Chapter 38



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“You scared him.” Hayden frowned and reminded him.

Noah obviously withdrew his foot and moved his body slightly towards Hayden.

When Joseph saw Noah’s pale face looking at him with hidden bitterness, he somehow regretted it. He sighed internally and asked tentatively. “Are you blaming me for not taking good care of you?”.

Noah just ignored him and turned his head to lean against Hayden’s arms with his left hand gripping the corner of Hayden’s shirt.

Seeing that Joseph seemed to be a little depressed, Hayden sighed quietly and consoled himself, “Maybe he freaked out last night, let him calm down a little, he’ll be fine.”

He didn’t pay much attention to his son, it was no wonder he chose to be around others more than him, wasn’t that a very normal thing to do?

The atmosphere was not easy. Next door, Stella’s eyes moved and she tugged on Joseph’s sleeve, saying in a cheesy way, “Sir, I can’t pass this level, will you please help me?”.

Joseph’s frown somehow relaxed. His attention drifted and he turned his head, saying. “What level?”

“This one, this demon can’t be defeated.”

“…”.

Thus the atmosphere relaxed again. Hayden stroked Noah’s hair and whispered, “Noah, are you blaming your father for not taking care of you and making you fall down the stairs?”.

Noah, who was in his arms, shook his head. He looked at Hayden with an endless amount of complaint in his eyes.

“Then why?”

Hayden was slightly confused.

Noah’s hand that had been dislocated earlier still couldn’t move easily. He could only move it slightly, but he still couldn’t lift it. He was so anxious that tears welled up in his eyes.

“You’re trying to write, aren’t you?” Hayden hastened to ask.

Noah nodded repeatedly.

“Don’t be anxious.” Hayden pulled paper and pen from her purse and handed it to Noah. He used his left hand to hold the pen. Although it was written crookedly, he managed to see that he wrote.

“[I don’t like Dad marrying another woman].”

When Hayden saw this sentence, he unconsciously looked at Joseph who was playing with Stella and frowned.

It was inevitable that children would be reluctant to accept their parents remarrying. A careless person like Joseph would most likely disregard Noah’s thoughts, let alone this child was incapable of speech.

As she thought about this, dark clouds hung over her. But as a stranger, she had no right to comment on this, so she could only lower her voice to comfort Noah: “Your father loves you very much. Even if he marries another woman, he’ll still treat you well.”

Noah slowly shook his head. His face was contorted with intense anguish.

“What’s wrong with you?” Hayden clutched his shoulder, “You don’t like Violet?”

Noah hesitated slightly. As if he had made up his mind about something, he nodded and then wrote another sentence on the notepad hurriedly.

“[I want you to be my mom].”

Seeing these words, Hayden wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

He really didn’t know how to explain to a child that adult marriage wasn’t that simple. It wasn’t like kids could change the outcome by saying who they liked or disliked.

Apparently, Joseph had finished helping Stella finish a level of the game. He got up, walked over, and asked, “What did Noah write?”

Hayden quickly tore the page out of the notebook, folded it and tucked it into his sleeve. It looked as if he was afraid it would be found.

“Nothing, just tell me what you want to eat this at night, I’ll fix it for you.”

Seeing her panicked face, Joseph looked at her suspiciously. When he was about to ask further, she already stood up and said hurriedly.

“Well, I have to get back to planning, so I’ll leave first. I may be a little later in the evening. If you are hungry, you should just eat something.” He finished speaking and hurriedly fled.

The door to the room closed quickly. Again, the room was left alone with Joseph and the two children.

Stella was curled up on the couch, busily playing. Even when her mom left, she just ignored her. Meanwhile, Noah stared at the door as if he was eager to see Hayden return.

Seeing Noah’s behavior, a wave of guilt rose again in Joseph’s heart.

He couldn’t help but contemplate what Hayden had said earlier. How irresponsible was he and what wrong had he done that could cause Noah to become so dependent on a woman he hadn’t known for a long time and who, on the contrary, his own father disliked very much?

“Noah.” He called out to Noah gently and patiently.

When Noah saw that Hayden would not return, he hugged the notepad left by Hayden, wrote and drew something on it. He disengaged himself from Joseph.

Seeing this, Joseph reflected for a moment. He looked at Stella who was in the corner of the couch and remembered that Noah had always asked him to invite Hayden and his daughter to his house as guests. So, tentatively, he tried to curry favor with Noah, saying.

“Noah, how about this, when you’re discharged from the hospital, I’ll throw a little party at home and invite Hayden and Stella to attend the party together, OK?”.

As expected, Noah immediately raised his head. His eyes were full of delight.

“So, you’re still ignoring Dad?” Joseph patted Noah’s head.

Noah wrote something on the notepad and handed it to him to look at.

“[Dad, you have to apologize to me].”

Joseph froze for a moment. He did some soul-searching and thought it was actually his fault for drinking too much and even for not knowing that Noah had fallen down the stairs not far from his door. He had indeed been careless.

“It’s okay, Dad apologizes. I’m sorry, Noah, this won’t happen again.”

What Noah was thinking about in his mind, however, was the matter that he had brought Violet home.

Although they thought differently, Joseph had apologized. Noah thought that what Joseph had promised was that he would never bring Violet home again. Then, Noah’s face gradually looked better, children forget so easily. Soon, he was back to playing with Stella, even though he didn’t play the game, he too was happy to see Stella playing the game with a fierce and serious look beside him.

On the other hand, Harrison woke up early in the morning. The butler of the old mansion, Mark, had just returned from the Imperial Villa and had brought news.

“Have you found out clearly? The matter of Noah falling off the second floor this time, did someone do it on purpose, or was it an accident?”

“It should be an accident.” Mark looked serious, “I’ve asked all the maids. At that time that night, the maid who was dedicated to taking care of little Noah to sleep went to make milk. So, indeed, there was no one in the hallway on the second floor.”

“Not even a single person?”

Harrison was uncontrollably suspicious about this.

There were more than ten maids at the Imperial Villa. It was really surprising that when Noah had his accident, there was no one there, plus when Noah rolled down the stairs from the second floor a lot of noise must have been heard, but surprisingly it was quite some time before anyone noticed.

“That day, Miss Kidman was there too. She brought a lot of presents so the maids went to distribute things among them.”

“Violet?” Hayden frowned and his face shadowed somehow. He questioned, “Where was she when Noah had the accident?

If it was done on purpose by someone, he really couldn’t find a second person with such a motive other than Violet .

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