Chapter 615 Just Unhappy
Clayton and Xavian exchanged glances in disbelief.
They had assumed that only someone similar to their mommy would be able to give birth to Franklin and Sophia. Therefore, they found it incredulous that it turned out to be Yara.
“Franklin and I prefer our mommy to be Natalie instead. After all, they’re both Nichols.” Clenching her fists, Sophia declared with conviction, “I don’t like her. I only like Natalie.”
“Sophia, don’t cry.” Franklin quickly helped her wipe her tears with a tissue. “Luckily Daddy has taste. We might not be able to choose our birth mother, but our future mommy will be chosen by Daddy!”
Taking into account that all four of their birthdays fell on the same day and Yara was Natalie’s identical twin, Clayton and Xavian knew there was more to the matter than met the eye. Nevertheless, they said nothing further.
As for their dinner, it simply felt tasteless with Yara’s presence.
When it was finally over, Jefford brought out a bowl of black traditional medicine.
Yara served it to Kenneth and suggested attentively, “It’s hot, so please be careful not to scald yourself.”
“Leave it by the side. I’ll drink it later.” Kenneth nodded.
As Sophia was sitting closest to him, she smelled the medicine by reflex.
Recently, Natalie had been teaching her how to recognize herbs and their effects. To help her remember how the herbs look and smell, Natalie would show her pictures and also attempted to get the actual herb so that she could see them up close. Consequently, Sophia developed a keen sense of smell with time.
The moment she caught the scent of the medicine, she couldn’t help but furrow her brows.
Somehow, she could sense that there was something wrong with it but couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
When it finally cooled down, Kenneth finished it without suspecting anything.
As it was getting late, a driver came to pick the children up for home.
“Great-grandpa, bye-bye!”
As he watched the children wave at him, Kenneth couldn’t help but feel sad to see them go.
“Bye!” He bid them farewell reluctantly.
When Yara wanted to chat with Kenneth, he had utterly no interest in doing so. After all, he no longer liked her as before.
“I’m tired.” He made an excuse so that she would leave.
Having grasped the meaning behind his words, Yara knowingly replied despite her displeasure, “All right, Grandpa. Please take care of yourself.”
“Mm-hmm.”
When they arrived back home, the first thing Franklin and Sophia did was to herd Clayton and Xavian into their room.
“What is it?” The brothers were stunned.
“Please!” Sophia threaded her fingers together as if she was begging them. “Can you not tell Mommy that Yara is our birth mother?”
“Erm…”
Sighing, Franklin added, “She has always been using it as an excuse to force Daddy to marry her. As Sophia and I found it disgraceful, we decided not to tell you about it.”
“It not disgraceful at all.” Xavian patted Franklin on the shoulder and comforted him, “You’re not alone. Our birth father is a gangster who went around intimidating people!”
Clayton nodded in agreement. “Exactly. No one gets to choose their own birth parents. Although we don’t like that woman, we won’t judge you based on what she has done.”
“Nevertheless,” Franklin suggested with a frown, “it would be better if we don’t bring it up. Now that Daddy and Mommy have finally gotten together after overcoming all odds, would Mommy be upset if she finds out that Yara is our birth mother?”
