"Bobby, listen to me. You're Nadia's big brother, so you wait for now. Nadia will take her bath first, then
I'll call you in and bathe you after her. Nadia won't take much time to take her shower, Okay?" Nancy
said to Bobby in a low voice.
"Okay, fine!" Bobby huffed and reluctantly agreed to Nancy's request.
After taking the shower, they stuck with Nancy and continued to chat and laugh together.
Meanwhile, Charles was restless in his room. He was scowling whenever the sound of their laughter
was entering his ears. He was annoyed by the fact that while they were happy playing in the other
room, he was there sitting alone and frowning. The more their laughter flew in, the more annoyed he
was getting.
A while later of pacing back and forth restlessly in his room, he decided to take a shower. Charles didn't
want to take his shower alone but there was no way he could express his desire to anyone. It was
making him scowl even more. After taking the shower he waited quite long for Nancy to come over, but
that never happened. Instead, the children laughed and shouted cheerfully even more making Charles
more annoyed. It seemed like they have planned on making Nancy stay with them tonight so that
Charles would have to sleep alone. At one point his patience broke for waiting too long and he lay
alone. But even sleep seemed to betray him tonight. All he did was tossing and turning on the bed
restlessly.
It felt as if the bed bugs were crawling all over his body.
Charles was greatly annoyed because, first, Nancy didn't come back to their bedroom and second she
had been ignoring him and spending all the time with the children.
At one point, he lost his patience and decided to go to the children's room and see for himself.
As he entered their room he asked summoning a happy voice, "Kids, are you still playing?" He feigned
a happy and excited expression as he joined the lively atmosphere.
However, the kids were not happy to see him. Their faces darkened the moment they saw Charles
entering the room.
They exclaimed in unison, "Daddy, get out!"
"What? Why?" Charles stood motionless and shocked at their demand. He took a quick glance at
Nancy and asked in a stupefied tone, "You only want to play with Mommy? Don't you like to do the
same with Daddy?"
The kids exchanged a knowing look with each other. "Of course we want Daddy, but not tonight!" It was
Nadia who answered in her innocent and sweet voice.
"Nadia is right. Daddy, go away!" Bobby immediately agreed with Nadia as he jumped off the bed and
went to where Charles was standing and started pushing on him towards the door.
Nadia found the act important as she copied Bobby and joined him at the door to eliminate Charles
from the room. At this point, he was their enemy.
Charles stumbled backward helplessly as his eyes shifted to Nancy who was just sitting there, beaming
at them. She giggled at Charles's helplessness with a shrug and enjoyed the drama.
Being driven out of the room, Charles had no choice but to return to his bedroom as the cheerful
laughter of Nancy and the kids kept falling in his ears.
Even without wanting, he stayed awake for a long time until the next room finally fell into silence.
As it did, a smile crept up on his face as he realized that the children must have fallen asleep now.
Which precisely meant, now Nancy wouldn't take long to come to him?
They had been away from each other for so many days and now he couldn't wait to be with her. He had
missed her so much and Nancy must be sharing the mutual feeling. Did she miss him?
As the thought crossed his mind, an idea popped up in his mind. He smiled to himself and closed his
eyes pretending to be asleep. He wanted to see what Nancy would do when she would come in and
see him fast asleep.
However, his plan didn't work out as even after thirty minutes, Nancy didn't return.
It was now getting on his nerves. Frustrated, he opened his eyes helplessly and sat up. A frown
appeared on his face as he got off the bed, put on his slippers and went to the children's room again
angrily.
She was intending to sleep in the children's room tonight. How could Nancy do this to him?
When Charles opened the door of the children's room and came in, his eyes darted towards the bed
instinctively. Bobby was cuddling Nancy, lying on the right side of her, and Nadia was on her left. Their
arms and legs were all over Nancy making it impossible for her to even move.
As Nancy heard the noise of the door opening, she opened her eyes and found Charles peeking
through the door, watching them with a frown. The moment she saw him, she quickly closed her eyes
again.
Tonight, she was not going to give him company. Tonight she would show him how the children were
more favored by her than him. Her heart belonged to the children, and Charles had nothing to do with
it.
Charles looked at them with a scowl and wondered what he should do now. He wanted to steal Nancy
away from the kids, but all he could do was only think about doing so. It was absolutely impossible to
achieve. He knew how smart the kids were. If Nancy would make the slightest of movement, they
would definitely wake up. How could he steal Nancy now?
