Chapter 5

Dylan walked towards his bed and saw the divorce papers on the headboard. He hadn't read them yet as there were two copies, and they were given to him when he was already leaving Rosie's house.

Dylan took one of the divorce papers and glanced through it as he put it down into his black briefcase, and shut his briefcase as he went into his bathroom to bathe.

Futhermore, Dylan decided to prepare for office work as he thought to read the divorce papers in his office.

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Jessica rushed downstairs into the living room and saw her two kids sitting on the couch and eating the popcorn from the previous night that she had used to keep herself awake while waiting for Dylan to return home.

She saw that the living room wall clock read 8:35 am, and she knew that her two kids were already very late for school.

"Mummy! Mummy!" Caleb and Nina both rushed up to hug Jessica's legs as she stepped down into the living room.

Caleb asked, "Mummy, aren't we going to school today?"

Jessica knew that her two kids were already late for school, and she knew that if their former maid were around, the maid would have helped her to prepare her two kids for school, bathed them before she woke up, and also prepared their breakfasts.

The maid would have even assisted Caleb and Nina in having their breakfasts at the dining table, but now, Jessica has to do it all alone as Dylan is now strongly against them having any maid.

Jessica had thought that the young maid had tried to seduce her husband in her absence, but after the maid left, Jessica didn't get any complaint or report from the maid's parents, and the housemaid was even crying to be sent away without doing anything wrong to offend Jessica.

Jessica had to give the young maid extra money as she told the maid that she would still be paying her school fees, even though the maid was no longer under her care.

The young maid, Florence Gregson, who was 15 years old, was very smart and nice, and she did all her house chores alone even before Jessica would wake up or send her on an errand.

Jessica had seen how Florence cared for Caleb and Nina so much and even helped them with their homework like she was their real elder sister, even though she was only a maid and not related to them.

"It's too late for school today, Caleb. Don't worry, I'll try to wake up very early tomorrow morning to take you and Nina to school on time. Wait here, let me prepare something for you both to eat first, then I'll go and prepare your bath afterwards," Jessica told her son, as she smiled at him and squatted to meet his height and her little daughter's height.

She then stood up from squatting on the floor in front of her two kids and went into the kitchen to prepare their breakfast.

Jessica wondered if Dylan was still serious about divorcing her, and she walked into the kitchen, and towards her cupboards to check what she would prepare.

She resumed mopping the kitchen floor, since she didn't have a maid anymore.

After Jessica was done cleaning the kitchen floor and cabinet top, she proceeded to preparing her kids' breakfasts. She made noodles and fried eggs for them and stepped out to the dining table to serve their breakfasts.

The aroma of the fried eggs and delicious noodles that Jessica had prepared attracted her two kids' nostrils, and they rushed up to meet her at the dining table to take their respective seats.

Nina was too small to climb the dining chair by herself, and she cried out and reached out to Jessica to carry her up, as her third attempt to climb the dining chair by herself ended with her little bottom crashing to the tiled floor, and she cried out, "Mummy!"

"Wait, Nina, I'm coming," Jessica quickly rushed to carry Nina up in her arms, and she dusted her little daughter's bottom, and sat down with Nina on her thighs. She placed Nina to sit on her thighs and proceeded to feeding Nina with a spoon.

Nina continued to stretch her small hand to try to take the spoon away from Jessica's hand and feed herself, but Jessica refused as she continued to feed her daughter.

Jessica knew that her two kids were happy children, and she didn't want them to become sad when growing up, seeing that their parents were now quarreling and no longer in love with each other.

"Mummy, why are you crying?" Caleb asked Jessica, as he noticed that she was crying silently, with tears freely rolling down her cheeks.

Nina tried to look up at her mother's face as she was seated on Jessica's thighs and eating her noodles, and she tried to look up again to see if her mummy was truly crying, but just then, Jessica heard the footsteps from behind her back and she quickly sniffed and plastered a fake smile on her face, as she replied to Caleb, "I'm not crying, I'm just overwhelmed."

"Over what?" Caleb tried to ask, as he didn't understand the big grammar that his mother had used, but Dylan quickly cut the mother-to-son conversation short with his deep, sharp voice and replied to his son, "That's enough, Caleb. Now eat your food. You should know that talking isn't allowed when eating."

"Okay, Dad," Caleb smiled at his father's words.

Dylan stood with a strict face as he wore a black suit to leave for his company. He adjusted his necktie properly, wearing a white inner sleeve shirt.

Jessica stared backward at Dylan's face and saw the hardened expression on his face.

She wanted to put Nina down on the next chair for Nina to start eating by herself, as she wanted to stand up from the dining chair to go and prepare Dylan's breakfast for him, but Dylan quickly told her coldly, "There won't be any need for that as I cannot wait to eat again."

Jessica had already stood up from the dining chair and saw that Dylan didn't want to wait for his breakfast. He finished adjusting his suit and cufflinks, and he placed some money on the center table for them and left the house.

"Mummy..." Nina cried out as she was unable to reach the dining table by herself, as her little hands couldn't reach to carry her spoon and take it out to feed herself.

Nina's crying snapped Jessica out from her trance, and she rushed back to her small daughter again, after looking back at Nina who was crying and trying to feed herself.

Jessica carried Nina back on her thighs, and she resumed feeding her little daughter at the dining table.

Jessica knew that Dylan wasn't joking about divorcing her, and she silently thought of what she would do to appease him as she continued to feed her daughter.

After Jessica was through with feeding Nina, as Caleb was also through with his meal, Jessica cleared the dirty plates to the kitchen and knew that Dylan only left the security man at the gate to lock and open the gate for him, whenever he was leaving the house to his office in the morning and returning home in the evening, as he had fired all the domestic staff.

Jessica heard the sound of Dylan's car starting in their garage, and she knew that he was just leaving for the office.

She shook her head and went to her kids' room to prepare their bath. After she was done bathing them, she dressed them in new clothes and brought them back to the living room with their toys to play. She then switched on the television and put it at a cartoon channel for her kids to watch, before she went back upstairs to her bedroom.