"Yeah. It's very nice of you to ask, Senior Colonel Ouyang." Michelle was embarrassed. She felt as if they met yesterday, but everything had changed now.
"Ha ha! Just call me Daisy. You're part of the family now." Daisy grinned. Luke was unwilling to change the way he addressed her, but she didn't want Michelle to follow his example.
"But is that proper?" Michelle hesitated. She felt gawky because of Luke.
"Sure. We're of the same family. Luke has been used to calling me Mrs. Mu and he said he can't change it. That's why he calls me like that. I'd say bullshit, but if he's happy with it, I won't make a big fuss." Daisy didn't expect that Luke and Michelle would get married so quickly. They didn't even go through the proper dating and falling in love phase and now, all of a sudden, they had become husband and wife. They still had a long way to go. Unexpectedly, change was an instantaneous thing.
"Okay, Daisy." Michelle smiled as she purposefully mouthed out the name. She had become more comfortable around these two women of the Mu family.
"Auntie, Grandma said you married into our family. Is it true?" Justin came out from nowhere, blinking his big black eyes and smiling excitedly.
"Huh?" Michelle was taken aback. What an awkward question this boy asked. But she had to answer him, "Yes, it's true."
"Wow. Then you'll have babies, right?" Justin asked another straightforward question. Michelle's face reddened. She just got married and hadn't thought about that. Justin's question prompted her to put it on the agenda, but she knew that it would be difficult to get intimate with Luke. She had become his wife, but it didn't mean that she could now make major changes in his life. He had the final say in having babies, while Michelle was thrown into passivity.
"Auntie, you'll have babies, right?" Unable to get an answer, Justin shook Michelle's hand and raised his head, seemingly innocent, but only Daisy knew that this little fellow was making a show to get attention. If she wasn't wrong, only Cynthia could ask Justin to say these things to Michelle. Cynthia thought that Justin, being the sole grandchild, was lonely without cousins, so she wanted Michelle, who just married into this family, to have babies soon.
"Enough, Justin. You know what? You should ask Uncle Luke that question." Daisy smiled away the embarrassment and helped Michelle out of the hot seat. She knew the boy would ask more awkward questions if she didn't stop him.
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