Let Me Stay The Night

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.

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

stacking blocks. Their eyes

immediately bolted upright and ran out of their

Lucas clung onto Nathaniel’s

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

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

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

by the children’s bed and gently set

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

to me herself if it’s from

a loss for words. It’s not good

he came up with a response. “Because

shy about giving it to you, so she asked for Lucas’ and my help.” Camila was terrible at lying,

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

advice, Lucas immediately added, “Mommy said you have

furrowed. What kind of gift

right. Daddy, hurry up and open it and find Mommy. We’re going

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

were exhausted. They mumbled, “Good night,

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

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

thin

wonder she’s shy about giving such a

her back. The warm glow from overhead shone

side, she wiped the water droplets from her hair with a

her at that moment would know how beautiful she looked.

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

with the red lips mark and read its contents