Chapter 59\u00a0<\/p>\n
She suppressed her racing heart and quickly looked down at\u00a0<\/p>\n
her son.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIce cream\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t have any.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick cut him off bluntly, his eyes full of displeasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That little brat. He\u2019s doing it on purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine was about to say that since they were at the\u00a0<\/p>\n
happiest place on earth, having some ice cream wouldn\u2019t be a\u00a0<\/p>\n
big deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Roderick mentioned that the boy\u2019s stomach wasn\u2019t very\u00a0<\/p>\n
good, and he couldn\u2019t eat too much cold food.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine could only shrug, \u201cWell, I guess there\u2019s no helping it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On this one, Mommy has to side with Daddy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin pouted and crossed his arms, \u201cFine, fine. Daddy and\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mommy are partners in rhyme.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 59\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine: ?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick: \u201cI think he meant to say \u2018partners in crime\u2018.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine: \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
This kid reads too many books, and a bit of everything, I guess.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Considering Roderick\u2019s health, Madeleine planned to do some\u00a0<\/p>\n
gentler activities next to improve their family bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGo, go, go, the next ride is the bumper cars!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine excitedly pulled her son and Roderick\u2019s arms toward\u00a0<\/p>\n
another area, and as she looked around for directions, her gaze\u00a0<\/p>\n
was caught by a vaguely familiar figure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She stopped to get a closer look, but the figure flashed by and\u00a0<\/p>\n
was gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick looked in the direction she was facing, but all he saw\u00a0<\/p>\n
was the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine frowned and shook her head, \u201cIt\u2019s nothing. I must\u00a0<\/p>\n
have been mistaken.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I must have been mistaken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She thought she saw Edward Carroll, how is that possible\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick was still worried, so he looked up a few more times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s go, I must have seen the wrong person. Let\u2019s hurry up\u00a0<\/p>\n
and go play bumper cars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bumper cars only allowed two people per car, so Madeleine\u00a0<\/p>\n
asked Kevin who he wanted to ride with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was a big problem for the little guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He looked very conflicted, his brow furrowed, and he hesitated\u00a0<\/p>\n
for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If he chose Mommy, would Daddy be sad?\u00a0<\/p>\n
After all, Daddy usually doted on him and took such good care\u00a0<\/p>\n
of him, and Daddy had just ridden the roller coaster with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he really wanted to be with Mommy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin\u2019s brow was knitted into a tight knot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a moment, he suddenly said something surprising: \u201cDaddy\u00a0<\/p>\n
and Mommy can ride together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 59\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine looked confused and instinctively glanced at\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick, wanting to see if he knew what the little guy was\u00a0<\/p>\n
thinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roderick raised an eyebrow, guessing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Could it be that his son knew he had just interrupted them and\u00a0<\/p>\n
was intentionally creating an opportunity for him?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine bent down and asked, \u201cWhat about you, then?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Little kids can\u2019t play by themselves, you know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen\u2026 then I won\u2019t play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine tilted her head, seeing his dilemma.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKev, is it that you don\u2019t know whether to choose Daddy or\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mommy?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After hearing that, Roderick\u2019s gaze fell on Madeleine. He hadn\u2019t\u00a0<\/p>\n
even thought of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeing his son nod seriously, Roderick felt a complicated\u00a0<\/p>\n
emotion he couldn\u2019t quite name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 59\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the past few years, because of the absence of Madeleine\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n
motherly love, Roderick had been especially concerned with his\u00a0<\/p>\n
child\u2019s development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even though his work was demanding, he always made time to\u00a0<\/p>\n
be with and take care of his son. He considered himself a good\u00a0<\/p>\n
father\u2013attentive and understanding of his child\u2019s emotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But sometimes, he had to admit that a child still needed to\u00a0<\/p>\n
connect with their mother. After all, it was a bond of blood and\u00a0<\/p>\n
emotion maintained through the umbilical cord, something that\u00a0<\/p>\n
even he, the biological father, couldn\u2019t replace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Madeleine learned the reason, she smiled reassuringly\u00a0<\/p>\n
and promised her son she would ride with him twice: once with\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daddy, and once with Mommy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With that, a smile finally appeared on the little guy\u2019s face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After two rounds, Kevin still wanted more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just then, Roderick needed to handle some work messages, so\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madeleine told him to go sit aside and deal with them while she planned to take their son for another round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At that moment, a mother and son walked up behind Madeleine\u00a0<\/p>\n
in the line. They were dressed expensively, and you could tell at\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 59\u00a0<\/p>\n
a glance that they were wealthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The little boy wasn\u2019t tall, with a chubby face, and his eyes, which\u00a0<\/p>\n
were either squinting or too puffy to open wide, darted around.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suddenly, he noticed Kevin in front of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tugged on the hand of the woman beside him. \u201cMom, that\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n
a former classmate of mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA classmate?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman glanced over disdainfully and said, looking down,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSon, you\u2019re about to go abroad. We shouldn\u2019t associate with\u00a0<\/p>\n
those classmates from here anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The boy said, \u201cOh,\u201d then pouted and said, \u201cBut he used to bully\u00a0<\/p>\n
me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s voice immediately sharpened, and she stared down at her child with wide eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 60\u00a0<\/p>\n
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