Seeing Amanda smiling, Nina ran over and helped her, "Let me hold you up."
Amanda looked at her and thought she had just been too direct. Nina was still a child, and there was nothing wrong with her wanting a mother. She shouldn't have been so blunt but should have been more tactful so as not to upset her.
"Doesn't your dad usually have time for you?" Amanda thought it was actually quite easy for her to be content. She could be so happy when Joan said he'd take her to an amusement park.
Nina nodded, "He's busy and doesn't have time."
Amanda thought to herself that he should spend time with his own child even if he didn't have time, and Nina was a motherless child.
"He's tried so hard to keep me company." Nina lowered her eyes and suddenly became depressed.
Amanda was at a loss for words. Had she said the wrong thing?
How had she become upset all of a sudden?
Her mood changed so quickly that she was caught off guard.
"Well, Nina ..."
Nina looked up at her, "I'm fine."
Amanda was speechless.
This kid ...
"My mum and dad are dead, and he adopted me," Nina said.
Amanda looked at her for a long time. That meant she had been thinking wrong?
She wasn't actually Joan's illegitimate child?
And he hadn't been irresponsible?
"My mum and dad died and my grandparents wouldn't raise me, so I became an orphan with no one to look after me. He was the one who took me into this family and became my father ..."
She blinked, "Actually, he's pathetic."
Amanda was speechless.
Joan was pathetic?
What was pathetic about him?
He was powerful and influential. How was he pathetic?
What did she mean by the word “pathetic”?
If he was pathetic, weren't the ordinary people in this world who ran around for money even more pathetic?
"He's too busy to find a wife. Isn't that pathetic?" Nina blinked.
Amanda was speechless.
So she went around looking for a mother to find him a wife?
This kid ...
Amanda didn't know what to say about her anymore.
"Nina." Joan walked over, "Come here."
He waved.
Nina immediately ran over, then tilted her head back and called sweetly, "Daddy."
Joan picked her up and placed her on a chair in front of the dining table. The table was long and could seat at least twenty people.
"Miss Nelson, come and eat." Joan pulled out her chair for her in a very gentlemanly manner.
Amanda was ashamed of what she had thought earlier when she knew that Nina was not his illegitimate child. How could she freely speculate on a person's character?
And she'd said those things to him.
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