Chapter 18: Chapter 18

"Alexa, wait! You must have misunderstood what I said, right?" Ray tried to catch up with her.

Alexa only stopped on the side of the road to look at her cell and order a taxi.

Seeing her still ignore him, he approached her. "Alexa, I didn't mean to offend you. Please don't stay silent."

No answer.

"Ok, ok, I'm wrong. I said something that hurt you, right?"

Then, he kept trying to explain it again, but he knew it was useless. So, he immediately turned around to get into the car, pulled it out of the yard and brought the car closer to her.

"Come on up," he offered.

Alexa didn't look at him at all.

"I already made you late to pick up Fillo, waiting for a taxi will make you even more late, won't it?"

His words made sense, but who made her late in the first place? Isn't that him?

Alexa, 'This bastard ... pretending not to remember me, but chasing me shamelessly. Who would believe he was jogging in sleep pants?'

After complicated considerations, she was finally forced to get into the car. Not wanting to face him at all and looking at the street which was suddenly more interesting than anything else.

"Where is the place?"

She finally calmed down a bit. "Just go straight towards the intersection."

The journey was filled with emptiness, only their air was still moving to and fro. He occasionally glanced at her, thinking about how annoyed he was that Fillo had to live in a place like that. He had to do something. But tried hard not to offend him again this time.

"I have a house near here," he said.

"Should I be amazed?"

He grimaced and turned his head. "Really! Say ... why are you acting like this to me? Have I ever done anything bad to you? Did I owe you a debt when I hired your services?"

After hearing this question, she was speechless.

What?

What is the problem?

Ray should have known that the reason he came here was because he remembered an incident in the past. She couldn't possibly say that thanks to that incident, she was pregnant and Fillo was her child.

After all this, she couldn't let him know that the two of them were father and son.

"It's okay. I just feel a little bad. It's nothing to do with you." She fiddled with her fingers.

"Are all women always like that?"

"..."

"—If they are angry, they will vent their anger on anything. No matter what or who."

"Not really."

Ray finally felt that the atmosphere had returned to normal as usual. "But, you seem to have a grudge against me."

Alexa, 'Grudge? Of course there is, you bastard.'

Those words were only spoken in her heart, she said something else, "Twenty meters from here is the playground."

"Okay."

And just like that ....

Their commotion stopped as if it had never happened before. His forehead furrowed quite deeply, feeling that this was very funny, she was really an attractive woman.

"It's a weekday, why don't you go to work?" She took the initiative to break the silence.

He turned the steering wheel 360 degrees before reasoning, "My secretary has handled my work."

"—And then you decided to jog in sleep pants?"

Alexa's suppressed laughter finally broke out, and the laughter sounded crisp and melodious to his ears.

"Is there something funny?" He looked at his pants, and the car had stopped. "Don't worry, I've showered."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Her traces of laughter were still on her lips even when she came out. "You wait a moment, I'll get Fillo."

For a moment, the door was closed, the bang of the door made his originally low heart speed up as if he had just run fast.

He held his chest and felt strange.

To prevent any random thoughts, Ray got out of the car after her. The air outside was quite cold and he only wore light clothes. He wasn't even embarrassed at all by this misplaced outfit. Samuel once said, that a handsome man, even if he only wore leaves on his body, he would still be charming.

Ray thought he did too.

When the two of them arrived at the playground gate, there were only a few children left and they were playing in the sand, with their mothers gossiping.

"Fillo," Alexa called excitedly, crouching down with her arms outstretched.

Fillo's little head lifted from the sand he was playing with with a yellow shovel. His blue eyes sparkled brightly like stars, he immediately stood up, his petite and cute figure was the same height as a swing chair.

"Fillo, come and hug Mom."

Fillo smiled broadly and ran, spreading his arms too, and shouting in return, "Daddy!!!"

Ray, "..."

Alexa, "..."

Nurse, "..."

Gossiping mothers, "........................"

The small hug finally landed on Ray's unprepared feet and made him stagger a little. All eyes were on him and he immediately took control of the situation.

"Hi, Peanut."

Fillo was a child who didn't talk much, he just tightened the hug while his face looked up shyly to glance upwards. Looked very cute. He smiled brightly until Ray carried him up. Laughing as Ray tickled his body.

"Thank you, Daddy." Fillo laughed amusedly.

"Thank you for what, hm?"

"Thank you for coming to pick me up!" Fillo answered with her adorable milky voice.

Ray stroked his hair. "Your welcome, Peanut."

No one remembered how Alexa's glass-like heart broke when her embrace was not welcomed.

She was stunned.

"Do you miss Daddy?" Ray swept the gossiping mothers' curious glances, pulling the dazed Alexa away. "Come on, let's go home now."

The little boy innocently put his head on Ray's neck and laughed happily, saying he missed him all the time and wanted to eat ice cream together.

Alexa froze.

No! This cannot be allowed!

How can this biological father and son work together to get rid of her, and live happily together without her? Will she finally be considered no more? If in the end Ray really finds out that Fillo is his son, will she be separated from Fillo?

So, she will be abandoned by her son too?

"Alexa?" Ray called her as he put the seatbelt on her body.

The woman looked like she had just returned from hell, her eyes were very red. "Ray, Fillo is my son! He is my son! You can't take him from me!"

"... What?"

"After this, please..." Alexa clasped her hands together. "Stay away from him, and stay away from both of us. Don't ever appear in front of us again! Please, Ray."

... to be continued ...