He turns around and puts up a long face. The phone gets connected right away and Lily sounds panic
over the phone. She questions Rex, “Where did you take my child to?”
Rex licks his chapped lips, ignores her screams, and asks her a question in a guilty tone, “Where are
you now?”
“I’m looking for my child!” Lily’s hands are shaking as she speaks, “Where did you…”
“We are at the hospital,” Rex stops her. Just five words and that’s enough to scare Lily.
Before she could ask him where he hides the child, what Rex tells Lily stuns her.
Hospital?
Why are they in the hospital?
It is always something bad when people mention about hospitals. When Lily thinks about what could
happen to her child, she panics and it feels like her energies are drew out instantly. She could barely
hold her phone, “What…What happens to Adair?”
“He is fine. It’s just indigestion. Karl has given him some medicine and a drip,” Rex explains in a calm
tone but underneath that tone, he is as panic as Lily is.
Lily couldn’t see Adair’s condition over the phone. The moment she thinks about Rex taking Adair away
without her permission and got him into the hospital, she becomes furious. Lily tries to calm herself
down from the panics and the waves of anger she is feeling, her jaws clenched, and her cheeks puffed.
She takes a few deep breaths to pull herself together.
“Tell me the ward number. I’m on my way.”
Rex hesitates for a minute but he gives her the number anyway.
Lily doesn’t dare to trigger Rex at this moment. She worries that he would take the child away again if
he’s isn’t happy. She tries to talk to him in her best attitude, “Please, stay there and watch Adair. I’ll be
there right away.”
Rex closes his eyes and replies, “Alright.”
Upon ending the phone call, Rex approaches Adair and tells him that Lily is coming later. Adair smiles
happily, “Then I’ll sleep after mommy is here.”
Rex’s heart aches when he sees Adair’s tiny hand on the drip. “You can sleep first. I’ll wake you up
when your mother is here.”
“It’s fine. I can still hold on.”
Hearing what Adair says, Rex feels even more unsettling. He blames himself for not being a qualified
father. “I didn’t know how much you should be eating before. I will take note of this in the future.”
Adair raises his head and looks at the man sitting beside his bed. His eyes blink and he stares at Rex
with his dark eyes in a confused look. “Uncle Rex, I overate. That’s it. You don’t need to worry too
much.”
Rex holds Adair's hand, the one without the drip on it, and looks at him, “I feel sorry for you.”
The heartache Rex is feeling now is nothing compared to the other senses. It is a blood-related kind of
feeling. If he could, he would take all the pain away from Adair and put it on himself.
Adair looks closely at Rex. Although he doesn’t feel good because of his stomach, he is very happy. He
could feel that Rex cares a lot about him. He remembers Lily reacted the same way the last time he
was sick. He could feel the love from both of them.
However, it confuses him even more. Why didn’t Rex show up for the past five years?
Adair throws a question to Rex without thinking too much, “Uncle Rex, do you like me?”
Rex is stunned by the sudden question from Adair. His heart races when he sees Adair’s bright eyes
blinking in front of him. He, too, answers without much consideration, “Very much.”
“Really?”
“Yes, I won’t lie to you.”
Adair gets an affirmative answer from Rex but his head is lowered. Rex doesn’t know what Adair is
thinking. After a while, Adair asks again, “Then…Why didn’t you come to look for mommy and me?”
This question has been bothering Adair for too long. Ever since he finds out that Rex is his father, he’s
been thinking about it. However, the world of the adult is way too complicated for him to understand.
If he likes him, why didn’t he come looking for him? If you like someone, don’t you want to treat them
nicely, like how the other fathers are always there for their children?
He wants to understand the reason behind it so badly.
Listening to the pitiful voice of his child, Rex’s heart aches. He holds Adair’s hand tightly and looks at
him with a look full of concern and love, “It’s not that I didn’t want to come and look for you. I didn’t
know where you and your mommy was back then. I promise you, if I knew your whereabouts, I will
definitely come for you.”
It seems like Adair is well-aware of the fact that he is his father. There’s no need to make up excuses
anymore. Adair might not need to know what happened between Rex and Lily in the past but he must
know that Rex loves him, very much.
Adair frowns and asks Rex softly, “Why didn’t you know? Other children have been with their parents
ever since they were born.”
The question adds a tingling feeling in Rex’s heart. He sighs and tries to explain to Adair in the simplest
way possible, “When your mommy first had you, I didn’t know about it. Then there was this accident
and she brought you to the UK after it. I didn’t know about this either. I thought both of you have died in
that accident. I’d never expect both of you to be living in the UK for all these while.”
Adair listens to Rex’s side of the story seriously. He puts on a straight face and asks, “So, you didn’t
know that you have a son?”
“Yes,” Rex smiles bitterly, “I didn’t know back then.”
Adair goes quiet after that.
All these while, he doesn’t have any impression about his father. When he finds out that Rex is his
father, the figure of his father has finally had a face now. After knowing what happened previously,
Adair’s mind goes blank.
He could understand why Rex didn’t show up but he couldn’t understand why he is the only child
dealing with these.
He doesn’t want to compare himself to other children. He just couldn’t understand why.
“This is between me and your mother. You don’t have to understand it at all. All you need to know is
that I never gave up on you and your mother,” Rex’s tone becomes so gentle when he spills his
feelings to Adair.
They look at each other in the eyes and their connections strengthen. It’s like special telepathy
between father and son.
Rex’s chin trembles. He uses the term he’s been practising thousand-million times in his head, “Daddy
loves you and your mommy very much. You don’t need to have any doubt about that.”
Adair feels poignant. He tries to suck it in but he fails. In the end, tears roll down from his cheek.
In fact, Adair doesn’t know why he cries. It could be from his subconscious for a sense of belonging to
a family.
Seeing Adair cries, Rex is heartbroken. He uses some tissues to wipe away Adair’s tears and mucus
without feeling disgusted, “Don’t cry, my baby. I will protect you and your mommy from now on. I will not
let you leave anymore.”
Initially, Adair wants to question Rex harshly for being absent for five years in his life. He doesn’t want
to forgive him so easily. However, when Rex’s warm and loving arms hug him, he falls for the warmth
he felt.
He wants to meet his father so badly and now his dream comes true!
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