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Diana saw Julian looking at Betty, and immediately realized that something was going on between the father and
daughter pair. She asked for an explanation from them there and then.
Betty couldn’t hold her tongue, and immediately told Diana what she texted Julian.
Diana couldn’t help but chuckle; she grabbed Julian’s hand, and placed it over her swollen stomach.
“I’m holding one child by the hand, I have another child in the training camp, and another two children in my belly.
Do you really think I have the capacity to find another lover? Running away with another man? Can you really
believe that?”
Diana poked Betty on her forehead and reminded her to be careful with her words, and not to say something like
that ever again.
“Why not?” Betty didn’t agree with it.
In fact, she was beginning to feel a little angry. Mommy had left a red mark on her forehead. She no longer looked
as beautiful in her princess dress!
Diana said, “Because it doesn’t sound proper to claim that a woman ran away with another man.”
“What does proper mean?” Betty asked another question.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe really didn’t understand the term, which she had yet to learn from kindergarten. She wasn’t like her brother,
who was so smart he could figure things out even without being taught.
Betty’s questions stumped Diana, who immediately waved her hands for fear that her daughter might throw her
more questions the more she tried to explain.
“Nothing, nothing.”
She had since learned to let things go.
Children will eventually understand what they need to understand when they grow up.
There was no need to explain everything so clearly to them when they were still so young.
“Mommy, you should apologize to me!” Betty continued harping on the matter. She pointed at her forehead
indignantly, and said, “You said that I did something wrong and poked my forehead, but you couldn’t tell me what
wrong I did. I have enough reason to think, Mommy…”
Betty had to take a deep breath before she could continue her long tirade. “Mommy, you were wrong. You
shouldn’t have poked me on my forehead. You must apologize to me.”
Diana was dumbfounded.
Julian had to patiently explain to Betty what it meant when a woman ran away with another man. Betty still didn’t
really understand, but she remembered that Mommy wasn’t wrong, and that Mommy didn’t need to apologize to
her.
Julian, who knew that his wife was the priority in all things, finally managed to brainwash Betty and heaved a sigh of
relief when he heard Betty’s conclusion.
“That’s right!” he said.
Even if Diana really did something wrong, he would hold himself accountable. She wouldn’t ever need to apologize!
They had looked through all the new pieces, but only managed to buy a dress that Betty liked and no prenatal
clothes for Diana.
Diana wanted to look elsewhere.
The family of three wasn’t in a rush to go home. Julian and Diana held Betty by her hands, one on the left and the
other on the right.
If it were in the past, Betty would have eagerly chatted with them. But now, she was strangely quiet.
It took them five minutes to walk from one shop to another shop upstairs, yet Betty spoke nary a word during these
five minutes.
Julian was slightly worried, wondering if he might have said something wrong when he was trying to explain things
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmto Betty and upset her.
She was but a child. There was no need to be so strict with her. Sometimes, it didn’t matter whether she
understood things or not.
Julian was about to crouch down and talk things through with his little darling, when Betty spoke. She looked up,
with confusion in her eyes.
“But… I heard Mommy say something to that man about running… It was really what Mommy said, so why can’t I
tell Daddy about it…? My teachers in kindergarten tell us that we must be honest and not lie.”
She looked at Julian, and said, “Daddy, you told me that I shouldn’t talk about a woman running away with a man.
Are you trying to teach me to lie?”
Julian started breaking out in a cold sweat.
Diana, too.
Betty didn’t mean that Diana was about to run away with another man, but that Diana was telling another man
about running.
“I did say that,” Diana confessed. With Betty and Julian staring at her, she explained the truth. “I told him the way to
the washroom, and that he should quickly run there. In case he couldn’t find it, I’d run there with him.”
Julian was dumbfounded.
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