The Barrister's Love in Town

“I’m his grandfather. Can’t grandfathers pick up the children?”

Aiden looked at the older man in front of him, pondering with his tiny brain. Then, he

seemed to remember.

The teacher, however, was being very responsible as she took out her phone and got

ready to make a call. “I’ll call Aiden’s mother to ask, then. We cannot allow strangers to

pick up the children.”

“What are you saying, child? How can I be a stranger? I’m the kid’s grandfather. If you

don’t believe me, just ask him.” Dick began to get unreasonable. He absolutely mustn’t let

the teacher call Amanda.

The teacher crouched down, saying in half-doubt, “Aiden, tell me, is this your grandfather?

If you don’t know him, just tell me.”

Aiden stared at his grandfather for a while, then said, “Yes, it’s Grandpa.”

When Dick heard Aiden admitting that he was Aiden’s grandfather, he laughed heartily,

“See? I told you I’m his grandfather. As his grandpa, I can pick him up from school, right?

Let’s go, Aiden.”

With that, Dick carried Aiden in his arms.

The teacher felt that it would be inappropriate to say anything else, but she was still a

little worried, so she dialed Amanda’s number. However, she quickly realized that the call

couldn’t go through.

Dick held Aiden in his arms, elated.

After the kidnapping last time, Dick had always been hiding in the shadows. Now that the

security was getting lax, he made his way back, but he missed his grandson terribly for

some reason.

“What would you like to eat, kid? I’ll take you there. Or do you want to play somewhere?”

Dick never expected that he could be this sort of grandfather. In the past, he never

imagined what he would do if he had a grandson.

Aiden pouted as he thought for a bit. “I want to eat hamburgers. Mommy never lets me

eat hamburgers; she said they’re junk food.”

“All right, let’s get some hamburgers, then.”

At the law firm, Amanda arrived at the law firm after work hours. She did it on purpose

because she didn’t want to run into too many people.

She went straight into Simon’s office. Simon was waiting for her in his office. He had

waited a long time, and he was thinking that she wouldn’t show up after all.

Amanda knocked on the door, but she didn’t get any response from the man within.

She thought that Simon was away. She was about to leave when the door unexpectedly

opened. Simon stood at the door, his eyes bloodshot as if he had stayed up for the entire

night.

“What… happened to you? Did you stay up all night?” Amanda was shocked.

Simon grabbed her and pulled her into the office, then closed the door.

Amanda was stunned as she turned to look.

Simon, however, shouted in anger, “Amanda! Were you messing around with me?! You

said you’d be leaving, and then you turned off your phone. I couldn’t contact you no

matter what I tried, but today you. told me you didn’t leave and you didn’t plan to leave

anymore. I didn’t sleep for an entire night, and I looked everywhere for you, but you-”

“You looked for me for an entire night?” Amanda couldn’t help but interrupt.

“Yes! I looked in all the places I could, but I never found you. Turns out, you never left in

the first place. Am I a joke to you?” Simon was truly furious now. He thought that Amanda

was messing with him on

purpose.

Amanda was stunned.

They were both looking for me.

Elias found her in less than an hour, but Simon spent the entire night looking fruitlessly for

her.

How did it turn out like this?

Could it be that Elias was somehow connected to her, and he could sense that she was at

the airport?

She felt as if this was fate, and she could never run away from it. Am I destined to be

involved with Elias forever?

“I’m talking to you. What are you thinking about?” Simon was even more furious when he

saw Amanda in’ a daze.

Amanda recovered her senses. “Huh? What did you just say?”

“I’m asking you what exactly you are trying to do. Did you want to resign just to get away

from me? Is that why you made up a lie like that?”

It was the only explanation from Simon’s point of view. Amanda wanted to get away from

him, so she came up with an excuse and said she wanted to leave the country. He

wouldn’t have a reason to decline

then..

Amanda couldn’t help but smile. “How can you think that? I was seriously trying to leave

yesterday, but for various reasons, I couldn’t succeed.”

“Why did you want to leave, and why did you stay in the end?”

“Can you not ask me that? I don’t feel like talking about it.” Amanda felt her head aching

from the interrogation.

Just then, her phone rang. It was a call from Selina.

She didn’t want to answer the call, but Simon’s interrogation was suffocating her, so she

chose to answer the call to relieve the heavy weight on her heart.

Amanda had just walked to the side to answer the call when Selina sobbed over the

phone, “Amanda! Someone took Aiden away! When I went to the kindergarten to pick

Aiden up, the teacher said that his grandfather took him home.”

“What?! How can that be?”

Amanda’s face instantly turned pale, and her eyes were as big as saucers. Without waiting

for Selina’s next words, she hung up and turned around to leave.

Simon, however, grabbed her hand. “Where are you going? We’re not done yet!”

“I have something to deal with. We can continue the conversation tomorrow.” Amanda

broke free from the man’s grasp, an anxious look on her face.