Hugo and the rest of his family shared a quiet dinner. He knew that his mother was curious about what happened to Hailey and yet she chooses to not utter even a single word.
Hugo didn't know what to do. He was stuck between approaching Verda first or he should just stay quiet in the meantime.
'Maybe I should just stay quiet this time. I'm already at the right age,' he tilted his head to the side. He was already finished with his food and was just waiting for Hailey to finish eating too, so he can already wash the dishes.
Before he completely rest, he wanted to check what Hendrix was doing first.
Even Hailey, who was on the end, was feeling the tense atmosphere on the side causing for her to eat a little bit slower.
"I will go rest now," Verda stood up from her chair. She didn't even bother taking a glance at Hugo and just went straight to their room.
Hitano, who has been feeling his wife's sadness, quickly stood up to follow her. He saw how a tear fell on Verda's side as they closed the door.
"What is happening? Why do both you and Hailey out there look so sad?" His forehead furrowed. He didn't have any idea what was the cause of all of this to happen.
Verda stared at Hitano. She was quiet for a few minutes before she felt a warm feeling on her right side. She quickly hugged Hitano and uttered, "Am I a bad mother for becoming angry, even in just a small matter?" She asked unconsciously.
Earlier, when Hugo came back, she had realized that the young boy with whom she gave birth years ago was already grown up.
Right at that moment, she feared that because of it, Hugo would start to forget about his family… or even his own parents.
She had heard about her coworker's story. Where their son would ignore them once they have already gotten married to someone.
She feared that she would be like those women who would grow up alone in the future.
"Why did you ask that?" Hitano was weirded out by his wife's sudden question.
"Well…" Verda was scared to speak out. She was afraid that her husband would say 'yes' to her question. However, Hitano was her other half. She was her partner in life and was her husband.
"I saw Hugo's cabinet when I went to his room. It was left a little bit open, so I tried to open it to fix his clothes…"
Verda reached for Hitanos's hands.
"What did you see?"
"I saw cash… piles of them in our son's room… I estimated it just by its look and I knew that it was over $500,000!" Verda hysterically uttered. "Hugo has been going out a lot lately without even informing us… I'm scared that he is doing something illegal."
Verda shared out her worries. She knew that if there was someone to listen to her worries, then that would be Hitano.
"W-What?" Hitano's eyes widened at what Verda had said.
His jaw fell to the ground. It was as if he lost his ability to speak. "What did you say?"
Verda glared at Hitano. "You looked more shock than me!" she exclaimed, hitting her husband's head lightly.
"So, you are saying that our son has that much money?" Even with his surprised expression, Hitano couldn't help the proudness in his voice that Verda almost wanted to face-palm.
'I am thinking that this is a sad matter and yet you are proud of what you have learned?" Verda scolded her husband.
"What?" Hitano looked confused about why he was scolded.
"I just told you that we don't know where that money came from."
"Oh, right? That is really a problem." Hitano answered, even though the smile on his face hadn't vanished.
Verda took a deep breath. "So, what do you think? Am I a bad mother or getting angry about that?" She asked one more time because it seems like her husband forgot already her initial question.
Hitano shook his head to the side. He cleared his throat first before speaking.
"Of course not. That is your feeling and you should never invalidate that. It was wrong of Hugo to not tell us where he got that money, but it's not his responsibility, too. It was wrong of you to doubt your son as well."
"He's already a grown-up man and we do not have a choice but to ace it. The only thing that we could do now was to wait or him to tell to us. Maybe our son is just finding the right opportunity to inform us about all of what you discovered." Hitano grabbed both of Verda's hands."
"What we just need to do right now was to trust him as his parents." Hitano smiled as he hugged Verda, patting her back.
"I understand…" Verda slowly nodded her head as the sides of her lips slowly rose up.
"Thank you for being with me all the time." She sincerely uttered.
"You are my wife, of course, I would do that." Hitano chuckled.
The two of them spend their time together trying to talk more about the hardship of being a parent when he remembered something that had happened a few weeks ago.
With what he learned from Verda, then is it possible that the money that he found in his wallet when his two co-workers were threatening him was from Hugo?
Now that the question had been raised in his mind, he couldn't help but doubt that it was true.
'Then how did he know that I needed that exact money… or was it pure coincidence?" His forehead creased.
Verda, who noticed that there was something wrong with Hitano, stopped talking. She was eyeing him for a few seconds and notice that he didn't even realize that she had already become quiet.
Verda wiggled his husband's body, trying to knock off his consciousness.
"Why did you become quiet?" She asked worriedly.
Hitano swallowed dryly as he looked at Verda.
"Do you think…"
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Author's Note- I apologize for the lack of author notes these past few chapters. I will slowly bring them back alive like how I make my....
Kidding. It was due to uni that I am dead and is currently dead. I will be giving shout-out again in the next chapter to those who gave Golden tickets and gifts.
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