I smiled, “Do you come to HL Area to work?”
“To visit you.” His eyes were honest. “Link said you were in HL Area, so I came here.”
I nodded and said no more.
On second thought, he was in his thirties. How time flied!
“When do you plan to return to City P?” He said, without much preparation.
I paused and smiled. “I’m not going back.”
He frowned, “What about Clariana’s future? She could have access to better educational resources. Why wouldn’t you?”
It was somewhat dry and hot. I raised my hand and pinched my eyebrows, a little irritated. “Leo, can’t we just eat?”
We could talk about it later. The future was so long. If we said all this now, what would we say later?
He was silent. Instead of eating, he watched me eat. It was a strange habit.
When they did not come to HL Area, I didn’t want to eat in a better restaurant because it was quite expensive. My monthly salary was limited and I couldn’t afford it.
Coming out of the restaurant, I looked up at the hot sun in the sky. To be honest, summer in HL Area was so hot that it could make people irritable.
“Can I take you home?”
He spoke, as if asking my advice. I looked sideways at him. “Want to meet Clariana?”
He paused, somewhat surprised. “May I?”
“You’re her uncle. Why not?”
He smiled with a faint joy.
In the school.
Clariana hadn’t seen Leo in her four years at HL Area. But she didn’t seem to feel strange anymore because of the strangers who appeared in the past few days.
When we got in the car, Clariana and I sat in the back. She looked up at me, then at the driver’s seat, her lips pressed together. “Mom, is this sir your friend, too?”
I nodded.
“He’s your uncle, Clariana. Uncle, not sir.”
“Uncle?” Clariana was stunned.
He heard me and was stunned, “Clara, if you were pregnant and the father wanted to abort the baby, what would you do?”
Looking at him, I narrowed my eyes slightly. “Since it is your child, you have no reason to give it up. Leo, don’t disappoint people who put you in their hearts.
He suddenly rose from his seat, looked at me with a faint stare, and said, “I’m going back to City P and I’ll come to see you in a few days"
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