President's Substitute Wife

He refused me, but I was more relieved.

The next morning, Philip still came very early.

But I found that he didn’t change.

He used to change a T-shirt every time he came, but this time he was wearing the same one as yesterday.

And he had black circles.

I realized and asked, “did you go back to school yesterday?”

“Yes, I caught the last bus.” Philip said immediately.

I looked at his clothes and said, “you haven’t changed your clothes. You’re lying to me.”

Philip was exposed and her ears were slightly red. “I missed the last bus, so I stayed in a small hotel all night.”

I could see that he didn’t sleep well.

It was all my fault. I came back too late.

I was a little sorry. I said, “go upstairs.”

“Huh?”

“Go upstairs.”

My voice was tough.

Philip went upstairs at once. I opened the door of a bedroom and said to him, “in the future, if you don’t have time to go back to school, you can live in this room. You can put your clothes in the closet and use the washing machine. You can hang your clothes on the balcony. The bathroom is at the end of the corridor.”

“I can’t do this...”

Philip raised his hand and scratched his head.

“It’s okay. You can play more with Lester in the evening. I can have more rest.”

Then Lester woke up.

He saw Philip and I standing at the door of a room.

“Yes, if your mother comes back

“Great!” Before Philip finished, Lester rushed over and took Philip’s

“No, you have to have breakfast

Philip said firmly.

with Lester, but also

weeks, but Lester

Usually I was busy at

Philip and nodded, “OK, let’s have breakfast.”

He went

Seeing Lester so happy, I really appreciated Chloe’s sending me

thought he could stay at my

Philip was leaving, Lester held Philip’s thigh and wouldn’t let him go. He said to me, “Mom, dad said we

“Huh?”

“You’re wasting Philip’s and my time. If Philip is here, he can have a better rest," Lester said. “He can teach me. I have a lot of things I don’t understand and I want

Actually, I knew Lester didn’t have questions to ask Philip. He just wanted to play with Philip!

I didn’t want to expose him. After all, Philip was very responsible. He wouldn’

I looked at Philip and said, “go back today. Tomorrow you bring your clothes

“I...”

“OK! Come on, Philip! Or I’ll fire

said immediately.

refuse Lester and could only

brought a suitcase and put it in

happy. It was Friday and Philip had to leave at night, but Lester disagreed.

At last Philip

lived in my house since that day. He went back to school occasionally, but

I was at ease with him. I usually left a few hundred dollars at home and asked him to go shopping for me.

that Philip was here at the weekend. I could go to driving school on weekends. I could get my license as soon as possible.

passed the

thank Philip for taking care of Lester, I decided to

On Saturday morning, Philip taught Lester. I asked him, “Philip, I want to take you and Lester out

have to bother.”

I knew Philip would

him, “we can’t eat at home all the time. You can eat anything you want. I want to celebrate that I passed the exam.”

excitedly, “I want pizza, pizza, pizza!”