Chapter 596: Won’t Let Off
Karen wasn’t in the mood to pay attention to Alia. And after waiting for nearly ten more minutes, she couldn’t help taking out her phone to call Moses again. “What’s the situation on your side? I’ve been waiting for you at the entrance of the kindergarten for ten minutes!”
On the other end, Moses’s tone was extrely hostile. “I ran into so trouble along the way and got blocked! Just continue waiting for a while!”
Then he hung up.
Karen was so furious that she hurled vulgarities, but she had no choice but to obey Moses because he was the boss now. How could she possibly dare to retaliate against him or urge him?
“Who are you waiting for?” An extrely familiar male voice suddenly sounded in Karen’s ear.
Hearing this voice, Karen was so frightened that she suddenly sprang up and turned her head around as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
“Lu-Lucas?!”
God! How could this damn scourge suddenly appear here?
Karen didn’t expect to encounter Lucas at this ti, and her heart almost popped out of her chest in fear.
As soon as Alia heard this voice, her eyes imdiately shone brightly, and she leaped toward Lucas. “Daddy!”
Her voice was brimming with surprise and a hint of aggrievedness.
Lucas squatted down, pulled her in his arms, and hugged her. “Alia, I haven’t seen you for two days. Did you miss these last two days?”
Alia nodded heavily. “Yes, yes! Yes, I missed you so much, Daddy! I also miss Mommy and Aunt Charlotte! And Grandma and Grandpa! Daddy, when can we go ho?”
She had been with Grace these past few nights, and although Grace was very nice, two days felt like months to Alia when she was away from her parents and family.
Lucas kissed her little cheeks dotingly. “We can go ho soon. When your grandfather recovers, we can go ho as a family!”
At this mont, Lucas acutely noticed the undried tears staining Alia’s eyes.
His face imdiately darkened as he looked at Karen.
Karen was so spooked by his stare that she spluttered, “W-why are you here? I’ve al-already agreed with Cheyenne that I would pick Alia up today.”
Lucas narrowed his eyes. “Is that so? But the kindergarten has been closed for more than twenty minutes, and you’re still standing here. Are you waiting for soone?”
Karen’s heart dropped, and she imdiately denied, “No! Not at all! I’m just waiting for a cab. It’s really weird. I’ve clearly already called a cab. Why hasn’t it arrived yet?”
At this mont, Alia suddenly said, “Just now, Grandma said she would take to the amusent park! Daddy, are we still going?”
“The amusent park…” Lucas repeated word for word while staring at Karen.
Karen suddenly felt so weakness in her legs and almost went limp on the spot.
She had just said it to coax Alia, and she knew that Lucas was definitely going to suspect her!
Her eyeballs turned, and she hurriedly denied, “Alia, you heard wrong. I did say that I would bring you to the amusent park, but I ant later, not now! Now that your father is here, we definitely have to obey his arrangents!”
She had to deny it right now. Given how shrewd and smart Lucas was, she knew that he would definitely suspect sothing if she took Alia out for fun without discussing it with Cheyenne and him!
Alia imdiately frowned and pouted. “Grandma, you clearly said that you’d take there right now! I heard you very clearly, and you said that when we get ho, you would teach Mommy a lesson for failing to keep her promise. But now, you’re not keeping your promise at all! I’m going to ignore you for the rest of the day, Grandma. Hmph!”
Lucas glanced at Karen’s panic-stricken face and shifty gaze. He sneered.
Karen was getting bolder and bolder!
He ignored Karen and said softly to Alia, “Alia, Mommy and Daddy are very busy lately, and we can barely make any ti. Just forgive us this once. When Grandpa gets better in the next two days, we will imdiately take you to the amusent park. We’ll also take you to the zoo to see the elephants. How about that?”
Alia thought about it and nodded obediently. “Yes! Daddy, you have to keep your promise!”
“Of course! Let’s go to the hospital now to visit Grandpa, and you can talk to him. Maybe he’ll imdiately recover because he’s happy!”
While speaking to Alia, whom he was holding in his arms, he walked toward his Jaguar.
Karen gritted her teeth, but she could only bite the bullet and chase after them. She got into the backseat.
Since Lucas had already co, it was impossible for her to continue to bring Alia to Moses.
Her plan today was foiled.
Although she was extrely unwilling to stay in the sa car as Lucas, she couldn’t find an excuse to leave at this mont and take a cab on her own because it would be inconsistent with the good mother and good grandma persona she had been trying to maintain.
Halfway through the journey, Karen’s phone rang.
As soon as she saw the caller ID, she imdiately shivered and declined the call without thinking.
Moses actually called at such a juncture. No matter how bold Karen was, she wouldn’t dare to answer at this mont!
After ten seconds or so, Moses called again.
Karen still chose to decline the call. At the sa ti, her heart was beating wildly.
She cursed Moses in her heart.
When she was holding onto Alia’s hand and urging him just now, he didn’t rush over and treated her with an extrely hostile attitude. Now that the situation had changed drastically, Moses actually called.?Is he trying to get killed?!
After declining his calls twice in a row, she reckoned that he must have realized sothing and didn’t call again.
Lucas was well aware, so he sneered and deliberately asked, “Who called? Karen, why didn’t you pick up?”
Karen lowered her head, not daring to look at him at all. She said guiltily, “Oh, it’s nothing. It’s just harassnt calls! I keep getting telemarketing calls from real estate agents and promoters. It’s really annoying!”
“Oh, really? That’s really quite annoying.”
Lucas stopped talking to her and instead began to ask Alia how she had been doing in the kindergarten and Grace’s place.
Both of them were chatting non-stop while Karen was on tenterhooks, filled with anxiety as she sat in the backseat.
Her plan to abduct Alia today had failed, and who knew how mad Moses would be at her. She wondered if he would expose the voice recording in a mont of anger.
A little over ten minutes later, Lucas drove the Jaguar to the underground parking lot of the hospital.
Karen pushed the car door open impatiently. “I-I rembered that there are still so things I have to buy. You guys head upstairs first. I’ll join you later!”
Then she scurried away in a panic as if there were dogs chasing her from behind.
Lucas looked at her panicked back and slowly narrowed his eyes with an icy cold gaze.?Karen Turner, how dare you target Alia. This ti, I won’t let you off!
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