Xavier turned around and saw Ryan staring out the window. "What are you looking at?"
As he spoke, Xavier bent into the car.
"I... I think I saw mommy." Ryan turned to look at Xavier, blinked, and said affirmatively, "It's mommy. She's back, isn't she?"
Xavier was stunned and quickly reacted. He rolled down the window and the cold wind poured into the car. Xavier could not feel the chill at all. Looking at where Ryan had just looked, he felt his heart skipped a beat.
She came back alive?
However, there was no one on the side of the road. It was empty and there were only mottled shadows of trees.
The stronger expectation, the greater disappointment.
He had also imagined that on an inadvertent day, he would suddenly meet her.
Xavier pursed his lips tightly and rubbed Ryan's hair. "You've got it wrong."
Although he was talking to Ryan like this, Xavier still looked out again, still empty.
There was no sign of her at all.
"But..."
Looking at Xavier's serious face, Ryan did not dare to say anything, but silently looked out again. He had just seen mommy.
Why was she gone?
Back to the villa, Xavier called Nanny Joy. "Take Ryan to take a shower."
Nanny Joy said yes.
Xavier tore off the clinging suit and threw it on the sofa. He unbuttoned his collar and walked to the study.
Lonely and desolate.
"Ryan?" Nanny Joy held Ryan upstairs, but Ryan did not move and just looked at Xavier's back.
"Madam Anderson."
Ryan looked up at Nanny Joy and asked her to let go of him.
Nanny Joy squatted down and looked him in the eye. "He's in a bad mood. Can we not disturb him?"
Ryan said affirmatively, "I know. He misses my mommy. Just now when I was talking about mommy outside, he was upset. I want to comfort him."
Nanny Joy nodded and said, "Go ahead."
Perhaps with someone by his side, he wouldn't be so lonely.
Ryan strode towards the study with his short legs.
Pushing open the door of the study, he saw Xavier holding his hands on the table, looking very painful.
The light in the study was not turned on, but through the moonlight shining in, he could see everything clearly in the room.
Hearing the noise, Xavier looked sideways and saw Ryan in. "Why did you come in?"
Ryan didn't say anything. He ran over and hugged Xavier's legs.
Xavier gasped and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xavier had a headache. He couldn't think about Arya. When he did so, he had a headache.
But he couldn't control it.
Ryan hugged his leg tightly. "Dad."
Ryan didn't want him to feel bad. He raised his head and blinked his big eyes. Looking at Xavier, he asked with a bright and soft voice. "You're my father, aren't you?"
In an instant, the air froze.
Xavier forgot to respond for a moment, but Ryan's voice kept echoing in his mind.
Over and over again...
It was like a fierce wave that hit the tip of his heart, and like the tenderness of retreat, a warm layer of sand covered his heart.
"Uncle Jacob said that you are my father."
Xavier reached out to touch his head. "When did he tell you?"
"Long time ago." Ryan lowered his head, not daring to look at Xavier's inquisitive gaze.
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