At that moment, the words that came out of her mind was an arrogant egomaniac.
However, he was very charming by behaving like that.
At the moment, it was time for the bodyguard guarding the lift entrance to change his post. A rustling
noise accompanied by the sound of talking, “It’s really cold outside and it’s warm inside...”
The man’s words came to an abrupt halt halfway.
The person who spoke, with an unconscious glance, saw Matthew in the corridor ...
Then, he forgot what he wanted to say.
The other three people wondered what he was looking at and their eyes went straight, probably
because they were curious so they all reached out their heads to look towards the direction where the
man was looking at, however ...
Dolores seemed to sense someone, and she nudged Matthew.
“Hmm?”
Dolores whispered, “Did someone just talk?”
Matthew turned his head without hesitation.
“...”
They did not expect Matthew to suddenly turn his head and did not know how to react for a moment.
They were all dumbfounded and afraid that he would get angry. They wanted to explain that they did
not mean to look, but they did not know how to start the conversation.
Dolores’ face turned red, like a blazing fire. She lowered her head and pulled the corner of Matthew’s
coat.
This was too humiliating.
He lowered his head and saw Dolores’ red face, he hugged her in his arms and said in a deep voice,
“Turn all your heads away.”
He knew that Dolores was thin-skinned.
He knew that Dolores would be embarrassed to look at these people at this moment.
The four strong men stood in a row and turned around at the same time, as if they had made an
agreement beforehand.
Dolores walked into the room with her head down. As she arrived in the room, she immediately pushed
Matthew away.
“It’s all your fault.”
She was thinking that Matthew did the wrong things on wrong the occasion.
Matthew bent down to look at her, her face was still red, how could she be so shy?
He felt that Dolores was cute, like a young girl who was in love, wistful and shy.
A smile spread across his face as he reached out his hand to pinch her cheeks, “I had made them to
turn over, no one will look at you.”
“They all did.” Dolores glared at him resentfully.
He wrapped his arms around her, “It’s okay to let them see.”
“Go away.” Dolores pushed Matthew.
Matthew did not let go and he hugged her tighter instead, he even teased, “I like the way you blush.”
Why was this man so annoying?
“Daddy, Mummy, what are you doing?” The two children who were on the bed suddenly stopped their
frolicking and looked at Matthew and Dolores at the same time.
Simona covered her eyes with both her hands, leaving some gaps between her fingers and peeking,
“Daddy and Mummy are going to kiss, shame, shame.”
“Do not look at what is contrary to propriety, do not look at what is contrary to propriety.” Samuel
covered his sister’s eyes with one hand and his own with the other, “You guys go on, you guys go on,
we definitely won’t peek.”
Dolores and Matthew looked at each other and then coincidentally looked at the two children who were
standing on the bed at the same time, did not know shall they cry or laugh for a moment.
Samuel was silently thinking in his heart, Daddy and Mummy were getting closer?
But this is good, in future, they could stay together as a family of four.
“Mummy, can you give me a brother or a sister?” Samuel’s voice came out through his fingers.
Dolores was speechless.
Matthew was very happy. He was satisfied with the words, pretty much satisfied.
It was for sure Samuel had the same blood as his blood that ran through his veins. It was clear that
Samuel was his biological son by understanding him so much.
“Do you hear that?” Matthew wrapped his arms around Dolores’ waist.
The blush that had just dissipated on Dolores’ face appeared again, and she whispered, “You take a
kid’s words so seriously?”
“Why can’t I take it seriously?” Matthew was serious.
Dolores was speechless.
“Stop it.” Dolores pushed Matthew’s hand away, “Don’t show a bad example in front of the kids.”
She walked over to the bed and took away Samuel’s hand, she then said seriously, “Children are not
allowed to talk nonsense.”
“Mummy, I’m not talking nonsense.” Samuel wrapped his arms around Dolores’ neck and whispered in
her ear, “I hope that you and Daddy can have another baby, so you guys can be together and will not
be separated anymore.”
