Wendy held her shoulders and asked, "Do you know what you've done wrong?"
When Larry heard that, he immediately lowered his head, standing there with a wronged and upset face.
"Mom, you don't blame Larry!"
Leilani stepped forward and stood in front of Larry.
Wendy looked at the bright and beautiful Leilani, frowned, and asked, "Why not? Mommy had always taught you to be polite. Fighting is wrong. It makes you bad children. I don't like it!"
"Larry is not a bad boy!" Leilani stamped her feet and defended Larry in a hurry. She pouted and said righteously, "Mom, Larry was helping me. That bad boy bullied me and dragged my braid. It hurt a lot!"
Wendy snorted and was not convinced at all. She pursed her lips, looked at Larry, and said, "Even if the boy hurt Leilani, Larry, you are a big boy now. You have already gone to primary school. How can you beat up a child who is as little as your sister? Even if he did something wrong, shouldn't you inform the teacher or warn him?"
Larry raised his head, looking quite protective of Leilani, and said, "I already warned him last time, but he didn't listen to me. He always pulled Leilani's hair. Today, I caught him, and I only pushed him a little..."
Wendy put her hands on her waist, moved her lips, but she didn't know what to say.
Larry only pushed the boy slightly. However, as a child in kindergarten, the boy was short and puny. After Larry pushed him, he fell to the floor right away. And his nose bled. When Wendy arrived there hurriedly, she saw the boy crying with his nose stuffed with tissue balls!
Thinking of facing the kindergarten teacher's frown and the boy's parents, Wendy felt a headache.
Leilani rolled her eyes. Seeing that Wendy was angry, she rushed to hold Wendy's legs like a puppy wagging its tail- a trick that Larry did when he was little, and beseeched with a cute voice, "Mom, Larry only wanted to protect me. Don't blame him, okay?"
"Mom, mom, my good mom, you are the best mom in the world..."
Leilani's voice was so childish that Wendy's heart softened.
She also knew that her son would not fight with others wilfully. He must have done it to protect Leilani. She wanted to tell Charlie when he came back in the evening to have a conversation with his son. After all, his son was not little anymore. As Larry's father, Charlie should teach him how to be a man.
With a helpless sigh, Wendy pretended to be angry and said, "This won't happen again. Next time such a thing happens, you can't hit others, okay?"
"Okay, we got it!" Larry and Leilani both nodded smartly.
The sound of a car's rumbling engine came from the yard. Soon, a tall figure came in from the porch.
"It's Papa..."
Larry and Leilani said with one voice and ran over at once.
Charlie hugged Leilani, who was running ahead, tightly, and fondled Larry's head. When he saw Wendy inside the house with her hands on her waist, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Honey, did they make you unhappy again?"
"No, we didn't!" Without waiting for Wendy to reply, Leilani answered quickly with a sweet voice, smiling, and said, "Larry and I behave well. Mommy will never get angry at us!"
Wendy was amused by Leilani's mischievous look. This time, she couldn't hold but laughed.
Charlie looked at his watch and said to her, "Get ready, we are leaving in half an hour!"
Wendy nodded with a smile on her face.
Tonight the Hogg's Group would hold the anniversary celebration. As Mrs. Hogg, Wendy was supposed to bring her children to attend it. Farr had already sent someone to deliver the four dresses for her family. The dresses were in the room. After they got changed, they would leave immediately.
Instead of letting Uncle Lee drive, Charlie would drive for his family by himself.
Larry was wearing a suit of the same style and color as Charlie, looking handsome and stylish. Leilani was in a child-sized dress with a white gauzy skirt dotted with many flowers. Before she left, she looked in the mirror for a long time.
When Charlie stopped the car by the red light, he pulled out a newspaper from the storage compartment and handed it to Wendy.
Wendy took it in confusion. When she opened it, she saw a photo of the headline. It was a man and a woman. The woman was a new popular singer, Anna, who had recently cooperated with the Hogg's Group in business. The man, who was next to her, was Charlie. Aside from the photo, it was an ambiguous title describing the two of them.
