My Child and I Married a Billionaire novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Quick, Call Him Uncle

Ending the call, Damien waved his phone at Cecelia.

"Did you hear all that? Come with me to the mall."

Damien’s father had passed away from a serious illness when he was twelve. His mother was a strong-willed woman, and she and his father hadn’t had a particularly good relationship, which was why Damien was their only child.

After his father’s death, Damien’s relationship with his domineering mother grew even more strained. Feeling that life in the Vaughn Family estate was dull and pointless, she left for a foreign country on her own.

He had been raised by his grandfather.

Taking pity on him for being effectively motherless and fatherless, his grandfather doted on Damien and was, naturally, very concerned about his marriage.

But Damien had always had poor luck with women, never meeting anyone he truly liked. He had no desire to get married, and his constant excuses had ended up offending the old man.

After Damien’s father passed away, the old man placed an even greater emphasis on family ties. For years, Damien’s second and third uncles, along with their wives and families, had all lived together with the old man.

Damien didn’t want to listen to his grandfather’s nagging, and he certainly didn’t want to endure his aunts’ sarcastic, backhanded comments. Using his busy work schedule as an excuse, he often stayed away.

He used to make a point of visiting every weekend, but at the beginning of the year, he’d gotten into a face-to-face argument with his second aunt over his second uncle’s job. Since then, he hadn’t returned to the old family estate in months.

If his grandfather hadn’t called him personally, he would have completely forgotten about the 80th birthday.

He felt a pang of guilt, but he had no idea what kind of gift to buy. So, he brought Cecelia and Candy to the mall with him.

Cecelia was also someone with few family ties. Her parents had both passed away from illnesses around the time she was in middle school, leaving her to rely on her older brother. Cecelia had never bought a gift for an elder before and had no idea where to even start.

"How about buying him a set of clothes?"

After wandering around for several minutes and seeing that Damien had found nothing he liked, Cecelia tried to offer a suggestion.

Damien shook his head. "He doesn’t like clothes from the mall. He usually wears custom-tailored outfits, and besides, he doesn’t need any more clothes."

"Then what about buying him something to eat? What’s his favorite food?"

The family employed chefs specializing in Cantonese, Sichuan, Hunan, and Anhui cuisine—a whole variety of flavors. The old man had eaten everything there was to eat; he wouldn’t care for food from the outside.

Cecelia: "..."

’This won’t work, that won’t work... I should probably just keep my mouth shut.’

Damien held Candy’s hand and walked ahead, thinking that perhaps he should buy the old man some antiques.

Aside from studying old artifacts, he didn’t seem to have any other hobbies.

Just as he was thinking of going elsewhere, a woman’s voice suddenly called out to Cecelia.

"Cecelia! Candy! What are you two doing here?"

Cecelia turned and saw that it was, surprisingly, her sister-in-law.

Her nephew wasn’t in school today; she had apparently dragged him to the mall to go shopping as well.

"Sister-in-law?"

As she spoke, her sister-in-law had already arrived in front of her, pulling her nephew along.

"Why aren’t you at work today? And why isn’t Candy in school? What are you...?"

Her eyes shifted, and she saw Damien holding Candy’s hand. The sister-in-law froze for a moment, the expression on her face changing.

"This must be my brother-in-law, right?"

She had seen Cecelia’s marriage certificate and remembered the photo of a handsome, young pretty boy.

She had assumed that any man willing to marry someone like Cecelia, who already had a child out of wedlock, must be some useless pretty boy. She never expected him to be so tall and imposing.

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