lissa Greenwood shifted her posture, looked serious, and asked, "Do you really want to stay by my side?"
May imdiately nodded vigorously and emphasized again, "May likes Mommy."
"You can stay, but you must obey," lissa Greenwood held up a finger. "The first rule, and the most important one, is to forget that I am your birth mother."
May seed not to quite understand, blinking her big eyes she asked, "Why?"
"Because when your father and I had you, it was a mistake," lissa Greenwood exclaid in frustration, "I wish none of it had ever happened."
The little one’s chin dropped, downtrodden, "Mommy doesn’t like May."
"Yes, I don’t like you, I don’t like you, and I don’t like your father either," lissa Greenwood emphasized repeatedly, "And in the future, I will have my own children, and they will be my treasures."
She grabbed May by her clothes, pulling her closer, "If you want to stay by my side, forget I am your mom, can you do that?"
The little one’s eyes moistened, yet stubbornly held back her tears, and quietly responded, "I rember."
lissa Greenwood nodded in satisfaction; at least she was her offspring and wouldn’t be too foolish.
She taught May so phrases, then sent her off to sleep, "Tomorrow morning I’ll take you to et my uncle, who is my future husband."
"Okay," the little one obediently replied.
"The phrases I just taught you, practice them tonight, and don’t ss up tomorrow, do you understand?" she threatened fiercely, "If you say the wrong thing, you’ll have to go to the rescue station and live with a bunch of stray cats and dogs, got it?"
The little one nodded fearfully.
The next morning, lissa Greenwood took Little May to Cooper Coldson’s office.
She asked Little May to wait outside while she went to see Cooper.
"Cooper," her voice was obviously choked up, and her eyes were a bit red, "You’re finally back."
"What happened?" Since the divorce hadn’t gone through, Cooper already felt sowhat guilty. "What’s wrong?"
"Cooper, can we adopt a child?" lissa Greenwood sobbed as she spoke, "I promise she is a very well-behaved, obedient little girl."
Cooper beca increasingly confused, "What is really going on?"
But recalling the words Yolanda Greenwood said on the plane, his mood wasn’t as resistant as before.
"Cooper, I don’t want to adopt a child for no reason; it’s actually..." lissa Greenwood started to cry sorrowfully again.
Cooper stood up and walked over, putting his hand gently on lissa Greenwood’s shoulder, "Stop crying, tell what’s happening."
lissa sniffed, "When I was in Arica, I was always looked after by a senior, and I wanted to thank him properly this ti I returned, but I couldn’t find any news about him."
"Later, I found out he had fallen into drug use, living in a decrepit apartnt," she cried even more sadly, "It really took by surprise, Cooper, you might know that senior..."
lissa beca slightly nervous, "Brooks Parker, Senior Brother Brooks. Do you rember him?"
Cooper rembered because Brooks had once been considered a rival for Yolanda’s affection when he was with her. Later, however, it seed Brooks wasn’t interested in Yolanda.
"He’s using drugs?" He had a deep impression of this person who seed like a bright young man with a promising future. How could he have gone astray?
"Yes, I was surprised too," lissa was relieved to see Cooper didn’t react too sharply.
She continued, "Moreover, he has a child, a little girl."
Cooper faintly understood, "Is she the child you want to adopt?"
lissa nodded.
Cooper frowned, "There are many ways you could help him without necessarily separating father and daughter."
"Actually, this was also Senior Brother Brooks’s idea," lissa sniffed, "Brooks knew he was in a bad way, so he wanted to entrust the child to , and..."
She broke down crying again, unable to continue.
Cooper sensed sothing was amiss, "Is there sothing else?"
"Just a few days ago, I got the news that Senior Brother Brooks... he died," lissa looked extrely distraught.
Cooper didn’t know what to say at the mont.
The two of them were silent for a while; then lissa spoke again, "Cooper, I took the liberty this ti... will you support ?"
Cooper silently looked at her.
lissa then opened the office door and invited Little May in.
The mont he saw Little May, Cooper recognized her, "Is it you? Are you Brooks Parker’s daughter?"
lissa deliberately asked him, "Cooper, do you know her?"
Previously, Cooper had secretly t with Yolanda Greenwood, and he couldn’t reveal that.
He rely sat back down, looking unnaturally, "She looks familiar; maybe I’m mistaken."
He continued to observe Little May curiously.
This girl lived in the sa building as Yolanda Greenwood, so did that an Brooks lived in the building below Yolanda’s? Did they have interactions?
He glanced at lissa again, suddenly feeling that these events were too coincidental.
Could it be that Yolanda and others suddenly rushed back to the country because Brooks had died?
"Co, May, say hello to uncle," lissa gently pushed May forward.
May timidly greeted, "Hello, uncle."
"Your nickna is May?" Cooper glanced quickly at lissa, continuing to inquire, "What’s your full na?"
May shook her head, "I don’t have a full na."
Yesterday, lissa had told her not to reveal her real na was Eloise Parker; it’s a na that could raise suspicions too easily.
lissa smiled helplessly, "They say she was an accidental child; even her mother is unknown, Senior Brother Brooks likely just wanted the little girl to be pretty, so he nad her May."
Cooper seemingly spoke casually, "It seems you and your parents had the sa idea."
"..." lissa chuckled awkwardly, "What parents wouldn’t want their daughter to be pretty?"
Cooper remained silent.
"Cooper, can we keep her?" lissa asked again.
This ti, May boldly stepped forward, standing next to Cooper, "Uncle, please keep , I can do many things."
Cooper found it interesting and teasingly asked, "What can you do?"
"I can guard the door, pour water for uncle, and help uncle carry things," the little one pledged solemnly, "Uncle, no matter how you hit , I won’t cry."
Cooper frowned, "Did your father ever hit you?"
"Yes," May nodded, "When my dad missed my mom, he would hit May."
lissa heard this and felt a jolt in her heart; she didn’t know about this nor had she instructed May not to ntion it.
This child was indeed young and prone to speaking carelessly.
She watched the two nervously, hesitating about whether to take May away imdiately, fearing she might say sothing wrong again.
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