One could say that he had never seen Addy lose her temper like that ever since they met.
“It‘s alright. I‘ll just go upstairs and coax your mommy.” Duke comforted the children before he took the
medical kit and went upstairs.
He knocked on the door gently.
“Addy, your finger is still bleeding. Can you let me in to take care of your wound? Once I‘m done, you
can hit me or yell at me as much as you want.”
But there was no sound in the room.
Duke felt more puzzled.
Had he really used too much force?
He continued to knock on the door.
“Addy, can you open the door first? We can talk in person if something‘s wrong.”
The four children downstairs looked at each other.
Melody bit her bottom lip and said, “Why do I feel like Mommy‘s extremely angry this time?”
“Mommy‘s finger seems to be bleeding,” Alden pursed his lips and spoke.
When they were living abroad, no matter how serious the injury was, his mommy would not mind it.
Getting angry was even less likely. She was acting strange for some reason today. Did their dad do or
say anything that offended their mom?
But their mommy did not usually act like this even when she was mad.
“Daddy‘s horrible! He can‘t even coax his wife!” Harold said in annoyance . “I‘ll go upstairs and ask
Mommy to come out!”
George grabbed him by the back of his collar. “Can‘t you see that Mommy‘s trying to act cute with
Daddy?
Melody‘s eyes lit up.
“Yes, in the novel, after the female protagonist gets together with the male protagonist, she becomes
very vulnerable and needs to be cared for. Now that Daddy‘s here to protect Mommy, she‘s starting to
act cute.”
Alden instantly stopped frowning. There had been no one to protect his mommy in the past, so his
mommy had to learn how to face everything alone.
But now…
His mommy had a support system, so she was starting to behave more vulnerably.
It should be a good thing.
“Let‘s go and continue playing our puzzles.”
George gathered them, and all four continued to play on the climbing mat in the living room.
The door to the master bedroom was closed.
Adina sat in the room in a daze, and her finger slowly stopped bleeding. Her wound was starting to
form a scab, and it hurt when she touched it.
She heard someone knocking on the door, but the sounds became buzzing background noise. She
wanted to hear what the man was saying, but she could not hear a word.
There seemed to be another internal mysterious force controlling her.
Adina closed her eyes and focused on getting rid of the noise in her mind.
It lasted for a long time, and she suddenly opened her eyes when someone burst through the door. Her
mind instantly became blank, and she asked in a daze, “What‘s wrong?”
Duke immediately held her in his arms. “Addy, please don‘t do this again, okay? Can you not ignore me
again? You can yell at me or get angry at me as much as you want, but don‘t ever lock yourself in the
room alone like that.”
The past twenty minutes felt like a century to him.
He was really afraid of losing her.
Adina was completely taken aback.
She tried so hard to recall what had just happened, but she only remembered cutting vegetables in the
kitchen half an hour ago. How did she end up in the room all of a sudden?
She pushed Duke away and softly asked, “I‘m not angry at you, and I didn‘t ignore you either. Duke,
what happened?”
Duke stared at her and slowly said, “Don‘t you remember what just happened?”
Adina rubbed the back of her head strongly. “I just remember that I was cutting vegetables in the
kitchen, and… yeah, I accidentally cut my finger…”
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