After a brief hesitation, Charles merely muted his phone, choosing neither to answer nor reject the call.

Benedict, who had noticed his godfather’s actions, instantly pursed his lips. “Your lady’s calling you, isn’t she? I can’t believe you have the guts to ignore her, Charles. How did a lousy man like you even get yourself a wife?”

Charles felt a warm blush rise to his cheeks, but unfortunately, Benedict wasn’t done with his lecture.

“In any case, don’t you think you should return her call? She will be so worried if she doesn’t hear back from you. As a man, you ought to cherish and dote on your woman. Understood?” the latter chided, looking very authoritative with a stern expression and his arms folded.

It was the first time Charles found Benedict so adorable, and he had to do everything he could to hold in his laughter.

“You’re right, Benny. I’ll send her a text,” he replied good-naturedly before texting Whitney about not returning to the Newton residence that night.

With that done, he turned off the screen and casually set the phone on the bedside table.

Meanwhile, Zendaya had gotten tired from playing by the window and rubbed her eyes.

“I’m sleepy, Uncle Charles. I want to go home,” the little girl mumbled wearily as she turned to look at Charles.

Upon hearing that, the man hastily wrapped a tissue around the cut on his fingertip and walked to the window to carry her.

“Be good, Zendy. We won’t be returning to Harrick Villa tonight. I’ll sleep with you, okay?”

Zendaya pouted and squirmed slightly in Charles’ arms. “Where’s Daddy? Where’s Mommy? I want to hug Mommy to sleep… I can’t fall asleep without her.”

As could be seen, children were easygoing during the day, but when it came to bedtime, their stubbornness would very quickly go off the charts.

No matter how much Charles coaxed and cajoled Zendaya, the latter continued to ask for Gwendolyn.

sniffling quietly as

say, the sight of Zendaya bawling her eyes out

never tucked Zendy into bed before. What am

begrudgingly called Cedrick, only to realize the

quickly sent a text over, but even so, there was

What on earth is Cedrick

as ever, Zendaya eavesdropped on the phone call and turned sullen. “Did

had seen Gwendolyn or Cedrick

you take me to find Mommy? I want to sleep with Mommy. I want to hear her bedtime stories…” Zendaya said stubbornly

“It’s pouring outside, and I don’t know where

If I run into those bad guys, I’ll bite them! I want to join the army when I

his sister had said, Benedict cocked his eyebrows in cold aloofness. “Who needs your protection? Even

eyes. “Uncle Charles, can you take me to look for Mommy? Otherwise,

sighed and dialed Gwendolyn’s number, but to his surprise, her

h*ll… What’s up with these two? Did they plan this? Why else is one phone turned off and the other

tonight? What would you like to listen

a moment, Zendaya felt torn

Charles would be sad if I turned

know what to do! I might be able to coax Zendy to sleep, but what about Benny? I’m sure he’ll kick up a fuss

loss when Nico suddenly returned to the ward with

children’s clothes, and it seemed as if the latter had

didn’t know how long the warning alert would last, so he decided to err on the

felt a load off his shoulders as the men could split the task of coaxing the children to

promised, Charles took Zendaya into an empty ward and read her a fairy

that, the princess and the

ended, Zendaya frowned, still alert and

you’re chanting scriptures. I didn’t enjoy

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