242 Ch. 242 An Unique Hug
After a light conversation for a few minutes, Anxia decided to speak Dutch.
“Elliot, how many languages ??do you know?”
Elliot hesitated to answer for a mont, but finally, he opened his hand and showed the number seven with his fingers. Seeing this answer, Anxia smiled contentedly and affectionately stroked the top of her son’s head.
“Then you two can exchange languages the next ti you et Lori. But I do hope you’re hiding nothing from your father or .”
“I promise. But... can’t you speak other languages like Lori and ?”
“Yes, but we don’t speak as many languages ??as Lori or you. Well, at least we understand a bit when Lori speaks another language. But she has no opponents on par with her, so she’s starting to get lazy using rarely used language.”
“That’s aweso. I can’t wait to see her again. Mama... between and Lori, who was born first?”
“…” How could Anxia answer this question when she had just found out that she had given birth to a son? “Did grandma never tell you?”
Elliot shook his head in disappointnt. “Grandma never told , and he said who was born first didn’t matter. The important thing is that I was born as a boy.”
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One of Anxia’s eyebrows rose upon hearing this. She couldn’t understand why her mother would place more importance on sons than daughters.
“Elliot, if your father were to co here and get you, would you co with him?”
“...” Elliot got up and sat cross-legged to see his mother’s expression clearly.
Seeing her son’s confused look, Anxia also got up to sit opposite her son.
“Papa is coming here? Did grandma also invite him here?”
Anxia shook her head in response to Elliot’s question. “No. I’m saying ‘if.’ Would you?”
Richard was coming, but Anxia didn’t know when and whether her husband had tracked her down. The man probably had acquaintances with a famous hacker nad Cerberus and his team. But if the Cerberus team had never realized that soone was secretly watching her life with Lori, how could they track her down now?
Because of that, she held out very little hope of whether her husband had co to pick her up or not. Plus, she decided not to return ho if Elliot didn’t go with her.
And also… there was one other ergency that Anxia couldn’t leave behind. In order to confirm the big question mark in her head, Anxia had to wait for her husband’s arrival because only Richard could help her with this.
“Can I bring Aunt Jamie too?”
“You want to take Aunt Jamie with you out of here? Is she ready?”
“She wants to co with .”
“She does? Why do you trust her so much? She has absolutely nothing to do with our family. What if she fooled you and lied to you?”
“Aunt Jamie’s not that kind of person,” Elliot answered with a sullen face. Elliot thought his mother was starting to accept Jamie’s presence in her life, but apparently, his mother still looked suspiciously at this kind-hearted woman.
“How can you be sure?”
“Because I’m very good at judging a person’s character.” That was the answer, Elliot said in a confident tone making Anxia chuckle.
“You seem to care more about Aunt Jamie than your own mother.”
“That is not true.”
“It isn’t? Are you sure you’re not goading ?”
“...” Elliot lowered his head while occasionally glancing shyly at his mother. The little boy, who looked guilty, played with his index finger with his other hand as he answered in a low voice, “I loved Aunt Jamie the most. But that changed the mont I t you guys. It’s just… I still…”
“You’re still thinking about the situation,” continued Anxia, earning a nod from Elliot. “I understand. I should start thinking about bringing her too.”
Elliot’s head shot up, and he looked at his mother sparklingly, making Anxia stunned. The light in her son’s eyes, which sparkled and glowed like a galaxy, was so srizing that she didn’t get tired of looking at it.
Elliot stood up and walked a few steps from the bed to hug his mother. At first, the child hugged her neck tightly and then lowered his right hand slightly to pat Anxia’s back three tis, then went lower and ca back up.
Because his hands were still tiny, his hand strokes didn’t reach down and only reached the middle of Anxia’s torso. Even so, Anxia understood the aning of these signature pats and caresses.
“Elliot, who taught you how to hug like this?” Anxia loosened her grip and positioned her son to sit on her lap with Elliot’s body tilted to the side.
“You don’t like it?”
“It’s not like that. I’m just curious.”
“Aunt Jamie always hugged like that. When I asked her why she had to bother making strange movents, she said it was a sign that she had accepted as a family mber.”
Anxia only responded to her son’s explanation with a smile and asked about sothing else. “What about grandma? Is there anything unique about grandma’s hug?”
“Nothing. Just a normal hug.”
“Hmm,” Anxia muttered in understanding without speaking further.
“Why do you suddenly feel curious about the way grandma hugs?”
“Aren’t you sleepy? It’s ti for us to sleep.”
“Aw… I still want to talk to you. We couldn’t talk this freely if grandma were around.”
Anxia chuckled at her son’s whine and happily granted her son’s wish.
They were still talking about getting to know each other when Anxia heard a voice from the balcony of her son’s room. Soone was trying to intrude, and that person’s footsteps were light, like a specialist intruder. If Anxia weren’t a forr assassin, she wouldn’t know this intruder’s presence.
She was starting to wonder if it was Richard or… her mother’s n?
No. If Richard had co, then Anxia would have recognized the sound of his footsteps. It must be her mother!
Loraine Shu had received news that Anxia and Elliot slept in a different room. With nothing bug device or sothing like that, the older woman sent soone to eavesdrop on them.
Really… what kind of mother eavesdrops on her daughter talking to her grandson? Was that woman worried that Anxia would take Elliot away?
Thinking of this last thought made Anxia uneasy.
What if the mother has an ulterior motive for stealing her newborn baby boy from her?
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