Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 165

Chapter 165
“Welcome to Little Sun’s cooking stream! Today, we’re making two seafood
dishes!”
Flash forward five years later, in Little Sun’s live stream on TikTok, two
adorable children in cartoon outfits were removing the veins from the
shrimps in front of the camera.
Nicole was holding a toothpick as she earnestly picked the veins out.
However, she accidentally lost her grip, and the shrimp fell onto the floor.
“Nicole!”
Startled, Nicole hastily bent over to look for the shrimp.
When she found it, she looked pleadingly at Nathan Selwyn, who was a
little taller than her. Her dark pupils were filled with a pitiful look as she
said, “I’m sorry, Nathan.”
They were both five years old, but Nicole was innocent and pure, whereas
Nathan possessed a calm and collected aura not found in others his age.
Even though he still retained some child-like qualities, one could see from
his face that he would grow up to have looks girls would swoon over.
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“Nathan!” Seeing that Nathan was ignoring her, Nicole extended two tender
fingers from her fist and tugged the hem of Nathan’s shirt, saying cutely,
“I’m sorry, Nathan, so please forgive me, okay? I swear I’ll only eat two
shrimps for dinner, and you can have the rest!”
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“Still dare bring this up, huh? Who was the one who ate a whole plate of
shrimp and upset her tummy? You’re not allowed to have any shrimp
today!” Nathan seemed like he wasn’t open to negotiation.
When Nicole heard that, she pouted but dared not object. “Alright, since
you’ve banned me from eating shrimp, I won’t eat any.”
With that, Nicole lowered her head and fiddled her thumbs, looking sad
and wronged.
However, the viewers in the live stream laughed at the siblings’ interactions
and sent messages as they went.
‘Nathan, you should be nicer to Nicole. She’s already sad enough after
getting diarrhea from eating too much shrimp!’
‘Silly Nicole, when will you understand Nathan’s kindness? He’s doing it for
your sake. Oh no, look at how you’re pouting! Come, let me hug you.’
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All the viewers in the live stream loved watching the two cute children.
Every time the siblings started a live stream, they would come to watch the
siblings interact with each other.
As the viewers flooded the chat with more messages, a notification caught
their attention.
‘Silent Night has entered the live stream.’
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Silent Night was a wealthy man, and regular viewers of the children’s live
streams knew about him. He was very generous and would always send
expensive gifts in the live stream.
As soon as Silent Night entered the live stream, he began spamming gifts
for the children. In the blink of an eye, he had already spent huge a amount
of money.
Nathan stood in front of the phone screen, watching the gifts pile up. There
was a frown on his little face as he said, “Mr. Night, my mommy said that
you mustn’t send any more gifts.”
Their mother had mentioned this a long time ago. She said that the
children were live streaming just to share their lives, and if the viewers had
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gifts they got for free, they could send the gifts to the siblings. They didn’t
have to spend money to buy those gifts.
However, this man called Silent Night always spammed gifts when he
arrived, and nothing they said could change his mind.
Nathan was a little upset.
However, when Nicole saw the gifts, she grinned and made a clumsy heart
gesture toward the camera. “Thank you, Mr. Night! You’re so generous!”
In the capital city of Uspein, a man sat in front of a desk in a huge and quiet
study.
The man’s gaze was dark. He had thin lips and dark hair, and his tightly
pursed lips seemed to be frosted over. The emotions he expressed formed a
sharp look on his handsome face.
It seemed like a very serious situation, but the phone in the man’s hand was
playing the live stream of the two cute children.
After he sent the gifts, the boy on the screen frowned sternly and said, “Mr.
Night, my mommy said that you mustn’t send any more gifts.”
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However, the little girl next to the boy winked. She blew a kiss toward the
camera and even made a heart gesture.
“Thank you, Mr. Night! You’re so generous!”
The girl’s voice was soft and adorable, and even her movements were a
little clumsy. However, for some reason, she entered the most tender parts
of his heart with great ease.
The man’s thin lips, which were freezing a moment ago, seemed to have
melted as a faint curve appeared on them.
He liked the little girl more in comparison. She wouldn’t tell him to stop
sending gifts as that boy did, and she would always blow kisses and make
heart gestures at him.
If he also had a daughter…
He was still lost in thought when someone knocked on the door of the
office.
The assistant opened the door and walked in, reminding him, “Mr.
Cadogan, the meeting is starting soon. We have to go.”
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Terrance Levane froze when he caught sight of the smile that had yet to
fade from Alaric’s lips. A moment later, he realized what was going on when
he heard the adorable voices coming from his phone.
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He was watching the cute children again.
Now that he thought about it, everything seemed so bizarre.
A year ago, he accompanied Alaric to Uspein for a meeting. After the
meeting, Alaric went to a jewelry shop to purchase some jewelry as a gift
for his mother. While he was doing so, he bumped into two old ladies in the
jewelry shop, but the old ladies stood out quite a lot.
This was because they were watching two cute children live-streaming
while they picked out their jewelry.
Terrance could understand old ladies doing something unexpected, but he
couldn’t comprehend why Alaric would stop in his tracks when he heard
the two children speaking. Alaric stood next to the old ladies, listening in
and watching the live stream for a long while.
In the end, he even walked up to them and asked how to watch the live
streams.
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This change shocked Terrance terribly.
After that, Alaric seemed to have picked up the habit of watching the cute
children live-streaming.
Whenever the two children went live, Alaric would enter the live stream
and send them gifts no matter what he was doing.
If he was in a meeting, he would leave after sending the gifts, then watch
the video later on.
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At first, Terrance thought Alaric found the two children too cute and
interesting, and that was why he behaved like that. Terrance assumed that
Alaric would lose interest after a while but never expected the
phenomenon would last until now. It had been one year since everything
started, but Alaric wasn’t bored with the children yet.
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Terrance heard from his cousin, Peter, who was also Alaric’s previous
assistant, that Alaric had gone through a divorce before, and he was the one
who made his wife so mad that she left him. Hence, Terrance began
thinking.
Could it be that Alaric’s ex-wife had something to do with Alaric enjoying
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the children’s live streams so much?
Could it be that something happened between him and his ex-wife, so
Alaric could only watch other people’s children holding live streams?
However, he only dared make those guesses in his heart. He would never be
bold enough to say those things out loud.
Terrance was still pondering when he suddenly heard the children’s joyful
cries coming from Alaric’s phone.
“Mommy’s back!”
“Mommy!”
Alaric was about to leave the live stream and set out for the meeting, but
when he heard the children saying that, he stopped midway. He was about
to get up, but he sat in his seat instead.
On the small phone screen, a blurry and distant figure could be seen
walking in through the door.
Even though the woman’s figure was blurry, Alaric felt his heart sk*p a beat
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when he saw the figure.