Looking at Terence and Sally who sitting across the table, a smile crept onto Carla's face. She was filled with such bliss that she forgot that she was hungry. All she wanted to do was bask in this moment as she rested her chin on the palm of her hand.
Feeling equally excited, Sally pouted her lips and planted a kiss on Terence's cheek.
They just took a little break after having lunch and were now getting ready to go to the shopping district.
A phone suddenly started ringing. It turned out, it was Lucy who was trying to reach Terence.
While he was on the phone, his eyes were glued to Carla, who was busy helping Sally get dressed.
Lucy seemed to be crying on the other end of the line, "Terence, Gail has been crying for a while. I don't know what's happening to her. Could she be sick? I have no idea what to do! Can you please come over and check her?"
"Is that so? She might not be feeling well. I will send Rainer right away so he could take her to the hospital just to be sure,"
he calmly stated.
Back when he still hadn't found out that he had a daughter of his own, he used to care a lot about Gail.
But now that his own daughter was with him, he was not about to leave her side.
"But... Terence, you know Gail won't stop crying until you carry her in your arms. Can you... can you please come over? It doesn't have to be for too long. Just until I make sure there's nothing wrong with her."
Lucy was crying her heart out. At that moment, she couldn't understand how life could be so unfair. One minute, she had a lot of servants in the Seaview Villa. The next, she found herself staying in a hotel, having just Ella to help her look after Gail.
And even though Ella was there with her, she wasn't really planning to stay for too long. Lucy was aware that she had called her friends in secret to look for another job.
In other words, she was now taking care of Gail all by herself. In truth. Lucy wasn't really in a good mood herself. Gail's crying was only making everything that much worse for her.
Even though Gail was her daughter, she never really had to worry about her in the past year. After all, it was the nanny's job to look after her. To put it simply, this was actually the very first time she was being a responsible mother.
Furrowing his eyebrows, Terence seemed to be feeling a bit hesitant.
After all, Gail was still his daughter. She might not be his real daughter, but he had watched her come to this world and grow up.
Carla overheard their conversation, so she decided to give him a casual glance as he was having second thoughts.
Seeing that, Terence forced a cough to throw all of his hesitations out the window. Then, he said to her, "Lucy, I'm busy right now. I'll just have Rainer go there later."
After telling her that, he hung up the phone without giving Lucy a chance to respond.
"Do you think she's gonna be okay with that? Obviously, she wants you to be there, not Rainer or anybody else," Carla remarked, taking a seat right next to him as she walked over.
"If I were to go to her, are you going to be fine with that?"
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