Right then, the doorbell rang. Loredana stood up. “It might be the pizza delivery.”
She walked out from Maxina’s room and opened the door. It was indeed the takeout deliveryman in a yellow uniform.
“Hello, Ma’am. Takeout delivery for Loredana Flores.”
“Yes. Thanks.”
“Please sign here.”
Loredana signed her name on the receipt form and tipped the deliveryman. Taking two boxes of pizza back to the house, she put them on the dining table. “Samuel, Simona, go ask Grandma to come out for dinner. I’ll pour the milk for you guys.”
“OK.” Samuel answered, holding his sister’s hand. They walked towards Maxina’s room together.
Loredana turned back and looked at her son, smiling.
Maxina was pretty down today. If Loredana went to her, she was afraid her mother wouldn’t come out.
Hence she asked the two kids to call her instead – Maxina wouldn’t refuse her grandchildren.
Loredana poured the milk and brought the glasses on the dining table. She also got their dining plates ready.
Then she opened the pizza boxes.
Samuel and Simona walked out with Maxina, holding her hands on either side.
Loredana pulled the chairs for them. She knew that Maxina would certainly come out for dinner as long as the two kids called her.
“Simona, we’ll eat pizza today. I didn’t cook,” Loredana explained.
Maxina took a glance on the table and saw two huge pizzas, which should be enough for them. “Our
Simona is really a foodie,” she teased her granddaughter.
Simona wondered if that was a compliment or a complaint. Blinking, she asked, “What is foodie?”
“It means you have good taste in food, you are good at eating, and you can do nothing but eat,”
Samuel explained to her.
Simona blinked. “Then that’s a compliment, isn’t it?”
“Yep.”
Casting a glance at his sister, Samuel heaved a sigh secretly.
This little girl always expected to be praised by others.
“Wow,” Simona exclaimed excitedly. “Then, Samuel is a big foodie. He can do nothing but eat.”
Samuel was speechless.
Maxina was amused by the two kids, and the depression in hear heart disappeared.
“Grandma said you are a foodie.” Samuel put a piece of durian-flavored pizza in his sister’s plate.
“I know. You are a foodie, too. I’m praising you.” Simona took over the pizza passed by her brother and took a bite. She commented happily, “Yummy!”
Samuel stared at his sister helplessly. He asked Loredana, “Mom, who does Simona follow?”
The room became silent for a few seconds.
“I’m your mother. Of course she follows me.” Loredana put a glass of milk in front of her son. “Don’t talk while having meals.”
Samuel pursed his lips.
After dinner, Loredana cleaned up the dining table. Simona asked Maxina to take her out for a walk.
Sneaking into the kitchen, Samuel held Loredana’s legs and acted like a baby, “Mommy, could you give me the tablet and the smart-watch please?”
“Tell me, did you do wrong?” Loredana looked down at her son.
Samuel became disappointed. “Forget it if you don’t want.”
It was impossible for him to give up the idea of revenging on that man who cheated his mother.
Besides, he just humiliated that man, which was nothing compared with that he had abandoned them.
They were still suffering a loss.
Releasing Loredana, Samuel trotted back to his room.
Loredana wondered whose temper Samuel followed.
She heaved a sigh, put down the glass in her hands, and dried her hands. She wanted to have a conversation with Samuel. The knot about Cormac in his heart was too tight.
Loredana felt somewhat uneasy about it.
When she reached the door of her son’s bedroom, her cell phone in the pocket suddenly rang. She pulled it out and saw the caller ID. She inhaled deeply.
Then she swiped to answer the call.
“Hey, it’s me.”
“OK.”
Loredana looked down, walking back to the living room. She didn’t speak first. Instead, she just held the phone, waiting for him to speak again.
“I’m downstairs of your apartment. Do you have time now? I want to meet you,” said Sampson.
He only spoke again after they both were silent for a moment.
Loredana answered him with a faint hum. She hung up the phone and took off the apron. Then she walked to Samuel’s room and knocked on the door. “Samuel, I have something to deal with downstairs.
