The mood was too stressful and strange for Ember, so she had no choice but to change the topic.“Wait, I’ll make a call,” Caleb said.The man handling the case was his acquaintance, Officer Vargas. Before this, he had already asked Officer Vargas to interrogate him.Caleb’s call quickly went through. “Vargas, any news? Have you discovered his motive?” “He wouldn’t tell me, no matter what. He kept on telling me he’s just robbing them. I’ve already spent an hour with him, and I haven’t gotten anything worthwhile yet,” Officer Vargas replied.“Alright, thanks. Let me know if you discover anything new.”After he hung up the call, Caleb shook his head at Ember. He was putting the call on loudspeaker, so she could hear their conversation clearly.The result was not out of her expectations. She had a feeling that this won’t be an easy case to crack.“I’ve called for a few bodyguards. When you’re going home, let them follow you. It’s safer that way.”Since Ember refused for them to s
In the end, Ember let Lugh send her back.Caleb wasn’t happy with it, but he had no choice other than to accept this conclusion.“Avery, I’m going to send you to school.” The next day, Ember was still worried that someone was spying on them. Thus, she wanted to personally send Avery to kindergarten.“Are you afraid that bad people will kidnap me again? If they appear again, I’ll hit them this time! I won’t let them hurt you!” Avery raised his fist, a vicious expression on his face.When Ember saw it, she smiled.“The police caught the bad men last night. I just want to send you to school. You don’t want me to?” Ember patted Avery’s head, consoling him.She didn’t want Avery to sink into a panic, so she had no choice but to tell him a white lie.“I want to!” Avery hopped happily, cheering. Ember had been very busy in the past, and had no time to accompany him.Just as she took Avery into her car and was ready to go to the kindergarten, a familiar car stopped right in front o
“Doctor Ember, there has been a car accident. There are five victims who suffered serious injuries, and they’ve all been transferred to our hospital. We don’t have enough doctors.”A nurse jogged into Ember’s office to report what was happening.Normally speaking, Ember had already clocked out and it was time that Avery finished school. Originally, she wanted to go pick Avery up and go back home, but this accident ruined her plans.However, when patients were involved, she couldn’t delay. She agreed to it. “I’ll come soon.”When she thought about Avery, she didn’t feel he would be safe. Someone must pick him up first. As she was out of options, she gave Caleb a call. “I have a surgery. Can you pick Avery up and take care of him for the afternoon?”Ember made it short and concise. She wanted to rush into the surgery theater to start performing the surgery for the patients.“Alright! Leave Avery to me. Don’t worry.”Caleb could hear the urgency in her tone. He didn’t tease Ember
“I’ll listen to my Daddy, mister. I won’t interrupt your meeting.”Caleb hadn’t even replied, but Avery spoke first.Calen patted his head, and then turned to everyone in the meeting room. “Don’t worry, my son’s well-behaved.”Since he had already said that, the others weren’t going to object.“Sir, this software is going to be released into the market. However, we noticed a small problem.”The person-in-charge of the project introduced everything well, but when he was going to conclude, he suddenly added that sentence.“Why didn’t you show me before it’s done?” Caleb didn’t understand the reason, and there was anger in his eyes.They were going to release the software today! To think that there were still bugs they hadn’t dealt with.“We’ve only noticed this problem, and we’ve already told our team to deal with it. We’ll fix this as soon as possible,” the person-in-charge said. He felt frightened and guilty when he saw Caleb’s expression darkening.“What kind of problem? Show
Once Avery had the computer, his little hands started typing away on the keyboard.While he was very young, he had a lot of knowledge in his little head, and knew how to use the computer well. In less than three minutes, a complete code appeared on the computer monitor.“See? I can say it out loud, and I can code it, too.” Avery pushed the computer to the technician with pride.The technician looked at row after row of perfect code, and his expression turned sour.The technician could only give Avery a thumbs up, and apologized sincerely. “I’m wrong. You’re fantastic!”Listening to the technician’s apology, Avery smiled happily.Caleb was even happier. He was proud that he had a son this smart.“Mr. Caleb’s son is just as smart as him. Looks like we don’t have to worry about inheritance.”“He can write codes to solve a problem at this age. He’s a prodigy!”Everyone in the meeting room started praising him when they saw how the tables turned.Caleb knew that they were flatte
“You’re here? Do you want me to take you out to eat?” Penelope wanted to get acquainted with Avery first. After that, she would have more chances.However, she had just gotten close to Avery when the boy turned around and darted off into Caleb’s office.Avery could sense that Penelope was up to no good. Caleb’s heart was no longer with her, so she could only lie low.Penelope adjusted her emotions before pushing the office door into Caleb’s office.“What are you doing here?” When Caleb saw Penelope, his smiling face instantly turned serious.Penelope’s smile froze, the edge of her lips still twitching. However, she managed to get it all under control.“Caleb, I know that you probably haven’t eaten yet, so I made some soup for you.” She quickly walked toward him, and put the soup in front of him.“I’ll be taking Avery out to eat later. And I told you before, you don’t have to come anymore.” Caleb’s tone was getting colder, and he wasn’t even willing to look straight into her ey
“Avery!”When Caleb saw what was happening, he picked Avery up, worried that Penelope would push him away.Things were already getting out of hand, so Caleb immediately told her to leave. “Avery’s getting upset with you here. You should leave.” Penelope couldn’t stay no matter how thick-skinned she was, so she turned and left.“Daddy! I helped you get rid of the bad lady!”When Penelope left, Avery clapped happily. He looked at Caleb smugly, as if fishing for a praise.“What kind of reward do you want? In about half an hour, I can take you out to eat.”“I want to play on the computer!”Ember was usually quite strict. It was rare for Avery to be able to play with any electronics, aside from using it for homework or practice. “Sure. No problem,” Caleb said, indulging him.Very quickly, a laptop computer appeared in front of him. Caleb watched as Avery turned on the computer and started playing some mini-games.Avery always heard from his peers in the kindergarten about how m
Ember wasn’t interested in joining any meaningless parties. Not to mention, she would have to look at Penelope’s face if she were to attend. That made her not want to join it even more.“But I’ve taken care of your son for a whole afternoon. Can’t you help me with this?”Caleb knew he couldn’t force her when he heard how quickly she refused him. Thus, he used Avery as an excuse.“I can agree with your other conditions—except joining this party.”Ember rolled her eyes at him. This was his son, too. Of course he had to take care of Avery!Thinking about their relationship, she thought that she should still thank him.Caleb gave Avery a look, signaling the boy to say something on his behalf. Back at the office, they promised that Avery would help him to win Ember’s heart again.“Mommy, just say yes, okay? It’s quite hard for him to take care of me today.” Avery shook Ember’s hand, acting cute.When Caleb saw how much Avery was helping him, he smiled in satisfaction.“Alright, eno