Chapter 320: Hi There, Old Friend 1
We left home to get on the road early. The two kids were energetic as if they never felt tired, and they
didn’t ask us to hug them at all. We had been chatting and joking along the way before we arrived at
the destination.
The church was indeed beautiful. Nathan led rie Bear inside, and she knelt down to say her first-
ever prayers. She acted so respectfully and it was such a solemn scene.
“Sometimes she does act like a grownup!” Nathan sighed, next to me, “Just too mature for a kid.”
I pursed my lips and looked up at a statue in the front. I didn’t kneel or say a prayer. Thirty years had
passed, I had seen life and death, gone through ups and downs, and had lost a lot of loved ones along
the way.
However, I didn’t lose anything else.
“Let’s prayer together, ra.”
Nathan raised his eyebrows and spoke.
I smiled lightly, paused for a second, and said lightly, “I don’t think saying a prayer would make the past
better. The dead rest in peace and the living continue on with their lives. It’s all fate.”
rie got up and ran towards me, and then she looked at me and said, “Is there anyone you would like
to meet, mama? Pray, and God will lead us to them in our dreams.”
I smiled lightly, took the lit candle in her hand, and smiled, “Sweetie, the person mommy wants to meet,
I always see them in my dreams. Don’t worry!”
rie Bear tilted her head and nodded, seeming to understand. And then she looked at Nathan and
said, “What about you, Uncle Nathan? Did you pray?”
Nathan held the candle in his hand and said, smiling, “I did, for you and Joey to grow up happily and
healthily.”
When we came out of the church, it seemed that it was going to rain, and there were dark clouds and a
cold wind.
Nathan handed me the jacket, “It’s chilly, don’t catch a cold.”
I didn’t raise my hand to take it from him, I just smiled, “I am good. Don’t worry about it.”
He frowned and draped the jacket over my shoulders.
rie Bear pulled Joey and whispered, “Joey, does your dad like me?”
Joey wasn’t talkative as always. He just looked up at Nathan and shook his head, “I don’t know.”
The kids’nguage was always so straightforward.
Nathan smiled, emphasizing his answer.
I gazed at the jacket over my shoulder, and my emotions were very light. Friends would care about
each other the way Nathan and I did each other. It didn’t mean that we liked each other.
On the way back, it was getting a little dark. We ate something nearby the church, and both rie and
Joey fell asleep.
Nathan drove us back home. He parked the car at the gate of the yard, and got out, ready to carry
rie inside.
I said, “You don’t have to. It’s gettingte, you should take Joey back and get some rest. It’s been a fun
day!”
Nathan was slightly stunned but nodded. A man in his forties had a different way of handling things
than a boy in his twenties.
A woman’s polite refusal was the best respect for them.
The ambiguity among the twenty-somethings was warm and romantic, but that among the thirty and
forty-somethings might
be veiled under thosemon things in life, like a nod or smile.
Holding rie in my arm, I saw Nathan off. My phone rang, it was Dennis. I switched to holding rie
in the other arm, so I
could pick up the call.
“Would you feel it abrupt if I show up at this time?” The man’s voice was low, maic, and sexy.
I looked forwards the yard subconsciously, and sure enough, in the alley, Dennis was standing there
under the dim streetlights
in a high-ss and elegant suit.
There was a ck Mercedes-Benz parked beside him, and he looked at me with deep eyes, steady
and restrained.
In the past four years, Dennis had be more stable and noble, and his natural temperament had
be more attractive.
“I need you to hold the baby for me!” I said to the phone. My keys were still in my purse, rie Bear
was asleep, I was holding
the phone again, so I couldn''t reach for the keys.
I heard his lowugh. We hung up the call, and he came to me. He was standing far away just now and
I only found that he
was holding a beautiful flower bouquet in his hand.
With a smile on his face, like a spring breeze, he took rie from my arm with one hand and handed
me the flower in the
other, “Happy weekend!”
Looking at the flowers in my arms, I smiled with my head lowered. I knew he would be back, but I didn’t
expect him toe
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back so fast.
True happiness was the only thing that would lead to the best result - I didn’t have to figure out whether
I was still in love with
him now.
I took out the key to open the door. The night was dark, but the moon was bright.
I pointed at rie’s bedroom, and Dennis brought her inside.
When he came out, I noticed there were some wrinkles on his shirt, but it still did not lessen his
handsomeness.
“Do you mind if I stay overnight?” He said with a smile.
I lowered my eyes and handed him the toiletries I found. Without further ado, he took it and walked into
the guest room with ease.
Toby didn’te with him. It was not hard to figure out that he didn’te here for work, but for me.
But I decided not to think too much about it. Dennis maintained a gentleman’s demeanor and stayed in
the guest room.
Perhaps because of Dennis’ abrupt showing-ups, Nathan came to my house less than.
Dennis would help me take rie to schoo! and back home, and he would help with cooking and even
myundry.
We were enjoying each other’spany between three meals a day. There were a lot of ripe fruits in
the backyard, so I would
pick some each day and take them back to the hotel every day.
Antonia was still working in the hotel, but she did stop being as arrogant as before. When we ran into
each other asionally,
she would just keep a poker face and did not speak.
But it was probably just for the best. It was better than greeting someone you didn’t even like with a
forced heartless smile.
Lunchtime.
Antonia took the initiative to find me and said that she would like to have dinner together.
I refused, “Thanks, but I have to go home.”
She was also calm, “You don’t have to be this way. My father has been put behind bars, and now I am
no threat to you
anymore. I know that I offended a lot of people by being arrogant and domineering in the past, and
everyone hates me in my
gut. But I have to make a living, and the hotel is all I’ve got now.
I don’t want our work rtionship to be so embarrassing for everyone.”
“It’s just lunch. I don’t mean for us to shake hands, make peace, and be friends. Let’s just fake it till we
make it.”
I pursed my lips and smiled, “You are being straightforward.”
Antonia shrugged, “It’se to a point where nothing I do would make a difference, so I just
“Okay! Let’s go!” I nodded but didn’t feel anything.
There were not as many decent restaurants in the HL Area, but Antonia did find a restaurant with a
good environment. And we
just finished ordering.
Antonia looked at me, “Since you are Link Kennedy’s daughter, why don’t you announce your
rtionship with Dennis openly
and aboveboard?”
I was stunned for a moment - I was a little surprised by her random question, “What the heck are you
talking about?”
“The fiancée of Dennis George and his mistress - It’s making huge noise in City P. Haven’t you heard?”
She looked at me with a sort of disbelief.
I took a sip of water and said, “It’s nothing of your business whatever rtionship I have with Dennis.
You are just an outsider, I don’t owe you an exnation.”
She shrugged, “You must feel dignified and shameful about the fact that you haven’t been publicly
acknowledged. This is why you areshing out at me for this.”
Her words were unpleasant.
I frowned, “If you want to know more about gossip, you should have spent your lunchtime watching
showbiz news.”
I lost my appetite, so I got up.
She followed, and her voice sounded upset, “Dennis guards Olivia Pearson, and you can’t hurt her.
And you can’t hurt that
actress Bernice Miller either, because she’s always by his side at different events. So you just messed
with me because I was the easy target. ra Kennedy, why do you have to sabotage my happiness
when you couldn''t have yours?”