Rachel opened her arms immediately to welcome Mendes, but she was surprised that the boy slowed down as he got closer to her. He slowly threw himself into her arms and wrapped his arms around her waist tightly in return.
"Rachel!" he exclaimed affectionately as he embraced her tightly and pressed his chubby cheek into her waist.
Rachel was both surprised and happy to see Mendes. But she never noticed that Jonathan was not as happy as he used to whenever he saw Mendes.
Instead, he glanced at the kid's father briefly. When their gaze met, Dylan Xu immediately tried to avoid it.
At least he seemed to be restraining himself. Despite the years, he was getting cheeky now.
Rachel crouched to level her face with the boy and talked to him.
At the same time, Dylan Xu walked to Jonathan and greeted him. "I'm sorry that we were unable to inform you in advance of our coming."
Jonathan smiled faintly and ushered them towards a seat with his arm. "Please, have a seat." But he then thought to himself, 'But you did anyway.'
If Dylan didn't arrive with Mendes in tow, Jonathan would have driven him out of the house at the first chance he'd get.
Jonathan felt sick of Dylan. Even though his feeling towards Dylan had nothing to do with the child, he didn't feel the same fondness towards Mendes that he had before.
"Why don't we go upstairs?" Jonathan suddenly suggested.
Dylan's eyes lit up. "Okay," he replied while nodding.
He turned around and took a few steps forward. His son suddenly called out to him from behind, "Dad, where are you going?" The bo
mplicated than expected.
No one expected such a dramatic thing to happen to her. That day, the two families had a meal together. They were talking about the date for the wedding.
At this moment, Henry's aunt arrived, and she had her boyfriend with her.
Surprisingly, Lea suddenly recognized Henry's aunt and her boyfriend as they approached.
When Lea was at the age of seventeen or eighteen, there was a time when she decided to play truant. She was at a rebellious age and she drank a lot and went to bars.
Lea's father was away at that time and had to travel back a long distance after he learned what his daughter had done.
He scolded her severely and cut her allowance.
He spoiled his daughter, but had no choice to be strict with her after what happened.
Lea had no choice but to admit her mistakes and ask for her father's forgiveness.
Her father decided to give her another chance. He moved her to another school and prepared some extra-curricular classes for her that she needed to complete during her spare time.
One of the extra-curricular classes was oil painting.
The oil painting teacher was young and handsome. His eyes become more beautiful when he smiled.
He was only a few years older than Lea. She immediately fell in love with him.
And since she was a girl of action, she did every method to seduce him.
Unfortunately, because he was a young man with a reserved and gentle personality, he found it hard to push back her advances.
It was not long when Lea's charms became too much for him and he fell down helpless at her feet.