You Looked Down on Me Once Now You Look Up (Patricia and Oliver) novel Chapter 915

He ended the call.

“Come eat.”

Atticus was still fuming. “I’m not hungry.”

“Whatever’s going on with the kids is their business. Don’t punish yourself over it.”

“I worked this hard to get where I am, and now I can’t even handle my own daughter’s problems? What was the point of it all?”

Maggie shot him a look, clearly annoyed. “You’re only human, not some god. Even gods can’t keep their eyes on everyone all the time. You know exactly how stubborn your daughter is. Don’t get mad at her.”

She lifted the lid off the soup. “It’s mushroom and pork rib soup. Drink it while it’s hot.”

Atticus was annoyed, but with his wife standing there holding his dinner, he knew better than to take it out on her.

“If she were still a kid, I’d let it slide. But she’s already an adult.”

“Our children will find their own way.”

He scooped up some soup, grumbling, “If I didn’t have kids, maybe then I’d get to enjoy life without all this stress.”

In the kitchen, Grandma noticed Maggie heading into the study and quietly filled a bowl with soup, then made her way to the little prayer nook.

Chelsea had bunched up the prayer cushions into a makeshift mat and sprawled out on top of them, totally defeated.

The moment she heard footsteps at the door, she shot upright, kneeling in one quick motion, pure reflex.

“It’s just me. Your mom’s keeping your dad busy.”

“My sweet girl, here, have some soup. You have to eat. Skipping meals won’t solve anything.”

“Grandma, you have to live forever, okay? If you’re not around, I’m doomed. I’ll probably be starved to death by them,” Chelsea sniffled, grabbing the bowl and slurping down the soup, tears running down her face.

“I can’t believe I’m almost thirty and still getting punished by kneeling in the family shrine with no dinner.”

So unfair. Seriously, just tragic.

“Don’t say things like that. Let me take the bowl back. Quick, wipe your mouth before your dad comes down here and lays into you.”

Chelsea wiped her mouth in a panic.

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