“Vivi, I made this yummy cake especially for you.”
“I am not eating it now. I want to find someone to help Uncle Sebastian. He is sick.”
Vivian always loved to eat so it was unusual for her to refrain from munching on this fragrant dessert and go searching for Aunt Sabrina while hugging her doll.
Seeing this, Kira began to understand.
Is he sick?
He is probably showing withdrawal symptoms from his drug addiction.
She quickly gathered Vivian in her arms. “It’s all right. Your Uncle Sebastian can call the doctor from here. There’s a bell, you see? They’ll be here really quickly.”
“Is that so?”
The little girl looked at her doubtfully.
Kira did not try to explain further, but hugged her and waited there. After a few minutes, a doctor in a white coat really did come out of the elevator and rushed into the bedroom.
Only then did Kira look at the little girl again.
“Did you see that? Ms. Woods told you the truth.”
“Yeah!”
Vivian was finally convinced.
Then, she picked up the cake Kira had brought for her.
Sensing that it was a good opportunity, Kira started questioning, “By the way, Vivi, did you know Aunt Sabrina a long time ago?”
“Hmm?”
Even though she had brought the cake to her lips, Vivian stopped short of eating it.
Why is Ms. Woods asking this question?
Aunt Sabrina had told her that she must not tell anyone here that they are really relatives or say that they know each other.
With her big pretty eyes, the little girl gazed at this Ms. Woods who had come especially to bring her a snack.
“Oh, I don’t know her. I’ve never met her before.”
“Huh?”
Kira was waiting expectantly for the reply and so the reply she received was totally disappointing.
She gazed at her and asked again, “You really don’t know her? Then why did she pick you up from the airport?”
Vivian was speechless.
This Ms. Woods is really a bad person. She is a stalker who secretly watched us at the airport.
After having been warned by Aunt Sabrina, the yummy cake was suddenly no longer fragrant to the little girl.
“I don’t know, I really don’t know… Boo hoo hoo… I want my uncle, I want Uncle Sebastian!”
Suddenly she started bawling and her tears fell pitter-patter. Pushing away this bad Ms. Woods, she ran outside.
Kira was dumbfounded.
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