Chapter 125
After hanging up the call, Ryan picked up Lily, who seemed small but felt heavy in his arms.
“Are you lost, little one? Where are your parents?” Ryan asked.
Lily hugged Ryan’s neck tightly. “My mommy went to the restroom! I saw you as soon as I looked up! Daddy, am I smart? Actually, mommy didn’t want me to come back with her. I insisted on coming to find you, Daddy! Mommy said I don’t have a daddy. She’s lying. I’m no stone!”
Lily was barely four years old, and she spoke without a clear point, jumping from one topic to another. Though her words lacked coherence, Ryan sensed that the child had never seen her father
before.
“Lily!”
Hearing Audrey’s call, Lily turned to wave at Audrey while she was still clinging onto Ryan. “Mommy!
Their eyes met.
Ryan froze, and Audrey was equally stunned.
Four years had passed, and Ryan seemed unchanged, yet somehow different.
His cheeks were thinner, and his features were more deeply defined. There was a sharpness in him that wasn’t there four years ago.
“Ms. Audrey?” Julian glanced at Audrey, who had arrived breathlessly, and then at Ryan, who was holding Lily with a bright smile. His eyes widened.
Before returning home, Audrey had thought about meeting Ryan. But she hadn’t expected it to happen so soon, and certainly not like this.
Audrey hadn’t forgotten Ryan’s confession over the phone four years ago. Nor had she forgotten George’s hope that Ryan would marry one of the Shaw family’s daughters.
Ryan’s fiancee was known as Cecilia to the outside world, and Audrey didn’t want to cause any trouble
for Ryan.
The cafe servant chased after Audrey with her suitcase and apologized. “I’m sorry, miss. The child ran out when I was delivering coffee to another table! I’m really sorry!”
Audrey regained her composure and took the suitcase. She then approached Ryan with a smile. “Long time no see.”
Ryan stared at Audrey, and the corner of his lips
quirked up as well. “Long time indeed.”
“Lily, let me hold you. Don’t trouble…” Audrey struggled with what to call Ryan.
Putting aside Lily’s relationship with Ryan, Audrey was actually considered Ryan’s junior according
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to their external seniority.
Shouldn’t Lily call Ryan grandpa then?
But Audrey found it difficult to address him as that. “Don’t trouble Mr. Lambert!”
Lily had always been a good child. Apart from stubbornly wanting to find her father, she was very
obedient.
Although she was upset after hearing Audrey say that, she obediently reached out her hands to Audrey, regardless.
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“I’ll hold her.” Ryan then turned to the gossipy–faced Lambert Company executives. “You can all ahead. I’ll join you shortly.”
go
“Sir, should I have the driver wait?” Julian asked.
Audrey smiled at Ryan. “It’s fine. We have a car waiting for us in the parking lot. You just came back as well, right? Take some rest. We’ll meet next time.”
