Right after the food touched Nadia's tongue, she spat it out immediately.
"What's wrong? You don't like it?" Charles' voice became colder.
"Daddy must have put too much salt in it. It's salty..." Nadia kept sticking her tongue out, as if it could
remove the taste.
There was no doubt that Charles was absent-minded today. With a scowl on his face, he picked up the
food and put it in his mouth, and then spat it out. "Forget it; you don't have to eat."
As soon as he was done talking, he picked up the plate and threw the food into the trash can.
Frowning, Bobby asked, "Daddy, what are we going to eat for dinner?"
Ever since he was a child, Bobby had been eating the best food in the world. Even if Charles cooked
by himself, the dishes were sumptuous every day. It was rare to have one or two dishes that were close
to being inedible like today.
"Isn't there another vegetable?" Then he pushed the bamboo shoots in front of the children.
"Well, I'll eat this, although I don't like it very much." Reluctantly, Bobby picked up a bamboo shoot with
his chopsticks.
"Daddy... Daddy, what's the taste?" Covering his mouth, Bobby rushed into the bathroom.
Charles thought his cooking was good. Why did Bobby dislike it?
So Charles picked up a piece of bamboo shoot and put it in his mouth. "Ah! Why is it so spicy?"
In a hurry, Nadia jumped off the chair and ran into the kitchen. When she came out, she was already
holding a chili powder in her hands. "Daddy, did you use this?"
"No, I just... Used chili oil..." It was awkward for Charles to admit this.
Unbelievable! He had never been so absent-minded like this before.
All his life, Charles had always thought that he was omnipotent enough to face everything.
But Nancy's absence really made him depressed.
Since the day Nancy broke up with him, he had been restless and distracted most of the time.
Whenever Nancy was not with him, he felt really uncomfortable.
His heart and mind were both in a mess.
And it felt as if his soul had been sucked by a black hole.
"Daddy, I think you miss Mommy more than we do. How about we go and find Mommy?" As he said
these words, Bobby had to be cautious.
"No way!" With a snort, Charles added, "I’m warning you, if you dare to look for Mommy secretly,
Daddy will punish you severely. Do you hear me?"
"We will never go and find Mommy!" It was Nadia who first raised her little hand confidently.
"Bobby, did you hear that?" Charles knew that Bobby was a cunning boy. Bobby was silent now, but no
one knew what he was thinking about.
After thinking for a while, Bobby finally replied, "Daddy, if you don't want us to look for Mommy, you
have to cook well for us. Someone said on the internet that if you want to keep a person, you have to
keep the person's stomach first!"
Hearing this made Charles laugh in annoyance. "Come on. I'll find something for you to eat."
The first thing Charles found was a bag of chips, which he immediately gave to the children.
If Nancy was here, she would never allow the children eat junk foods. But now, in order to win over the
children, Charles had to break the rules and secretly bribed them with snacks.
"Oh, Daddy, you are so kind." As soon as Nadia saw the bag of chips, her eyes lit up in excitement.
Snacks had always been a kid's weakness after all.
"Nadia, your requirement is too simple." There was an obvious disgust in Bobby’s tone.
"Bobby, I know you don't like it. I can eat it myself." Then Nadia ran as fast as she could with the chips.
"Who says I don't like it? The teacher said that we should share something we have, and I want to eat
too." To be honest, Bobby also liked eating chips. He just didn't want to be bought off so easily by his
father, but Nadia was too impulsive to run away with the bag of chips.
Just like Nadia, he wanted to eat it too.
Therefore, Bobby followed her regardless of his image.
When the kids left the dining room, Charles let out a heavy sigh. He had been tired all day and his
stomach was empty, but he didn’t feel hungry at all.
Whenever Nancy was not around, he always felt that something was missing.
So Charles called Nancy again.
To his disappointment, the phone rang again, but Nancy still didn't answer it.
Left without a choice, Charles cleaned up the dishes on the table.
Afterwards, he went to the living room and sat on the sofa. When he got back to his senses, he called
the children over and asked them to take a shower.
Given that Nadia was a girl, neither Charles nor Bobby could get close to her when she took a bath.
It was Nancy who always bathed her.
But now that Nancy was not here, Charles waited outside the bathroom while holding Nadia’s pajamas
in his hands.
When Nancy came back, he thought he wouldn't have to work so hard. But he didn't expect that Nancy
would leave again a few days after she came back.
This time, she was not kidnapped. It was her own decision to leave.
Minutes had passed and Charles began to feel his head ache, so he sat on the sofa until he didn't
notice that he fell asleep.
After taking a bath, Nadia came out of the bathroom only to find her pajamas had fallen on the floor.
Then her eyes fell on Charles who was sleeping on the sofa.
"Daddy..." Nadia whispered.
Before Nadia could wake him up, Bobby came over and stopped her. "Nadia, don't shout. Have you
forgotten our plan?"
"I didn't forget our plan. But Daddy fell asleep on the sofa. He will be very tired in such a sleeping
posture when he wakes up tomorrow." As she looked at her sleeping father, Nadia couldn’t help but
feel sad.
"Oh, it's okay. He’d probably wake up soon. Put on your clothes and we'd better leave now. Otherwise,
it will snow heavily later and we won’t be able to go out. Taxi won't come here when it snows heavily."
After saying that, Bobby ran to Nadia's bedroom and fetched Nadia's clothes.
"But Daddy..." The exhaustion and sorrow on Charles' face made Nadia's heart ache.
"Nadia, do you want to find Mommy? If you don't want to find Mommy, I will go to my room to sleep."
Then Bobby faked a yawn and was about to walk to his bedroom when Nadia stopped him.
"No, Bobby. I really want to see my Mommy." The reason why she stayed here was to stop her mommy
from leaving.
However, it didn’t work and her mommy was gone now.
And today, she would be gone too. Nadia felt a little sorry for her Daddy.
With a heavy heart, Nadia put on her clothes and kissed Charles’ cheek before she followed Bobby out
of the house.
Suddenly, Bobby had the urge to ask, "Nadia, do you think it's better to live in a villa or an apartment?"
"It's best to have Daddy and Mommy." In her mind, Nadia thought they could live anywhere as long
they were complete.
"I agree with you. But why do our parents always quarrel with each other? They are so restless and
make us worry about them all the time.
Alas, we are the most tired children in the world."
"Because other children's parents were married, unlike ours. That’s why we are the most tired children
in the world..." The two children were both downhearted. Why couldn’t they have a family like the other
children’s?
"Nadia, why doesn't Mommy want to marry Daddy? I think Daddy is awesome, excellent and
handsome, right?" Until now, Bobby was confused. He thought his Dad already had everything. How
could his mommy reject him?
Shaking her head, Nadia replied, "I don't know."
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