Melissa was initially walking slowly, but when she thought that the man in front of her was her father, she picked up the pace and ran towards him.
She stretched out her short arms, and shouted, "Daddy!"
Her sudden yell shocked all the people that were present in the church.
Besides calling him daddy, they also found that the girl's face closely resembled Daniel's. They wondered if this was his and Ivanka's child.
When she saw the little girl coming closer and closer to Daniel, Shirley felt her hands suddenly becoming colder, and her uneasy feelings intensifying.
Not only was Shirley feeling uneasy, but the man next to her as well.
He stared at the cute girl, and wondered where she came from.
Melissa kept running and eventually stopped in front of Daniel. Without hesitation, she held Daniel's legs with her little arms, and while showing her lovely white little teeth, she said, "Daddy! Hug, hug!"
Daniel was staring at her, and he couldn't help but bend down to her. At that moment, he could clearly see that the girl really resembled him...
Then he held her up in his arms, and he couldn't help to ask, "Your mother is..."
"Here!" A familiar voice was then heard, which startled everyone present.
At the door there was a woman surrounded by six bodyguards. Her hair was tied up on her head, and she was wearing a white suit, with a pair of white high-heel shoes.
This woman, with her outstanding graceful temperament, was none other than Janet.
The woman who had disappeared for almost three years.
The familiar face made both Samuel and Ella's hands tremble, and so did Daniel's.
Janet looked deep into the handsome man's eyes, who was dressed in an elegant tuxedo. Their eyes met, and the looks in both of their eyes were filled with unutterable and complicated emotions.
Janet moved her eyes away, and then walked towards her parents.
"Dad, mom, I'm back." She spoke to her parents in a low voice, on the verge of tears.
Ella wiped off her tears from her cheeks, and couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"Jane!" called Samuel. Although he was a man, his eyes were red and flooded with tears when he saw his daughter again after her three year absence.
Instantly, Janet was surrounded by all the people there. They all kept asking her questions, one after another. They wanted to know how she was, and where she had been in the past few years.
Then, a few moments later, the little girl in Daniel's arms was taken away by Lola. Looking at her lovely granddaughter, Lola also silently wiped her tears off her face.
Samuel and Ella then finally grinned a smile on their faces; they had seldom smiled in the past three years.
While Daniel was still indulging in the joy of being a father, Harry walked over to him, and ignoring Shirley, who was now wearing a pale face, said to his son, "This wedding ceremony must now be cancelled!"
"Daniel..." Shirley called the man's name in a low and soft voice. From the moment Janet had showed up, the man had kept his silence, without uttering a single word.
Daniel drew back his look and calmed down. He said to Harry, "No, my wedding ceremony won't be cancelled."
His words dumbfounded everyone in the church.
Janet tittered, and then she held her daughter in her arms, and said, "Dad, mom, brother, sister-in-law, let's go back home."
Lola hastily grabbed Janet's hand, and while casting a sharp stare at her son, she said, "If you insist on still getting married today, then we'll all leave!"
Daniel tittered too. Janet indeed had the power to catch and hold everybody's hearts in the palm of her hands, even though she had been gone for three years.
"That's up to you!" answered Daniel.
His simple answer infuriated Lola.
Janet got free off Lola's grip, and while she was holding her daughter and looking at Daniel, she said, "I wish you a happy life. I'll also be getting married soon, and your daughter will have to call another man 'father'!"
Finishing her words, Janet turned around in an arrogant manner and then walked towards the church's door.
'My daughter will call another man 'father'?' thought Daniel to himself, and a cold light flashed through his eyes.
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