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Chapter 381
Karl was also a little thirsty, reached out his hand to take the water glass, and took a sip of it naturally.
Lifting his eyes, he saw Alyssa’s expression that he wanted to say but stopped. He looked down at the water glass, as if taking a deep breath, and then asked Grace aloud, “Where is the water?”
Grace pointed to the bathroom with a naive expression: “There is a lot of water there, dad, do you still drink it?”
On weekdays, Grace was like a little princess at home, and the servants circled her. How did she know what water she could drink and what water she could not drink.
Karl pressed the corners of his lips, and said with a deep expression, “You can’t pick up water from there in the future?”
Grace curled her lips: “Why? The pretty sister said it is tasty.”
Only then did Alyssa remember that Grace also used this water cup to receive water from her to drink…
Then isn’t she and Karl equivalent to…indirect k!ssing?
don’t know if Karl thought about the same problem as her, he glanced at her for unknown reasons.
Alyssa hurriedly turned her head and said, “Um…my fiance should be back soon. I will wait for him first.”
After she finished speaking, she hurried out.
What she didn’t know was that when she spoke, Karl’s eyes kept falling on her lips.
…
Alyssa walked out of Karl’s house and leaned up against the wall and let out a long sigh of relief.
Why is standing in front of Karl so nervous.
Didn’t he just drink from the same cup?
Why does she feel that her heart is about to jump out.
Normally, she doesn’t feel like this when she get along with Clifford day and night.
Besides, how could a man like Karl who had a terribly cold personality and an illegitimate daughter be better than Clifford?
After a while, Alyssa calmed down and saw Clifford come out of the elevator.
When Clifford saw her, he strode over, and asked with concern: “Where did you go? I just came home and saw your phone and keys are there, so I went to the convenience store and asked.”
Clifford and Alyssa are both outstanding-looking people, and they are in pairs in the community. The owner of the convenience store at the entrance of the community already knows them.
Alyssa thought of the water cup, and with some guilty conscience, she turned her eyes away: “Forgot to bring the key, just at the neighbor’s house.”
Clifford raised the corners of his lips and smiled: “So careless? It seems you really can’t do without me.”
At this time, the next door opened.
Alyssa and Clifford turned their heads together, and saw Clifford standing in the hallway wearing black home clothes.
Clifford, who was about to reach out to hold Alyssa, paused: “Mr. Adams.”
“It turns out that Mr. Adams is our new neighbor.”
She didn’t know if it was Alyssa’s illusion, she felt that Clifford’s tone was not surprised, but there was a meaning that she had expected long ago.
Karl hugged his arms there, his tone indifferent: “I didn’t expect to be your neighbor, it was very unexpected.”
“I hope we can get together when we have a chance. We have to go home for dinner first.” Clifford said, smiled softly at Alyssa, and took her hand.
Alyssa curled her fingers, and Clifford could only clasp the back of her hand.
This is a physical rejection. Every time Clifford comes into contact with her, her limbs will naturally produce rejection.
In the past, Clifford would be very gentleman like, letting go.
But this time, he seemed to be deliberately fighting, not only did he not let go of Alyssa’s hand, but instead held it tighter.
Karl swept the hands held by the two of them together, an inexplicable emotion flashed in his ink eyes, and said, “It’s such a coincidence, we didn’t eat either.”
Alyssa asked in surprise: “Have you eaten so late?”
It’s almost nine o’clock, and they haven’t even had dinner yet.
Karl is fine as an adult man, how could Grace be, she is so young.
“Yeah.” Karl replied faintly, with no trace of lying at all.
“Don’t you want to come and eat together? I made several dishes.”
Only after Alyssa’s words fell, Karl said, “Okay.”
His tone did not change, but because he answered too quickly, it made people feel impatient.
After Karl finished speaking, he turned his head and shouted into the room: “Grace, let’s have dinner.”
Grace ran over with her slippers, “Didn’t you have it?”
Karl took her hand and said naturally, “That’s lunch.”
“But, Uncle Smith said before…” Grace wanted to argue with him, but Karl interrupted her: “Uncle Dixon and Aunt Alyssa invited us to dinner, what are you going to say?”
