Chapter 7 Two Sweeties


    The little girl tilted her head to one side with an aggrieved expression on her rosy face. Then she turned around and ran toward the woman with the puppy in her arms.


    "Mom, Witty-Whitey is just chicken-hearted. I didn''t bully him. I''m a kind girl!"


    The woman gently pinched the little girl''s nose and said, "Sure. Betty is a kind and pretty little girl. Witty-Whitey is such a coward!"


    Amused, Isabe took the chubby puppy from her daughter''s arms. The puppy was ying dead and cracked open one eye, breathing a huge sigh of relief when realizing that he was finally in the clear. "But my little brother said I bullied Witty Whitey."


    The girlined, blinking her big, dark blue eyes.


    The boy heard her words and walked over. Then, looking at the girl with a straight face, he said, "Betty, I''m not your little brother. I''m older than you."


    The girl pouted her pink lips and lifted her chin. Then, with a snort, she retorted, "Maybe Mom was wrong about which of us she gave birth to first, and I came out before you."


    The little boy''s brows wrinkled. The resigned look in his eyes was at odds with his young age.


    "Betty, be a good girl and admit I''m the older one of us." The boy doted on his sister on everything but this


    matter.


    "No way," the little girl replied firmly.


    Isabe looked at them resignedly. Both of her children were just as obstinate as that man.


    She had told them that Betty was the younger sister, but the little girl never epted it and insisted that she was the older one of the twins.


    Ever since she learned to speak, she had called the boy her little brother.


    In the ne crash five years ago, Isabe had fallen into the ocean and been saved by a passing cruise ship.


    The cruise ship''s owner who had saved her was a mysterious and powerful woman.


    Without her, Isabe wouldn''t have survived and given birth to the two cute kids.


    It was out of Isabe''s expectation that she''d gotten pregnant on that rainy night with a baby boy and a girl.


    It was a monthter when the cruise ship returned to Lotus Vige, and Isabe had been in aa all this time.


    In Lotus Vige, Grandmaster checked on her body and surprisingly found that she was pregnant.


    Recalling how she had ended up there, Isabe smiled a little. She had almost died back then, but she had made it to leave that sad ce and start afresh. Now, besides her two kids, who were the most important people in her life, she also had several masters. They were all her family.


    With them around her, she finally knew what it felt like to have a home.


    A whiff of sweet fragrance interrupted her train of thought, and a sexy woman came into sight.


    The woman was wearing a bright red fishtail dress that was tight around her hips, looking striking with exquisite makeup and the ck waves of her hair swaying in the wind.


    She moved confidently, and her presence immediately made the courtyard a stage where there seemed to be limelight from every direction.


    "Sweeties, have you missed your grandma?" Hearing the woman''s sultry voice, Isabe rubbed her forehead. The beautiful woman calling herself grandma looked only in her thirties. Although Isabe had heard her refer to herself that way numerous times, she still hadn''t gotten used to it, thanks to that young and alluring face.


    "Grandma Grey!"


    The two kids spun around when they heard the woman''s voice and dashed toward her like two merry butterflies.


    The woman crouched down and wrapped both her arms around the two kids. She dropped kisses on their


    cheeks before looking up at Isabe with a grin.


    She was the mysterious woman who had saved Isabe on the cruise ship back then.


    "Be, I came to pick up the little ones to have sses at my ce."


    The thought of what Master Grey taught in her sses made Isabe''s lips twitch, and she replied unwillingly, "Okay."


    Jocelyn cocked an eyebrow and looked at her yfully. "The kids are very interested in what I teach them in my sses. They have inherited your talent!"


    Betty pped her hands and chirped, "Yes, Mom. We love ying with little bugs."


    The boy was more reserved but didn''t look resistant in the slightest way.


    Isabe was rendered speechless.


    Jocelyn held the hands of the two excited kids and walked out of the courtyard.


    Once Betty left, the puppy in Isabe''s arms returned to life and jumped off the swing, running into the flowers and rolling gaily.


    At that moment, a short old man ran in from outside with a prescription in his hand, yelling, "Be, I need your help. I got a new prescription here. There seems to be something wrong with it, but I can''t tell how." Isabe''s eyes lit up. She hurried to take the prescription over and perused it. Then, after thinking for a while, she said, "There''s indeed something wrong. Grandmaster, the dose of thest medicine is 0.1 milligrams more than the standard."


    "Oh, yeah!" The old man patted his forehead and ran away in haste.


    Isabe stared after the old man and couldn''t imagine how bad she would feel if she had to leave one day.Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.


    Her two kids were now four years old. Isabe didn''t know how long she could stay in this beautiful small vige.


    When thinking about the future, she didn''t expect the change to happen so soon.


    "What? They''ve found Lotus Vige?"


    One night a few dayster, Isabe stared in astonishment at theputer screen in front of her.


    "We got the news ten minutes ago. It''s so hard to get rid of Draxton Lockwood."


    Mr. Langley sat before theputer with a deadpan face, and his voice was lifeless.


    Jocelyn and the short old man were standing next to them, both with grave expressions.


    "That man is so obsessed with finding you. He has been after you for five years. It was just a one-night stand. Does he have to go to so much trouble to hunt you down?" Jocelyn snarled angrily. Isabe gave her a bitter smile. She couldn''t understand why that man was still looking for her after five years either.


    After the ne crash, that man had put the word out that she must be found, dead or alive.


    He''d even had an arrest warrant issued.


    For the past five years, Isabe''s name had been at the top of the "most wanted" list.


    To prevent that man from discovering her, Isabe had never taken one step out of Lotus Vige all these years. Hiding for her life was just part of the reason. She had stayed in Lotus Vige also because she had taken it


    as her home.


    "I''ll leave Lotus Vige with the kids." She knew that if she stayed any longer, her master and other teachers would be implicated.


    Lotus Vige was a mysterious vige where hotshots from all walks of life gathered. In the past five years, Isabe learned a lot from her master and other teachers and gained status and a new identity. She was confident that she could protect herself and her children after leaving Lotus Vige.


    Mr. Langley, who was still facing theputer, said in a disapproving tone, "Where can you go? You know how powerful the Lockwood Group is. He will find you wherever you go."


    Isabe''s eyes turned a bit brooding. "The best ce to hide is in in sight. I will go right under his nose."