Let's Get Married

As Lily crouches down to hold him, Adair jumps into her arms. If it wasn’t for Rex, she would have fallen onto the ground.

Adair has never been a child who cries, but now he can’t help but sob in her arms. “Mom, I missed you so much.”

His soft voice filled with fear and grief is like a dagger through Lily’s heart. She raises her hand to dry his tears, “Don’t cry. Don’t cry, mom is here to pick you up.”

Adair isn’t a child who makes trouble, and soon he stops crying. When he raises his hand and touches his little face, Lily notices a band aid on his thumb.

“What happened? Did you get hurt?” she asks as she clutches his hand tenderly.

Hearing this, Rex frowns and leans over. But this time, Adair, who has never shown guard against him, shuns his touch and hides himself in Lily’s arms. “Father’s Grandmother and Grandfather pricked it.” He says in a low voice.

Lily’s tenderness caused by seeing her child becomes harder again upon hearing the sentence. Her eyes are red and she blows on his finger. “Mom is here. Don’t be afraid.”

Adair doesn’t want her to worry, and cleverly shakes his head. “Mom, I’m okay.”

Lily stands up and holds her child against her. She doesn’t want to get entangled with Rex’s family, but what she’d just seen and heard is as if a bucket of gasoline that has been poured over her, setting everything on fire.

She isn’t an uneducated person, but now it is obvious that all reason has evaded her. “Who pricked him?”

Listening to her, the old couple looks at each other. Deep in their eyes one can see the presence of a guilty conscience and a lack of confidence. After two seconds of silence, Rex’s grandfather coughs, “It was done by a family doctor. When the child was brought here, we had to confirm it.”

answer isn’t what

confirm,

one can see what is going one once you put these words together. It is a paternity test. They were not sure

so she doesn’t hurt her child. “You…did it in front of the child?” she asks, suddenly feeling flustered, fearing that Adair will now know who his father is without any precaution. She also feels afraid that he will not accept it, and

just randomly have outsiders claim that they’ve given birth to a child of our family. But if he’s really our offspring, then we will bring him

that the child is

an explosion in Lily’s heart. She can’t imagine that the patriarch of Rex’s Family, who is also a cultured

very careful with her relationships, but Rex’s grandfather presented through those relationships and feelings in front of her child,

eyes meet in the air. She can clearly see the loss

she’d never before seen in Adair’s eyes. The eyes that are always bright and optimistic are now filled with cowardice. All of these are

suppress her temper. In her eyes, there aren’t two kind seniors, but

wants to protect her child. “Adair is my child. I have and will never entrust him to others, nor do I want to claim ties of kinship with anyone. I’m afraid you are misunderstanding things. I don’t intent to let my child recognize you as his families. Not now, and not in the future. Adair is my child. You don’t have permission to decide such things and even if you want to do anything, you’ll

says angrily. “You don’t know what’s good from

who has been silently standing behind

to worry about it. Adair is only four years old, if you really wanted to

you, you speak for her”. Rex’s grandfather says as he stands up and holds the sofa with his

Lily can’t find herself to sympathize with him, not

again. Adair has nothing to do with your family. You can rest assured that you won’t have to worry about his identity.” Lily says before taking a deep breath. This is the last thing she wants her child to witness, but it has happened already, and since that is the case, she will leave room for them. “Five years ago, I chose to leave. I thought I was wrong and I came back, but now it seems that coming back was another wrong start.