Adair sits on the sofa and waits for a long time. After washing his hands, he waits until Lily and Rex
come downstairs. He immediately runs to the dining room to sit well. He is very well-behaved that only
starts eating when everyone is ready as well.
Lily and Rex had an argument upstairs just now. Although it is not very serious, their mood still gets
affected. Lily feels helpless, and Rex is just being angry.
Neither of them talks, which makes the dining room, where is supposed to be lively and happy, quiet
and awkward.
Adair blinks his pretty big eyes at the two of them occasionally. Feeling this unusual atmosphere, he
starts a conversation first, "Uncle, your porridge is delicious."
Rex glances at his son's bowl. Seeing that he almost finish it all, he says, "If you like it, eat more. In this
way, you can be as tall as me."
Adair rolls his eyes, "Mom is tall too."
Lily suddenly gets mentioned between their conversations, she laughs for two seconds. "You are a boy,
you should be taller than mom."
The conversation between them soon stops again. Adair licks the spoon. Seeing that his parents are in
a bad mood and have no intention of chatting, he stops saying anything as well.
Until the meal is over, no one talks anymore.
Fanny is not here today. Rex cooks for them. Lily feels embarrassed if she doesn’t help at all, so she
chooses to tidy up the dishes and put them into the kitchen sink.
There are not many dishes to wash. So she doesn't need to use the dishwasher. She turns on the tap
and dips some dish soap to wash by hand.
The kitchen is fill with the sound of the water. A tall man suddenly walks into the door of the kitchen.
The kitchen is semi-open and not small at all, but Lily just feels that the second he walks in, the kitchen
becomes small suddenly.
She unconsciously turns her head to check on him. He takes out a bottle of ice water from the
refrigerator and starts drinking. Then suddenly he turns and looks at her.
She doesn’t have time to look away. Being caught when she’s checking on him, Lily feels so shy that
even her ears get red, "You, why do you come in?"
Rex doesn't tease her back. Obviously he is still a little angry at her, and his tone is upset, "Go out with
me this afternoon."
There is something to do?
Lily puts the last bowl into the dryer, "Where do we go?"
"School." He takes another sip of water. When he is drinking, his thin lips holds the rim of the bottle, his
head is raised up a little, and his Adam's apple rolls regularly. He looks so damn charming even when
he is just drinking water. "We should find a kindergarten for Adair."
Since returning to China until now, Adair spends most of his time at home. Now the relationship
between the two of them is on the better side. There is no reason to let the Adair stay at home
anymore.
It's not that Lily never consider it, but...
"Isn’t it too fast?"
Too fast?
Rex casually puts the water bottle aside on the table, "The child doesn't go to school and plays at home
every day. Every day passing by is a waste of time. Is it too fast?"
This is just an excuse for her insecurities.
Lily bites her lip. In fact, she doesn't want to prevaricate to him, but she is not ready yet. And she feels
like being pushed forward by him emotionally.
Seeing that she doesn't speak, Rex's mood is getting more down. He doesn't give her time to think
about it. "I have an appointment with the head master of the school this afternoon. You can go and
have a look with me. You can talk about it once we come back.”
Lily looks at his figure reflected in the window. In fact, last night, he had already confessed everything
to her. After five years, the anger in her heart has actually become resentment. He sincerely
apologizes. She will not be pretentious as well.
Looking at the man standing in front of her, she knows that his stiff body is showing her his anger. She
purses her lips, takes a step forward, and says, "Can you not think me so bad? I just think too much
and consider about too much details sometimes. It’s not on purpose up against you."
"Then who are you up against?" He becomes so childish, not looking like a big boss at all.
Lily looks at him and it hits her soft spot for him in her heart. "It’s not up against anyone. The reason I
mention Ryan is to reduce the contradiction. His feelings are complicated. And I do worry for him, but
not as lovers. For me, he is my family. I don’t force you to understand, but I don’t want you to
misunderstand."
"Also," she pauses and says again, "I am not being perfunctory about our kid. We can go wherever you
want. I just think that next time you should talk to me in advance, so I can prepare myself mentally."
Hearing her soft tone, his anger is gone already. He doesn't have any resistance to her. So once she
tries to say something nice to him, he can’t be angry anymore, but he still has to pretend being so. "I
want to discuss it with you. I didn't have time to do so last night. I was angry just now by Ryan."
Lily sighs helplessly, "Why are you angry to him?"
"You care about him before you care for me. Of course I am angry." After that, he steps forward, forcing
her to lean against the cabinet behind her. And then he put two of his hands on both sides of her waist,
"You are mine."
"Yes, yes, I am." Lily wants to let him put out the anger as quick as possible. She can’t stand the way
when he is being childish.
Unexpectedly, once she says so, he suddenly raises his eyebrows and asks, "Did you just admit it?"
Only then Lily realizes what she says. Her face gets blushed. She pushes him. “Don’t show off.”
"Just admit it."
"Rex!" Lily raises her eyes to stare at him, with her angry but mainly shy eyes. "Stop talking!"
Seeing that she is almost getting annoyed, he no longer continues the conversation. He lowers his
head and kisses really hard on her lips. "It’s ok this time. Next time, if I find out that you care about any
other man, you will see what I will do!"
After he finishes speaking, he also glances at her whole body specially. Lily gets the feeling that she is
glanced by a dangerous animal. She says in a low voice, "Stop making excuses for your nasty mind..."
Rex does not hear her clearly, but he knows she doesn’t say anything nice. He turns his head and asks
her, "What did you say?"
Lily shakes her head, "Nothing."
She stands in front of him calmly and listen to him, which happened a lot five years ago, but rarely
since she comes back.
He can’t help to pinch her soft face, which makes her shocked and puzzled.
Rex smiles, "Five years ago you were afraid of me. Every time I called you to my office, you were
always like that. You lowered your head and kept quiet. And you always looked at the other side
instead of me."
His voice is very soft. When he describes what happened in the past, she can draw a clear picture in
her mind.
"At that time you were twenty-four and I was thirty-two years old. You didn’t understand anything, so
you were especially afraid of me. But you didn’t know that every time you look at me with that kind of
fear and shyness, I only had one thought." He leans close to her ear. He says in a very low and soft
voice to blow air to her ear, "I want to push you down."
Lily only feels numb in her ears, and even one side of her body feels numb after that. She turns her
head and tries to find somewhere to hide. She is a mom already, but still can’t help feeling shy and
trembled hearing that.
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