Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria) novel Chapter 167

Chapter 167
In the suburbs, there was a decently sized house with vintage decorations.
“Mommy! Mommy!”
After ending the live stream, the two children leaped into Victoria’s
embrace from both sides. Their arms were wide open as they hugged her
and breathed in her unique scent of body wash.
The woman who crouched over and held Nicole had a slender figure. Her
eyes were clear and cold like glass, and her eyelashes were long and dark.
She looked very radiant and beautiful.
“Did you stop streaming?” When Victoria spoke, her voice was clear and
bright like a spring.
“Yes.” Nicole rubbed her face against Victoria’s neck and chin, mumbling
adorably.
Nathan glanced at his sister, then said in a relatively steady voice, “Mommy,
that man sent us lots of gifts again.”
That man? Victoria was stunned. “The same old Mr. Night?”
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Nathan nodded, pursuing his tiny lips as he said, “I relayed what you said to
Mr. Night, Mommy, but he won’t listen.”
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When Victoria heard that, she reached out and ruffled his hair, smiling
faintly. “Never mind, then. Let’s just leave him be.”
Not wishing the children to be troubled by this problem for long, she
quickly changed the topic. “Are you hungry? What would you like to eat
today?”
The gluttonous Nicole immediately began listing out dishes. “Mommy, I
want to eat fried shrimp today and also desserts after dinner.”
Victoria turned toward Nathan. “What about you, Nathan? What would you
like to eat?”
Nathan’s voice was reserved. “Mommy, I’m okay with anything.” His
thoughts were simple. If he asked for a dish, his mother would have to make
more food.
Even though he wanted to help her, both he and Nicole were too young.
Their mother wouldn’t let them into the kitchen for real. Victoria noticed
Nathan’s gaze, then sighed lightly. “You don’t want Mommy to overwork
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herself, right, Nathan? Don’t worry, I won’t have to work tonight, so I just
have to make dinner.”
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“No, that’s not it…” Even though Nathan was slightly more considerate than
Nicole, he was still a child, after all. Adults could see through children’s
thoughts at a glance.
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“All right, I’ll make dinner, and you can do whatever you like. Give me one
hour, all right?”
“Thank you, Mommy. Mwah!” Nicole freely planted a kiss on Victoria’s
cheek, then went back to her room to play with her dolls.
After she left, Nathan whispered to Victoria, “Mommy, let me help you.”
“Be good, Nathan. Go and play.” In the end, Nathan could only return to his
room.
After getting the two children into their rooms, she reached up and tied her
hair, which reached her waist. Then, she grabbed an apron and put it on
before walking into the kitchen.
For the past few years, she had been taking care of the children on her own.
When she first started, she didn’t know a lot of things, and she even
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scrambled to boil eggs, but for her children’s sake, Victoria learned a lot of
things. She might be a hypocrite, but she simply wanted to care for her
children well. She had to go to work but spent every minute of her free time
with her children.
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They were a single-parent family, so she wanted to do as much as she could
for the children, just like how her father raised her back then. Save for
work, all her time was spent on her children to make up for the other
missing parent.
She didn’t know how to cook back then, but now, cooking was a piece of
cake for her. Victoria cleaned the meat she bought, then marinated it.
Marination required time, so Victoria went to deal with other tasks. When
she was free, she remembered something, so she turned around and went
to the living room. She took the phone the children used for live streaming.
During the live stream today, her two darlings gained a lot of fans, and the
comments on the newly released video were all saying that the children
were cute and dramatic.
Among the comments, the one that had the most likes was ‘How do you
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She smiled, then replied mischievously, ‘This is my first time raising
children, so I probably can’t provide any useful suggestions.’
After that, she went to look at the day’s earnings.
She wished she hadn’t. She found that Silent Night had given the two
children lots of gifts again.
She roughly calculated the day’s earnings, coupled with what they had
earned in the past, and realized that they had earned a lot.
Victoria didn’t lack money to raise her children.
The children were also live-streaming because of interest, so she didn’t
mind it as long as the children were happy. However, she never thought
that they would earn so much from live-streaming. Anyway, the fans were
quite interesting. She told them not to give gifts, and if they had to, they
ould just send some gifts they got for free.
However, this man called Silent Night would always give gifts in huge
amounts.
Victoria navigated out of the dashboard and found Silent Night’s account.
He had given so many gifts that it would be rude not to follow him back.
However, even if they were mutual, Silent Night never posted anything on
his account, and the only account he was following was the children’s.
It was as if…
The account was made purely to watch her children’s streams. Also, they
had followed each other for so long, but they never chatted.
Victoria had never seen someone like this, who would silently watch the
live streams and give gifts but never asked for anything. When Victoria
found the account, she noticed that the person was online, so she navigated
to the chat room.
‘Hello, I’m Nathan’s and Nicole’s mother. May I know your name? Can I chat
with you?’
She wanted to pay him back. However, after the message was sent, there
was no reply.
Victoria thought that he must be busy, and the meat was about ready at the
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time. So, she put the phone aside, then turned around and went into the
kitchen to continue cooking.
In the meeting room, there were quite a lot of foreigners at this meeting.
Alaric sat on the leader’s seat as he listened expressionlessly to their vivid
presentations paired with slides.
Somewhere close by behind Alaric, Terrance was earnestly tidying the
documents, and the intern beside him was scrambling to take notes and
recordings.
The intern was sweating as she felt the pressure weigh upon her. She felt
that she had been too naive. A meeting like this was too large for her, but
Alaric was sitting there, looking calm as if he were sitting in his own office.
She couldn’t help but be amazed, and she gave him a thumbs-up in her
mind. Suddenly, Alaric’s phone vibrated twice in his pocket.
Alaric never looked at phone messages in a meeting. It was the same today.
So, the message didn’t affect him much.
However, a moment later, he seemed to have thought of something as he
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took out his phone in front of everyone.
When the intern and Terrance saw him doing that, they were shocked.
Alaric navigated to the app and realized that it was a message from the
live-streaming account. He raised an eyebrow ever so slightly.
The account had never messaged him since they were mutually connected
half a year ago. They never tried to get on each other’s good side, so why did
it message him of its own accord?