Chapter 117
After getting off work in the evening, Madeline and Brian went back to the Atkinson family together. In the eyes of others, they were like a marned couple coming home from work.
“Mr. Atkinson, if Jake isn’t crying, could you not ask about Jessica? I’m afraid he’ll think of unpleasant things again.” Madeline hesitated and stopped Brian before he went upstairs, looking worried that Jacob’s crying would affect his appetite for dinner.
“Got it.” Brian had wanted to ask about Jacob, but after thinking about it, he decided to ask when Jacob was in a better mood.
Madeline smiled gently, but Brian didn’t notice the smile she had practiced in front of the mirror many times and turned to go upstairs.
Madeline watched his back as he went upstairs. She deliberately didn’t let Brian ask clearly about Jessica making Jacob cry, so that he would engrave Jessica’s cruelty to Jacob in his heart.
When Brian entered the room, Jacob was doing his homework, pouting, and looking in a bad mood.
Jacob was pleasantly surprised to see Brian come back. “Dad, you’re back.”
Brian felt sorry for Jacob. After Jessica wasn’t at home, he was busy at work, often didn’t have dinner at home, and came back very late. Jacob was already asleep.
“Are there any problems you can’t do?” He walked over and sat down beside Jacob, wanting to get close to him, but couldn’t find a suitable excuse.
When Jessica was there before, she always created opportunities for them to get in touch. Now Brian felt even a bit awkward about hugging Jacob.
“No,” Jacob thought for a while and shook his head. In fact, there were two questions he couldn’t do, but Jessica had always been in charge of teaching
him. Jacob was a bit at a loss in the face of Brian.
Brian and Jacob fell silent, both thinking of the days when Jessica was around.
At this time, Jessica usually prepared the ingredients for dinner and tutored Jacob’s studies, occasionally teaching him some French words.
He had just finished his history homework with Brian’s company, but there were still two math problems he couldn’t do. He didn’t want Brian to know about it, so he planned to solve the problems slowly by himself.
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