Xyla Quest considered carefully for a moment. “I’ll have to discuss this with your father tonight. There’s no rush.”
Leon Batton and Lynette Batton nodded simultaneously.
“All right, let’s go home. We need to get an ice pack for your swollen cheek. Otherwise, it won’t recover even after a few days,” she added.
Her son agreed with a nod. He had no intention of going against his mother's decision.
Xyla drove them back home and immediately iced his bruise before spending some time playing with her children in the nursery.
They seemed overly generous to their mother by letting her have first dibs on their favorite toys because she had stood up for them today.
The children eventually fell asleep after exhausting themselves, with her stationed nearby to work on her laptop.
In the evening, Stanley Batton, who had been swamped with work all day, returned home and walked directly into the nursery.
He noticed Leon’s swollen cheek as soon as he walked in, even with his son sound asleep in bed.
Stanley’s facial expression immediately turned gloomy as he hastened his steps and approached the bed. “What happened to Leon?”
He felt the twinge of pain in his heart, despite the fact it was Leon’s cheek that was swollen.
Xyla turned off her laptop with a sigh before recounting everything that happened to their children in the afternoon.
She watched his facial expression darken as he listened with a clenched jaw.
“What? I can’t believe something like this happened! Get all these peo-”
“Get them all beaten up, right? I’ve already done that,” she interjected before he could finish his sentence, knowing what her husband was thinking without even needing to guess.
Stanley continued to frown deeply even though a look of approval appeared in his eyes. “Okay. You did great.”
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