Grace said obediently: “Thank you Uncle Dixon, Alyssa A…aunt…”
When talking about “Aunt Alyssa”, she obviously hesitated.
All the good-looking ones are sisters, how can they be called aunts?
She looked at Karl and Alyssa again, her expression blank.
…
Karl took Grace and went to Clifford’s house to have a meal.
When Alyssa was serving food, Clifford went to get the bowl.
Children love to join in the fun, and Grace is also clamoring to help with the bowl.
Clifford handed the chopsticks to Grace: “Will you help me get the chopsticks?”
“Okay.” Grace smiled so that her eyes were bent into crescents, and placed the chopsticks on the dining table.
Clifford came over and touched her head: “Awesome.”
Grace smiled at him, walked to the side of Karl, climbed onto a chair and sat down.
Alyssa had no children’s dining chair at home, so Grace had to sit on a chair.
Grace was crawling staggering, and Karl helped her, and then asked, “What did I say to you yesterday?”
“What are you talking about?” Karl had said a lot to her, how could she remember so much as a child.
Karl reminded her: “Can’t talk to Aunt.”
Grace nodded like a chicken pecking rice: “Remember.”
“For the same reason, you can’t talk to Uncle.” When Karl said this, he glanced at Clifford.
The eyes of the two collided, and each did not give way.
Alyssa came out with food, just in time to hear Karl’s words.
She keenly felt that the atmosphere on the table was abnormal.
The two men still stared at each other, their eyes were not very friendly, and the hostility between them was so obvious that Alyssa couldn’t ignore it.
She glanced at Grace and saw that Grace was playing with her chopsticks before she said aloud, “You can eat.”
As soon as she spoke, the two men seemed to have made an appointment and looked away at the same time.
Clifford added food to Alyssa: “Eat more, you won’t have to wait until this late to eat in the future.”
“I don’t have any appetite to eat alone anyway.” Alyssa spoke while serving Grace.
Karl glanced at the two people opposite with an unpredictable expression, without moving his chopsticks.
Grace turned her head very int!mately and asked him, “Dad, what do you want to eat?”
Chapter 382
Karl leaned on the chair and said in a calm tone, “Don’t worry about me, you eat your own.”
Grace pierced him mercilessly: “But you seem to be angry…”
As she said, she picked up the ribs from her dinner plate and brought it to her mouth.
The ribs were given to her just now.
It was not convenient for Grace to use chopsticks to chew, so she just started directly, chewing mouth full.
Karl glanced at her and stretched out his hand to roll up her sleeves.
Grace took the half-eaten ribs and handed it to Karl, looking reluctant: “The meat is delicious.”
Karl didn’t speak, just turned his head away and silently refused.
Seeing that he didn’t eat, Grace immediately took it back, and said vaguely, “Let pretty sister give you a piece.”
The word “Auntie” in the middle was directly omitted by her.
Karl corrected her: “Auntie.”
Grace Congshan Ruliu: “Pretty auntie.”
Watching the interaction between the two father and daughter, Alyssa raised her lips unconsciously.
Although Karl was not careful enough, he was taking care of Grace very seriously.
However, Grace is really a face-savvy baby, and she cannot be called without the word “beautiful”.
After Grace finished eating the ribs on her hand, she sucked her fingers and looked at Alyssa, with an innocent expression: “Pretty aunty, give me some meat for my father.”
The scene was a bit awkward for a while.
Alyssa would not think that Karl was a person who would let others pick things up for him.
It may be that the sense of distance in identity is too strong. Alyssa feels that it is weird that she is sitting with Karl for dinner now, let alone picking up food for him.
“What kind of food your father wants to eat, he will pick it up, you…”
Alyssa wanted to speak out to ease the embarrassing atmosphere, but she didn’t expect Karl to suddenly say: “Grace, I want to eat spare ribs.”
Although his words were addressed to Grace, Alyssa felt that he was targeting her.
The atmosphere is even stranger.
“Huh?” Grace looked at her oily hands and looked helpless: “Dirty.”
Clifford suddenly said, “Mr. Adams and little lady have a very good relationship. Presumably, you must love the child’s mother very much.”
