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. He blinked and said,

“Yes, if your mother comes back

Before Philip finished, Lester rushed over and took Philip’s hand. “Can we play racing games?”

“No, you have to have breakfast

said

only played with Lester, but also taught him mathematics.

for two weeks, but Lester learned a lot.

at work and ignored it.

Lester listened to Philip and nodded,

He went downstairs happily.

Seeing Lester so happy, I really appreciated Chloe’s sending me such a nice male nanny as Philip.

stay at my house when I came back late.

But at night, when Philip was leaving, Lester held Philip’s thigh and wouldn’t let him go. He said to me, “Mom, dad said we shouldn’t waste time.”

“Huh?”

and my time. If Philip is here, he can have a better rest," Lester said. “He can

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

After all, Philip was very responsible. He

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

“I...”

on, Philip! Or I’ll fire you!”

Lester said

couldn’t refuse Lester and could only agree.

brought a suitcase and put it in the room.

and Philip had to leave at night, but Lester

At last Philip had to stay.

to be a turning point. Philip had lived in my house since that day. He went back to school occasionally, but he lived here

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

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

passed the

and thank Philip for taking care of Lester, I decided to take them

On Saturday morning, Philip taught Lester. I asked him, “Philip, I want to take you and Lester out for lunch. What would you like to eat?”

don’t have to

I knew Philip

eat at home all the time. You can eat anything you want.

“Great!” Lester said excitedly, “I want pizza, pizza, pizza!”