Chapter 19 It’s nothing
In the afternoon, Haley took Ian back to her aunt’s house.
As she expected, as soon as she returned there, her bad-tempered uncle, Aidan Brown, scolded her so much that she felt really guilty.
Although she told them early that she didn’t die but just went abroad with her two children, they hadn’t come back once during the five years.
Therefore, she deserved to be scolded by Aidan.
“Haley, why do you come back since you’re tough enough? If you have the guts, don’t come back for the rest of your life!”
“No… I can’t do that. This is my home, so how can I not come back?”
“Nonsense! Your surname is Jones, not Brown, so this isn’t your home!”
Aidan lost his temper again!
Lily saw it upstairs, and hugged her brother tightly in fright, “Why does Aidan scold mummy like this? And why does he treat mummy so badly? Does he not like mummy?”
She pursed her lips and was about to cry.
When Ian saw that, he patted her back with his hands, saying, “It’s nothing. Mommy just doesn’t obey Aidan, so he scolds her. It’s just like the two of us. When we don’t listen to mommy, she scolds us too.”
Ian saw it clearly.
When Lily heard it, she blinked her big and watery eyes, and then she stopped crying.
After Aidan scolding Haley for a while, her aunt Wendy, who had been in the room, couldn’t bear it anymore and came out.
“That’s enough. Even though you’ve scolded her for so long, she couldn’t evanish the wrong things she’s done before, so stop scolding her. We don’t have much money to buy tea for you.”
Aidan stopped.
He shut his mouth after hearing Wendy’s words.
As for Haley, she stood there feeling sad and remorseful, almost bursting into tears.
“Aidan… Wendy…”
“You don’t have to tell me so much. Just tell me your plan. Are you really going to meet George?”
Wendy was much calmer than the grumpy Aidan.
But she was cold, and there was a cold sense of alienation on her face without the slightest smile when she talked to Haley.
She was rather like a stranger who met Haley by chance.
Haley lowered her eyes immediately, replying, “I don’t want to go. If I go, I’m afraid that he’ll restore my household registration once he learns that I’m still alive. If so, I’ll still become a member of his family.”
“You’re not that stupid. But if he forces you, there’s nothing you can do.”
“Therefore, I have to figure out a way. And Wendy, I… I can’t let Ian and Lily live with you anymore because I’m worried that they’ll check over there and by then…”
“Up to you!”
Unexpectedly, Wendy said three words indifferently before Haley could finish her sentence.
In a second, Haley stood there and was unable to speak anymore.
She was actually… A little afraid of Wendy.
Since Wendy was born in a literary family, Haley had been too afraid of Wendy’s identity to speak to her when Haley was a child.
After growing up, Haley was so guilty that she was even more afraid to look at Wendy because her family dragged Wendy down.
Haley ended up leaving with her two children and moving to the house she had found.
After she left, Wendy and Aidan in the yard looked outside and had a conversation.
“Wendy, are you… Are you still blaming Haley? Wendy, she was really ignorant back then and she…”Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.
“Kate is coming back, so do you want us to live at unease at home?”
Wendy coldly said to Aidan, who was in a wheelchair, and then she turned around to go in.
Kate was Haley’s cousin, who also hated Haley so much back then.
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Haley soon moved with her two children to the new house, which was in the old town but close to a kindergarten.
“Ian, Lily, I’ve already registered you for the kindergarten here. Shall we go there tomorrow?”
“What? Mommy, are we going to the kindergarten here? Won’t we go back?”
As soon as Lily heard this, she held the long-eared bunny doll in her hands in shock.
She was quite nostalgic. In her original kindergarten, she had several close friends and the teacher had also been very kind to her.
Haley touched her pink face and hurriedly explained, “No, we’re just staying here for some time. Since I have to work, I could only ask you to go to the kindergarten here for the time being.”
“Fine, I’ll go to the new kindergarten tomorrow.”
Lily obediently agreed to Haley after hearing her explanation.
At this moment, Ian was busy searching the information about the bad man of The Black Group on laptop.
He had made his decision that he must go meet this bad man in person and see who he was.
‘This man is too bad that I absolutely can’t let him bully Mommy again.’
However, when he opened the highly clear photo of the bad man on the domestic website, he was stunned.
‘What’s wrong? Why does this bad man look more like me?
We look just like the same.
Is he my daddy?’
Ian suddenly thought of this possibility and widened his long eyes open.
“Ian, what are you doing? Can you come to help me? I need you here.”
Haley was packing the things when she saw Ian in a daze, so she wanted to call him over to help. After several calls, Ian finally responded and turned off the laptop, approaching her absent-mindedly.
“Mummy, you said that our father is dead, right?”
“Yes, what’s the matter?”
Sweating profusely, Haley was so busy that she replied without hesitation.
She indeed told her two children that. In the five years abroad, she lived with two children and was inevitably asked about their father. When Ian and Lily grew up, they also asked about this.
Therefore, she told them all that their father was dead.
‘He’s dead for sure. Bastard!’
However, Ian acted weird today. After hearing her say that his father was dead, he was depressed and thought about something. After a while, Haley heard him ask again, “Then how did he die? ”
“What?” Haley froze for a moment, “He was hit by a… Car?”
Ian was speechless.
It was impossible for a wife to be not sure about the reason of her husband’s death, so she was clearly lying to him, which made him feel she stupid.
‘Then is the bad man really my daddy?’