Chapter 423: Chapter 423
Douglas Dempsey was completely intimidated by Conrad Sterling!
The hostility in this young man’s eyes was too intense. In the fifty-plus years Douglas had lived, it was his first time witnessing such a strong and fierce aura from someone like Conrad.
Although Conrad usually covers his true emotions in his eyes with a cold demeanor and dark fog around him,
when they occasionally and unintentionally leak out, they are still incredibly powerful.
Because Douglas was sitting close to him, he could just see the contents deep in Conrad’s eyes.
Harm others, harm oneself! These were the four words that instinctively came to mind!
In Douglas’s heart, he couldn’t help but worry more for Anna.
After that, there was almost no interaction between the two of them.
It wasn’t that Douglas didn’t want to talk, but rather Conrad was inherently not an approachable person.
He might give you expensive gifts on account of Anna calling you ’uncle’, but if you use this as a reason to ride high and mighty, holding a senior’s posture to lecture him?
You should just hold onto your old face and stick it back on.
This was the only evaluation Douglas had of Conrad after their brief encounter.
Conrad was someone with no concept of family affection, including his dealings with Aunt Murray, which also couldn’t really be considered close.
And also the first time he saw Pop, the little guy clearly wanted to get close to him.
But Conrad’s attitude at that time wasn’t really rejecting or indifferent; he just didn’t know how to interact with such a soft and adorable little thing.
After all, not everyone has had experiences like Conrad’s, where all relatives were gone, and everyone on the island died, and even watched the closest family member die in front of him...
Having seen too much death as a child, his heart became numb, feeling that all relations in this world were actually fragile.
Of course, he didn’t allow the relationship between him and Anna to be fragile now.
Conrad finished a cup of tea, stood up from the sofa, and stood tall and mighty at the doorway.
At this time, Anna Thornton was already preparing to say goodbye to Uncle Douglas and his wife with the two children; children and old people both needed early sleep, and it was time to go back to the room she booked for herself.
"Lola, Pop, come with Mommy to say goodnight to Grandpa and Grandma!" Anna Thornton instructed the two little ones.
Pop obediently mimicked, adding a cute tone himself: "Goodnight Grandpa and Grandma~"
"Say see you tomorrow!"
Lola put her little hand into her pocket, looking cool,
but she followed Mommy, taking her little hand out and waving: "Goodnight Grandpa and Grandma!"
Hmm, the child is teachable!
Thankfully, she wasn’t skewed by her impolite dad!
Anna led the two children out first, without giving Conrad a glance.
The man, however, naturally followed along, but before turning and stepping out the door, Conrad’s gaze suddenly passed over Douglas, landing on Susan Seymour behind him.
From when they exited the elevator until now, Susan had been playing a transparent role, rarely attracting people’s attention.
Perhaps it was because she couldn’t speak.
The relationship between Anna Thornton’s family and Uncle Douglas’s family has been good for many years; she often went to play at Uncle Douglas’s house when she was young, but her impressions of Auntie Seymour weren’t deep.
It was precisely such a low-presence person that made Conrad’s face somewhat unnatural when he looked directly at her.
By the time Susan adjusted herself, Conrad had already retracted his cold gaze and entered the room across before Anna could close the door.
Douglas closed the door to his room and turned to hold Susan’s hand: "Let’s also rest early."
Susan nodded, but her heart kept feeling flustered because Conrad had looked at her an extra time.
It was obvious today that Conrad intended to stay over.
It wasn’t that Anna Thornton wanted him to stay; rather, this man was just too clingy.
Anna finally got a chance to stay out for a night; she really didn’t know how this man had enough free time to find a place and follow her here.
The room Anna booked wasn’t particularly good, just an ordinary four-star hotel room with two beds.
She pointed at the one by the door for Conrad: "You sleep here."
Beyond that, Anna didn’t want to say anything more to him.
Fortunately, due to last night’s incident as a cover, Conrad, knowing he was in the wrong and thinking that Anna was still angry about last night, didn’t show any objections.
However, at night, Anna slept on the other bed with the two little ones.
Even with lights off in the hotel room, the neon lights would cast through the white curtains.
The man turned towards them, observing Anna and the two kids’ peacefully sleeping faces in the faint glow.
He intended to move Lola, who was hugging Anna, as the little kid’s plump hands clinging to Anna’s snow-white arm seemed an eyesore to him.
Yet, as soon as Conrad reached out, the little one suddenly opened his eyes.
Like him, Lola didn’t have a sense of security and found it hard to sleep, especially in a new environment.
To let Mommy relax, he pretended to sleep, yet as expected, Conrad was worrying.
Lola opened his mouth and bit directly on the back of his hand, like a little wolf cub guarding its food, eyes flashing red.
No wonder Henry Willow immediately recognized him as Conrad’s biological son; the father and son shared the same cold-blooded streak.
Lola naturally carried a wolf-like nature. Despite living long with his adoptive parents and Holly Sutton, he never considered them his own.
After Anna reclaimed him, he included Mommy and his sister in his territory but never opened his heart to Conrad, his father.
Have you seen how a little wolf guards its food? The bite was really fierce!
Yet, Conrad didn’t indulge him; he directly used the thumb and forefinger of his hand to clamp the little chin and made Lola let go.
"Quite a set of teeth!"
Conrad extracted him, with little Lola flailing tooth and claw, seemingly about to howl.
But he was silenced by Conrad: "Do you want to wake them up?"
Although the two men... a big man and a little pup didn’t get along, there was one thing they absolutely shared in common.
Lola cherished Mommy and his sister; he turned his head to see the two sleeping soundly on the bed and instinctively hushed.
Even though waking Mommy up would definitely have Anna siding with Lola,
yet Conrad’s critical education had fostered a strong and stubborn character in the little guy that he wouldn’t easily seek help.
He thought of himself as a young man now!
Matters between men should be resolved by men themselves without dragging women into it.
However, being silent didn’t mean backing down; Lola kept resisting Conrad without words.
But due to the obvious differences in physique and strength, Lola was ultimately picked up and placed on the other bed by himself.
Anna, sleeping soundly with Pop, lay at the left, while on the right, the tall and long-legged Conrad had taken over.
The man turned towards her, suddenly extending his arm over Anna’s head.
Then gently raised her head and drew her into his arms.
Anna hugging Pop and Conrad embracing her made the man quite satisfied.
Even if he couldn’t do anything, just having this woman asleep in his arms could smooth his day’s fatigue, Conrad kept a slight smile the entire time.
But Anna slept somewhat restlessly, turning over first even before opening her eyes in the morning.
Why is it so crowded?
Anna pried open her eyelids and felt around Pop’s tummy.
Lately, the little pup had been eating a lot, showing a trend of becoming rounder and rounder.
But was he that fatter?
Just as Anna flipped over, she suddenly felt warmth on her waist.
Two arms, one long and one short, almost simultaneously encircled her waist.
Turning her head, Anna found that Conrad was also there, with four of them squeezed into the same bed, no wonder it felt smaller.
Lola, who was initially placed on the other bed, had stealthily come over later to squeeze in.
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Because this was his son?
Inside, Conrad didn’t want any man beside himself to approach Anna, but occasionally he would use this reasoning to reassure himself.
Well, considering it’s his own, he reluctantly allowed Lola to squeeze in between them.
This one time only, never again!