Outsiders weren't aware of the conversation in the special department.
By now, Nora had already returned to the Smiths’.
Tanya and Joel's wedding was over, and all of them had gone home.
As she was worried about Karl, Tanya was feeling rather down in the dumps.
Knowing that she wasn't in the best of moods, everyone else left early.
The moment Nora got home, her cell phone rang.
When she picked up the call, Justin's voice rang out on the other end.
"I took Cherry out for a stroll.She seemed a little unhappy"
Nora nodded’...Oh, okay"
She obviously sounded as lazy as usual, yet the sharp Justin nonetheless sensed something.
He asked, "In a bad mood?"
"Yeah."
Nora didn't like to whine, so she had always mulled over everything quietly by herself.
But when faced with Justin's question, she couldn't help but say, "I've been fired by the special
department”
As soon as she said that, there was a moment of silence on the phone.
A brief moment later, she heard a sigh from Justin, who then said, "If I say that I'm actually pretty happy
about it, would you beat me up?"
Nora:"?"
Justin said pitifully, "I'm always so worried about you every time you're out on a mission.Now that
you've finally been fired, you can stay at home safely and spend more time with the children"
Nora:"??"
Why was what he was saying sounding so off? The corners of her lips spasmed, and she couldn't help
feeling that their roles had been reversed! Justin let out a low chuckle and asked, "Do I sound like a
house-husband?"
Nora:z"!"
Justin sounded very relaxed as he added, "It's their loss for firing you.I can only say that they are
blind.You don't have to feel sad about it.The way I see it, they will be crying and begging you to go back
very soon!"
Nora raised her eyebrows.
"Why do you Say that?"
Justin chuckled again.
"Didn't they invite Q to join the team? Also, if your identity as Big Sister is exposed, they will definitely
be even more desperate..."
Nora thought for a while about what he had said and suddenly felt that that was indeed the case.
A smile formed on her lips and she opened the door and entered the living room.
She was about to speak again when she noticed lan, who was in his wheelchair, in the living room
contemplating something in silence.
Upon hearing her coming in, lan immediately looked at her.
Nora was a little surprised.
"Were you waiting for me?" lan nodded.
Then, he suggested hesitantly, "Let's have a chat?"
Nora walked up to him and casually tossed her phone into her pocket.
Thinking that Justin would hang up, she didn't disconnect the call.
Then, she pushed fan's wheelchair to the garden.
The weather was very fine that day.
Tanya and Joel had picked a good day for the wedding.
The sun shone down upon them, yet it was neither glaring nor intense.
It felt refreshing and comfortable as the two of them walked in the shade in the garden.
lan suddenly said, "Nora, the way that Karl risked being arrested just to come back and give Tanya's
hand away in marriage today moved me greatly."
Nora raised her brows.
lan sighed and said, "I'm really afraid that I won't be around when you get married in the future.My
health has always been poor.."
Nora replied in a lukewarm manner, "As long as you don't do anything stupid, it shouldn't be a problem
for you to live till you're seventy or eighty years old."
lan sighed.
He had already been sick of living previously.
After he realized that Nora was his daughter and that Yvette hadn't betrayed him, he had suddenly felt
even less like living because he couldn't wait to go to heaven and be reunited with her.
However, his daughter had kept him here instead.
But later, when he saw how much effort Karl was putting into building his relationship with Tanya, and
when he heard what everyone was saying about Tanya, lan suddenly understood something—children
without parents would be bullied by others.
Even if the child was very strong and powerful, people would still sigh whenever they mentioned them,
and remark that it was a shame that both their parents had died and that they weren't blessed enough.
They even put the blame for things like how the child was not blessed enough to have their parents
with them on the child.
Society demanded too much from girls.
Nora wasn't as tough and hardy as Joel, Quentin, and Louis.
Therefore, he had to do his best to stay alive.
As long as he was alive, he would be able to back his daughter up.
It was at this moment that lan completely abolished his thoughts of suicide and not wanting to live for
real.
For the first time in his entire life, he felt that he was still of use to someone and that there were still
people who needed him.
With that in mind, lan smiled and said, "Even so, I still hope that the day I see you get married comes
soon.After all, no one knows for sure which would come first —tomorrow, or an accident?"
Nora did not refute him.
Instead, she asked, "What you mean is...?"
She felt a little hopeful.
Even Justin, who was listening to the conversation through the phone that Nora had tossed into her
pocket, couldn't help raising his brows.
His father-in-law had finally thought things through.
Had he become agreeable to their marriage? While he was wondering, he heard lan say, "Why don't
you go on a blind date tomorrow?"
Justin:"?"
He heaved a silent sigh! To be honest, he understood what lan was thinking.
His father-in-law must think that the other branches of the Hunts were too unstable and too chaotic,
right? He lowered his head.
Suddenly, a sense of lethargy and world-weariness welled up in him.
To be honest, even till now, he had been the one maintaining the connection between him and Nora in
this relationship all this time.
He had tested it before—if he didn't send any text messages to Nora, she could ignore him for a whole
day.
Thus, he felt rather dejected in this instant.
He didn't understand what the point of trying to please his father-in-law was anymore...
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