Chapter 39: My Father Could Be Your Husband

As Alexa walked home from the office that day, she was feeling exhausted but he kept recalling the boy Lionel.

She had been dropping and picking her children to and fro school but had not really come face to face to her son's new friend Lionel but the day she did, she had felt strange. It was as though they shared a connection of some sort. And to further get her flustered, the boy had called her 'mother!' running to her and hugging her.

She recalled how shocked she had been but had smiled and looked into the boy's eyes. 'What's your name, little boy?' she asked.

'I am Lionel. I am Landon's friend', he said, smiling happily at Alexa. 'You arey mum, aren't you?' he asked confidently.

Alexa hated to hurt him but she could not lie to him.

'Son, er.. Lionel', she started, trying to choose her words carefully. 'I am not your mother. Your mother must be at home. Do you know it will hurt her to hear you address someone else as your mother?'

'But she is not my mother', he wailed. 'She does