Chapter 1042


    Thssa offered a polite, charming smile. "Yep, quadruplets."


    "Ma''am, you''re incredible. Having twins is already quite a feat, but you''ve gone and had four at once!"


    The flight attendant was brimming with warmth, her smile infectious as she struck up a conversation


    with Thssa.


    "Yup, my mom''s a superhero; she popped us four munchkins out just like that. And my dad''s pretty


    amazing too at reproduction." Elowen chimed in with her disarmingly cute nod, dropping a bombshell in


    her innocent chatter.


    Thssa''s eyes went wide, and she quickly covered Elowen''s little mouth, smiling awkwardly at the


    flight attendant. "We''ll all have the lunch boxes, thank you."


    Elowen, the cutest and most animated of the bunch, must have picked up some interesting lingo from


    her ymates at preschool toe out with such a statement.


    Thssa felt so embarrassed she could almost dig a hole with her toes.


    "Here are your lunch boxes. Please enjoy your meal." the flight attendant said, sensing Thssa''s


    difort and tactfully not pursuing the quadruplet topic any further.


    After cing the lunch boxes on the tray tables, she gave Thssa a nod and Elowen a look with


    adore and sympathy before moving along with her cart.


    "Um..." Elowen, whose mouth was still covered, stayed still. Her big, sparkling eyes rolled around,


    looking both shrewd and adorably naive.


    Realizing she was still covering her daughter''s mouth, Thssa quickly removed her hand and


    caressed Elowen''s soft cheek, her tone a mix of affection and resignation. "Sweetie, who taught you


    those things?"


    "My friend Dn." Elowen exined in her tender, childish voice, "He knows my siblings and I are


    quads. He said my dad must be super strong, and he''s jealous because he wants a brother or a sister


    too, but his dad doesn''t want to."


    Dn again, that little rascal and Mr. Ethan''s nephew, always filling Elowen''s head with such ideas.


    How could such a young kid know so much?


    Thssa smiled and ruffled her little one''s hair. "Hungry, huh? Let''s eat."


    "Yeah, my tummy''s gonna cave in! I want to eat, and I think I could eat two portions." Elowen dered,


    kneading her round belly.


    Her expression was irresistibly endearing.


    The other three tykes also craned their necks in anticipation of the meal.


    Thssa opened the lunch boxes for them one by one.


    Behind them, Callum sat with Evelyn, both opting for lunch boxes from the flight attendant who, Callum


    noticed, was wearing a headset.


    Curiosity stirred within him; he''d flown plenty of times but had never seen an attendant dish out meals


    with a headset on.


    This flight attendant was an anomaly, and it piqued Callum''s suspicions about her reasons for wearing


    it.


    He had overheard her exchange with Thssa — after all, on a ne, the confined space made every


    conversation crystal clear.


    The attendant had been marveling at Thssa''s quadruplet, seemingly innocuous, but Callum sensed


    something off.


    Two hourster, the ne touched down safely at Weston Country Airport.


    Callum led them out of the terminal where a car was already waiting.


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    "Please get in, and I''m taking you all somewhere." Callum said.