Chapter 584
Chapter 584 Nowhere to Sleep
Honestly, Victoria was tired after shopping around for about an hour. Plus, the bags only got heavier as
time passed, but before she could say anything, ric interjected, “Let’s catch a break.”
Then, he pushed the shopping cart toward the elevators. There was a lounge upstairs and a mall,
where Mary and Sasha were having a look around.
“I wonder how they’re doing,” she mumbled while strolling.
“You mean Mom and Sasha? Don’t worry. They’re probably having a great time with their shopping
spree.”
ric pushed the shopping cart to the checkout area and sent someone to bring the bags out after
leading them to the closest restaurant. On the way back to the restaurant, he received a call from
Mary.
“You guys should return home without us. We won’t be joining you,” Mary sounded a little indignant on
the
other end of the line. There was a tinge of disgruntlement in her tone.
He couldn’t help but feel astonished as he asked, “Why aren’t you joining us? Do you have other
ns?”
“Yeah, we booked a facial appointment and will be back in the evening. You guys… should just do
whatever you want.”
When ric heard that they were going for a facial, he answered, “Okay.”
He was about to hang up when Mary couldn’t help butin, “You’re d, aren’t you?”
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“Huh?” he blurted before he could press the end call button.
“Nobody is fighting over the children with you, and you can finally have them to yourselves.” When
ric was still trying to find his bearings, she continued, “Isn’t that precisely what you were thinking
when you suddenly took Nicole and Nathan away in the morning?”
He couldn’t help but sigh helplessly upon hearing herints. “Mom, we’ve only spent about one
hour with the children in the past few days. Otherwise, they were either eating or sleeping. If they
weren’t, they were always with you and Dad.”
Everything was fine in Mary’s world until he just had to bring this up. The instant he did so, Mary had
nothing. left in her arsenal to justify her frustrations. It was just as he said–the kids had been
apanying them throughout their visit, and it had only been one hour since ric took the children
away.
It was just one hour…
She just parted with her grandchildren for barely an hour, and she was already finding it utterly
unbearable. What about ric and Victoria, then? Could they handle such a thing? The moment she
put herself in their shoes, she couldn’t help but think that she was being a cranky harpy. “I got it. They’ll
stay with you while I’m. going for a facial with Sasha. I’ll be hometer.”
“Okay.” This time, ric hung up without any feelings of remorse.
Mary sat in the same spot in a daze after ending the call. Sasha, who had been in a corner while she
was making the call, approached her. “What’s wrong?”
Mary turned her attention to Sasha as she recalled the things ric said earlier and divulged, “Do you
think I’ve been hogging their kids for too long recently?”
Her question caught Sasha by surprise. As there was a distance between her and Victoria since she
wasn’t Victoria’s birth mother, she didn’t dare to regard Victoria as her own. That was because there
was a nagging thought in her mind that would keep reminding her that she didn’t have the right to do
so.
Hence, she wasn’t that close with Victoria and didn’t dare to help babysit her kids. In the past five
years, Victoria had been taking care of her kids herself. Furthermore, when Sasha married Tony, the
kids were no longer babies, and she didn’t have the guts like Mary to forcibly hog the kids‘ attention.
When she saw how Mary was spending time with the children, she was full of envy and truly wanted a
rtionship like theirs. Still, it never urred to her that Mary would be in distress over something like
this.
“Why would you think that? Nicole and Nathan are still young and need someone to watch over them.
You’re not just purely hanging around them.”
“But… The kids aren’t the only ones that need attention. Even the parents would long for theirpany
as well.” A weary sigh escaped Mary’s lips. “If ric hadn’t brought this up to me, I might have
continued with my blunder. Just because I adored the kids, I kept them by my side all the time and
didn’t consider their emotions.”
At the mention of this, Mary sighed a few more times and said that she wouldn’t keep the kids by her
side all the time anymore, no matter how deeply she loved them.
The moment Sasha saw Mary so deste, Sasha could only offer her some constion but couldn’t
say anything else since Victoria wasn’t her daughter. Instead, they chatted in the same spot for about
fifteen minutes before heading toward the beauty salon.
While they were having their facials in the same room, Sasha almost fell asleep on the beauty bed with
her
eyes closed when she heard Mary sighing and speaking about Nicole and Nathan again.
So, sheforted Mary once more and when they were about to finish their session, Mary couldn’t
help but bring up the same issue again. In the end, whileforting Mary, it suddenly dawned upon
Sasha that having a close bond with others could also be a burden for both parties.
I have to learn from this and not do the same as her once I have grandchildren. Otherwise, I’ll be
worrying every
day until I grow old, she thought.
So, before they left the beauty salon, Sasha said something that made a huge impact on Mary. “You
shouldn’t brood over it anymore. Sometimes there are just things in life that you can’t control, and you
have to let it run its natural course. Besides, the more you think about it, the more it makes you worry.
Furthermore, you’ll grow old very quickly if you keep brooding over things.”
Mary honestly didn’t think anything of her words until she heard the veryst sentence, and her face
fell. “Grow
old?”
“Yeah. You’ll have more wrinkles if you keep worrying your head over something you can’t control.”
“You’re right. How can I forget about this? No, I’ll have to stop thinking about this.”
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That proved to be effective, and Mary finally stopped bringing this up when they were on the way back.
When she returned home, she didn’t even mention that she wanted to have the kids in her room to
spend the night. Instead, she turned in early that night to have her beauty sleep.
Meanwhile, Victoria was surprised when Nicole and Nathan stayed in her room to sleep as she
assumed that Mary would definitely ask to have the kids spend the night in her room. She also figured
that Mary would be extra impatient after being apart from the kids for such a long time when she went
to the beauty salon. Thus, it was to her immense surprise that Mary didn’t.
So, Victoria plopped into bed after her shower and the kidsy at her sides, each hugging one of her
arms. In contrast to Nathan’s silence, Nicole was a little chatterbox, and this was the scene that
greeted ric when he joined them in the room.
Before he could experience such a cozy moment, he suddenly realized a severe issue–his spot in the
bed was
taken.
The room was prepared by the Selwyns for Victoria and the bed was ratherrge. Normally, it was
enough for Victoria and the kids, and big enough for two adults. As for three people… Well, it would be
a snug fit for the three women, but it might be a little ufortable when they drifted off to sleep.
However, there were two kids now and ric was a grown man. Hence, if the kids were sleeping next
to Victoria, there was no way he would fit in as well.
Yeah, I can still take a seat at the side of the bed. I can forget about joining them in bed and sleeping
through the night, though, he thought in resignation.