Benny climbed out of bed and crossed the room to Archie’s bedside. “Archie, say. Do you know why Mommy
doesn’t want to marry Daddy?” he asked as he shook Archie’s arm.
Archie sat up with a troubled look on his face. “I don’t know either.”
He paused for a beat before the corners of his lips curled into a smile. “But we found our sister! Isn’t that great?”
he exclaimed as though to console Benny and himself.
Benny nodded fervently in agreement.
They had always thought Estella was their half-sister who shared a father with them. It was such a pleasant surprise
to find out they shared the same parents.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThat also meant their father had never cheated on their mother, and they were the ones who misunderstood
Lucian from the start.
Their hearts soared with joy at the thought.
“But when will Mommy tell Daddy we’re also his children?”
Recalling how Lucian lifted them into his arms earlier, Benny couldn’t hide his disappointment. “I also want to be like
Essie. I want to have a mommy and a daddy. I don’t want to call Daddy ‘Mr. Farwell’ anymore.”
Daddy could lift us up so high into the air.
Archie missed his father’s embrace as well but chose to put himself in his mother’s shoes. “Maybe Mommy has her
own plans?”
Benny frowned as he speculated, “Do you think it’s because of Mr. Damaris? Mommy is close to him. He even gave
her flowers. Do you think Mommy wants Mr. Damaris to be our daddy?”
Benny pursed his lips unhappily before continuing, “I like Daddy more! Daddy is more handsome than Mr. Damaris,
and he cares for Mommy more than Mr. Damaris does!”
Archie pondered briefly before shaking his head and disagreeing with Benny. “I don’t think so. Mommy only
considers Mr. Damaris a friend at most.”
After Mommy accepted Daddy, there is a massive difference in the way Mommy interacts with Mr. Damaris and
Daddy. The look in Mommy’s eyes whenever she looks at Daddy is different from when she looks at Mr. Damaris.
Hearing Archie’s disagreement, Benny felt even more perplexed. “Then why didn’t Mommy say yes to Daddy?”
Archie suddenly remembered Roxanne did reach out her hand when Lucian proposed, but she quickly withdrew her
hand upon hearing their grandmother’s coughing.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmRealization dawned upon him when his train of thought ended there. He finally understood what his mother was
thinking. “I got it!”
His eyes were gleaming brightly, but his eyebrows were furrowed. He felt bad for his mother.
Noticing the change in Archie’s expression, Benny hurriedly held onto Archie’s arm. “Why? Tell me.”
Archie turned to Benny with a solemn look on his face. “It’s because of Grandma. She still hasn’t accepted Mommy
and us. Mommy doesn’t want us to suffer with her, so she rejected Daddy.”
The light in Benny’s eyes dimmed when he heard Archie’s explanation. His heart clenched for his mother, too.
Indeed, Grandma’s attitude toward us and Mommy has always been terrible. I don’t understand why, though. What
did Mommy ever do wrong to deserve such hatred from Grandma? Mommy is the best mother in the world in my
eyes. I’m sure she felt pressured to reject Daddy because of Grandma. But she never tells us these. She keeps
everything to herself. What should we do to get Grandma to accept Mommy?