4

It was past nine o'clock when Elaine finished making the materials needed for the opening ceremony. Elaine was a little hungry. She planned to cook noodles and turned on the lights in the living room, only to realize that there was movement in the next room. Elaine then pushed the door and entered the room.

On the children's bed that was more than a meter wide, Reece was wearing a cartoon pajama with flower colors, his forehead still had a small star that was given as a reward by the kindergarten teacher during the day. His left hand was turning something over and his right hand was holding a pen, drawing circles and dots.

"Reece, why aren't you sleeping yet? Do you want mommy to sleep with you?" Elaine had been too busy lately, to the point of neglecting her son a little.

Reece Qin is three years old, very smart and sensible, never wants to trouble his mother. Because he was premature, he was lighter and thinner than other children, and his health was also worse. However, Reece did not have the slightest childish indulgence. His maturity when sick made people love him even more.

Three years ago, in that dark bathroom, he tried his best to take care of this beautiful daughter. The child followed his surname Qin, because Dave refused to recognize her, and the Bo family did not want to recognize her either. This was great, Elaine didn't want to involve her daughter in the giant fight.

“Mom!” Reece exclaimed excitedly, “Have you finished your work?”

"Yes." Elaine nodded and smiled proudly.

He bent down and lifted Reece from the small bed and realized there was a magazine on the bed. In the magazine, Dave and Cindy's smiles are very captivating. Where does the magazine come from? Why is it in Reece's bed? Elaine's head slammed. In the past three years, they had never interacted like well water that had never met river water. She felt that there were some people who disturbed the peaceful life of her and her daughter.

"Mom, what does having an affair mean?" Reece pouted, biting his teeth, and said with a sigh, "The teacher in the next class said that my father is looking for another woman, there is an affair, don't want mom anymore!" Reece's voice was not loud, even weak enough to be ignored, but this trivial question in the heart of Elaine's heart exploded a big hole, can swallow all the sense of accomplishment at work.

"The magazine is written carelessly, children should not look at it!" Elaine took the magazine and threw it in the trash.

Her fingers were trembling slightly, because at that time, she seemed to see the circle and dot marks on the magazine that Reece marked were on the words Dave, Elaine, Cindy Tang, Cheating, some places also had question marks drawn. Reece didn't know Elaine could get angry, his black eyes immediately filled with tears.

"Mom, is it true? Does Dad really not want you? Does Dad not want Reece?"

"Reece's deskmate the fat one also said that Reece is an illegitimate child. Mom, Reece has checked the dictionary for the meaning of illegitimate child, is Reece not Mom and Dad's child?"

"Is Reece not a birth mother?" Reece couldn't hold it in anymore, tears kept falling, flowing down the back of Elaine's hand and also in his heart. Elaine's eyes also started to water. It turned out that the reason he used a marker to circle the words was to look up the dictionary. If it wasn't for tonight when he met him, Reece probably wouldn't have asked him these things. Reece was afraid that he would be sad and secretly did these things.

"Reece don't cry, Reece don't listen to other people's nonsense. Dad loves mom, Dad loves Reece too, Dad can't possibly not want mom."

Elaine put him back on the bed, then reached out and wiped his tears, "If Dad hears what you said, Dad will be sad."

"Is that true?" Reece furrowed his brows, “Then why doesn’t Dad come to see Reece? Reece has never seen Dad.” Elaine was cornered again.

Xingyuewan is an elite area where the house that Elaine bought herself lives. After Reece was born, she lived here with Reece. Dave didn't want to recognize Reece, of course never came to visit. He sometimes showed Reece a picture of Dave and told him that he was just like other kids, he had a father. Only, his father was different from other people's fathers. He had to run a big company and make money for mom and Reece.

These words could lie to children, but now, Reece has grown bigger and bigger, and is getting better at recognizing what is a lie and what is the truth.

"Who said Dad didn't come to see Reece? Dad came late every day, very late, Dad came to see Reece, but Reece was already asleep, so Reece didn't know." Elaine stubbornly explained. Reece frowned.

“Mom, are you telling the truth?”

“Of course it’s true.” Elaine’s neck was sour, “Dad has to work hard, buy a big house for mom, and buy a lot of beautiful clothes for Reece. Reece and mom are very happy, other people are too jealous of us, so they talk badly to destroy Dad.”

"Okay." Reece blinked at Elaine.

"I trust my mom. So can you tell dad to take the time to drive Reece to school? Reece wants the students to see, Reece has a dad. Dad wants Reece, Reece's dad is the most handsome dad in the world." Elaine panicked.

"Mom, is that okay?" Reece held his sleeve and begged.

"Okay." Elaine couldn't refuse.

"When Dad has time, Mom will let him take Reece to school. It's late, Reece should go to bed first, okay?"

"Amazing! Thank you, Mom!" Reece jumped up excitedly, and then lay down on the bed the next second. Elaine's heart could not be at ease. She did not stay in Reece's room to accompany him.

"Good night." To him, raised her hand to turn off the light in the room, and turned to leave the nursery. Elaine sat in the living room, staring at the name on the telephone address list for a long time, and finally did not call the number.

Forget it! Ask Dave to drive Reece to school? What did he expect from Dave? Rather than this, it was better to let Reece change schools. Elaine lay in the bedroom, unable to sleep after turning here and there, and finally thought of calling her best friend, Olivia.

"Olivia, Loushen Beach will open tomorrow, I might be late, can you help me go to the kindergarten to pick up Reece?" Olivia immediately thought about it.

“No problem!”

"Olivia, Elaine, do you have anything?” The call stopped there. Then, Olivia thought about it and asked, "I saw the magazine this morning. Are you okay? That Dave is too bad! That little artist has no victory over you except being younger than you. No face, no skin! He doesn't want a beautiful woman at home, instead he goes out to pick up trash, isn't his taste too bad?"

“Olivia, I want to talk to you about this,” Elaine whined, “What about Dave and Cindy, I don’t care, but Reece knows about this. Tomorrow you go to school to pick Reece up and help me ask Reece’s teacher if it’s okay to let Reece change schools?”

“This isn’t a problem that can be solved by just changing schools,” Olivia complained.

“I mean, why don’t you talk to Dave about what happened 11 years ago? Avoiding him all the time isn’t the answer!” Elaine became silent. Olivia realized that her tone was a bit harsh and quickly.

“Okay, okay! I heard what you said! I will go tomorrow to ask, but Elaine, I don’t want what happened three years ago to happen again. If Dave is still so excessive, I want you to stay away from him! Even if you have to get a divorce!”

"Yes."

“With your looks and abilities, even if you take care of Reece alone, there will still be people who like you.” Olivia thought and smiled, “I think the director of your company’s public relations department is good!” Elaine's brows furrowed and her tone sank.

"What did you say? John Lu is Dave's cousin."

“What does it matter if he is her cousin? Better!"

"Enough, Olivia! My relationship with John is not what you think." Elaine didn't give Olivia a chance to discuss it anymore and hung up the phone directly.