My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)
Chapter 2006

When I left the study, I almost knocked into someone who was at the door when I opened the door.

Luckily, I was quick to react, so I just missed him.

"Wynn, why aren't you having your dinner? What are you doing here?" I bent over and whispered to him.

Wynn didn't say anything. His black, grape- like eyes stared straight at Serene. He was very alert.

Serene shook her head and said self-deprecatingly, "It seems that I'll always be an enemy in the eyes of that little fellow."

Only then did I realize that due to the Marshall family, Wynn had to accept the fact that she almost became his step-mother. He held a grudge against her ever since.

I quickly raised my hand to pat Wynn's head and comforted him, "Madam Forbes is my friend, don't be rude."

Wynn knitted his eyebrows tighter. "If she becomes my mother, what will you do? I don't want her, I want you!"

Serene and I looked at each other, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

After a while, she imitated me. She bent down and looked somewhat proud of herself. "Hey, Wynn, I promise you, I will never take your mother's place. A real man should be more generous. Let's bury the hatchet, okay?"

"You're not lying, are you?" Wynn asked defensively.

Serene lifted three fingers up to make a pledge and made a serious face, "I promise."

"OK!" Wynn raised his hand and jumped up to give her a high-five. "We'll make peace now!"

That problem was now finally solved. Aaron then called from downstairs, "The dishes are getting cold. Are you going to eat them or not?"

Hendrix then called out, clearly speaking against Aaron, "If you don't want to eat, then don't. No one's forcing you."

"Don't you have any manners? How can you talk to your brother-in-law like this?"

"I've never seen anyone lecture his sister's husband in front of his niece before."

"Don't make things hard for yourself, Hendrix!"

"I'm not having any trouble with that today."

Serene raised her eyebrows as she listened. "Is this the so-called 'warmth' of a married couple's home?"

Obviously, this 19-year-old CEO, who

had been busy submerging herself

in the business world her entire life, did not understand what was happening at the dining table.

I didn't know how to explain it to her, so I awkwardly twitched the corners of my lips.

Serene gasped and walked quickly towards the door as though someone was chasing after her. She didn't even turn her head around.

"Hey, don't leave in a hurry, stay for dinner..."

Before I finished my sentence, the roar of a car engine indicated that she was already leaving.

Serene would probably never dream of this so-called "warmth" of a family ever again.

I turned around and walked back into the villa. Aaron and Hendrix

were still bickering with each

No one was willing to back off. These were clearly not the

domineering business elites they said they were, but babies that had

yet to graduate from kindergarten!

I was so angry that I stomped on the ground. "Are you two done? Can't we all just have a peaceful meal together?"

The entire living room fell silent. Wynn and Aurelia were so shocked that they didn't dare to move.

Everyone looked at me, which made me uncomfortable.

Aurelia seemed to have gotten the message. She pointed at Aaron and Hendrix and began to tell them off.

"Mommy is angry. Aaron Reid, stop causing trouble!"

"Daddy, be good, don't make mommy unhappy! Don't make me angry too, hmph!"

No one knew where she had learned

to call Aaron by his full name. When she saw that nobody was responding to her, she jumped off the chair and pushed them to their seats.