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.

Lucas and Camila returned to their study, they slid the card into the gift bag. With all the

was stacking blocks. Their eyes nearly fell shut but snapped

immediately bolted upright and ran

Lucas clung onto Nathaniel’s

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

in each arm and strode to their bedroom. “Why aren’t the both of you asleep?

fallen asleep in Christina’s embrace before I even got back. Since when do I have such an important

the children’s bed and gently set them

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

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

loss for words. It’s not good when Daddy is too

he came up with

also a girl. She’s shy about giving it to you, so she asked for Lucas’ and my help.” Camila was terrible at lying, so she repeated Lucas’

bigger than his palm.

Bailey’s advice, Lucas immediately added, “Mommy said you have to tell her if you like the

so?” Nathaniel’s brows furrowed. What kind

and open it and find Mommy. We’re going to sleep now.” Camila couldn’t fight the drowsiness lulling her to sleep.

on the kids’ faces, Nathaniel tucked their blankets around them, then pressed his lips to their foreheads.

exhausted. They mumbled, “Good night,

rare, gentle smile. He got up and left the room, shutting the

bedroom, he opened the gift bag, reached inside, and took out a

so thin he could see

about giving such a gift.

her back. The warm glow from overhead shone down

droplets from her hair with a

looking at her at that moment would know how

you standing there for? Aren’t you going to take a

the card with the red lips mark and read its contents while approaching her. “My sweetest