Fia knelt to be at eye level with the little girl."What's wrong, pretty lady?" The little girl tilted her head to the side, not understanding why Fia suddenly had a serious look on her face."Darling, you've misunderstood.""What did I misunderstand?""Your mommy is not only worried about your brother. She doesn't want you to be impressive just to protect him either."The little girl frowned. "But she does worry about my brother a lot.""She worries about you and loves you too. The both of you are equal to her.""Really? But... She always gives all the good things to my brother first."Her younger brother shifted uneasily when he heard that and tried to pull his hand out of the little girl's tight grip. Fia looked at the two children and gently patted the little girl's hand. Then, she pulled out the boy's hand, held the hands of the two children in her own, and placed them on top of each other. "You were born on the same day, perhaps because your fates were tied together
At the second-floor study facing the backyard, two men stood before the floor-to-ceiling window with different expressions on their faces.Nobody interrupted the heartfelt conversation between Fia and the two children. Her words were filled with concern and love as if they were her own children. She didn't want any resentment between the siblings, which was why she had said those words.Mary watched Fia interact with her two children for a long time as they played in the sandpit before she finally walked away. She needed to reflect on how to be a good mother.When Mary was pregnant with her children, she had been firm about how she would treat them. She would neither favor nor neglect either of them. However, because her son had been slower to develop, her daughter, who had been born earlier, had been neglected.Tyler sighed and gave Conrad an embarrassed smile. "Sorry to have let you see such an embarrassing thing."Conrad said nothing as he watched Fia play with the two ch
In the end, Tyler hadn't expected Conrad to give up on the northern suburbs just like that. "There will be other chances," Conrad said calmly. He didn't want to talk about things that had already been done and were in the past."Yes, there will be many chances, but the good ones will be less!" Tyler said with a sigh. "Never mind. You're a stubborn and proud man, so I'm sure you wouldn't like being lectured."Conrad looked at Tyler and said, "If you have the chance to visit Gryphon, Fia and I will host you and your family.""I'm busy lately and don't have the time. How about the end of the year? I can bring my wife and kids to visit you two then.""Sure.""By then, I hope to hear some good news from you!" Tyler said with a smile and wiggled his brows. "Work hard, okay? It's easier to plant a seed than it is to be pregnant for ten months.""Ahem!" Conrad cleared his throat. He was rarely embarrassed, but his face turned slightly red from Tyler's words.Tyler laughed even louder
“You can’t. You are a man, you need to sleep with Daddy and Uncle,” Sharon Lane said old-fashionedly.“I’m not. I’m still a child.”“Hmph! Who just said that he was a man and would protect me in the future?”William frowned and lowered his small head, feeling a little upset.Thinking of how he had indeed made a promise in front of Fia, he could not help but nod. “Okay then, alright.”“So obedient!” Sharon ran to her brother and kissed him on his face.Mary was stunned silly. She knew her daughter. She was trained by herself and her husband to be more understanding than other children of the same age, and knew how to take care of her younger brother.However, it had been two years since she last kissed her brother like this.It was very obvious that Fia’s words today had an effect.“Thank you, Mrs. Maxwell.”Fia was slightly stunned. Seeing that Mary was so happy that she was about to cry, she understood that she must have heard the words she had said to the two children.“I
Fia walked to the square and turned around to look at the beach and seafront in the night sky.The waves were beating against the shore, the sounds louder in the night.“Conrad, there will be high tide, won't it?”Conrad went silent for a bit. “Yes.”“The sadness buried in the bottom of a person’s heart is also at times like the high tide. It comes unexpectedly, without any warning.”The two children of the Lanes made her happy, but after the happiness was a huge sense of melancholy, loss, and sorrow.She really really really felt pity for the child she lost.She also felt aggrieved, disgruntled, and hatred.However, she could not bear to hate Conrad. He was a man she had loved for over ten years!Conrad held his palm, walked to stand behind her, and then quietly looked at her.“I know I should not always think about all those bad things, but I can’t help it.”The seabreeze of the night was quite strong and Fia originally felt a little cold, but the man who suddenly came fro
Conrad looked around and was not willing to let her feel disappointed.Going against his conscience, he said, “Hearing you say that, I realize that it is indeed quite beautiful here.”Fia patted his chest. “Then which was the first city you went to after leaving Gryphon the first time?”“The capital.”“The capital? I have not been there before.”Conrad replied, “When I’m able to make time, I’ll bring you there.”“Alright, I’ll wait for you.”He made a promise in his heart that he would bring her out and about to walk and look around more, and let her see even more beautiful cities, when he was done being busy with everything.He did not say it out loud, because there was no fixed time in which he could achieve it. There was quite a bit he had to do in the company.He was afraid that if he said it out loud and could not set the time, it would disappoint her.Under the night sky, under the neon lights, with her on his back, she felt an unprecedented sense of security.She held
She ran a couple of meters away, her heart beating like mad, so shocked that she felt a little uncomfortable.Conrad took the luggage and the snacks from the back seat, closed the car door, and started to walk toward the elevator.Beep! Beep beep!From the right side of the back, a horn sounded and he turned his head around to look.The window of the driver’s seat of the red Maserati rolled down and the person inside spoke up teasingly. “What a coincidence.”Conrad frowned, not wanting to care about the person.“Are you alone? What about your little wifey?” Victor asked loudly.Conrad couldn’t even be bothered to glance at him.Victor touched his nose helplessly. “How ill-mannered. No matter what, I’m still your senior. Even when I take the initiative to greet you, you ignore me."The doorbell rang and Fia was so scared that she started shrieking.Conrad frowned and took out a spare keycard to enter. He swept a glance through the hall and did not see anyone.“Fia!”The pers
“What happened?”A man in a dark red suit appeared.The manager and the front desk receptionist’s expressions made it look like their savior had appeared.“Boss, this client is Mr. Maxwell. He…”“Cuz?” Victor interrupted the manager, as he put his hands into his pockets and walked toward Conrad.Conrad’s expression became even uglier. “You’ve become the owner of this hotel?”“That’s right.” Victor noticed that the atmosphere wasn’t quite right. Just now he had also heard that the manager said that a problem had arisen with a client, but he did not know exactly what had happened.Seeing that Fia’s face was pale and that she was hiding in Conrad’s embrace, he turned to look at the manager and his voice couldn’t help but turn cold.“What exactly happened!”The manager was shocked. This new boss of his had just taken over for less than two months and had always been friendly. Not a single worker had been laid off.This made everyone, from the top management to the bottom workers,