Charles touched his chin and scratched on it, closing the door behind him gently as he turned back. He
paced back and forth restlessly in the corridor for several minutes and then without having another
idea, he returned to his bedroom again. He would have to spend the night alone and Nancy had made
him understand that perfectly. He plopped down on the bed with a huff and stayed awake for a long
time, unable to fall asleep all alone by himself while Nancy was so close to him in the next room.
What a beautiful but ironical night! They were so close to each other, but still so far away.
Charles couldn't fall asleep the whole night as he was so disappointed of his situation. However, the
next morning, he got ready after waking up and went to the kitchen desiring to make breakfast for
bribing the two little bossy kids.
"You two little brats! Even after today's breakfast, if you continue to bully me, I will show you how to
bring you in line," Charles mumbled to himself as he prepared the breakfast. "I won't... I won't..." He
thought for a moment how could he punish the two little brats. "I won't prepare breakfast for you again!"
Charles whispered to himself annoyingly.
"Daddy, what did you just say?" Charles flinched at the sudden interruption and turned back. He didn't
even notice when Bobby had come into the kitchen and now was standing behind him with furrowed
brows.
Charles turned around and grumbled at Bobby, "I said that Mommy can't stay with you two at night"
He was freaking exasperated and his voice was clearly giving out his emotion.
Bobby smiled cunningly, knowing Charles was annoyed. He said, feigning innocence, "Daddy, why
can't Mommy accompany us? Why does she always have to accompany old people like you?"
"That's because, Mommy and I are a couple! We are husband and wife, do you understand? We
should sleep together, you get it?" Charles tried to explain.
"Yes, I know that already. But you and Mommy are not a couple. You are not married yet, and I haven't
seen you and Mommy get the marriage certificate. So, that means you are not a couple so you can't
sleep together." Bobby put his hands on his waist and countered seriously.
"You bastard, I am you Daddy. I have raised you! And now you have become my little rival? Are you
planning on how to defeat me? Okay, if that's what you have come up to separate me and your
Mommy, I'll go and get the marriage certificate with Nancy today. You won't be complacent for a long
time. Let me tell you, Bobby, I'll marry Nancy tonight. From now on, no one can take my woman away
from me. Do you hear me?" Charles who was the domineering CEO of a renowned company, at this
point looked just like a jealous and sulking child competing for favor.
"Well, until you and Mommy get the marriage certificate, Nadia and I will have Mommy to us. After that
you can have her." Bobby smiled slyly knowing what exactly what he said.
"Deal?"
"Deal!"
The moment they reached to the agreement, Nancy's voice came from behind.
"I don't agree!"
The father-son duo looked back together and saw Nancy standing at the door an unhappy face.
"Mommy, don't you want to marry Daddy?" Bobby asked with a disappointed look.
"Nancy, what do you mean by you don't agree?" Charles was befuddled at her disagreement.
It was true that both of them had experienced so much together but she had always agreed to marry
him. Why was she denying now?
"I mean, I have work in the hospital today. I have to check on my patient and don't have time to go to
the Civil Affairs Bureau with you." Nancy clarified her response. She was worried about her patients
and she couldn't be careless by abandoning them without knowing how they were doing.
Especially the little girl who just had an operation. She couldn't walk. The fire was so fierce. Nancy was
feeling restless to know if she was okay and not hurt severely.
"Nancy, am I not important to you? Don't your heart has any place for me...at all? I understand that you
love our children and I don't even want to compare my importance with them. Because they are my
blood as well. But now, you have reduced my importance to a point where I come after your patients?
You are comparing me with your patients Nancy? I feeling very awkward and crestfallen right now." The
more Charles thought about it, the more disheartened he became. He couldn't understand why Nancy
was being so adamant these days.
"Charles, don't overreact. I can see that you are doing fine but I don't know how my patients are doing.
Please understand that this is important." As Nancy spoke, she went and poured herself a glass of
milk. After saying so, she drank up the milk in the glass and said to Bobby in a flat tone, "Bobby, you
and Nadia have breakfast quickly. After breakfast, ask Daddy to take you to kindergarten."
"Daddy and Uncle Hiram have been taking us to kindergarten for so long but you never do. Mommy,
can you at least pick us up from school today?" Bobby asked dejectedly.
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