It turned out that the boy was afraid that they would be separated, Dolores stretched out her hand and
rubbed his hair, “A child shall not think too much.”
“Then, mummy, why don’t you sleep with us tonight.” Samuel pulled her hand and put it on the bed.
“I haven’t bathed yet ...”
“No need to take shower, I don’t mind you being dirty.”
Dolores was speechless.
“Daddy, you shall sleep with us too.” Simona jumped up high on the springs of the bed mat, Matthew
was afraid that she would fall so he caught her, “Jump slowly.”
The little girl was in a good mood and wrapped her arms around him, “I won’t fall, let’s sleep together,
Daddy.”
Matthew glanced at Dolores without a trace and agreed with a smile.
The bed in the hotel was wide enough, but it was still a little crowded for four. However, the two children
were happy so neither Dolores nor Matthew wanted to spoil their mood. They slept in a squeezed
condition.
The two of them slept on either side of the bed and the children slept in the middle.
The room was cosy because it was filled with an orange lamp and flooded with warm light.
It was not known whether the two children were excited or they were just in good mood and could not
sleep, they pestered Dolores to tell them a story.
Simona nestled in Matthew’s arms, “Daddy, I want to hear the story of Sleeping Beauty.”
Samuel was speechless.
His sister was still very childish.
However, it was a rare day when the family was all together and the atmosphere was so nice, so he
yielded to his sister.
Matthew pursed his lips, Sleeping Beauty?
Seeing Matthew’s hesitation, Simona asked, “Dad, do you not know how to tell the story?”
Matthew was embarrassed, he did not know how to tell it indeed. Since he was a boy, no one told him
such fairy tales when he was a kid, let alone when he grew up. He did not have the opportunity to listen
to such stories any more when he grew up. Occasionally when he heard the stories, he would feel
childish.
“That...”
Dolores helped him, “Simona, mummy tell it to you, okay?”
Simona blinked and pouted her mouth, “Daddy is so stupid, he doesn’t even know about Sleeping
Beauty.”
Matthew was speechless.
Was he disliked by his daughter?
Dolores helplessly rubbed her daughter’s hair.
“Mummy, it’s better for you to tell the story.” The little girl looked back at Matthew, "Daddy, you better
listen to it now and tell me next time.”
Matthew nodded his head and said cooperatively, “Alright.”
Dolores thought for a moment and said after a moment of silence, “Once upon a time, there was a
castle. On a night when it was raining, a baby’s cry resounded throughout the castle ... The queen gave
birth to a princess for the king, and the king welcomed his first princess. In light of the fact that the king
loved his queen so much, the king loved the princess too.
When the princess turned one year old, the king invited humans and fairies to celebrate the princess’s
birthday, but not an evil witch.
The fairies cast spells on the princess. The first fairy gave her beauty.
The second princess gave her wisdom.
The third princess gave her bravery.
Just as the fourth fairy was about to cast a spell on the princess, a gloomy wind blew throughout the
castle, and there appeared a witch who dressed in a black headdress with a hat and held a walking
stick in her hand.
She slowly walked into the castle. With harbored grudge as the king did not invite her to the princess’s
birthday feast, she cast a curse on the princess, ‘The princess will die by having her finger pricked by
the spinning needle of a weaving machine’ ...”
Simona fell asleep before Dolores finished her story.
She fell into a deep sleep. Dolores stretched out her hand to touch Simona’s face but she did not show
any signs of waking up. Looking at her daughter’s cute appearance, she smiled.
Just as she was about to withdraw her hand, Matthew’s hand put at the back of her hand. She raised
her eyes just in time to meet his.
“Do what you want, just pretend I don’t exist.” Samuel pulled the quilt up and covered himself, then he
closed his eyes as if to tell them that he was asleep.
Matthew was speechless.
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