Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Joey spoke softly that Victor could barely hear what he said. Yet, Victor was stunned for a moment and loob Joey 

“What did you call me?” Joey came to his senses and his heart jolted. He had called Victor his dad.

When Rachel came out of the dining room, she heard Joey’s voice. She thought that the boy was not completely awake. But she also heard what Joey called Victor. Her face fell and she didn’t even notice that her grip on the water glass tightened. She breathed deeply to calm herself before she spoke to Joey.

“Joey, you’re already awake!” Joey shifted his attention to Rachel. Blinking his eyes, he said, “Mommy.”

Rachel instinctively turned her eyes to Victor. She let out a sigh of relief when Victor didn’t have any reaction. She walked up to Joey and tousled his hair.

“Did you have a nightmare?” she asked.

Joey had seen a psychologist that afternoon. If he was having nightmares, that might be the effect of the psychotherapy. This worried Rachel.

Joey looked at Rachel, smiled at her, and then shook his head. He didn’t have a nightmare. 

Conversely, he had a good sleep. But he was awakened by Katie who had jumped on his bed and rubbed herself against him, waking him up. Now that Joey had woken up, he wanted to stay with his mother. He spread out his arms to hug Rachel. 

Rachel was relieved that Joey wasn’t awakened by a nightmare.

All this time, Victor was watching the two of them. His eyes darkened. No one knew what he was thinking about. The phone in Victor’s hand vibrated. He looked at it and saw more than a dozen message notifications from Carson. It seemed that Carson was worried about Victor.

“What’s up?” It was the first message.

Since Victor didn’t promptly reply, Carson sent another message. “Are you okay? What happened to you?”

you replying? Are you still my good friend? Your

you ask me to look into Ameer? Has Rachel fallen in love with

probing. “If my memory serves me right, Rachel is two years older than Ameer, right? Is she now a

annoying. “Ameer is indeed young. Twenty-four years old. Young, handsome, talented, gentle. Women like a

being anxious. “Why

than Ameer, but don’t be sad. Young men and older men have their advantages! At thirty years old, you are more mature and steady. This alone makes you better than those young men, okay?

sent that still awaited response from Victor. Carson could only shake his head. It was the first

inferior because of a man six years younger than him. For Carson,

the mobile phone keyboard enthusiastically. After he had sent his message, a red exclamation mark appeared on

and below it was written, “Sorry, you are

Lukas entered the room and informed Victor,

 “Okay” 

from Carson. He didn’t want to

Victor holding him and they were looking around the snack street. Before Joey knew it, he had already called Victor.

stopped in his tracts, turned around, and looked at Joey.

going out?” Joey asked, raising his eyes

Joey pursed his lips.

asked in a soft

could feel that Victor was carrying him in his arms, which gave him a different feeling He didn’t feel comfortable with Victor’s bad posture. Yet, he felt relaxed, more like reassured, as he felt protected

Joey was somehow reluctant to let him go. Victor glanced at Rachel, but he didn’t say anything. Rachel could not look at Victor. She was holding Joey’s

it’s very late. Mr. Sullivan needs to go back and have a rest.” With those words, Rachel