her lip and clenched her fists, telling herself to calm down and not to be irritated by him.
"Mr. Bright, could you please stop behaving like a child?" Rose said impolitely.
"Miss Linder, this is the consequence for you provoking me. You have to take responsibility for that." Looking at so much food on the table, Bright took the French fries and began to eat, ignoring them, after getting a glimpse.
He raised his lips while eating, smirking.
She continued to force herself against him at this time.
Bright took up the tissue to wipe the oil stain on his hand, then took out something from his suit pocket and put it on the table.
A marriage certificate with red background and gold letters entered Rose's eyes, which surprising her.
She averted her gaze from the red marriage certificate to Bright's face, and a trace of surprise flashed by in her eyes. What did he mean? Did he carry the marriage certificate just like ID card?
"Miss Linder, since you are so disobedient, I can only do this." Bright's fair fingertip fell down on the marriage certificate, and his finger appeared to be elegant and perfect against the certificate, "Rose, I am not only the person in charge of the cooperation project between you and the company, but also the one who has intimate relationship with you. As your other half in law, I think I am qualified for the child's education."
Looking at Bright's handsome face, which turned more and more serious, Rose swallowed.
Was he serious?
Legally speaking, he was her husband and thus the child's father. Even though he was stepfather, he was qualified for the child's education.
"What do you want to do?" Rose stood in front of Doris to protect her, "I gave birth to her."
She meant that Bright was not her biological father, so she denied his qualification.
"The law doesn't care about blood relationship, and gives me duty and right." Bright smiled. What he said really made sense.
Rose frowned, looking like a mother wolf which protected her wolf cub, with much alertness.
"Are you angry?" Bright's fingertip lightly hit the marriage certificate, "I am just bringing out the facts and reasons."
"Rose, Mr. Bright, what a coincidence." At this time a cold and elegant figure walked forward, but was attracted by the red marriage certificate on the table, "Whose marriage certificate?"
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Come on Daddy (Bright and Rose)
Hating Rose for being coward and selfish she dare to run away😶 i pitied Bright, he is so kind always protective for his family...
Why aren't they looking on Cctv footage for them to know what the real happen about the kid 😑...