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“I... I don't really know how to...”
Avery fumbled with the metal buckle on the belt, looking all flustered.
She wanted to figure out how to buckle the belt, but...
When she stared at his body, she could not help but remember what was underneath his sleeping robe
last night. She was blushing so much that her face was as red as a tomato.
With dry lips, she said, “I don't really know how to do this.”
Then, she gave up and escaped to the kitchen.
Standing in the kitchen, she pressed her back against the cold wall of the kitchen, as if it could relieve
her from the burning sensation on her cheeks.
Avery was furious at herself for being so useless. After looking at a handsome man for so long, she
should have become immune to him. However, she would still blush and her heart would pound rapidly
whenever she saw Cayden's body. It was as if she had been bewitched.
Cayden looked at his unbuckled belt. However, instead of being angry, he was quite happy.
Does this mean that Avery doesn't have any experience in dressing men? Perhaps, she has only
helped me buckle my belt.
Cayden went to the kitchen and stood in front of her.
Avery raised her head and glanced at his eyes briefly before instinctively lowering her head. She did
not dare to look at him.
Cayden did not know how shy a woman could possibly be. Perhaps, men and women were the same—
regardless of how unrestrained he was at night, he would still keep himself in check in the morning.
Sincerely, Cayden looked at her and said, “I'm sorry about last night. I thought you were giving me a
hint when you stayed back.”
Cayden's voice was exceptionally deep and his words made her feel embarrassed.
Avery was only twenty-four years old and was quite young too. Among her other classmates, women
her age were still being pampered at home.
When she had free time during her studies, she would surf the web too. There were discussions about
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇthow some men's voices were so nice that they could melt women.
Avery thought that Cayden's voice had achieved that effect.
In fact, she had thought about what he said for some time too. Thinking that she should clarify things,
she raised her head and looked at him. “It's my fault for making you have those thoughts. I- I didn't stay
behind last night as a hint for you to...”
She chose to sleep on his bed because she thought that Cayden was going to sleep on Rory's bed.
They heard the clanking of cutlery in the dining room.
The two kids sat down and started eating breakfast.
“I understand. Let's go and eat now.” Cayden did not say anything else. Looking at her seriously, he
walked out of the kitchen first.
Avery followed him out too.
There were a few pieces of toast placed in front of Cayden on the dining table. There was also a cup of
hot coffee and a newspaper.
“Ms. Ery, my shoes are spoilt...” Rory raised her head. One of her eyes was bandaged, while the other
was wide open.
She looked hilarious yet pitiful.
Zachary said, “Ask Ms. Ery to take you to buy some new shoes, okay? Daddy's too busy. He needs to
go to work.”
When Avery heard what he said, she nodded. “Okay, I'll take you there.”
Zachary happily took a huge bite of his three slices of bread. While he ate, he even told Avery how
busy Cayden was.
In the past, their great-grandpa would be the one taking him and Rory to buy shoes. However, he
always chose designs that were old-fashioned. In fact, he specifically chose shoes that were brown—
as if they could go straight into war after wearing those.
Sometimes, their grandma would take them too. However, she was very busy and kept having to
receive calls. As a result, she would lose them when she was on the calls.
After that, their housekeeper and driver would accompany them to buy shoes.
It was quite a decent arrangement. Their housekeeper and driver never cared about what kinds of
clothes or shoes they bought, so they could choose whatever they liked.
However, they were not happy with that after some time.
Other children had their parents take them out to do shopping
When Avery heard the kids complain, her heart ached. Sitting on the other side of the table, she could
not help but glance at Cayden, who was silent all along.
Is this how he's been acting as their father for the past five years?
Strictly speaking, he had not done a good job then.
However, rationality returned to Avery and she thought, Cayden has always been so cold. His children
are probably tools for him to squeeze benefits from his family.
Since he had merely used the children to fight for power, he probably did not have a strong bond with
them.
It was not a surprise that a father like him did not have the time and effort to keep his kids company.
On the other end of the table, Cayden continued reading the newspapers attentively and taking a sip of
his coffee occasionally. When he heard Avery's conversation with the kids, he stood up and said, “Let's
watch this play after shopping.”
Avery and the kids stared at him at the same time.
However, he put down his newspapers, got up, and left the dining room.
When he placed the newspapers down, his fingers had evidently jabbed at a section of the page. There
was an advertisement about a particular play that was happening in Ackleton in the afternoon.
“Yay! I really want to watch this play!” When Zachary saw the title of the play, he expressed his
eagerness to go and watch it.
Initially, Avery wanted to reject Cayden's plan. However, when she saw the look of anticipation on
Zachary's face, she changed her mind.
The family finally finished eating breakfast.
After Avery cleaned up and did the dishes, she hid in the room and called Cecelia right before leaving.
“I'm sorry, but I'll have to take leave again today.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmAlthough she kept taking leave during the day, she still stayed up at night to finish the tasks that her
team had assigned her.
Still, it was not good to miss the meetings all the time during the day. At the same time, she was
worried about Cayden, an unqualified father according to them, taking care of Rory whose eyes were
injured.
However, Cecelia said, “Ms. Yantz asked me why you're so lucky. Although you kept taking leave, not
only did you not make the boss angry, but you also always chose the most critical moment to apply for
leave. The boss had just instructed us to leave the project aside. We'll go and check out the site for a
few days before coming back and evaluating it again.”
Avery was speechless.
In other words, even if she went to work, she would have nothing to do.
They would start planning once the staff in charge of the project returned after inspecting the site.
In the meantime, Cecelia and the rest were tying up the loose ends of the previous projects. Since
Avery was new, she could not be part of it.
There was no time for her to familiarize herself with the project details because the loose ends of the
project would have been tied by the time she did that.
...
Soon, they left after breakfast.
The kids sat in the back seats. As there were specially-built child car seats there, there was no space
for Avery. She had no choice but to take the front passenger seat.
Rory's shoes had been spoilt by the neighbor's child. She urgently needed a new pair of shoes to make
her happy again.
Cayden drove straight to the shopping mall two blocks away.
After parking the car in the underground car park, they entered the shopping mall. Cayden carried
Rory, while Avery held Zachary's hand.
Zachary quickly found the shoe shop.
The store assistant was very pretty. She said sweetly, “Little cutie, do you want to wear matching shoes
with your parents? We got some new designs!”
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