Let's Get Married

Joe is playing with Adair at a small garden in front of the restaurant. Once he sees Lily coming out of the restaurant, he brings Adair over to her and sees her reddened eyes. Joe could almost tell for sure and then says, “Lily, enjoy your meal.”

Lily knows that his words are loaded and she warms up immediately, “Yes, thank you. Let’s have dinner when we’re free.”

“Okay.”

Lily holds onto Adair’s small hand and walks through the large restaurant entrance before sighing in relief. When Adair sees the sea of flowers he becomes excited and shocked. He sees the messages and raises his head, “Mommy, these were prepared for you by Uncle?”

Lily leads him to the staircase and pauses when she hears him. She wants to say no but she realizes that they are the only ones in the restaurant and can only admit, “Yes.”

“Does Uncle like you? Is he proposing to you?” Adair suddenly asks.

Lily is stunned, “Why do you say that?”

“Because Uncle Ryan once told me that roses are usually given to someone you love and also for proposals.” After saying, he even stretches out his fair and short fingers and points at the rose petal covered staircase, “So many flowers, I’m right, it must be a proposal.”

Lily doesn’t expect that Ryan once said that to the kid.

She forces herself to be composed and squats down to look at Adair’s face. She sees his uneasy expression and softly assures him, “No matter whether uncle had proposed to mummy or not, it will never affect mommy’s love for you.”

But what Adair says next makes Lily surprised.

She sees him look up and scratch his head, his voice is soft but certain, “Mommy, actually I know that Uncle is my father. I, I… I feel that he is rather good. He explained to me why he didn’t look for Mommy and me. He doesn’t know that we existed.”

Lily doesn’t know that Rex had told her kid about these. She was afraid of hurting Adair and that’s why she lied to him but now she realizes that she could be wrong to do that. Now she doesn’t know what to say.

did

had explained to him

he may inadvertently hurt Adair’s little heart. She anxiously asks, “What else has

says that he will protect mommy and me in the

stunned and she has a lump in her throat that can’t be relieved. This man has done

the complex feelings of the adults but a child’s world is innocent and pure, he speaks from his heart, “Mommy, I rather like uncle,

implicit. Is that an indication of acceptance of

will feel that Rex is snatching his mother from him. But when she hears these words, she realizes that she had

a

be so selfish to deprive the child

and tender hand and looks at him tenderly, “If Adair likes, you can play more often with uncle, and mom will be by

now happy. He smiles and very

the stairs. As soon as they reach the final step,

was full of energy and his strides

small boy… Rex lowers his head and Adair tilts his tiny face. It

steak, salad, soup, and other appetizers on the table. Each

the napkins is an arrangement of champagne color roses. The glittering night sky can be

when there is a new change in their relationship, a look from either

Lily has eaten in these five years. She doesn’t have any worries with the child

of these flowers with me?” At that

request but this time he breaks his own rule, “Uncle gave these to mommy, you must

the three

fresh ones and bring them back. They will look nice