Let's Get Married

Lily is totally dumbfounded at that question. It is just another ordinary sentence, but for some reasons she can’t face it head on. She is completely at a loss in this situation.

Just as she is lost in her thoughts, the man in front of her suddenly brushes past her, and lowers himself to put a stop to the awkwardness. “I’m your mother’s good friend.”

“Friend?” The little boy’s eyes light up instantly as he looks like he understands what Rex is saying. “I know! I have a lot of friends too in the kindergarten!”

Rex carefully studies the little boy whose height barely reaches Lily’s thigh. His face is fair, like the suet jade and he has distinguishable baby fat that a boy of that age possesses. He can see that his chin is slightly protruded and his mouth resembles Lily’s while his eyes and nose take after his features.

He doesn’t need to verify whether this little child is his own child, all it takes a glance to vanquish all his doubts and suspicion.

This is definitely his child, or more specifically their child.

Whenever he registers in his mind that this little kid is related to him, he feels like his whole body is burning up and an inexplicable emotion is surging throughout his body. A sense of longing and nostalgia accompanied by loss and anxiety are threatening to blow him up.

The man can’t help feeling sorry and regretful for this woman, who repeatedly mentioned that she never loved him, who told him that she has fallen for another guy. She was feeble and helpless with nothing to rely on, but she had somehow been bearing and eventually giving birth to his child in a foreign country.

If what she has said before is true, that she has forgotten everything between them, then what logical explanation is there for her to do all this for him?

He is now thirty seven and no longer young. Although his features and figure still carry a resemblance of himself when he was thirty, it is another story when it comes to his thinking. He now craves for his own family, a family where he can love his wife and children.

But his dreams were shattered five years ago in that accident and he really thought that his life was over, that he will carry his regrets to death’s door, alone, and he really thought that he won’t have any chance to immerse himself in this kind of happiness. Alas, God does not abandon him completely; this turns out to be quite the pleasant surprise for him.

Rex stands there stiffly like a pine tree as he registers the doubts and suspicion in the little boy’s eyes. It is only natural he can’t recognize his father who has been absent in his life for five years.

fists. His mind is racing fast, thinking how he should communicate with the little kid. He can’t be too matter-of-factly and neither can he be too unnatural. He is shocked

breaks the silence by tugging at Lily’s sleeve, “Mum, we should go,

thinking. He has just met his son, it

she immediately becomes apprehensive. She retreats slightly and says, “It’s okay, it is colder than usual

child after all, so he won’t be able to read between the lines. He lets out a

keep him company when he’s at the kindergarten, but

listen? If you want to go, then go alone.” Lily still has some lingering

with a wronged

I’ll send

peculiar feeling rising in her heart since the three of them have met.

up by this unusual feeling, but she doesn’t want

doesn’t plan to allow her to escape this time. When he sees that she is still in disagreement, he nonchalantly asks

do you want to go to

a few glances towards his mother,

and your mum there, is

an educated child, hence he shakes his head, “I really want to

behaving like this. He can see from these small things that Lily has been teaching him well over

solemn-looking woman standing beside him, and his eyes

it hard to actually say it out loud. She knows that he’s actually telling her to stop resisting in a roundabout way. She can’t refuse him; he’s determined to spend some time with his

in front of Adair; therefore she is careful not to provoke him. She