Lucian thanked his father on behalf of Roxanne and the children. “How can this be so coincidental?” Sonya was upset. “She must have done this on purpose. She’s just lying to us; she doesn’t want us to take Essie away. In fact, she must be thinking of marrying into the Farwell family as Essie’s biological mother!”
After hanging up, Elias turned to look at his wife in exasperation. “We’ll know whether the kid is. injured or not when we see him. Why would she make such a flimsy lie?”
“Who knows? You’re not even intending to go to her place. You must be on her side!” With that, Sonya whipped her head to the side, not wanting to look at him anymore.
Elias knitted his brows when he saw his wife acting in that way. “I don’t remember any conflicts between the two of you six years ago. Why are you so biased against her?”
“Are you saying that I’m unreasonable?” Sonya snapped, turning around to glare at him. The resignation on Elias’ face deepened. “I’m only stating facts. Why are you taking this so personally?”
“Then we’ll go to her place to check it out right now! We’ll see if the kid really is hurt! Didn’t she ask us to pick Essie up from her house? We’ll go right now!”
Elias knew that she was only saying that because she was furious, so he just drove them back to the Farwell main residence. Sonya was even more irked when she realized where they were heading, and she kept grumbling on their way back.
Elias pretended not to hear anything she said. He was already relenting much by accompanying her to pick Estella up from the kindergarten. As Farwell Group’s chairman, he simply could not do something ludicrous like kicking up a fuss in another person’s house with her..
Even if his wife said it was for the Farwell family’s sake, Elias still thought that they had no need to do something that extreme.
Meanwhile, after Lucian conveyed the message to his father, he found himself fretting about Benny’s injury. Thus, he went to Roxanne’s place. At the same time, Benny was staring at his mother and muttering, “Mommy, was that call from Mr. Farwell?”
As Roxanne treated his wound, she answered, “Mhm. I forgot that Essie was supposed to go home with her grandparents today.”
Benny did not care about that; he only cared about whether or not his father was coming. “Will Mr. Farwell be coming?”
He was hurt, and he wanted his father to give him words of encouragement. However, Roxanne halted in her tracks and hesitantly started, “Mr. Farwell is a busy man…”
Before she could finish her sentence, the sound of the doorbell rang out. Thinking that it was Elias and Sonya, Roxanne rose to her feet and went over to open the door. However, upon registering the face of the man by the entrance, she blinked in surprise.
“Why are you here? Didn’t you say…
Lucian had been in a hurry to come, so he was only wearing a plain dress shirt and a tie. In a quiet voice, he said, “They said they’ll come and pick Essie up another day and asked you to take good care of Benny.”
Shock flashed across Roxanne’s eyes when she heard that. “Where’s Benny? How is he? Is it bad?”
As if he had arrived at his own house, he easily navigated his way inside. By the time Roxanne came back to her senses, the man was already in the living room. Benny immediately forgot about his pain when he heard his father’s voice. He cried out, “I’m here!”
To access his wound easier, Roxanne had asked the boy to sit at the dining table. She was only in the middle of applying medicine to his wound when Lucian arrived, so the boy still had iodine on his wrist.
Archie and Estella then walked over to Lucian as well. When Lucian followed the two children into the dining room, he was greeted by the sight of Benny with reddened eyes.
His forehead creased. It was his first time seeing the boy cry, and it even seemed like the boy had been bawling. He guessed that it must have hurt quite a bit.
“I heard that you were injured. Does it hurt a lot?” Lucian said in heartache as he walked over to look at Benny’s injured wrist.
As he did not know the extent of Benny’s injury, he dared not simply touch the boy. Nevertheless, Benny flashed him a smile and said, “It doesn’t hurt anymore! I’m really tough!”
“I wonder who was the one who started crying. when he saw me,” Roxanne mercilessly pointed out as she entered the dining room.
Benny frowned and corrected himself, “It only hurts a little!” To emphasize his point, he even made a gesture of a pinching hand with his thumb and index finger. Seeing how insistent the kid was, Roxanne couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Lucian, too, smiled and patted Benny on his head. “You’re a tough boy, Benny.”
Upon hearing his father’s compliment, Benny held his head high and beamed with pride. Archie, on the contrary, felt a twinge of envy for his brother and glanced at his mother. Argh. I wonder when Mommy will accept Daddy’s proposal. That way, I’ll also have a chance of being praised by Daddy in the future…
“How’s his injury? Is it serious?” Lucian asked as he turned to Roxanne, who was still treating Benny’s wound. “I’ve developed a medicine recently to treat bruises, and it’s pretty effective,” she explained. “In the meantime, however, Benny will have to take extra care of his wrist. He can’t be as reckless as before.”
That was a reminder Benny had long heard from his mother, but even so, he couldn’t hold back from putting on a sad face in front of his father.
Lucian gently caressed the boy’s face and smiled. “There, there. Remember to be extra careful during this time. That way, you’ll recover faster.”
Having been comforted by his father, Benny nodded obediently in response. A glint of exasperation flashed across. Roxanne’s eyes when she realized her son was acting cute. The nerve of this kid… He hasn’t known Lucian that long, yet he’s already clinging to him.
“By the way, I’ll bring more medicine over in a while. Take some with you when you leave,” Roxanne suddenly added. Lucian promptly nodded without saying anything.
After tending to Benny’s injury, Roxanne still had a lot on her mind, so she told the kids to run along and play. Soon, only she and Lucian were left in the dining room.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.