Chapter 329
Chapter 329 Mr. Coke
Yuliana quickly set aside the things in her hand and crouched down in front of Rowan. She reached out
to wipe off Rowan’s tears. However, thetter rebuffed her efforts and turned his face away, disying
his resentment. With a pout and his downturned lips, Rowan looked at Yuliana with red, tearful eyes,
feeling upset and wronged.
Yuliana knew that Rowan was angry.
She recalled an incident before when Rowan brought his favorite toy robot downstairs, and it was
identally broken by one of his friends. It was the same disappointed expression as it was before.
Rowan would often throw small tantrums but rarely got truly angry.
Yuliana extended her arm and made Rowan look her in the face. Despite Rowan resisting her, she
gently wiped his tears and said, “Mommy is sorry. I was wrong to yell at you earlier. Please don’t be
angry with me, okay?”
Rowan’s cheeks remained puffed, but his gaze softened. He stared at Yuliana for a while, then threw
himself into Yuliana’s arms, wrapped his arms around her neck, and said in a nasal voice, “Okay.”
Two secondster, he kissed Yuliana’s face again and said, “I love you, Mommy.”
Yuliana’s heart melted at Rowan’s words. She kissed his forehead and said with a gentle smile,
“Mommy loves you too. Stop crying?”
Rowan pulled away from Yuliana’s embrace and nodded as he said, “Yes!”
Yuliana said, “Can you walk on your own? I have to carry things.”
“Okay,” Rowan replied.
Yuliana got up, picked up the things that were ced aside, and took Rowan to the parking area. But
after a few steps in, Rowan tugged on Yuliana’s clothes and shouted from behind, “Mommy, it’s Mr.
Coke.” Startled, Yuliana turned around to see a man and a woman walking in their direction.
The man was Christopher, who had helped Rowan to reach the can of Coke at the supermarket earlier.
The woman was wearing a mask and a baseball cap, showing only her beautiful eyes. She was well-
dressed and had a slender figure.
Yuliana nced at them for a brief second and was ready to leave with Rowan. However, Christopher
turned to look in their direction. Before Yuliana could withdraw her gaze, their eyes met. Unflinchingly,
she averted her gaze. “Be careful as you cross the road.”
Rowan withdrew his gaze and followed Yuliana obediently, ready to leave the ce.
Just then, Christopher left the woman beside him and hurried toward Yuliana and Rowan.
Sensing the presence of someone behind her, Yuliana had no choice but to stop.
Christopher looked at Yuliana first. Both of them looked calm. Then, he looked at Rowan beside
Yuliana. The little boy was blinking his eyes as he looked at Christopher, puzzled.
He smiled at Rowan and said to Yuliana, “I have no ill will.”
Then, he took out a can of Coke from his shopping bag and handed it to Rowan.
Rowan’s watery eyes lit up in an instant when he saw the can of Coke. When he was about to reach
out to ept it, he couldn’t help but look up at Yuliana again with pleading eyes. “Mommy, please…”
Rowan implored loudly.
Yuliana could not resist the eager look of her son. Yet, her mind was gued by hesitations and some
other thoughts. After gathering her thoughts, she touched Rowan’s soft curly hair and urged him to
thank the man before him. “Go ahead and say thank you to Mr. Coke.”
With his mother’s permission, Rowan immediately took the Coke from Christopher and said happily,
“Thank you, Mr. Coke!”
Christopher looked at Rowan and said, “You’re wee.”
Rowan held the Coke in his hands as if he had scored himself a rare treasure. He was so happy that
his attention was wholly on the can of Coke in his hands.
Christopher reached out his hand to touch Rowan’s face, but Rowan’s reflex was quick to dodge the
former’s hand. It was evident that Rowan was ufortable with being touched by strangers, even
when the man had offered him a can of Coke.
Christopher’s hand froze in midair before he drew it back.
Just then, the woman who was with Christopher walked over and cast a nce at Yuliana and the child
beside her. She then turned to look at Christopher and asked, “Do you know each other?”
Christopher did not spare a passing nce at the woman and even deliberately disregarded her
question. As the woman awaited his response, Christopher remained unresponsive, causing
discontentment in the former. Nheless, the woman refrained from making a scene in front of
strangers.
Yuliana patted Rowan on the back and said, “Let’s go.”
Rowan was confused as his focus was still on the can of Coke in his hands. After following Yuliana for
a distance, he seemed to remember something. He turned to look at Christopher, who was standing
and watching them from a distance. Rowan politely bid Christopher goodbye. “Goodbye, Mr. Coke.”
Christopher smiled at him.
After the two disappeared, Christopher headed in the other direction.
The woman became infuriated when Christopher evaded her questions. She caught up to him and
asked, “Christopher, do you know the mother and son from just now?”
The woman seemed to sense that there was something between Christopher and the woman with the
child they had just encountered.
Christopher ignored her words.
When he arrived at his parking spot, he threw the shopping bag into the trunk and opened the driver’s
door to get into the car.
The woman stood in front of the car, seemingly prepared for a confrontation with Christopher.
Christopher shot an indifferent nce at her and went on to pick up a cigarette box from the armrest
box. He took out a cigarette, lit it, lowered the window, and smoked slowly. His gray eyes were devoid
of any emotions as he looked in the direction of the woman. It was as if he was looking through her, not
at her. As the tension simmered between them, the woman eventually backed down.
Fuming with anger, she could not help but stomp her foot before storming into the passenger seat. Her
hands were quick to take off her mask and hat. Frustrated, she ran her fingers through her hair as she
said, “What do you mean? Does it take a lot for you to coax me?”
Christopher gave her the side-eye as he flicked off the cigarette ash. “That child just now was my son,”
he
stated.
“What?” the woman eximed in disbelief at the revtion.
The woman could not believe her ears, though his words were unmistakably clear.
Despite being in shock, she could easily read the situation.
If the child was Christopher’s son, the woman that they saw was…
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Christopher seemed to have guessed her thoughts and said, “You guessed it right. She’s my ex-wife.”
The woman’s face darkened, and her eyebrows furrowed. She turned to look out of the window and
remained silent for a long while.
Christopher, too, did not continue to speak.
The silence in the car was deadly.
Several minutes went by. The woman eventually lost herposure. She looked at Christopher and
asked angrily, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
Christopher put out the smoke and said in a low voice, “If it bothers you that much, we can call it quits
now.” Hearing that, the wornan panicked at the thought of losing Christopher. “I didn’t mean that,” she
said.
She pouted and looked at Christopher.
In truth, she had only known Christopher for ten days, and their rtionship was undefined. They were
still in
the ambiguous stage, and they were just getting to know each other. Regardless, she had strong
feelings for Christopher and believed that he felt the same way.
The way Christopher had willingly revealed the truth to her seemed to solidify that belief.
As she reflected on their interactions over the past few days, she came to know very well that
Christopher was not a patient man who would go out of his way to appease a woman. That was
precisely the reason she was drawn to him.
However, she was determined to be different from all the women in Christopher’s life. She wished to be
the one who could change him. She wanted to make him understand that it was worth it to be patient
and to take the time to understand and listen to her.