A thick haze appeared in Karl’s eyes, and he sneered and said, “The relationship between Mr. Dixon and Ms. Alyssa doesn’t seem to be very good.”
Clifford’s expression remained unchanged, but he didn’t mean to back down: “I don’t see it, Mr. Adams has a nosy hobby.”
Karl raised his eyes, Alyssa’s eyes were dark: “It’s better than Mr. Dixon to be nosy.”
Clifford took a deep breath and smiled with anger: “Mr. Adams said that.”
Karl ignored Clifford and turned to look at Grace. Although there was no obvious change in his tone, his voice became lighter: “Are you full?”
Grace also sensed something wrong with the atmosphere, and nodded with her eyes wide open: “I’m full.”
“Then go back.” Karl reached out and hugged her, turned her head to look at Clifford and Alyssa: “Thank you for the hospitality.”
After watching Karl go out, Alyssa asked Clifford inexplicably, “What happened to you and Mr. Adams? There was a festival before?”
When Karl walked in, the two men looked quite normal.
She just went into the kitchen to serve a few dishes, why is it so?
Moreover, she had never seen Clifford speaking with someone so sharply, and he was obviously angry.
Clifford curled his lips and smiled: “It’s okay, let’s eat.”
Alyssa could see that Clifford didn’t want to delve into this topic.
The more he was like this, the more Alyssa felt that Clifford might have known Karl before, or had a feast with Karl because of something.
He didn’t want to say, she wouldn’t ask more.
Her eyes fell on Grace’s dinner plate, where there was only one leftover ribs.
Karl said before that they didn’t eat dinner.
Karl definitely doesn’t know how to cook. She has been to their house before, and it seems that there is no servant to help them cook.
The night is so long, Grace can’t eat anything.
How about waiting for her to send them something?
No, if that happens, Clifford will be angry.
Even if Clifford didn’t show it, he would definitely feel uncomfortable.
At this time, she should be on Clifford’s side.
“Why don’t you eat it?”
Clifford’s voice brought back Alyssa’s thoughts.
“I’ll go to the bathroom.” Alyssa stood up, picked up the mobile phone on the dining table and put it in his pocket.
Clifford noticed her little movement, but said nothing.
Alyssa took the phone and went to the bathroom, and after locking the door, she clicked on a takeaway software.
People like Karl must have never ordered takeaways by themselves. Maybe they don’t even know what a takeaway is.
She found a relatively high-end restaurant, ordered a baby meal and a set meal for adults, and filled in the house number of Karl’s house. This was a long sigh of relief.
Ms. Grace doesn’t need to be hungry anymore.
…
Karl took Grace back to the opposite house.
As soon as he entered the door, Grace was diligent and took out her and Karl’s slippers.
There was a word in his mouth: “This is for Kalr, this is for Grace…”
He leaned over and lifted Grace with one hand.
Karl put her on the shoe cabinet and asked her with a serious face, “Do you hate that Uncle Dixon?”
Although don’t know why her father is so serious, Grace put her hands behind her back as a young adult, and shook her head seriously: “Uncle Dixon praised me as great.”
Karl’s face turned dark: “Praise that you are not necessarily a good person.”
Grace blinked at him with big eyes: “What is a good person?”
The father and daughter looked at each other for a while, but they ended up looking at each other because Grace started to doze off.
Karl said frustratedly, “Forget it.”
He gave a bath to Grace, changed her clothes and put on the bed, sitting in the hall alone in a trance.
It was clearly the first time he saw Clifford, why did he hate Clifford so much.
Seeing Clifford and Alyssa sitting together, it was an eyesore.
He originally thought it was Clifford who hated him, but Grace didn’t hate him.
He believed in children’s instincts.
jingle–
The doorbell rang outside.
Karl checked the time, it was past ten o’clock.
Who will come so late?
Since he started taking Grace with his own hands, he felt it was too late after ten o’clock.
He walked over and opened the door.
The takeaway deliveryman handed over a bag of packed food: “Mr. Adams, your takeaway.”
Karl frowned: “I didn’t order it.”
Upon hearing this, the takeaway said, “But this is your address. Maybe your friend ordered it for you?”