Chapter 83 - SOMETHING STRANGE

"What is it?" he asked, but he was on alert to hear whatever she would say next. "I will not do it if it's something stupid."

Blue pouted her lips. "I want to see Nikolai and know if he is okay."

"You mean whether he is alive or not?"

"Yes."

"Hoo…." Gael rounded his lips, ready to tease her. "You are worried about little Nikolai? How sweet you are."

"He is my friend."

"I know, I know, I have my first crush around your age too, so I know how you feel."

"Your crush will never like you back."

"You are hurting my feelings, little one. I thought you wanted to ask me a favor."

"I do."

"So, do you think Nikolai likes you?"

"Yes," Blue answered confidently.

"Poor Nikolai."

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"He is alive, but a little bit out of shape, I think…" Gael mumbled when he watched a little boy sitting on the driveway, hugging his legs with bruises on his face. "He looks like a stray puppy."

Blue looked at Nikolai and immediately jumped out of the car to approach the little boy, who looked so pitiful.

"Ah… children…" Gael groaned, he leaned back on the comfort of his car seat, not even feeling like going out to console the sad boy. Let Blue do it. After all, it was her idea to come here.

However, after five minutes of talking, the two of them walked toward the house.

"Wait! What are you two doing?" Gael tried to look at them and decided if they didn't come out after five minutes, he would go and check on them. How troublesome they were. He wished his children wouldn't turn out anything like them.

And after three minutes passed, Gael jumped out of the car, since he couldn't sit still as the little girl was out of his sight for too long. He didn't want to find trouble with Chaos later if the girl was hurt.

Gael would be inside a package to the underworld once Chaos knew something happened to her.

Fortunately, the two of them came out of the house with another little child.

"What are you two doing?" Gael tilted his head when he looked at the little girl, who was holding hands with Nikolai. "Are you kidnapping her?" he asked incredulously.

"She is my sister," Nikolai explained to him.

"Gael, let's eat something, they have not eaten anything since morning." Blue took Gael's hand, showing him her big hazel eyes.

"Will you pay for the meal?"

"Of course not, you will pay."

"Is this some kind of robbery?"

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Apparently, the father of the two children left them alone inside the almost broken house to go to work, and had not returned since morning. He left the two children without money to buy food, or even food for them to eat.

But, it didn't explain why Nikolai got a lot of bruises on his face, if he was just being starved by his father. Neither his sister nor he was willing to explain about it at all.

Gael took the three children to a restaurant nearby and asked one of his men to look into their father's whereabouts, after asking his name and where he worked.

Since the nearby restaurant only served noodles, the four of them ate their food silently. In this situation, Gael looked like a single parent, who looked after his kids after his wife left him. Well, the last part was sadly true though.

"So, do you want to eat something else?" Gael put down his chopsticks and looked at the three children, but they had not even finished eating half of their food. D*mn… their speed of eating would effortlessly match with that of a snail's…

"We are not done yet," Vanessa complained. She was a three years old little girl, who had short curly hair and brought a lousy teddy bear with her.

"Yes, I can see that," Gael mumbled. "So, is someone going to repair your house?" The earthquake happened six weeks ago, but seeing that their house was still damaged, it seemed they were yet to take care of it.

"My father doesn't have money to repair it," Nikolai answered timidly. He ate a mouthful of noodles and looked enjoying his meal.

"Well, that's sad…" Gael commented. He didn't know what to say to these children and opted to keep silent.

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That night, Gael ended up buying the siblings a few packs of frozen food along with a few packs of chocolates for them to eat and a few medicines for them, just in case.

Since school would start two weeks from now, Nikolai wouldn't see Blue until then, and Gael wouldn't be so kind to the little girl to drive her to this place everyday.

That was why they needed to take care of themselves.

Blue tugged Gael's coat and asked him to bend down, so she could whisper something into his ear, "Give them money too," she whispered to him once they were outside of the house.

"Why should I?"

"They will need that if they run out of food."

"They have their father."

However, it was needless to say that the two sibling's father was not someone that you would like to have around, it was pretty obvious to see.

"I have spent so much money on a family that I don't know," Gael grumbled.

"You spent much more money on your wedding, but you are still single now." That was a waste of money if Blue could say.

Gael groaned when he heard that. "That stings," he complained. "You surely have a weird way to ask someone for a favor."

But, before Blue could run off her little mouth to say something more annoying, Gael ran inside the house and didn't return until a few minutes later.

"Okay, done now, let's go home," he said in an annoyed tone, but Blue put her fingers on her lips, asking him to be quiet. "What is it?"

"There is something strange. I can feel it…" Blue said, as she let out a low growl.

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