Falling in Love With A One-Night Stand

Chapter 38

Wayne looked at Matthew’s pale face and realized that Matthew was looking at him with bitterness. Regretted, he secretly drew a sigh and asked Matthew carefully, “Do you blame me for not taking care of you?” Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Wayne didn’t respond to him and leaned into Anna’s arms, with his left hand tightly gripping Anna’s clothes.

Anna found that Wayne looked a little frustrated. She was kind of sorry for him and had to console him reluctantly, “Maybe he was scared last night. Give him some time to calm down and he’ll be alright.” You don‘t even care about your son. It‘s reasonable that he is closer to other people than to you. What a normal thing!

As they stayed silent in awkwardness, Tammy suddenly rolled her eyes and pulled Wayne’s sleeve. She said in a cute way, “Uncle Wright, I can’t pass this level. Can you help me?”

Wayne slowly stopped frowning when he was distracted by Tammy. He turned to her,“ Which level?”

“Here. Here. I can’t beat the boss.”

The situation was lightened up. Anna rubbed Matthew’s fluffy head and said in a low voice, “Matthew, are you blaming your father because you fell down the stairs?”

The little boy shook his head and looked up at Anna with sadness in his eyes. “Then why?” Anna was confused.

Matthew’s dislocated arm couldn’t move flexibly. He tried to gesticulate but still couldn’t raise his arm, tears in his eyes.

“Do you want to write?” Anna asked him. Matthew quickly nodded.

“Hold on.” She took out a notebook and a pen from her purse and gave them to Matthew. He held the pen with his left hand. Anna recognized the words from his crooked handwriting, which said, “I don’t want daddy to marry another woman.”

Anna subconsciously looked at Wayne, who was playing games with Tammy, and frowned. Kids are inevitably opposed to their mother‘s or father‘s remarriage. I guess Wayne

haven‘t taken Matthew‘s thoughts into consideration since he‘s always so careless. The worse part is that Matthew can‘t talk.

Anna was sad for Matthew, but she couldn’t say anything since she was a nobody to them. She could only console him in a low voice, “Your father loves you very much. Even if he gets married to another woman, he will still be your good father.”

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Matthew shook his head sadly again. “What?” Anna held his shoulder, “You don’t like Auntie Xavier?”

Matthew hesitated and seemed to make up his mind. Then he nodded and wrote something quickly on the paper, “I want you to be my mommy.”

Anna was speechless at the sight of the words. She didn’t know how to explain to a child that marriage wasn’t that simple a thing and that it couldn’t be decided by a child’s preference.

Having won the game for Tammy, Wayne stood up and asked Anna, “What did Matthew write?”

Anna immediately ripped the piece of paper off her notebook and folded it to put it in her purse. She said guiltily, “Nothing. He’s telling me what he wants to eat for dinner. I’ll keep the note to remind myself what to cook in the evening.”

Seeing that Anna was flustered, Wayne looked at her suspiciously and was about to ask her. But she had already stood up and said hurriedly, “Emmm, I need to go back to think about the project. I’ll leave now. I may come late tonight. If you are hungry, you can order something to eat first.”

Then she ran away. The door was closed, and there were only the two kids and Wayne in the ward.

Tammy was busy playing games on the sofa, not worried that her mother had left. However, Matthew stared at the door and seemed to expect Anna to come back soon.

Wayne felt guilty again when he saw the look on Matthew’s face. He couldn’t help but think about the thing that Anna said to him. I must be such an irresponsible and bad father that my own son has to rely on a woman who he barely knows. Does he really hate me?

“Matthew.” He called him patiently and softly.

Matthew saw that Anna wouldn’t come back, so he started writing and drawing on Anna’s notebook, still ignoring Wayne.

Wayne started thinking how to make Matthew happy. Then he saw Tammy from the corner of his eyes and remembered that Matthew always wanted to invite Anna and Tammy to their house, so he asked Matthew timidly, “Matthew, how about we hold a little party at home after you’re discharged from hospital? And we can invite Auntie Gabriel and Tammy.”

As he expected, Matthew immediately raised her head with his eyes lit up by happiness.

“Are you still angry with dad?” Wayne touched his head. Matthew wrote something on the notebook and handed it to him. “Dad, you should say sorry to me.”

Wayne was surprised. Then he admitted to himself that he had drunk too much and didn’t even know that his son fell down the stairs outside his bedroom. It was his fault to be so careless.

“OK, I should apologize to you. Sorry, Matthew. I’ll never let it happen again.”

But what Matthew wanted him to apologize that he brought Ada Xavier home.

Although they were talking about totally different things, Matthew slowly felt better since Wayne had apologized to him and he thought Wayne promised not to bring her home again.

Kids could be easily distracted. Soon he started playing with Tammy. He could happily watch Tammy play games in excitement though he didn’t play himself.

Wayne’s grandfather woke up in the morning and let the butler, Henry, report to him, who had just come back from Wayne’s house in Kingsford neighborhood.

“Have you found out? Is Matthew’s fall a set-up or really an accident?”

“I think it’s an accident.” Henry said seriously, “I have asked all the servants. When Matthew fell down, the maid who should’ve taken Matthew to sleep was making milk for him. There was no one in the hallway on the second floor.”

“What? No one?” It was hard for the old man not to be suspicious.

There were over ten servants in the house, and there was no one around Matthew when the accident happened. He must’ve made a big noise when rolling down the stairs, but it took a while after he hit the first floor for others to find out.

“Miss Xavier was there that night. She brought some gifts, and the servants were all taking their gifts at that moment.”

“Ada Xavier?” The old man frowned, his face darkening. He asked, “Where was she when Matthew fell?”

If Matthew was hurt by someone, he could think of no one other than her who had a motive.