Grandma will be back soon. Don’t go out, OK?”
Samuel was standing next to the window, looking down. He saw Sampson talking to Maxina downstairs. Hearing Loredana’ voice, he answered, “Got it.”
Loredana changed into her shoes and went downstairs. In the park, Sampson was talking to Maxina. He wanted to hold Simona, but Maxina refused him. “She’s quite naughty,” she made an excuse.
Maxina never had rejected him before.
This time Sampson definitely felt the alienation from her.
Since she knew that Sampson’s mother had gone to Loredana and realized that he couldn’t marry
Loredana, Maxina naturally couldn’t treat Sampson as dearly as before.
After all, in the past, she used to see Sampson as her future son-in-law.
Hence, from now on, she couldn’t continue being enthusiastic to bring him and her daughter together.
It was also unnecessary for the kids to be so intimate with him.
“Excuse me, Aunt Maxina. Did I do anything wrong?” Sampson asked.
“Nope. Nothing goes wrong.” Maxina hurriedly waved her hand, trying to explain, “This little girl doesn’t feel well these days. I’m just afraid she’ll cry.”
“I’ve watched her grow up since her childhood and she’s familiar with me. She won’t cry if I just hold her.”
“Good evening, Sampson.”
Loredana rushed over. “Mom, it’s getting cold now. Please take Simona back home.”
“OK.” Maxina said farewell to Sampson and left in a hurry with Simona in her arms.
“Had dinner yet?” Loredana asked.
Sampson smiled slightly. “I haven’t. Would you cook for me?”
“Of course.”
They smiled at each other.
“Shall we have a walk?”
“Sure.”
It was obvious that their relationship had changed.
They were not as close as they used to be.
“You’ve known it.” Sampson looked straight at the road ahead. “If I tell you that I’ve just got to know it not long ago, would you believe me?”
“I don’t know.” Loredana gave him an ambiguous answer.
“You still don’t trust me.” Sampson smiled bitterly.
He had predicted that her attitude to him would definitely change after Loredana got to know the truth.
Sure enough.
“When Maria Herbert and I are in danger at the same time, who will you rescue?” Suddenly, Loredana stopped and looked at Sampson. “This is a ridiculous question, isn’t it? But you would definite rescue her before saving me.”
“Why are you so sure?” Sampson stared at her.
“There are all kinds of love in this world. After all, blood is thicker than water. The family affection is the most precious. She’s your younger sister. If you could even ignore your own sister’s life and death, you would be an extremely ruthless and cold-blooded man. Then how could you love someone and how could a woman accept the love from such a man like you?”
Sampson didn’t speak, gazing at her in silence.
What she said was correct. Between Maria and her, Maria had higher priority than she had in his heart.
However, it was not because that blood was thicker than water. It was only because he felt guilty for
Maria.
It was his negligence that caused Maria to get lost back then.
“But it didn’t mean I would love you less.”
“But I can’t accept you for who you are then. I don’t think your family would accept me either. Let’s remain the same as we used to be, as long as you still want to treat me as a younger sister.”
Sampson frowned. He knew Loredana very well. She must have a concern for him now, but he had never expected that she could be so decisive.
He wondered if what he had done for her all these years deserved to make her being with him.
Even if he had hidden the truth of the car accident, his affection for her was not fake.
He couldn’t believe that Loredana could ignore everything.
All thoughts were boiling up in Sampson’s heart fiercely.
Suddenly, he laughed.
Gazing at Loredana, he asked, “Can you really ignore how well I’ve been treating you?”
“I can’t. I still take you as my older brother.” Loredana said that from the bottom of her heart.
When she got to know that it was Maria who planned her car accident, she didn’t look into it just because of Sampson.
Loredana wanted to show him her attitude now, as well as for her future plan.
If one day she really sent Maria into the jail, Sampson would also have a grudge in his heart.
“As an older brother, I’m really a loser.” Sampson smiled.
His biological younger sister didn’t understand him.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.
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