A Crazy Night Novel

Christina could not reject the adorable kids.

She reached for the card and removed the cap of the pen. “All right. Tell me what I should write.”

Lucas cast a glance at Camila. I’ll leave the artistic side of things to Camila,

Camila started eloquently. “My sweet darling, you’re the most important person in my life. I want to hug you, kiss you, and never let you go.”

Christina laughed at her cringy words.

Lucas hurriedly reminded, “Don’t laugh, Mommy. Focus on writing it down.”

Christina stopped laughing and gave him an okay before writing down Camila’s words.

A while later, she handed over the written card to Camila. “I’m done. Shouldn’t you both be going to bed now?”

Camila took the card and skimmed through it in detail. She then gave Christina a tube of lipstick. “Mommy, stamp it.”

“How?” Christina laughed so hard that her shoulders trembled.

Lucas pursed his lips and made a smooching sound. Christina was amused by his charming side.

Comprehension dawned on her as surprise filled her. “Where did you learn that?”

“From the movies. All of them stamp their cards with a kiss.”

Without much choice, Christina applied a layer of lipstick on her lips, then gently pressed them on the card, leaving a red mark.

“Done. Here you go!”

Lucas and Camila checked the card and were satisfied with the mark. “This is perfect. Continue with your work, Mommy. We’ll return to our room to finish our homework.”

“Go ahead.” Christina didn’t notice the kids plan and buried her head in work.

card into the gift bag. With all the preparations done, all that was left was to wait for Nathaniel to come home.

the other was stacking blocks. Their eyes nearly fell shut but snapped open when they heard the heavy

kids immediately bolted upright and ran out

back!” Lucas clung onto

arms, gesturing for Nathaniel to carry her. “Daddy, carry me.”

their bedroom. “Why aren’t the both of you asleep? It’s already so late. Are you

they would have fallen asleep in Christina’s embrace before I even got back. Since when do I

bed

you go. This is Mommy’s gift for you.” Lucas took an exquisite-looking red bag out

she give it to me herself if it’s from her? Nathaniel asked curiously.

at a loss for words. It’s not good when

he

you, so she asked for Lucas’ and my help.” Camila was terrible at lying, so she repeated Lucas’ lie with her

took the small, red gift bag. Its size was only slightly bigger than his palm. As it was sealed with tape, he couldn’t peek

“Mommy said you have to tell her if

What kind of gift

right. Daddy, hurry up and open it and find Mommy. We’re going to sleep now.” Camila couldn’t fight

around them, then pressed his lips to their foreheads. “Okay. Go

kids were exhausted. They mumbled,

flashed a rare, gentle smile. He got up and left

the way back to his bedroom, he opened the gift bag, reached inside, and took out a piece of small

smooth red cloth was so thin

about

Thin wisps of steam radiated from her back. The warm

the water droplets from her

person looking at her at that moment would

take a shower?” Christina looked at him with clear eyes.

out the card with the red lips mark and read its contents