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.

slid the card into the gift bag. With all the preparations done, all that was left was

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

sleepy kids immediately bolted upright and ran

Lucas clung onto

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

and strode to their bedroom. “Why aren’t the both of you asleep? It’s already

embrace before I even got back. Since when do I have

bed and gently set

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

didn’t she give it to me herself if it’s from her?

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

turned quickly, and he came up with a response.

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’ lie

the small, red gift bag. Its size was only slightly bigger than his palm.

you have to tell her if you like the

so?” Nathaniel’s brows furrowed. What kind of

find Mommy. We’re going

the kids’ faces, Nathaniel tucked their blankets around them,

kids were exhausted. They mumbled, “Good night,

as they fell asleep, Nathaniel flashed a rare, gentle smile. He got up and left the room, shutting the door

opened the gift bag, reached inside, and took out a piece of small pitiful-looking cloth.

was so thin

she’s shy about giving such a

the bathroom in a pair of thin pajamas. Thin wisps of steam radiated from her back.

her neck to the side, she wiped the water droplets from her hair with a towel. Her unconscious

looking at her at that moment would

for? Aren’t you going to take a

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