Clarie closed her lips tightly and raised her eyes for a long time, lost in her own thoughts.
Like a father like a teacher in the blink of an eye has become a failure of mother, and hurt their own culprit, the sky is turned upside down, and is not a second to digest to accept.
At times like this, it's better to leave her alone.
"Just calm down and ask me anything else you want to know in the future, no matter who your mother is, you will always be my daughter and the doors of the George family will always be open for you."
I breathed in to calm down and moved over to Dennis, ready to tell him to leave.
But he seemed to have been listening to our conversation, turning around first, reaching for my shoulder, the corners of his lips curled upward soothingly and returned to their original state.
Dennis looked at Clarie and said, "I still have boundless expectations of you, but hopefully you, won't let us down."
When he finished, he used his hand to indicate me to leave with him, and I followed his pace, away from Diana's long resting place.
I didn't go far, but I turned around with a feeling and saw Clarie kneeling in front of the headstone, her thin body shaking from sobbing.
The tip of my nose is sore, my eyes are indisputably wet with tears, I dare not look any further, and I am speeding up my pace.
Putting me in the car, Dennis instructed Toby to stay, "Keep an eye on the lady, from today on, she's your boss."
Toby didn't react for a moment, froze for a moment, but still respectfully agreed, "Sir, don't worry, with me around, Missy is very safe."
Dennis gratefully patted Toby's shoulder, these many years, indeed, is hard on him.
Between men, everything is in the air.
Soon, Dennis got into the driver's seat and fired up the engine.
The greenery on both sides of the road continued to recede as I leaned back in my leather seat and wondered when I would next see Diana.
Maybe Diana doesn't necessarily want to see me either.
She lost her life for me, but I failed to take care of her only daughter, leaving Clarie with no sense of belonging to her family to this day.
Clarie also wants to pretend not to know anything, go on living a good life, but the heart is still uncontrollable to build a wall, and we can not help but restrain when close to us, point to point.
She was more upset than us who were treated coldly.
Dennis peeked at me in the rearview mirror every now and then, but I couldn't understand his tough attitude toward Clarie and didn't want to argue at this point, so I just pretended I didn't see it.
"Getting angry with me?" Dennis didn't hold back after all and was the first to break the silence.
Since he took the initiative, I didn't want to gamble, so I got right to the point and said, "If you knew that Clarie could possibly know about her life, why didn't you tell me, why didn't you talk to me about it, and maybe there was a better way to solve it?"
The tone was not very nice, but it was just on the matter, no intention to take the piss out of him.
In a man's eyes, a quick fix is the most efficient, but he obviously didn't count the vulnerability in a girl's heart.
Whatever Dennis' reasons, it is indisputable that he has just forced Clarie to treat her family, and not to use such tactics on those who are closest to him.
The words fell, Dennis tightened between his eyebrows, then turned the steering wheel, a foot on the brakes, the car stopped steadily at the side of the road.
"Clara, just so you know, under the premise of taking care of your feelings, I couldn't care less."
"I don't understand," I shook my head, confused, "if that's the case, you should know that I always put my children's feelings first, so how can I be all about blame? Suppose you face Snowy and Jamie with the same attitude you just did, I am sure that even with the bond of blood, they will only fear you in the future, and will not be any better than Clarie is now."
Dennis was surprised for a moment that he didn't know how to retort, and stretched his hands in defeat, "Okay, I admit that I did something wrong in this case."
He turned to face me and humbly said, "First time father, not much experience, you have to give a chance to change, right?"
Men, no matter how good are good, in the matter of attentiveness, always have shortcomings.
Jamie was indifferent, but made an extra move to pierce the turkey with a fork before eating it in.
I seriously doubt that these two little men have the intention of imitating each other, and those who don't know will think they are the only two brothers.
Christmas Eve has suddenly become a gift hunting contest, and outside the noisy holiday atmosphere a contrast, cold.
That's when the broken English came from the door.
"Merry Christmas my friends!"
The uninvited guest Lucas suddenly appeared, and once he entered, he rushed to the restaurant without saying a word.
"Oh? A turkey?" He propped his hands on the table and looked at the turkey on the table with a gleam in his eye, and without a word of greeting, he picked one up with his bare hands and threw it into his mouth.
The next second, he raised his fat palm, opened the gift in his hand, and said to himself, "Oye, I am lucky dog? Kennedy, even God is looking out for me."
While saying this, he deliberately stretched out his hand so that we could get a good look at the gift that represented good fortune.
Can not help but spit in the heart "really bad luck", very disgraceful blow, "you open our gift, not get our reward"
"What ever, I feel lucky just fine."
Lucas was not impressed and said he was going to pocket the note.
Snowy, who had been staring at him since just now, finally couldn't help but cry out when she saw this.
"Oooooooooh, no more good luck for Snowy ......"
"Wow ah, Snowy is not a lucky dog ......"
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