"Mommy, what were you doing with Uncle last night?" Mackie asked innocently.
"Ah—uh… we did nothing, dear," Chloe replied as she lied through her teeth. "We fell asleep immediately. We are both exhausted."
"Then why were you screaming last night, Mommy?" Mackie asked.
"Screaming?" Chloe's eyes widened. She wondered how Mackie could hear her scream when she was supposed to be sleeping last night. There was no way that Mackie would wake up because of her because she was in Vernon's room while Mackie was sleeping peacefully in her room downstairs.
"Un," Mackie nodded. "I got thirsty last night, so I went to the kitchen to get some water. But when I went upstairs, I heard that you were screaming, and then calling Uncle's name so many times, and then screamed again."
"I got worried. I thought Uncle is hurting you, Mommy," Mackie said. "But then I believe that Uncle will never hurt you, right? He's not like Daddy…."
Chloe gulped. It seemed that Vernon had closed the door completely before they did it last night. Could it be that she screamed too loudly last night?
'I will make sure to hold my voice next time,' Chloe told herself. "Or maybe I will ask Vernon to set up soundproofing in his room, so we can scream all night without the kids knowing later."
"W—Well, he doesn't hurt me at all," Chloe confirmed that one, ensuring her daughter wouldn't get a wrong view of her Uncle and soon-to-be father. "It's uh… Mommy accidentally tripped and fell on my knee. I screamed because it hurt so much, so I called your Uncle's name so he would wake up to help me."
"Is that so?" Mackie tilted her head.
"Y—Yeah, but Mommy is fine, dear. Your Uncle uh… he helped me last night."
"Okay then!" Mackie quickly let go of her worries. Honestly, Mommy often lied to her to cover up for all the wounds her Daddy had inflicted back when they still lived in the mansion.
But Mackie was convinced that Mommy was alright because there was no wound on her body, and her eyes weren't red and puffy because of crying too!
'Mmm… but why does Mommy's face always look so red when she's sleeping with Uncle?' Mackie wondered. But her mind was soon distracted when Chloe left the bedroom and went to the kitchen to cook breakfast. She was so hungry and couldn't wait to eat breakfast with Mommy and Uncle!
Vernon finally walked out of his bedroom, only wearing boxers, about thirty minutes later, right after Chloe finished making breakfast for them.
She made a full English breakfast for them and added twice the portion for Vernon because he needed to replenish his energy after their vigorous activity last night.
Vernon sat beside Mackie, ruffling the little girl's hair, and said, "Morning, Little Wolf."
Mackie looked up at her Uncle and asked, "Uncle, thank you for taking care of Mommy last night."
Vernon glanced at Chloe. His brow raised as he didn't want to accidentally say the wrong thing to his daughter, "Oh yeah? Do you know what I did to your Mommy last night?"
"Un! I heard Mommy's scream, and then called your name many times before screaming again," Mackie said innocently. "Mommy told me that you helped her last night because she tripped and hurt her knee. So she called your name because she needed help."
Vernon grinned when he heard the explanation from Mackie. He stared at Chloe, and his grin grew even wider, "I definitely patched her up real good last night."
Chloe's cheeks reddened, and she tried to busy herself by eating her fill so that she could ignore these two.
Vernon sat while drinking a hot morning coffee right after finishing his breakfast. He sat right next to Mackie on the sofa in the living room, watching Spongebob Squarepants together just like usual.
They laughed each time there was a funny scene, and after the show ended, Mackie asked, "Uncle, do you know that my cafeteria is all yellow? The table, chair, and even the food tray is yellow! It's so cute!"
"Oh? So that makes you happy?"
"Of course!" Mackie nodded. "If only Aaron was in the same school as me, I'd be happy to show him the cafeteria. Because he also loves yellow!"
Vernon smiled and patted Mackie's head, "Sure, let me enroll him in your school later. But you must promise that you will keep your grade, or else I will send Aaron to another school instead."
Mackie's face changed from excited to terrified instantly. She shook her head as she didn't want Aaron to be enrolled in another school and would get himself bullied again, "I promise that I will be good! I will be the best in the class, don't worry!"
Chloe chuckled.
Mackie was exceptionally smart because Chloe was basically her private tutor ever since she was in kindergarten.
So Mackie was already at least one step smarter than the rest of the class. Even at such a young age, she already knew how to multiply up to one hundred because Chloe taught her patiently.
And also, because Mackie had a good gene.
Chloe remembered about Vernon when she first helped Vernon to do his homework when he was Mackie's age.
Vincent and everyone in the mansion complained, saying that Vernon was too stupid. He couldn't even do simple addition and subtraction.
But when Chloe tried to help him, she soon realized Vernon was not stupid.
In fact, he was very smart for his age despite not being taught by any tutor.
He could do addition, subtraction, and even multiply up to one hundred.
He could also read and write well and could spell many difficult words, which is everything that Mackie could do right now.
The only reason why he didn't do any of his homework was because he didn't feel like it. Though, based on his words back then, it seemed that it was more because of Vincent.
Chloe realized that Vincent had a sense of hostility and rivalry with his little brother, so whenever Vernon did well in school, Vincent's mood would turn sour.
'I guess he doesn't want to be seen as a threat by his big brother, that's why he doesn't try to look excellent,' Chloe theorized.
Vernon looked at Chloe, who brought them a cake from yesterday as a dessert, and then asked, "The rest of the boys should be of age for kindergarten and preschool, right?"
"Mhm," Chloe nodded. "But they weren't put in any of those. You know—" Chloe glanced at Mackie, not wanting her daughter to know about Chelsea's horrible behavior.
Chelsea had the money to put her kids to preschool and kindergarten because Chloe always said that she would definitely help if it were for the children's education.
Chelsea took the money from her, yet she didn't enroll any of her sons in kindergarten or preschool.
"Then I will enroll them as well, they need a proper education, so they won't be left behind when they enter primary school."
Chloe couldn't believe that Vernon would be so kind to take the initiative to enroll the boys without her begging. It seemed that he was in such a good mood today, and she had a guess of what made him so happy.
'Don't tell me he is in such a crazy good mood just because we had sex last night?' Chloe wondered. I mean, I allowed him to fuck me last night because he deserved it, and I'm not satisfied getting fingered each time. I want the real thing too.'
'But if simple sex actually puts him in such an amazing mood, then I guess I should let him do it often,' Chloe thought. 'Men are such simple creatures. But how come Vincent and Vernon are so different?'
Vernon got up from the sofa and said, "Alright, I'll have to get up and prepare myself to work. I have a lot to do today."
"Ah? You're working today?" Chloe asked. "But it's just a day after Christmas, you should get more rest!"
"Well, there are lots to do," Vernon replied. "I have a lot of trade deals, mostly export and import. The advertisement branch is also busy because there are a lot of ad deals during Christmas and New Year."
"Then let me pack your lunch. I will ask the—the driver to send it to you," Chloe almost mentioned Meyer, the driver's name. But she remembered how strict Vernon was with the man around her and how easily he got jealous.
He wouldn't do anything to her, but he would probably give Meyer a hell or even fire him because Meyer dared to give his name to her.
Chloe didn't want to fire a hard-working, honest man. So she had learned how not to press Vernon's red button and what to do to comfort him in case she accidentally made him jealous or mad so that they could live in peace and harmony.
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