-May-

Jc slowly woke up. Found himself in a room and pain all over his body.

"Where am i?"

He first noticed. The king-size bed was what woke him up because he was not used to it. It was too comfortable. Comfortably living is a stranger to him now.

The second is the room. Jc would not be surprised if this room used to be a living room.

The third was the decoration. All Jc can think of is the super wealth of the person living here is no joke. He does not like interior much, but there's too many going on here. Two things that caught his eyes were vanity and a crib.

"*Hmm, so that explains it. I thought I saw things that I shouldn't have now.*"

"What are you staring at, kid? Did you know you scared the f*ck out of handsome uncle, hmm?" Jc stared at the child next to him, sitting in a V shape that looks like a doll with loose beautiful curly hair, a face that straight out photocopied an appearance of a doll wearing a white dress.

"*Wait, did i die?*"

Jc looked closer. The girl moved her hand and seemed to be looking for something in the pocket of her dress. The little girl lifts her adorable hand, holding a bottle like something as she points at Jc's face. 

He watches what the child is doing and thinking how cute she is.

"I think this kid is an angel-"

*Pchit!*

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*Tap!*

*Shhhh!*

In the kitchen, Jc kept washing his face with cold water in the faucet.

*Tap!*

"I felt like abandoning both of my eyes there. Hurts bad!" He looked at the little girl sitting in the living room, likewise staring at him.

After he wipes his face, he looks at the size of the house and its designs as he approaches the child.

"*Is this house hunted by this kid or something? Why is there no one here?*"

"Hey, Anna, where are your parents?" He sits beside the little girl. He likes to call people with easy names he just made up.

The little girl reached for her pepper spray again and aimed at him.

"Hahaha, Uncle is just teasing you. So where did mommy go?"

"May, don't know-" Her stomach growl as she speaks cutely.

"You finally spoke and hungry, huh. What do you want to eat? Let uncle cook for you until your parents come home. Is that okay?"

The little girl nodded.

"Okay, what do you want to eat?"

"Chicken!" Smiling sweetly.

Jc melted from cuteness, but that was only for a second because that cuteness was hiding a deadly weapon in her pocket.

"Haha, same with uncle. Uncle loves chicken too, but unfortunately, Uncle only knows how to cook Adobo."

"Adobo?"

"Yeah, have you tried that?"

She shook her head.

"Despite Uncle's scary handsome look, I won first place in cooking back then!"

She tilted her head.

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"Can you drive a bit faster?"

"What's the hurry?"

Emily glared at the man.

"Okay, okay. Jeez." The man smiled, and then the car sped up.

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"Delicious?"

"..."

At first glance, you think the two are father and daughter because of their harmonious smiling at each other. 

But no, the little girl just finished spraying Jc after she ate the very sour food that Jc cooked.

"Let me wash my face first, and I'll cook you another one." 

And soon, the doorbell rang, and a woman entered the main door of the mansion that was running carefully with her heels to the living room.

"May!"

The woman shortly found what she was looking for. A little girl was chewing a chicken with a sour expression on her baby face on the sofa.

"Baby, look at your face now." The woman lovingly looks at the little girl as she wipes her daughter's face.

"Hug!" May raise her hands, gesturing her mom to carry her.

"Did you cook for her?" Emily said when she saw Jc just standing and staring at her while she was carrying May.

"Uhum." Changing his expression to cold and aloof as he snaps out in a daze.

"He fault. Food sour!" 

"Child?"

"Yeah..."

"Were you the one who-" 

"Yes, we took you in when you passed out the street." A blond curly handsome man approached them and finished their conversation.

Jc stared at him for a while and said.

"Is that so? Your number. I'll contact you once i have the money for the medicine and the messed I made in your kitchen." He approached the man in front of him. He held out his phone while his eyes were spewing daggers on the man.

"I-its fine." 

"Yeah? That's fine too. I hate owing someone, so call me on this number." Jc took out a sticky note, he wrote his number there, and then pasted it to the man's clothes before leaving.

Emily just stared at Jc as he walked away because she didn't want to add more reason for her wanting him to know if she was the one who answered his question. She knows him more than anyone else, and she doesn't want him to know her identity yet.

But when she saw his lonely back fading away, her chest tightened.

Because ever since she came back, her longing for him gets stronger and stronger, even risking the fact that she left her daughter to meet her real father.

"He good to May." Her eyes moisten as she smiles after hearing her daughter's voice.

"Mommy knows." Pinching her cute cheeks and she glares at the curly man.

"W-w-what, cousin? B-brother-in-law is just too scary, so i flinched a little there."

"Here. You go and bath May." Seeing his cousin's killing intent, all he could do was nod on her order.

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Because the sun was too hot, Jc took shelter in a tree just next to the mansion where he came out.

He put a cigar in his mouth, and while looking for a lighter in his clothes, he saw Emily nearing him.