Chapter 345 Made Nathaniel Come Personally
The bodyguard quickened his pace and dragged the principal out. Only then did the noise finally die
down.
When Christina came to her senses, she noticed that Nathaniel’s hand was still on her waist. Blushing, she jumped away like a little rabbit.
Without waiting for him to speak, she turned around and walked into the house.
Lucas and Camila had already changed into clean clothes, their innocent and cute faces filled with joy. “Mommy, can you take us out to play tomorrow?” asked Camila in a soft and adorable voice.
Lucas agreed from the side, “We’re kids! We naturally like to run around and explore new things. It wouldn’t be good to confine us like this, right?”
After the incident, Christina scolded them for sneaking out and punished them by grounding them in
Scenic Garden Manor.
“I’ve chosen a new kindergarten. You’ll start school tomorrow. Without any hesitation, Christina punctured the children’s hopes of going out to play.
She brought the two of them to the study, turned on the computer, and logged into the kindergarten’s website.
The form teacher had contacted her earlier, informing her that each new student had to log in to the website and fill in their details.
The two kids stood at the side and watched their mother fill in the information. The last section was to upload a photo.
Christina connected her phone to the computer’s Bluetooth. She had close-up photos of the kids in her photo album.
There was also an option to choose if they were a single-parent family. If they were, they would just need to upload a photo of the guardian. Otherwise, a photo of the child’s parents would be required.
Since it was a regular kindergarten, most parents came to pick up their children. The photos helped the teachers recognize each parent’s appearance to avoid any confusion during drop-offs and pick-ups.
Without any hesitation, Christina ticked the option for the single-parent family.
“But we aren’t a single-parent family, Mommy!” Camila’s face scrunched up in an aggrieved look when she saw Christina’s choice.
Christina smiled awkwardly. “What does it matter? We’ve always chosen that option.”
The key issue was that she did not have a photo of Nathaniel, but she did not want to take one with hinr either…
Pouting, Lucas explained to Christina, “That’s different. We thought that we didn’t have a dad previously. Now that we do, we don’t want to be mocked for being fatherless by our new cla*smates!”
They had a particularly strong aversion to that word.
Before Christina could react, Camila dashed out and quickly dragged Nathaniel into the study.
“Daddy, we need your photo to fill in the kindergarten application. Can we have your photo?” Camila clasped her hands together, her watery eyes full of anticipation.
Nathaniel ruffled her hair. “Okay.”
Feeling like she was being pushed into a corner, Christina had no choice but to sit on the couch with Nathaniel. Lucas held her phone and took a picture of them together.
Lucas glanced mischievously at Camila, who immediately understood. “Oh no, the light’s behind you here. Mommy, Daddy, why don’t you sit on the single-seater couch over there where the lighting is better?”
Christina was currently sitting on a double-seater sofa, on which she could maintain some distance between her and Nathaniel.
How can two people fit on a single-seater couch? Doesn’t this mean that we’ll practically be in each other’s lap?
Christina looked up, thinking that the light was indeed a bit glaring.
“Hurry up, Mommy! Sit over there,” urged Lucas softly.
Nathaniel sat on the single-seater couch first. Since he was naturally tall and muscular, he already took up two-thirds of the already cramped space.
“Scoot over!” whispered Christina.
Nathaniel ignored her words. Instead, he directly pulled her wrist and made her sit on his lap.
“This is good enough,” he said.
Christina’s ears felt warm as a feeling of nervousness and anger surfaced within her. However, she could not possibly lose her temper in front of the two children.
With her back pressed against Nathaniel’s chest, she could feel the rhythm of his heartbeat even through their clothes.
Lucas took several photos with her phone. After reviewing them and still feeling dissatisfied, he remarked, “Mommy and Daddy, you’re sitting too far apart. Move closer. Otherwise, the teacher might mistakenly think that both of you are on bad terms.”
Camila walked over and pushed Christina’s head closer to Nathaniel’s. She only felt grisfied after seeing their heads leaning against each other.
“That’s much better.” Camila shot Nathaniel a subtle glance, to which he responded with a wink.
What a thoughtful daughter!
Christina clenched her fists tightly. Hurry up and take the photo!
Lucas aimed the camera at them and pressed the shutter a few times. He then handed the phone to Christina. “Done!”
Christina heaved a sigh of relief, as if a burden had been lifted off her shoulders. She quickly stood up left with her phone to upload the photos. Soon, she completed the kindergarten enrolment procedures
and
for both children.
After breakfast the next morning. Christina planned to take the two children out.
During her time overseas, she had obtained a driver’s license to make it more convenient to travel around.
When Nathaniel came downstairs from the study and saw that the three of them were about to leave, he said. “I’ll send you all there.”
Since he was used to settling urgent documents first thing in the morning, he still had not eaten anything.
“You need to have breakfast, don’t you? Besides, we’re going to be late.” In other words, Christina was implying that she could not wait for him.
Straightening his suit, Nathaniel walked over and picked up Camila’s school bag. “It’s fine. I’ll eat at the
office.”
He bent down slightly and carried the kids. “Besides, it’s the kids’ first day of school. Naturally, I have to send them there personally.”
Since he had not sent them to school before, the kindergarten teachers did not recognize him.
Hence, he would have to make time to send the kids whenever he was free in the future.
That day, Lucas and Camila walked proudly with their heads held high.
Watching the two kids holding the teacher’s hand and entering the kindergarten, Christina felt relieved and headed off to work.
When it was around noon, Christina had already completed most of the dress Karen had commissioned.
After instructing Rayne to invite Karen to the office to try on the dress, she went downstairs to buy coffee.
The owner of the cafe, who had seen her a few times, said with a smile, “Sorry, but the staff from the security department ordered seven cups of coffee. You’ll have to wait a bit.”
Returning a smile, Christina stood at the counter and used her phone to pa*s the time.
The security guards were wearing navy uniforms. As large companies always had the best quality uniforms, they looked extremely smart wearing them.
Probably on their lunch break, they were standing in a circle and laughing.
“Ms. Taggart is really nice. We helped her upgrade the system and turn on the air-conditioning to remove the odor the previous time. It wasn’t much work, but she treated us to coffee for a month.”
“Yeah. Mr. Hadley rushed back in the middle of the night that day. I heard that a colleague was trapped inside the office.”
“I wonder who’s so important that Mr. Hadley personally came back.”
Christina froze in the middle of scrolling through her phone.
Recalling the elevator maintenance the night before, she wondered if the increase in air-conditioning strength was actually not a coincidence. Could it be someone did it on purpose?
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Christina walked over. “Does the Ms. Taggart you all are talking about refer to Madison?”
The security guards recognized her. However, since they were newcomers, they did not know Christina’s true identity.
They only knew that she had exceptional privileges and that Nathaniel had deliberately cleared a floor for her to have her office there.
“Yes, it was Madison who treated us to coffee.
