"The Hammond group", Irene nodded, "I will keep an eye on it."
After some casual chats with Smith, she hung up the phone.
As soon as she stepped into the living room, she saw Miranda standing with a wry smile and looking at the girl curling in the corner.
"Whats going on?"
She quickened her pace and asked.
"Lucky was not like this last time", Miranda awkwardly scratched her hair and glanced at Lucky, "She was quite enthusiastic to me two months ago".
Irene frowned and looked over, also finding some vigilance she had never seen in her eyes.
"Honey", she squatted and reached her hand, "are you still blaming Mommy for losing you just now?"
Seeing Irenes hand approaching, Eloise instinctively closed her eyes and backed down.
The next moment, she suddenly remembered that it was a wall behind her.
But it was too late.
"Bang!"
Eloise blankly opened her eyes and was surprised to feel no pain.
The next moment, she saw Irene taking back her hand with a red mark on it.
"Mommy will never leave you again".
Instead of checking her painful hand, Irene looked at Lucky and said, "I promise."
In a daze, Eloise mechanically nodded in agreement.
"Thats my girl!" Irene stood up and declared, "As compensation, I will cook your favorite omelet!"
"Yeah!" Will clapped and cheered.
Irene went into the kitchen, and Miranda lay on the sofa.
She took out her mobile phone and showed Will some photos of Irene in childhood, "Lucky is almost an image of your mother."
Eloise curiously approached and caught a glimpse of the photo, and what came into her sight stunned her on the spot.
She was very sure that she had come to such a place in the photo, but the smiling girl in it was no doubt her.
Would there be two strangers look exactly the same in the world?
She did not believe it.
Hearing Mirandas comment, Irene poked her head out of the kitchen with pride, "How can my own daughter does not look like me?"
"Own daughter?"
Eloise held her breath for a moment, and something called hope began to emerge in her eyes.
Her father does not allow anyone to mention her mother in front of her, but she really wants to have a mommy like her peers.
Was this pretty aunt indeed her mommy?
"What my honey is thinking?" Irene dotingly walked out of the kitchen and kissed the little girls chubby cheek, "The omelet is ready."
"Honey?"
Eloise shyly drooped her head.
No one has called her like this except her father.
Oh, she almost forgot someone-the woman who tangled with her daddy.
When there is someone with them, she would call her baby and honey.
But when they were alone, she would call her little bastard.
"Since you are going to work, how about the two kids?" Miranda gulped the omelet and asked.
"Education is the most important, so I must find them the best kindergarten here", Irene wanted to feed Lucky the omelet, but she zipped her lips and refused to take it.
"Speaking of the kindergarten, the Royal Garden is no doubt the best one", Miranda introduced, "But as its name suggests, it charges very high and the kids there are all from noble families."
"The money is not a problem", Irene answered and gently put the girl in her arms aside.
Since she did not like the omelet, she had to cook something else.
"As for the kids", she walked to the kitchen yet did not stop chatting with Miranda, "I have confidence in my boy and girl."
"You have really grown up a lot", Miranda sighed with incredibility, "I am still a reckless girl like you before, but you have become a qualified mother."
"This is fate", Irene smiled and cooked a seafood soup.
It is the best appetizer she could think of.
Seeing the soup, Eloise hesitated for a while but still kept her mouth shut.
Because her father had told her not to eat food from others.
"Is there anything wrong with Lucky?"
Miranda frowned with worry, "Maybe we should take her to the hospital."
Hearing the word hospital, Eloise hastily shook her head.
That woman around his father said that only a fool needs to go to the hospital.
She is not a fool!
"Lucky might still be sad", Irene blinked her eyes with guilt, "Do you want to try some cupcakes?"
Having no idea about how to respond, Eloise chose to remain silent.
Instead of getting angry, Irene turned around and went into the kitchen again.
When she walked out with the smell of cupcakes, Eloise finally could not control herself.
"Not eating food is bad for your health", Irene patiently coaxed her, "Can you just take a cupcake for the sake of Mommy?"
Eloise glanced around.
Miranda had left because of something urgent in her company, while Will was washing cups and dishes in the kitchen.
There was nobody aside, why does this aunt still have the patience?
If she were that woman beside her father, she would certainly scold her.
Meeting Irenes sincere eyes, Eloise finally made a difficult decision and took a bite of the cupcake.
Its delicious!
However, she did not dare to continue.
That woman sent her some similar cupcakes last time, but she felt very bad and vomited all night long.
When she was about to put back the cupcake, Will dashed to the table and stuffed a whole cake into his mouth.
"Will!" Irene pinched his ear with sulk, "This will choke you!"
"Thats not possible!" Will triumphantly swallowed it down and raised his eyebrows, "I am the chosen one!"
"Whether you are chosen or not!" Irene stared at Will, "The rest of the cakes are all Luckys!"
"Of course! I am not a glutton!" Will mumbled and retorted.
The warm atmosphere melt the vigilance in Eloises eyes, and she happily took another cupcake.
This aunt is so gentle.
It seems not bad to have a mommy like her!
At the same time in a high-end villa, William irritably rubbed his temple.
He has been haunted by a question since the afternoon.
That is...
Was the chirping girl really his daughter?