The short-haired boy wore a white long-sleeved T-shirt with brown long pants. He had thick eyebrows on his clean little face. He was visibly handsome and had a unique temperament despite his young age.
He was the boy Willow had frantically been searching for, Tristan.
“Tristan!” Willow hurried over with her other children in tow. She released one of her hands to carry Tristan up from the swivel chair. She felt a lingering fear as she hugged him excitedly, “Sweetheart, you scared me. I thought I lost you.”
Willow could finally calm down after being tense with worry.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she rubbed her cheek against Tristan’s.
Tristan could sense his mother’s love and concern. He was never the type to act coy, but he hugged Willow back and pressed his cheek against her to comfort her. “Mommy, I’m fine. You don’t have to worry ambout me. I won’t go missing…”
The worker who was going to give Tristan some money said with a smile, “He’s right, ma’am. Your son is very smart. He’d never get lost with his intelligence. He’s only four years old but he managed to fix a computer our technicians couldn’t. He’s a genius when it comes to computers.”
After Willow composed herself, she stared at the worker blankly and then at Tristan in disbelief. “Did you really fix his computer?”
Tristan nodded and said, “I was going to look for you at the lounge when I didn’t see you outside the restroom. Then I heard a mister talking on the phone, saying that the main computer of the surveillance cameras in the broadcast room had broken down and that their technician couldn’t fix it. He needed someone to fix it quickly. I offered to try since I overheard him. Then that mister brought me here…”
Having said that, he glanced at Julian and blinked tacitly.
Julian saw his brother’s signal and immediately understood it as a cue. A thought came to mind and he straightened up to explain to Willow, saying, “Mommy, Tris has been reading books with pictures of computers in it every night. Did he learn to fix it because he read a lot of books on it?”
With that, Willow understood why Tristan knew how to fix computers.
Her son was just trying to be helpful by offering to fix a stranger’s computer.
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