If Rain had been told what a mammoth task awaited him at the FX International Group, he wouldn't have volunteered to go to the company for the document. But there was no way anyone could predict the future. Rain had no other choice but to stay and deal with the problem, while the guy who called him was nowhere to be seen.
"Dear little Aaron, I heard that Anna just had a baby. That's good news! Congratulations!" Rain teased Aaron for fun and to while away the time. Finding someone to make fun of helped relieve the boredom of having to deal with loads of files.
"Thanks. I am still waiting for your gift. I hope it's a fancy one." Aaron was too excited at having become a father, that he didn't notice Rain was teasing him by calling him 'dear little Aaron'.
"Humph! You only care about a gift!" Rain pouted. He wondered when Aaron became obsessed with money and gifts.
"I have no other choice! I have a family to raise," Aaron teased, shrugging. It was easy to tell he was really happy now.
"Stop showing off! I also have a wife and kids to raise, you know." Besides, Rain had two kids.
"I am nothing like you. Your kids have already been raised somewhat when you met them. But my girl is still a baby, and it will cost me a fortune to raise her." Aaron just blurted it out to argue with Rain, not intending to remind him of the fact that he had been absent during much of his children's lives. He didn't notice there was something wrong with what he had just said, until he noticed Rain's face fell.
"Well, I didn't mean to hurt you. It just came out." 'I am screwed, it really hurt him, ' Aaron thought to himself.
"It's okay. I am going to work on these files." Rain walked away in frustration. It was the biggest regret in his life that he missed most of his kids' childhood. And it hurt every time someone reminded him of how bad a father he was.
As Rain began to deal with the files, his phone rang and he left in a rush after answering it.
Rain thought he was done with the Ke family, but deep down, he didn't expect he could totally cut all ties to them. So he left after Lawrence called him.
"Mr. Xia." Lawrence rushed to Rain as he arrived.
"What happened? Why did he black out?" Rain frowned as the whole house was filled with the smell of disinfectant water.
"Well. Cyrus and Vance said something awful to enrage him," Lawrence sighed. Mr. Ke was not a happy man, despite his great wealth.
"What did they say?" Even though Rain didn't want to admit it, Sanford was his father, and Rain still felt a small pang of emotion upon hearing that he was not well.
"They found out that Mr. Ke still owned a mansion, so they forced him to take out the property certificate and sell it." 'In past days, something like this would never have happened, ' Lawrence thought to himself.
"Well, you see. That's what his dearest sons do." Rain gave a brittle laugh, unsure of how he felt. Torn between smug satisfaction and sadness?
"Mr. Xia, I think you misunderstood him all these years. He left you and your mother only to protect you. Otherwise, Mrs. Ke wouldn't have gone easy on you. You know how crazy a jealous woman can be. She wouldn't stop until she saw your corpse. Mr. Ke assured her that he would never get in touch with you and your mother again, so that Mrs. Ke let you and your mother go." Lawrence wouldn't have mentioned their history again, if the situation hadn't deteriorated so far.
"Are you trying to tell me what a great father he was? If he was, he wouldn't have been threatened by a woman and he would have dealt with it himself, in his own way." He did do wrong to Rain and his mother, and there was no way someone could explain it away.
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