Her face remained calm without a single hint of displeasure.
They had been husband and wife for many years. They trusted each other unconditionally. Although there was a little sourness in her heart, she did not show it.
Wendy closed the newspaper. She had read the news in the newspaper in the morning. She tilted her head to look at him, showing a sign of asking. Charlie grabbed her hand, put it on his thin lips, and kissed it. Then he said, "This singer will also attend the celebration tonight."
"Oh, okay."
After twenty minutes, they arrived at the hotel where the anniversary celebration was held.
After they came out of the elevator, they saw a specially arranged red carpet segment. They did not show Larry and Leilani to the public, but let Farr take them inside. Wendy accompanied Charlie to sign and take photos before the red carpet, meeting a lot of entertainment media. She guessed that it should be because of Anna's arrival.
As the ceremony officially began, Charlie came to the stage and gave his speech. After that, he warmly proposed a toast.
Wendy was not good at socializing, but because she often accompanied Charlie to participate in such activities, so she got used to it. However, if possible, she preferred to stay at home with the family.
After greeting the wives of two presidents with Larry, she found that Larry couldn't wait any longer.
Usually, on this occasion, Larry would be considerate to accompany her while Leilani, the little princess of the Hogg family, would play around and eat crazily in the banquet. Wendy couldn't help but frown and ask, "Larry, is there anything you need to do?"
"I have to hurry to look after Leilani. Andrew Chun, that brat, is here too. He is clingy to Leilani, thinking that he is little!" Larry was anxious and jealous of Andrew, "I don't want him to take Leilani away from me. I'm angry! And I overheard that Uncle Chun and Aunt Emily tell Andrew to marry Leilani after he grows up. How can they do that? Hum, I have promised Papa. I can't let other boys be too close to Leilani!"
As soon as Larry finished saying, he ran away quickly.
"What is this?" Anna showed took it over subconsciously in confusion.
Wendy smiled and said calmly, "This is the phone number of the director of obstetrics and gynecology in the private hospital I go to. It was Dr. Foo who helped me during my pregnancy before. We have a good relationship. If you need help when you have a miscarriage surgery, you can ask for her. If you mention me, you don't even have to line up!"
Seeing that Anna, who was holding the note and looking pale, Wendy acted innocent and asked as if she had just thought of something, "By the way, Anna, haven't you heard of a rumor?"
"What is it?" Anna asked in a daze.
"Chairman Hogg is afraid of me!" Wendy blinked her eyes.
Not long after Anna turned around and walked away, Charlie's tall figure appeared in front of Wendy. She knew that he had been hiding at the other end of the long table, deliberately waiting for her to finish before he showed up.
Wendy couldn't help raising her hand and pounded a little in his chest.
Charlie grabbed her little fist and bit it when no one else could see them. He chuckled in a low volume and said, "Honey, you're awesome!"
Wendy glared at him, charmingly and naively.
Charlie had always let her stop other women messing around!
During the five years that they were married, countless women tried to seduce Charlie because he was charming. And she could not remember the times she helped him to stop them!
Charlie held her in his arms and walked lazily to the French window to get some air. Under the bright crystal lights, they could see the crowd singing and dancing to the music, with Leilani making mischief from time to time.
The young master of the Chun family, Andrew, was following Leilani along with Larry.
Wendy withdrew her gaze and looked at the starlight outside the window.
Looking at her curved eyebrows, Charlie looked down and whispered in her ear, "Honey, what are you thinking about?"
Wendy raised her head, looked at him, and said with her lips curling into a smile, "I am thinking about your birthday wish..."
"Hmm?" Charlie hummed with his eyebrows raised.
"We'll grow old together!" Wendy said as she placed her hand on his chest.
Charlie curled his lips with his deep eyes filled with deep affection, "Yes, we'll grow old together."
The end.
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