Chapter 178


    Chapter 178


    Gregory broke into a smile. Before Tessa held her hand out, he beat her to it by taking her hand and


    grinning at her. “You are so kind,”


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    Tessa couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.


    No matter how confident she had sounded about her life without them, she still couldn’t bring herself to


    be harsh toward the little guy when facing him.


    She could never reject the kid’s request and couldn’t bear to see him upset.


    “Daddy’s car is over there!” Holding Tessa’s hand, Gregory walked toward Nichs’ car. The child kept


    swinging her hand the entire time and he said, “Miss Tessa, I haven’t met you for days! Do you know


    that I really missed you?”


    After he said that, he nuzzled his face against her hand, looking content.


    Upon seeing how excited he was, Tessa twitched the corner of her lips without saying a word.


    As a matter of fact, she didn’t know how she should face the kid and his father. What she had said in


    the hospital that time had been too harsh, and she would be eating her words if she were to give


    Gregory a glimmer of hope at that moment.


    At present, Tessa’s head was in such a mess that she had lost the ability to even think.


    She didn’t know how she should bring it up and what she should say after that; all she could do was to


    remain silent to ease the awkwardness.


    When she had entered the car, Nichs looked at her and asked, “Where do you want to go?”


    He posed the question before Tessa managed to return to her senses. After a moment of silence, she


    replied, “Uh… anywhere is fine.”


    It was a casual question that Nichs didn’t expect an answer to, as he had noticed that Tessa


    seemed to be in a daze. Therefore, he turned to Gregory and asked. “How about you? Where do you


    want to go?”


    Gregory paused for a moment and responded, “Can we go and watch a movie?” He then shyly added


    with pursed lips, “I heard from Uncle Kieran that the movie of my favorite anime-Detective Conan-is in


    theaters now. I have never watched a movie together with Daddy and… Mommy. I want to know what it


    feels like.” After he said that, he timidly nced at Tessa.


    Tessa felt a lump in her throat when she saw him this way.


    Gregory had always been a bubbly and adorable kid who never failed to charm the people around him.


    However, he had never mentioned anything like that. Now that he had mentioned this, Tessa really


    wished to embrace andfort him.


    Nichs was equally stunned as well as he had never been to that sort of ce, so he never expected


    that his son would make such a request.


    Nheless, it was a rather minor request, so he wasn’t against the idea of three of them watching a


    movie together.


    Yet, the main concern at that moment was what Tessa thought about that. He turned to her and asked,


    “Do you want to go? You don’t have to force yourself if you don’t.”


    Tessa initially wanted to reject the idea as she was still concerned about what she had said at the


    hospital, but when she turned to her side and saw Gregory eagerly looking at her with pleading eyes,


    she found the words that she was about to utter just couldn’t leave her mouth.


    After a moment of hesitation, she nodded and agreed. “Sure.”


    Gregory’s eyes instantly lit up, shining as bright as a star as he looked at Tessa. “Thank you, Miss


    Tessa. You are the best!”


    Tessa smiled and reached out her hand to ruffle his hair.


    At about 9.00 PM, Nichs, Tessa and Gregory arrived at the cinema.


    When they entered the premises, Nichs found that it was rather noisy with a lot of people inside,


    which made him frown subconsciously.


    Even so, since he had agreed to bring Gregory here, he couldn’t break his promise of watching a movie


    with his son.


    As Nichs had never bought a movie ticket before this, he didn’t know how to do so. His gaze was


    fixed on the long queue beside him, which seemed to lead to a self-service ticketing machine.


    With his brows knitted, he stared at the queue, as though he was carefully observing the process of


    purchasing a movie ticket.


    Tessa, who took notice of how Nichs kept staring at the machine, was puzzled at first, but the


    reason behind his strange behavior suddenly dawned upon her. “President Sawyer, could it be that you


    have never been to a cinema before?” she couldn’t help but ask.


    Nichs pressed his lips and nodded, as he had nothing to hide. “Yes.”


    As the first in line to seed the Sawyer Group, his family had been raising him with elite education


    since he was little.


    Since Nichs was in elementary school, he had had endless lessons every day.