Chapter 114
Mom was angry.
Noelle stuck out her tongue and almost couldn’t hold a bag of apples. Nelissa gave her a hand and asked her to stand still. She was not allowed to find Edward.
Noelle saw that Nelissa was holding a lot of things, so she looked up and said in a crisp voice, “Mom, is it heavy? If it was Edward, he would come and help us get things.”
“It’s not heavy. I can handle it,” Nelissa said stubbornly.
Since the appearance of Edward, her image had become weak in the mind of the dragon and phoenix fetus. There was always a big gap between men and women. The sense of security of her father and mother for her child was different.
“She wants to be a mother and a father again. Is it a little forced?” Nelissa thought seriously.
Jolene’s car came out of the parking lot. Nelissa looked at it and whispered to her daughter, Noelle, “Jolene is here. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Noelle was a little clever when she was supposed to be. “Mom, the person in the opposite car is Edward.”
As he spoke, Noelle waved her two small fleshy claws and turned to look at the opposite road for Nathan, full of expectation.
If it weren’t for the fact that Nelissa was holding things in her hands, she would really want to pinch her daughter’s fleshy face. Where did this little traitor come from?
Jolene’s car drove past her. He thought that Noelle’s caring little cotton-padded jacket was welcoming her, so he happily untied his seat belt and got off the car with Noelle in his arms. He kissed her on the way. It was his turn in Nathan. The handsome young man avoided Jolene’s arms with disdain. He climbed into the car by himself, but he didn’t like being carried.
Jolene clicked his tongue and said, “Nelissa, who does your handsome guy look like?”
Like her father, Nelissa muttered in her heart. She opened the cover of the car and put the things bought in the supermarket in it. She turned her eyes and glanced at the opposite side of the road. Edward’s car was still there, and the lights in front of the car had been turned on. It seemed that he wanted to follow her to the end.
She lowered her eyes and got into the car with Jolene. On the way back, Edward’s car had been following her. She took out her mobile phone and pressed a few buttons. It was not convenient to call him. She typed a line of text messages and asked him why he was so free.
Edward didn’t reply.
Nelissa stared at her phone and pouted unconsciously.
When they got home, it was still Nelissa who was cooking. Jolene was too lazy to cook, so he basically ate at Nelissa’s house. Only when Nelissa was not at home would she cook for Noelle for Nathan. Because there were children at home, they rarely bought fast food or instant noodles in the supermarket. No matter how tired they were after work, they would still cook seriously.
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Jolene took a piece of green melon and ate it. He said to Nelissa, “Put more chillis in it.”
Jolene’s hometown was in the south of the sea. She was an authentic Sister Xiang. She had a hot body and a good skin. No matter how she ate spicy food, she wouldn’t have the kind of physique that would cause him to have a rash.
“Okay.” Nelissa picked up a few pieces of chillis and cut them into pieces. This dish was made for Jolene. Noelle had not eaten spicy food for Nathan.
After cutting the chili, she washed her hands with hot and spicy food in her hands. Her mobile phone was in the pocket of her apron, but there was no movement. She was absent-minded and thought, “Did Edward not see my text message, or did he leave?”
When Nelissa was cooking in the pot, Jolene went to take a bath for Noelle. The two women, one big and one small, were chatting.
Noelle was covered in white bubbles. She closed her eyes and cooperated with Jolene to wash her hair. She asked curiously, “Aunt, who is Jordan?”
While rubbing the little girl’s soft hair, Jolene said, “Your mother’s suitor.”
Noelle remembered and asked, “Are you handsome?”
As for whether he was handsome or not, Jolene had never seen a photo of Jordan before, nor did he know how he looked like. After all, not every rich second generation could be as good-looking as Edward’er. Most of the rich second generation didn’t look fat, short, and weak. There weren’t many who were perfect.
“God is fair after all.” Edward, a God’s favored one, showed off his beauty and wealth. His eyes were red.
Jolene replied, “I don’t know either, but he’s your mother’s high school classmate. It’s said that his family background is very good.”
“Aunt Ulan, you have to pay!” Noelle was only four years old, so she could not tell the meaning of paying or being superficial. She had the same thought in her heart. She shook the bubbles on her body and said, “If I want to find a man, I have to live with him, not with money. In this way, I won’t be happy.”
Jolene held back his laughter and used the shower to wash away the foam on Noelle’s head. He asked her, “Who taught you this?”
Noelle opened her big eyes, which were as beautiful as a doll. “Don’t bother me if you’re not sincere.”
“You’re so naughty. You can’t say that to your mother, or your mother will say that I didn’t learn well.” Jolene was used to talking nonsense with Noelle, and children could only be cute with more words. She asked Nelissa Xi, “Which man is not superficial with your mother?”
“Edward!” Noelle’s voice was crisp and firm. Other than her younger brother, she loved Edward the most!
Jolene laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. Wasn’t that even more superficial?
After taking a shower, Nelissa also prepared dinner. She took off her apron and looked at her mobile phone. There was no text reply. Instead, there were many chat records in the WeChat group.
