Liberty took her son back from Hank’s arms with a vague smile. “I promised you time and again that I won’t try to retaliate against you. Did you not understand my words? Are you blaming me now?
“Thank you for coming all the way here to tell me these things.”
After saying that, she carried her son upstairs.
Hank turned to look at her and raised his voice, “Aren’t you going to invite me up for a coffee?”
“There’s no cup for you.”
Hank was speechless.
She took his money and rented such a good place to live in, but she was not even going to invite him over for a cup of coffee.
What a ruthless woman!
“Mommy, why doesn’t Daddy live with us?” Sonny asked innocently.
The little boy realized it was getting harder to see his daddy.
His favorite was his mommy and his aunt.
However, his daddy was still his daddy. There were times he still missed his daddy.
“Daddy’s workplace is too far from where we live now. It’s not convenient for him to go to work if he lives with us.”
Sonny seemed to understand.
He asked, “Mommy, why aren’t we living in our old home?”
Liberty was at a loss for words.
The boy had grown up a little after the New Year’s holidays and was starting to question things.
She thought about it and said, “Our old home is being renovated. The renovations will take a long time, so we won’t move back to our old home for a long, long time.”
Sonny hummed and stopped asking.
When the mother and son arrived home, Serena had made dinner.
She was bored and sitting in front of the sofa with her drawing board on the coffee table, doodling to pass the time.
“Aunt Seren.”
Sonny slipped out of his mother’s arms as soon as he entered the house and called out happily to Serena.
Serena put down the brush in her hand, smiled, and spread her arms. When her nephew ran over, she picked up the little boy and kissed him several times, asking with a smile, “Did you miss me, Sonny?”
“Yeah.”
Sonny wrapped his arms around Serena’s neck and returned her kisses with several of his own on her cheek, making Serena’s heart burst with joy and love for this little cutie.
“Why are you back so late, Liberty? I finished making dinner long ago,” Serena asked her sister while hugging her nephew.
“The interior designer finished work late, so I had to leave a little later as well. I was thinking of coming back to cook for you, but you already did.”
Serena said, “I just suffered some emotional hurt. It’s not like I’m sick. You don’t need to cook for me.”
Liberty walked over and looked at the painting Serena made. It was a hairpin.
“Your drawing sucks when you’re not in a good mood. Stop drawing for now.”
Liberty helped her sister put the drawing board away. “Did you go out for a walk today?”
“I didn’t want to move, so I slept all day.”
“Take a walk tomorrow. You’ll just feel worse if you stay cooped up at home all day.”
Serena hummed. “I’ll go back to work tomorrow. I need to rush the orders from the online store I got before the holidays.
The students would not start school until next Monday.
Today was Friday, so she could use the weekend to catch up with her orders.
She would not be constantly reminded of Zack lying to her if she had something to distract herself with.
There was a snowball effect where if that was not on her mind, then she would not get angry and consequently improve her mood.
“Sounds good.”
Liberty did not stop her sister from going back to the store, but she reminded her, “I met Hank downstairs. He came over just to tell me that our granddad went downtown again with his class of grandsons.”
Serena frowned at that. “Why did they come here? Do they think we have lots of money for them after they found out that Zack is the heir of the York family and
I’m his wife?”
Liberty said faintly, “Do you think they won’t think that?”
Those people had faces thicker than walls-possessing great shamelessness that gave them unsolicited boldness to do and think of anything.
“So what if they do? They can go straight to Zack.”
Serena’s conflict with her old family was the most severe.
“They might actually just do that.”
Serena was silent. Would they really go to Zack for money? She had no idea.
“They’re having a bad time now. If they don’t pester Zack for money after knowing his identity, the sun might rise from the west.”
Serena’s voice was cold. “Even if they lose their jobs and fail in their businesses, they have more than enough savings. It’s unlikely their quality of life will be affected for the time being, but they’re always thinking about asking for money from us. They’re shameless to the core!”
They could not bear to spend the money they had saved but never hesitated at the thought of spending other people’s money.
Who owed them?
“They wanted a share of the money I got from the divorce too. They called me to borrow money from me, but I refused.”
After Liberty helped her sister put away the drawing board, she went into the kitchen and brought out the food that her sister cooked. Meanwhile, Serena carried her nephew to wash his hands.
The three of them were soon seated at the small table to dine.
Sonny could eat by himself now. Although he dropped food all over the table, Liberty still let him eat by himself.
He would be starting preschool in September.
Ding dong… Ding dong…
The doorbell rang.
“I’ll get it.”
Serena put down her spoon. “I guess they might have found their way here.”
The moment Serena opened the door, a palm swung toward her.
She reacted quickly and caught the hand.
It was Jessica.
Jessica thought the person who came to open the door would be Liberty and raised a hand to slap the moment the door opened. She did not expect it to be Serena instead. Serena learned kickboxing and had quick reflexes, so she did not get hit.
“It’s you?
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