“…”
After dinner, the two of them exited the restaurant.
“Where do you want to go? Let me send you there.”
Dolores thought about it for a while and answered, “Home.”
She still hadn’t finished her task in the shop, and she had unfinished task too. What’s more, she had gotten this job from Country A.
She had an appointment with a customer who wanted to custom-make her wedding dress to go through the design booklet.
She was going to start the production of the wedding dress according to her customer’s preferred design and material soon.
Hearing that she wanted to go home, Matthew looked at her sideways and said ironically, “Your son doesn’t even have a father. Can you call that a home?”
Dolores wanted to refute him that her son just didn’t have a father at the moment, but in the end she decided to keep that to herself.
If she were to refute him, she wouldn’t know what more he would say. She just shot a glance at him before bending her body and getting into the car.
Matthew flashed a faint smile on his face.
The interior of the car was prevailed by dead silent, and there was a sense of embarrassment in the air with the both of them not speaking.
Dolores leaned against the car window and pretended to be sleeping.
However, she didn’t act perfectly, and Matthew was able to see through her almost instantly. Despite that, he didn’t want to break her disguise.
After roughly twenty minutes, Dolores pretended to be awake from her short nap as she knew that it was almost the time. The car was entering her community area too.
She rubbed her eyes while opening the car door and getting off the car and said, “Thank you.”
She was grateful to him for sending her back.
Matthew had a nonchalant posture as his hand dangled on the steering wheel, “You don’t sound sincere at all.”
Dolores stopped short in her action of closing the car door, “What do you mean?”
“If you really want to thank me, shouldn’t you invite me up there and have a cup of tea?” There was a smirk playing around his lips. He was teasing her.
Dolores was his target now.
Dolores slammed the car door and replied coldly, “I believe I have shown you my sincerity after treating you to a meal.”
Samuel was very wary of him, and if Jessica were to see him, she would be upset too.
She would be crazy to allow him to enter her house.
Simona was biting her fingers and blinking her watery eyes while looking in Dolores direction by the road, “Is that mummy?”
Samuel was wracking his brain on ways to retrieve the tablet, watch and phone from Dolores when he heard his sister’s inquiry. He stared at her, “Where did you see mummy?”
Simona pointed at the entrance of their area.
Samuel turned to see what she was talking about, and he immediately saw Dolores standing by the road looking like she was talking to someone. That person’s side profile...
Why did he look so familiar?
Almost immediately, she was able to recognize that man who was talking to Dolores. Wasn’t him that unfaithful lover?
Why was mummy still together with him?
Samuel immediately looked unfriendly as he stared at them.
Simona shook his hand and asked, “Bro, what’s wrong?”
Samuel snorted coldly, “Simona, did you see that man in the car?”
Simona nodded obediently, “I saw him.”
“He…He’s our father.” Samuel clenched his fists.
Since he was mummy’s ex-husband, that must mean he was also their father.
Simona blinked while thinking she never had the chance to use this word in her life previously. She had only heard her friends using this word in her life, unlike herself.
When she suddenly learnt from her brother that she had a father, she was beyond excited. She almost broke into a run, “Dad...“
Samuel whipped out his hand and pulled her back while covering her mouth, “Shh!”
Simona wriggled a little, “I want to see dad.”
She wasn’t as calculating as Samuel. She naively just wanted to check for herself how her father looked like since it was a piece of big news to her.
“He is not our father.” Samuel said with conviction.
Huh?
Simona was thrown into confusion. Her brother was changing his opinion now. Which one was true?
She could only stare at her brother with widened eyes, as if she was waiting for an answer.
“He used to be our father, but he has abandoned mummy and us, so we can’t call him our father anymore.”
Simona didn’t fully understand that. Her eye lashes fluttered as she said mechanically, “But is he our father? I want a daddy.”
Samuel hugged her sister and said, “I will find us a good father. I will find a good man for mummy.”
Simona, “…”
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