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Julian was cutting up the white tofu he had bought that afternoon. Afterwards, he put the tofu in a pot and glanced at the wall clock.
"When will Arcane be ho? I hope he’s okay. But for so reason, I feel like sothing might happen. It’s strange..." he muttered at that mont.
He looked out the kitchen window, hoping nothing had happened to his husband.
anwhile, Arcane was in the dining room at the Stamford residence. He had just finished teaching Donald’s son, his own biological father. He was invited to have dinner with him and his two children.
Everything was going well, they were chatting with each other about various things.
Suddenly, the lady of the house arrived ho, looking unhappy to find that her family had eaten without waiting for her to return.
"You ate before I got ho? That’s great. It’s as if you forgot I exist. Especially this guest, who even enjoyed the al before the lady of the house arrived," said the woman, who was Donald’s wife, Alina.
A middle aged woman who still looked beautiful and fashionable. Her blonde hair and pink eyes were very similar to Sofia’s.
"We didn’t know you would be ho so early. You usually co ho late at night or even in the morning, which is why you eat dinner first. Besides, you never tell us when you’re coming ho," Donald replied calmly.
"Oh, so because of that, you can start dinner without ? Sotis I wonder if you still appreciate my presence in this house," Alina sounded unhappy with her husband’s words.
Seeing her mother co ho, Sofia stood up from where she was sitting and ran towards her mother. She stretched out her arms, intending to hug her.
"Mom, you finally ho!"
However, Alina took a step back as if she didn’t want to be touched by her own daughter. This made Sofia a little disappointed and she stopped right in front of her.
"Mom, why? You haven’t been ho for three days, and now you don’t want to hug ?" she asked with a sad expression on her face.
Instead of feeling pity or sadness at her daughter’s words, Alina folded her arms across her chest and stared at the little girl as if she were a stranger.
"I was only gone for three days, not a month. There’s no need to overreact and want to hug like that. You always overreact," said Alina in a tone that sounded arrogant.
Even Arcane could see the woman rolling her eyes just because Sofia wanted to hug her. Sofia, who was still so young, felt sad because she felt her mother no longer loved her.
At that mont, Donald imdiately stood up and pulled Sofia into his arms.
"Can’t you control yourself a little in front of our guests? Even Sofia only asked to hug you. Don’t you have any compassion for your own daughter?!"
He spoke in a slightly raised voice, making Arcane feel that this was the first ti he had heard the principal sound angry. Because usually he always spoke in a soft and calm voice.
"Just because she’s my daughter doesn’t an I’m going to spoil her like you do. Besides, who is that man? You didn’t tell that we would have guests, even begging for food in this house."
’Begging for food? What does that an?’ Arcane thought irritably.
Stefano replied that the man with them was his new private tutor. Since he was going to enter a prestigious high school that was quite difficult to get into, he needed a tutor to help him.
Hearing this, Alina looked dissatisfied because she felt that Stefano didn’t need a tutor just to get into a prestigious school.
"Why are you wasting money just to get into a school like that? Especially hiring a tutor who seems to be an amateur?"
Arcane admitted that he was still young and had not been teaching for long. But that did not an he was an amateur, because he was already able to help students who struggled with mathematics understand the subject easily.
"Watch your mouth, Alina! You are talking to one of the teachers who works at my school. Everyone who works there is highly qualified and not amateurs like you said." Donald stepped forward again to defend Arcane.
The middle aged man asked his children to go to their room because he didn’t want them to see the commotion. Stefano then carried his younger sister away from the dining room so that Sofia wouldn’t feel sad anymore.
He also asked Alina to go to their room and discuss this matter away from Arcane. Alina just snorted in annoyance and walked away, her footsteps deliberately stomping on the floor.
"That woman really make dizzy." He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Rembering that Arcane was still there, he turned to him.
"Mr. Romano, I think it’s better if you just go ho. I don’t an to kick you out, but things aren’t going well right now, and I’m sorry you had to witness this."
"It’s okay. Sotis unexpected things happen. Thank you for inviting to dinner, and I’ll co back the day after tomorrow to teach Stefano," replied Arcane, who then picked up his bag and left the Stamford residence.
Donald’s green eyes kept watching Arcane leave his house, as if he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
He rembered his past, about a beautiful and sweet teenage girl he once knew.
Flashback
At that ti, young Donald was still teaching physics at a girls’ school. He got to know one of his students who always got bad grades in his class.
Their relationship was going very well, until one day he promised the student movie tickets if she got better grades on her next exam.
"I’ll take you to see your favorite movie that’s coming out next week. As long as you can get better grades than before," he said.
"I can! I can definitely do it! I will study harder and get an A on that exam!" she replied enthusiastically.
Her enthusiastic expression lted his heart, and he nodded his head. He rubbed the student’s head with a smile.
"Well then, good luck."
Flashback End
"They are so similar. But..."
He wasn’t sure if they were related or not. But for now, he put that aside and went to deal with his wife’s anger.
On the way ho, Arcane realized that his father had married a woman who seed spoiled and unhappy with her own family.
He began to speculate that perhaps the marriage had not been based on love for Alina, but rather on coercion. But that was just speculation that he couldn’t prove.
"Just seeing that woman makes very upset. I wonder why they are still continuing the marriage to this day."
He stopped walking, staring at the dark sky with the bright moonlight shining down. He wondered if his mother were still alive, would she be sad to see the man she loved now with soone else.
But he was sure his mother would have known that Donald would eventually marry soone else.
"What else do you think I should do, Mom?"
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