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At 4.50 PM, Anastasia took Grace to the kindergarten to pick up her son. The moment she stepped into the classroom, the young female teacher asked in surprise, “Miss Tillman, why are you here? Jared has been picked up by his father.”
Anastasia’s heart skipped a beat and she asked, “Are you sure that… it was his father who picked him up?”
The female teacher was certain. “Yes, it was his father who came in person to pick him up.”
“I see. Thank you.” Anastasia felt annoyed at that. Why did Elliot pick my son up without informing me?
“Miss Tillman, what does Jared’s father do?” Grace immediately asked curiously.
“Uh… He’s in the finance industry.”
“Wow! That’s so cool! I wish to see what Jared’s father looks like someday. Jared is so good-looking, so I reckon that his dad must be very handsome!”
Anastasia’s face flushed red as she explained, “He’s a busy man, so you won’t be able to see him most of the time.” After she said that, she added, “Grace, I won’t be troubling you tonight, then. You may get off work.”
Grace nodded, feeling a little sad that she wouldn’t be caring for the kid that night.
As Anastasia walked toward the road to hail a cab, she dialed a man’s number.
The call went through. “Hello.”.
“Elliot, where did you take my son to?”
“Jared told me that you will be attending your father’s company banquet tonight. Since you won’t have the time to take care of him, you can just leave him in my care!”
Anastasia didn’t expect that her son would tell Elliot about the banquet. Since things had come to that point, she had no choice but to trouble the man with taking care of Jared. And so, she immediately replaced her initially angry tone with her usual one. “If it’s not too much of a hassle to you, please take care of him for me tonight. I’ll go and pick him up at around 9.00 PM.”
“Sure!” Elliot unhesitatingly agreed and hung up the call.
Gazing at the sunset in the distance, Anastasia fell into a daze, wondering whether it was a good thing that her son relied on Elliot so much.
Oftentimes, the choices available were limited. On one hand, she didn’t want Jared to depend on that man too much but on the other hand, she couldn’t help feeling relieved when the man took care of her son. In fact, she even trusted that man unconditionally.
After Elliot ended the call with Anastasia, he instantly called another person.
“Hello, Elliot! How can I help you?” Nigel’s voice rang from the other end of the call.
Although the two men had made a bet, it didn’t affect the relationship between them.
“I need a favor from you. Will you help me to take care of a child?”
“Whose child?”
“Where are you?”
“Where else? My father’s company, of course.”
“Alright, I’ll send him over right now.”
“You haven’t told me whose kid is that! And I don’t like to babysit,” Nigel grumbled.
“It’s Anastasia’s boy. Are you not going to babysit him?” Elliot muttered in exasperation.
“What? Jared? Jared’s with you now?” Nigel asked in surprise, then he rejoiced. “Send him over! I don’t like other kids, but Jared’s different.”
Elliot ended the call on his Bluetooth earpiece before he said to the kid in the back
seat. “I’m sending you to Nigel’s place now, alright?”
“Okay, Mr. Presgrave. You have to keep an eye on Mommy tonight and make sure that no man snatches her away!”
“I’ll certainly keep a close eye on her.” Elliot chuckled. No men would be able to take her away under his watch.
Soon, they arrived at a 7-star hotel, and Nigel was waiting downstairs to get the kid. When the car came to a stop, Nigel pulled open the car door of the back seat. He was surprised when he saw a child car seat in Elliot’s car and the little boy was safely strapped on the seat.
“Mr. Nigel!” Jared politely greeted him.
Meanwhile, Elliot walked up to Nigel and said, “Anastasia is tied up with something, so she asked me to send Jared to your place. I’ll have to trouble you with him tonight.”
Upon hearing that, Nigel felt a little displeased. I would go and pick Jared up if Anastasia gave me a call, so why did she get Elliot to send Jared over? Could it be that in her heart, I’m not as reliable as Elliot?
“Goodbye, Mr. Presgrave.” As Jared held Nigel’s hand, the boy looked behind and winked at Elliot, hinting the latter about the secret that only the two of them knew.
In the end, Nigel led Jared to his office. The more the former thought about it, the more frustrated he felt. Instead of asking Elliot to send Jared over to me, why didn’t
Anastasia contact me directly to go and pick Jared up?
Nigel turned to look at the little guy, who was sitting on the couch with his little feet dangling in the air. Suddenly, Nigel noticed that Jared’s beautiful facial features had started to become sharp, which caused the man to widen his almond-shaped eyes. What’s going on? Why do I find that Jared seems to look a little like Elliot?
Jared’s features and demeanor were very similar to Elliot’s. The next instant, Nigel seemed to recall something, and he took out his phone to scroll through his photo album. He remembered that he had kept a photo of Elliot as a child-it was a photo that had been taken when he was with Elliot.
After searching through a few albums, Nigel finally found the photo. Nigel looked at the little boy in the photo who had his arms around Nigel’s shoulder. At that point, Nigel’s eyes nearly fell out of his sockets.
In the photo, Elliot was a five-year-old kid and he looked exactly like the little boy who was currently sitting on the couch. They had faces so similar that one seemed to be a duplicate of the other.
What kind of strange phenomenon is this? Anastasia’s son looks exactly the same as Elliot when he was a kid! Nigel looked at himself in the photo, at the boy who had Elliot’s arm around his shoulder. Although he had been an adorable kid as well, he had looked nothing like Jared.
At that moment, Nigel felt as though he was burning in rage and jealousy. Is this a hint from God? That Elliot is going to beat me in this relationship?
Nigel glanced at the kid on the couch again, and the love he had for Anastasia was still strong. If I were to marry Anastasia, I wouldn’t ever make the little guy sad, nor would I give him any younger brothers or sisters!
“Jared, where did your mommy go?”
“Mommy has something else to do.”
And so, Nigel came to the conclusion that Anastasia had to work overtime, so she had brought Jared to the office, then had Elliot send Jared over to him. Nigel was certain that that was the truth.