Chapter 217: Chapter 213: You and him, was it… a one- night stand?
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Richelle’s smile was becoming harder to maintain, as she didn’t know how to answer the question in front of Timothy and Tifanny’s father.
Moreover, she thought her actions and responses had already shown him that she was, in fact, moved by him.
“Roy Lewis, are you drunk?”
Richelle leaned on the table and got up, her body leaning forward towards him.
Roy cooperatively held the cup right under her nose, shaking his head in denial.
“I value my life too much to drink alcohol.”
Especially now, he valued his life even more than before.
Richelle slightly furrowed her brows, sat back down in the chair, and stared at him.
“But this kind of question doesn’t seem like something you’d ask.”
Roy raised his eyebrows and assumed a posture of all ears.
“Then what do you think I should ask to sound like myself?”
Richelle didn’t know.
To her, Roy’s composed demeanor and his usual air of confidence in dealing with any situation made his previous display of vulnerability and insecurity seem as though it came from someone else.
That’s why she had thought he was drunk.
“I always feel that you should be more confident, more self-assured…”
Roy calmly looked at her, his seemingly tranquil eyes hiding turbulent emotions underneath.
He took a sip from his cup and hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“To tell you that I have a hundred percent confidence and certainty in you would be lying to you and to myself.”
Richelle’s heart clenched painfully. It turned out that even the proudest person couldn’t keep complete confidence and trust in love.
His admission made her feel like a heartless, manipulative woman.
Richelle, feeling remorseful, raised her cup and clinked it with his.
“Then I can tell you that you can have more self-confidence and trust.”
Roy’s eyes narrowed as he gazed at her, a storm seemingly brewing in the depths of his dark pupils.
“Richelle, what kind of person is he, that you don’t even want to mention him?”
Richelle couldn’t help but feel troubled. Would the topic of the children’s father remain unavoidable?
She wanted to bluff her way through with some random story, but when she considered Roy’s memory, she knew he wouldn’t forget her blabbering in the near future. After thinking it over, she decided to reveal only a part of the truth vaguely.
“Actually, Timothy and Tifanny were…an accident…”
And the other half of that accident was none other than you.
Roy looked at her incredulously. “An accident? If I understand correctly, you and he had a…one-night stand?”
This interpretation wasn’t wrong either.
Richelle nodded her head helplessly. “You can say that…”
Roy frowned, “And what happened afterwards? That bastard didn’t want to take responsibility?”
He didn’t know whether to be angry or happy.
Angry, because such an excellent woman like Richelle was not cherished by that bastard!
Happy, because that bastard’s lack of appreciation had given him a chance to sit face to face with her today.
Richelle’s heart grew increasingly restless, wondering if Roy would want to kill her in the future when he recalled today’s conversation!
“It’s not that he didn’t want to, I guess…I actually don’t know who he is…”
What Richelle Dunn said was true, her knowledge of that man before she saw Timmy was only that he was physically strong and had a great body; other than that, she knew nothing.
It was only when Roy Lewis asked about this that he realized the so-called “ex-husband” he had been secretly competing with and pretending not to be jealous of was actually someone he didn’t even know the name of.
“So, you’re saying that there was no marriage or divorce?”
Richelle covered her forehead with her hand and nodded, smiling awkwardly.
“At that time, I wasn’t close to you, Mr. Lewis, and when you asked me that way, I couldn’t say that I had a child out of wedlock, so I had to go along with your assumption.”
Roy Lewis could understand this point.
Compared to explaining to others that she had a child out of wedlock, it was more acceptable to say that she was married and divorced, including to Timothy and Tiffany.
“So Timothy and Tiffany don’t know who their father is?”
Before meeting Roy Lewis, that was indeed the case.
“Right, before that, there was never a father figure in their lives.”
Richelle had never deliberately hidden the fact that she was a single mother from anyone.
Even with Roy Lewis, she hadn’t intentionally directed him towards the marriage and divorce assumption, but since he had misunderstood, and they had a shallow relationship, she was too lazy to correct and explain.
Originally, Roy Lewis’s eyebrows were furrowed, but upon hearing Richelle’s words, they gradually relaxed, and his lips couldn’t help but curl up slightly.
Did that mean that he wasn’t taking someone else’s place, but rather, was a direct father figure in Timothy and Tiffany’s eyes?
But soon, he remembered that those two little ones seemed to have godparents as well.
A bucket of cold water extinguished the happiness in Roy Lewis’s heart, but he still wanted some affirmation from Richelle.
“So, is Timothy and Tiffany’s relationship with their godfather, and with me, the same?”
Roy Lewis had always felt that he was a unique existence.
He always thought that he was the strongest in whatever he did, so he never deigned to compare himself with others.
Because he had absolute strength, he had absolute confidence, and there was no need to compare!
But he never expected that one day, he would care whether he was more important than others in the hearts of two little kids.
Richelle also hadn’t expected that after mentioning the godparents matter to Roy Lewis only once or twice, he would still remember it.
“It’s not the same, you and their godfather are different…”
Of course it was different. A godfather could be this person or that person, but a biological father was unique, irreplaceable, and unchangeable.
But Roy Lewis didn’t know that he was that irreplaceable biological father, and hearing Richelle say it was not the same, his heart immediately cooled.
When Richelle uttered those words, she was startled herself and quickly looked at Roy Lewis, only to see that the usually calm man actually had a hint of disappointment on his face?
Soon, she realized that Roy Lewis must have misunderstood her meaning.
“Of course it’s not the same, their godparents are still children themselves and treat Timothy and Tiffany like playmates, with no trace of being an elder.”
“But you are different; you treat Timothy and Tiffany the same as you do Timmy, without any bias.”
This was what Richelle admired most about Roy Lewis.
She asked herself, if Timmy was not her biological son but she and Roy Lewis were lovers, would she really be able to treat the three children equally?
The disappointment on Roy Lewis’s face instantly turned into joy.
“So, you’re saying their feelings for me are the same as Timmy’s feelings for me?”
Richelle suddenly felt a bit sad and more guilty for Roy Lewis.
At least she, as a mother, could openly interact and give even though she couldn’t officially acknowledge her mother-son relationship with Timmy. But Roy Lewis didn’t even know that the children who were always playing under his nose were his own.
Even though, he had long regarded them as his own!
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