Loredana couldn’t stay calm in her mind after listening to the doctor’s words, she didn’t want to talk, so she closed her eyes pretending that she was sleeping. Cormac turned his head and looked at her, he pursed his lips tightly, he could deeply understand Loredana’s current feeling.
He was the father, he was also the husband, he couldn’t injure his child. It was the same that he couldn’t make any decision that would harm Loredana.
At this moment, his feeling was so complicated and down.
He moved one of his hands to grab her hand, Loredana opened her eyes, Cormac said, “Sleep for a while if you’re tired, I’ll wake you up when we arrive home.” Loredana nodded, then she closed her eyes again.
After a while, the car had arrived at the bungalow. When Cormac was going to drive the car to the yard, he saw some people standing at the door.
Cormac saw clearly the people who were standing at the door when getting closer, he called Loredana, “Boyce is back.”
Loredana didn’t fall asleep; she could hear him once he talked. She opened her eyes and looked toward the door; there was a girl with a backpack on the back standing beside Boyce Shawn. Perhaps she was Jasmine Burke.
Soon, Cormac had parked the car in the yard. Loredana unfastened the seatbelt and pushed the door open to get out of the car.
Boyce walked hand in hand with Jasmine toward Loredana, “Sister-in-law.”
Loredana smiled at them, then she asked, “When did you come back?”
Boyce said, “We just got out of the car.”
After saying this, he introduced Jasmine to Cormac and Loredana, “You can just call them like how I do.”
Jasmine had seen Cormac before, but this was the first time for her to meet Loredana. She knew from Boyce that Loredana was young, now she had met her in person and she felt that Loredana was not only young, but she also looked very pretty as well.
“Nice to meet you.” Jasmine couldn’t call her sister-in-law at the moment.
Some more Boyce hadn’t settled his matter with Wendy Miller, it was inappropriate for her to call in this way now.
Loredana smiled, “Let’s go into the house, you guys should be tired riding the car.”
Boyce said that they were not tired, “We are here to ask for help from you.”
Loredana and Cormac stood next to each other, Loredana looked up at Cormac after hearing Boyce’s words, then she talked to Boyce, “Just tell us if you need our help.”
After all, the reason he had faced the dangerous thing this time, was because of them.
“I need to go back to the station and settle something with the Miller family, so I wish to let Jasmine stay temporarily at your house for a few days, I also still need to help her to settle the matters at her school.” She had dropped out of school, now she wanted to go back again, so there were some procedures which were needed to be done and he needed to find the person in charge at the school.
Loredana agreed without hesitation, Boyce wanted to leave Jasmine here because he trusted them.
How could she deny it?
“Let’s go into the house first,” Loredana said smilingly.
Boyce nodded.
Cormac didn’t talk from the beginning to the end, he grabbed Loredana’s hand suddenly. In fact, he didn’t wish that there were other people at home during this moment, some more a stranger. Loredana’s situation had really made him suffer, he just wanted peace at home. However, Boyce would seldom ask for help, some more Boyce was almost dead because of him, so he should agree with it, no matter for the sake of their friendship or the sense.
He was just worried about Loredana, she was having something in her mind, but she still needed to treat others politely.
He felt uncomfortable.
Pushing open the door, the living room was full of playhouse toys. The two elderly were accompanying the two children, the scene looked so warm.
“Amanda,” Loredana called her daughter. Although she was not clingy anymore, she was not as talkative as in the past as well. Hearing that someone was calling her, Amanda Mendelsohn looked toward there. She saw that Boyce was here too, she put down the ‘pot’ in her hand and stopped cooking the dish, she then ran toward there and stood not far away from Boyce.
Seeing Boyce, Amanda recalled the dangerous scene during that time again, she cried loudly all of a sudden.
Everyone was shocked, Loredana went toward her and hugged her, “Mommy is here, don’t scare.”
She patted lightly on her daughter’s back, but this tugged at her heartstrings.
Amanda was crying non-stop, no one could coax her.
Loredana kept on helping Amanda to wipe the tears away, her eyes became red automatically seeing that Amanda was crying so hard, her heart ached for her daughter. She kept on kissing her daughter’s forehead and cheeks, trying to comfort her frightened soul using her love.
Cormac knew that Loredana was so sad, he carried their daughter away from her arms.
He helped his daughter to wipe the tears away using his hand, but Amanda suddenly shouted toward Boyce, “Uncle Shawn.”
They were in danger together during that time, seeing him now made her recall the horror, stimulating the matters that she didn’t want to face, but now the things appeared clearly again in her mind. Boyce walked toward her, stretched his hand patting on her head and comforted her, “The danger had passed already and now we’re fine, Amanda doesn’t have to scare anymore.”
Amanda blinked her eyes, tears dropping down; she sobbed and asked, “Is it true?”
“Yes.” Boyce answered confidently, and then he said, “Amanda is not pretty when crying.”
Amanda lifted her hand and wiped the tears away, but her shoulders were still shaking. She then pointed at Jasmine and asked hoarsely, “Who is she?”
Boyce glanced at Jasmine and said, “She is my girlfriend, I just want to introduce you to her, she is Jasmine Burke.”
Amanda was a bit confused, “Isn’t it that you had introduced your girlfriend before? Why there’s another girlfriend again? Is she the new one?” Boyce was speechless.
Jasmine also felt awkward standing beside them.
The air froze for a while, Loredana told her daughter, “This is the girlfriend that Uncle Shawn likes.”
Amanda blinked her eyes and lied in Cormac’s arms, “Daddy, their relationship is so messy.”
It seemed like Amanda had recovered in a moment, the knot in her heart was untied.
Cormac was gratified; he stretched his hand helping her to wipe the tears away. Amanda had not talked for these few days, he didn’t mention it but he was always worried that this might traumatize her, he didn’t expect that she would recover after seeing Boyce.
If he had known it earlier, he would have asked Boyce to come back earlier.
Loredana introduced Jayden Mendelsohn and Victoria Forbis to Jasmine, “She is Boyce’s girlfriend.”
Jasmine bowed politely, Loredana told her that she didn’t have to be so polite, “Just make yourself at home.”
Jasmine pursed her lips and said, “Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. Boyce is so close with us, you’re welcomed to join us.”
Loredana said smilingly.
Jasmine stared at Loredana, she wondered why Loredana looked so beautiful when she smiled? Some more she was so friendly, she didn’t put on airs and graces even if she was wealthy, Jasmine had taken a shine to Loredana.
Jasmine felt slightly relieved, she was always worried that she might not get along with Loredana well, or Loredana might look down on her when she came.
She didn’t expect that Loredana was so friendly and approachable.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.