She put the dishes on the table and clicked on WeChat. A few students began to talk about her.
“Is Nelissa in our group?”
“I don’t know. Who has her WeChat ID?”
“Didn’t Jordan see her before? Did he contact her later? She wouldn’t really do something like betraying herself, would she?”
They chatted a lot in the group chat. Nelissa kept pulling them down and roughly saw a few of them. She didn’t care much about how her high school classmates thought of her. She was the kind of person who lived a good life with her child. As for others, she didn’t have the energy to care about them.
The image and reputation were not important to an unmarried mother.
It was Jordan who ended the conversation. He had been diving all along, but suddenly, he only said something to defend her-
“Don’t talk nonsense. She’s not. I misunderstood her before.”
Nelissa lowered her eyes and tapped her finger on Jordan’s head. She did not add him, even though she felt a little sorry for him in her heart.
Jolene tapped the side of the bowl with his chopsticks and called out to Nelissa, “Who are you waiting for? Let’s eat first.”
“I didn’t wait for the text message…” Nelissa put down her phone in embarrassment, picked up the bowl and chopsticks to eat, and served Noelle Nathan of food.
After dinner, Jolene went back to his apartment next door, as well as the rest of his work. His position as a superior would often require him to work overtime after work. It wasn’t an idle job.
On the contrary, Nelissa was very free after work. She checked Noelle’s Nathan homework and accompanied them to watch TV. When she poured water and drank, she went out to take a look at the balcony. When she didn’t see Edward’s luxury car, she didn’t care anymore. She guessed that he had already left.
It was almost 10 o’clock in the evening.
Nelissa took Noelle to bed for Nathan and told them a few stories. Looking at them gradually falling asleep, she smiled and sat beside the bed for a while. She tucked them in before leaving the room.
Nelissa opened the fresh bouquet of roses and inserted them into the vase that was filled with water. She cut off one or two withered roses and placed them in her room.
Edward gave her too many flowers. One of them was kept in the company’s office with water, and the other was taken home and put in a vase. She didn’t want to throw it away. She liked it very much.
After doing all these, Nelissa went to bed. After a busy day, she almost melted the bones of the bed. Soon, she wrapped herself in the quilt and fell asleep.
It was late at night, and the sound of the door being unlocked came from outside. Nelissa turned over under the quilt, thinking that she had heard wrongly. Then, she remembered that her key had fallen off, and the sound of the door closing was obvious. Someone had entered the house!
Nelissa immediately thought of going into the house to rob. She was so scared that she got up and was in a hurry to find something to protect herself. The door of Noelle’s room was not locked for Nathan. Standing at the door of her room, she was so frightened that she didn’t dare to do anything. She picked up the phone and wanted to call the police, but she called Edward’s phone number. She was very scared.
The phone rang outside the room.
Holding her phone, Nelissa was stunned. She watched helplessly as the door of the room was opened from the outside. It was so dark that she could vaguely see the tall and straight figure of the man. The door of Nelissa’s room was quite short, and the man’s height almost blocked the entire exit. There was only a gap between them that even children could not escape. The black light was very oppressive.
Nelissa shivered and her mind went blank for a moment.
“It’s me.” As soon as he finished speaking, the light switch on the wall was turned on, and the room suddenly lit up.
Edward was handsome. He stared straight at Nelissa’s white face. “You haven’t slept yet?”
Nelissa pressed the stop button of her phone, and she almost couldn’t breathe. Her whole body was soft. Her slender fingers grabbed a corner of the dressing table, held it, covered her heart and said, “You… you scared me to death!”
Edward stepped forward and carried Nelissa. He walked to the edge of G and sat down with her in his arms. He asked her to sit on his lap and looked at her red eyes. Her thin body trembled in his arms, as if she was really scared.
Her face was paler and paler.
Edward immediately frowned and caressed Nelissa’s face with his big, warm hands. He gently rubbed her face and made her slowly relax. “I’ve sent you a text message saying that I’ll be here tonight.”
Nelissa shook her head. Sitting in Edward’s arms, her feet did not touch the ground. With a lingering fear in her heart, she grabbed him tightly. “When did it happen?”
Edward took the phone in her hand and clicked on an unread text message for her to read. Edward did reply to her text message at 7:55 p. m.
I’ll come to your house later.
“I didn’t see it.” Nelissa said in a muffled voice. She had fallen asleep a long time ago, so she didn’t put her phone beside her. “I thought someone went into the house to rob. Noelle slept again for Nathan. The door of the room wasn’t locked, so I didn’t know what to do.”
Edward frowned and hugged Nelissa. For the first time, he really wanted to protect a woman. “Did you call me just now because you were afraid?”
Nelissa gently hummed in his arms and said, “I wanted to call the police.”
Nelissa was really panicked. She was a woman with two four-year-old children. She basically had no power to fight back against such things. If she lost money, she would be safe. But she was most afraid that the robbers would stab her with knives and kill her.