Hayden was really such a little devil. Natalie wondered where he'd learned it from.
On the other side, Cecilia interrupted and said, "Hayden, is Natalie pretty then?"
"Of course she is!" Hayden immediately shouted. "Natalie's the prettiest girl I've ever seen. She's even prettier than the prettiest girl in our class."
Natalie was at a loss for words.
She stared at Hayden. "Hayden, how do you already know about all of this stuff at your age?"
Hayden grinned at her, looking like a mini-sized adult. "Of course I know about all this. I'm the most handsome boy in our whole kindergarten. Plenty of girls think of me as their ideal lover, you know."
Natalie was rendered speechless again.
Hayden was elated, boasting, "In the future, I will definitely be as handsome as my Daddy. When the time comes, I will charm the pants off plenty of women."
Natalie, who had just taken a sip of milk, almost spat it out.
"I'm going to the bathroom." Natalie excused herself.
Natalie went to the bathroom to wash her face. When she came out, she saw Cecelia standing by the doorside.
Natalie's breathing hitched.
"What's the matter?" She looked at Cecilia.
Cecilia had deliberately stood here to wait for her.
Cecilia nodded.
Her eyes fell on Natalie's face, and she spoke gently. "Seeing you and Hayden talking and laughing at the dining table like that just made me a little emotional. How nice it would be if we could always be like this, and the family could be happy together. Don't you think so, Natalie?"
She looked at Natalie with hope.
Natalie's thick and long eyelashes trembled slightly.
Cecilia continued, "I know you still have a lot of things that you can't get over, but Natalie, the past is in the past, and people should learn to move on, don't you agree? Wasn't it nice to see how happy everyone was just now?"
"Yes, it was." Natalie raised her eyes. "But Aunty, do you know how and why I came here? Do you know what Tobias did to me yesterday?"
Cecilia froze at Natalie's words.
She had asked Tobias this the night before and knew that Natalie did not come voluntarily, that Tobias had forced her to.
"Natalie." Cecilia softened her tone. "No matter what Tobias did to you, it was because he loved you so much. Can you understand?"
"I can't understand!" Natalie retorted coldly.
The day before, she'd been the one at fault initially. She shouldn't have just rushed to Tobias' company without getting ahold of the situation.
But Tobias went too far after that.
He'd just forced himself onto her, right on the seat in the meeting room, and even pressed the answer button, so Sebastian could clearly hear the sounds of them colliding.
Though Sebastian was a pedantic bookworm who might not understand, that did not mean that Natalie would not feel embarrassed or anguished.
"People can't hurt others unscrupulously in the name of love." Thinking of what happened the day before, Natalie's expression became colder.
A tinge of pain flashed in Cecilia's eyes.
She lowered her voice. "Natalie, can't you forgive Tobias? He has his own pain and hardships too."
Natalie could sense the pain in Cecilia's voice.
After all, she was not a hard-hearted person.
Natalie bit her lips and said bitterly, "I wanted to forgive him too. Although he's handsome and rich, it's a pity that we're just not meant to be. Even God doesn't want us to be together."
Speaking of this, Natalie paused. She looked at Cecilia seriously and asked, "Aunty, do you believe in fate?"
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