Henry had no prior experience in convincing a child to do anything; he ordered the chauffeur to drive back home, thinking that he should just hand Angel over to Mrs. Lawson.
"I don't want to go home, I want to go to the office and look for Mommy." Angel cried and struggled to get out of the car to look for her mother.
Henry hugged Angel. "There, there, Angel. Daddy’s here, isn’t he? Daddy promises to keep you company, ok?"
"No, I want Mommy. You lied to me! Did something happen to Mommy?" Angel lifted her head, frowned. Her big eyes were filled with tears.
'Did something happen to Mommy?
‘Doesn’t Mommy want me anymore?!'
Henry felt sad deep in his heart seeing Angel so distraught, unwilling to part with her mother. Henry kissed her forehead lovingly and said, "Mommy’s gone outstation and will be back after some time."
Angel immediately stopped crying, as though she was convinced with the explanation.
Angel felt assured that it was not because her mother left her. However, she felt that something might have happened to her mother. Angel composed herself and reminded herself that she was no longer a little girl anymore.
She thought hard. 'Why doesn’t daddy want me to talk to Mommy?'
She recalled the night when her mother was sitting on her bed, depressed and crying. She thought her mother wanted to leave Henry's place because she did not like him, but she saw it with her own eyes; both her mother and father had a very close relationship.
'Could there be something that I don’t know about?' Angel remembered her mother telling her once when she was crying, "No matter how good he treats you, he's still not your biological father."
Perhaps, Angel was the one who desired to have a father because she never had one to begin with. Perhaps, she thought that Henry would be the one that could protect her mother ever since she saw Henry appear as their savior and rescued herself and her mother.
Perhaps Angel kept trying all means to make them both be together and had neglected her mother's feelings.
'Angel is still so young yet knows so much, asking for proof. Who taught her this?'
Henry looked at Angel's seriousness. He raised his brows and answered, "I’ve got a DNA test report."
'Then, it means he’s my biological father. No wonder I have feelings I cannot explain whenever I see him.'
Angel believed that Henry was her biological father. Even her intuition was telling her that Henry was her biological father and she firmly believed it. 'But why would Mommy keep denying it?'
'Where’s the problem?'
Angel looked at Henry with big sad eyes wide open and unblinking. "Then why doesn’t Daddy want me to be with Mommy?"
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