“Fab, what’s wrong with you? Are you ignoring me?”
Lillian quickened her pace and ran up to Fabian, blocking his path.
“Fab.”
With a serious expression, she stopped Fabian who was ignoring her.
Fabian reluctantly stopped. His heart tightened when he faced the girl in front of him.
“Lily, I want to be alone for a while.”
“Why?” Lillian wondered. “Are you mad at me?”
Fabian shook his head, barely holding the gentle smile on his lips.
“I won’t be mad at you no matter what happens.”
“If that’s the case, what’s going on with you?” Lillian did not understand. “Is it because of that love letter?”
When she mentioned the love letter, the smile on Fabian’s lips disappeared instantly.
He did not say anything. Instead, he walked past Lillian and went straight into the study. Lillian watched Fabian’s figure leave quietly and felt worried. Her small face was filled with melancholy.
Fabian came into the study and walked in front of his desk silently. Then, he picked up a photo frame on the desk.
There was a photo of him and Lillian in the frame.
He did not remember when he took this photo. The Lillian inside the photo was now a slender and elegant young lady.
Fabian furrowed his brows and fell into deep thought. However, he seemed to not remember any memories of Lillian transforming from a little girl to a young lady.
However, when he remembered that Lillian had grown up by his side all these years, he felt extremely relieved.
Even so, she had grown to the age when she would have her first awakening of love, she had already accepted the feelings of other boys.
All his waiting over the years seemed to have been in vain.
Knock, knock.
There were soft knocks on the door of the study.
Fabian spotted Lillian out of the corners of his eyes.
He turned his head to look at her and saw Lillian walking toward him with a cup of iced coffee.
She smiled, and her smile was so sweet.
“Fab, I just made this. It’s your favorite iced Americano.”
Fabian never refused Lillian’s wishes, so he reached for the glass.
“I’ll drink it. Go do your homework.”
“I’ll do my homework, but I want to tell you something first.” Lillian’s expression suddenly became serious.
Fabian put down the glass, his heart pounding hard against his chest.
He was afraid to hear Lillian would say something he did not want to hear.
“What do you want to tell me?”
“It’s about that love letter.” Lillian went straight to the point.
Fabian’s heart skipped a beat again. “What do you want to say?”
Lillian frowned, her big glass-like eyes staring straight at Fabian.
“Fab, I’ve always remembered what you said. You said that I can’t fall in love early and I have to study hard. I remember it all.”
Fabian was stunned when he heard that. He did not remember telling her that.
“Fab, I did all of that, but I’m an adult now.”
Upon hearing this, Fabian seemed to already know what Lillian was going to say next.
This girl wanted to express that she had reached the age where she could fall in love and that she had someone she liked, which was why she accepted the love letter.
Fabian felt something tugging at his thoughts, and for a while, he lost his sanity and calmness.
“Okay, stop talking. I got it.”
“No, I have to tell you this because you don’t know.” Lillian insisted stubbornly.
Fabian did not want to hear it, but his endless love for Lillian made him unable to refuse this girl’s wayward and stubborn personality.
“Fab, you must have thought that I accepted the love letter and that’s why I put it in my schoolbag. Actually, it’s not what you think. I was going to return the love letter to the boy next week when I went to school, so that’s why I put it in my bag.”
When he heard this, Fabian’s dull heartbeat seemed to gradually regain its original beating frequency.
He looked at Lillian suspiciously, and a ray of light gradually appeared in his deep pupils.
“Are you going to reject the boy who sent you the love letter?”
“That’s right.” Lillian smiled. “I want to tell him that I already have someone I like, so I can’t accept any other boys.”
Fabian’s heartbeat had just regained its usual momentum when it was disrupted again.
“You already have someone you like? When did that happen? who is it?” Fabian asked hurriedly. He could not control his emotions anymore at this moment.
When she was facing the panicking Fabian, Lillian looked at him with a soft smile and said.
“I don’t know when it started, but I believe that this person has always been in my heart for a very long time. It’s been so many years and this person has continued to be by my side. He’s the most reliable person in my heart, and he’s also the guy I love the most.”
As she said that, her gaze on Fabian grew deeper and deeper.
Meanwhile, Fabian seemed to understand something from Lillian’s eyes.
“Fab, do you know who I like?” She smiled sweetly. There was only one person who fit her description.
“Fab, I like you…
“It’s you…
“You…”
Lillian’s final answer lingered in Fabian’s ears memorably and stayed even after some time.
At this moment, the familiar sound of his alarm clock rang out. Fabian suddenly opened his eyes. He was completely awake now.
As he looked at the sunset outside the French windows, he realized it was just a dream.
The scene and images in his dream were all imaginations and hopes from his subconscious.
Fabian looked at the time. He prepared himself to go pick Lillian up from kindergarten.
When he turned around, he saw the photo frame on his desk. It was a photo of him and Lillian. However, the little girl in the photo was still an ignorant and naive little doll.
Fabian smiled in relief and quickly headed to the kindergarten to pick Lillian up.
Fabian appeared at the gate of the kindergarten on time and picked up Lillian smoothly.
He could still clearly feel Julie’s amorous gaze on him, but he just gave her a polite smile and turned around while carrying Lillian.
He carefully fastened Lillian’s seat belt and patted the little girl’s head with a gentle smile.
The little face in front of him was still so immature, and her cute smile was still so innocent.
Fabian stopped in his tracks. He could not help recalling the dream he had not long ago.
In that dream, Lillian grew up and became a slender and elegant young lady.
She could talk and had become extraordinarily cheerful and lively.
What made Fabian most grateful was that during the period when Lillian grew up from a child to a young lady, she had always lived under the same roof as him. she grew up safely and healthily under his wings.
Probably because he was distracted for too long, Fabian felt someone tugging on the corner of his clothes, only to realize that it was Lillian.
The little girl was wondering what was wrong with him and why he was staring at her in a daze.
Fabian smiled. Then, he got into the car and left.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.