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"Principal? Mrs. Andrew?" Mackie asked her Uncle who was drawing near them.

Vernon stopped in front of Mackie and Chloe and nodded, "Mrs. Andrew, your Principal is a bad guy. She wants to lock you up inside the school once she knows that you want to move out."

"She wants to lock me up? Why?" Mackie asked again. She was far more interested in her Uncle's straightforward answer than her Mommy's careful answer that she always got whenever she asked about Daddy.

"Because she's an old witch, hahah," Vernon chuckled. "Well, because Mrs. Andrew wants to see you getting bullied by Jaden and Mia. That's why she won't let you out."

Chloe thought that Mackie would be surprised by this. But her daughter didn't even react.

She nodded lightly, "Un, Mrs. Andrew is a bad Principal! She allowed Daddy to beat Mommy and tried to stop me from entering her office!" Mackie said, recalling the event during the Autumn Festival.

Vernon grinned, "See? That's why you cannot go to your school anymore. What if that old witch wants Jaden and Mia to bully you again? And what if she catches your Mommy too? Do you want her to get beaten?"

"NO!" Mackie looked up at her Mommy and hugged her waist. "Mommy, I don't need to go to my old school! I don't want you to get hurt again!"

Chloe was stunned by how effective Vernon was. While she was trying to find a way to make up a white lie, Vernon came up with the truth but was still able to conceal how much of a bastard her father was. "D—Don't worry, dear. We don't need to go. But we have to wait until your Uncle gives me the list of all schools we can visit, okay?"

"Un!" Mackie nodded. She released her Mommy and hugged her Uncle's thigh now. "Uncle, I want a school without bullies! I don't want to hit or get hit!"

"Don't worry about it, I will put you in the best school. And I won't let anyone hurt you," Vernon said. He patted Mackie's head a few times before Mackie released her hug.

"Mommy, can I eat cereal for breakfast today?" Mackie asked.

"Dear, you ate cereal yesterday…." Chloe sighed. Her daughter would usually eat anything she made for breakfast.

But now that she couldn't use her right hand, she had to order breakfast from outside, and Mackie hated the food most of the time. So, cereal had become her go-to for breakfast.

It seemed that she started to be a picky eater like Vernon. It made Chloe wonder if Vernon might have influenced her daughter too much.

"How about I cook something for breakfast instead?" Vernon offered.

"No!" Mackie shook her head vehemently.

"Huh? Why not? I made good food," Vernon claimed proudly.

"It tastes like Mom's cooking, but it's not as good!" Mackie said. She stuck her tongue out. "Uncle can't cook as good as Mommy!" Mackie ran after quipping with her Uncle.

"M—Mackie!" Chloe called her daughter. She wanted her to apologize to Vernon, but she didn't stop.

Instead, she went to the penthouse upstairs, probably grabbing the milk jug and cereal herself.

Vernon laughed the whole time and claimed proudly, "That's my daughter!"

Chloe glanced at Vernon, waiting for him to refute his own statement just now. But he didn't. He just kept on staring at Mackie with a proud smile on his face.

He truly saw Mackie as his daughter right now.

Chloe went silent as she kept staring at Vernon.

She didn't know how to tackle his claim.

Of course, she was happy that Vernon seemed to have seen Mackie as his own. But she wondered if Vernon could stay interested in fatherhood after a while.

Vincent was also a very good father when Mackie was still a baby. She almost thought that Vincent would change his way after Mackie was born.

And he did… for three years.

Then, he grew stressed out, bored, and tired of fatherhood. He started cheating again, and now that Mackie was already seven years old, his cheating worsened. He even told his people to bully Mackie in school.

Chloe was scared that Vernon would also do the same. He'd be very excited at first, then abandon Mackie when he grew bored and tired.

'I want him to commit to raising Mackie as her new father, or simply put himself behind the line and never cross it,' Chloe thought.

Vernon finally checked on his beloved after Mackie went upstairs. He smiled at Chloe and teased, "You know— I think I deserve appreciation because I can handle that well, right?"

"Ah, you did," Chloe nodded. She had to give him credit because he handled it well. "Thank you, Vernon."

Vernon smiled proudly, but that proud smile didn't last long because he was concerned about Mackie.

"You know that you can't cover his awful deeds forever, right? Mackie will eventually learn about everything," Vernon reminded. "The only reason why I haven't told Mackie about Vincent's sins is because I respect you as her mother. You need to be the one who tell her about everything, not me."

Chloe lowered her head after that. She nodded weakly, "Mackie already learned about her father beating me. She saw how Vincent choked me in the Principal's office. She asked me about it, and I don't think I can lie anymore."

"So I told her that her father has a problem, and we can't return until Vincent solved his own problem. That's why Mackie stopped asking for her Daddy," Chloe said.

"That's good. But did you really tell her about everything? Including his cheating, abuse you experienced for the past ten years, and how he told the whole school to bully Mackie?"

"Maybe you should just tell her everything," Vernon said. "She should know that she never has a father in the first place. Vincent is not and will never be a good one, and Mackie should have just forgotten everything about Vincent and moved on."