Attracted By My Ex-wife

Chapter 196 Smart Boy Eddy

Kevin knew that he would crash such a beautiful sight if he came over. It was better to keep an eye on the moment carefully from a distance. It was sensible not to disturb and break the toasty atmosphere with his intimidating presence.

In the baby's room, Eddy broke the silence in the middle of the night. Anne abruptly roused by his cries and thought that he was hungry. She quickly prepped his milk and placed the drink slowly in his hands for him to slurp while she battled out her stupor.

Eddy was four months old, and his eyes opened wider by the day. His eyelashes had also grown out which were adorable and beautiful. His eyes were like Kevin's and Anne's combined. He was such a bouncy baby boy.

"Ah!" Eddy pushed the bottle away and gyrated his head. He seemed to be in a tantrum, or maybe he was thinking about something.

Anne frowned and her thin eyebrows seemed to have been knotted with tenderness.

Eddy only drank a few mouthfuls of the milk which was unusual because he was a full-time gobbler.

"Eddy, are you full? Are you sure you don’t want to drink more milk? You will be hungry again if you don’t finish this bottle." Anne patiently sweet-talked him. Eddy lay on her body intimately as he stared at Kevin's room.

At this time, Kevin also caught a glimpse of Eddy from the gaps in his room. His son's ecstatic eyes and lovely smile deeply warmed his heart.

For the first time, Kevin fathomed why children were called angels. He thought their smiles were a blessing as he felt the snuggling from the distance.

"Waah!" Eddy burst into tears all of a sudden which puzzled Anne.

"Eddy, what's the matter with you? Do you feel uncomfortable?"

She was so anxious that she immediately took out a thermometer to check his temperature. What she dreaded the most these past few days was Eddy catching a cold or a fever.

Fortunately, the thermometer showed a decent body temperature, and she had managed to breathe a sigh of relief.

She had heard from Sam that it was good for her to walk around with the baby in her arms as she lullabied him. Was Eddy tired of staying there?

When Anne walked out with Eddy in her arms, she found that his cry was much subtle, but once she entered the room once more, he began bawling out again.

She felt headache when Eddy couldn't sleep at midnight.

She had no choice but to walk around with the baby in her embrace.

After a few rounds of walking back and forth, she heard a cough in Kevin's room.

Eddy immediately heard the voice and caught the direction of the source. He unexpectedly stretched out his little hand, pointed at Kevin's room, and screamed.

'Is Eddy looking for his father? How does he know that Kevin is here from so far away?' Anne wondered.

"Honey, let's not go there. Daddy is asleep and so should we. Let’s go back, okay?"

Anne pleaded. However, it didn't work. The baby was swift to whine like a siren upon hearing Anne’s suggestion.

Hearing his son's cry, Kevin suddenly became nervous and wanted to go out and check him out, but when he heard that Anne was already trying to calm him, he sat on the edge of his bed and listened like an ear in the wall.

The little guy seemed to want to enter his room and spend the night with him. This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

After figuring out the situation from his eavesdropping, Kevin was delighted to know that he was sought out by his child, but ten minutes later, the sobbing Eddy slowly faded into silence. Kevin was disappointed. It seemed that he could not see them tonight.

Just as he close his eyes and tuck himself in the sheets, Eddy's voice abruptly exploded again, and this time, it seemed out of control.

Anne coaxed the baby in a hurry-scurry. Atlas, she had no choice but to take Eddy into his father's room.

Strangely, when they entered Kevin's room, Eddy stopped crying gradually.

"Eddy always cries. He just wants to come here. Did we disturb your rest?" Anne asked in embarrassment.

She could refuse Kevin directly, but it was heavy for her to let her child cry all the time.

"Are you tired? Let me cradle the baby."

Kevin reached out his hand to pick up the child, but Anne was hesitant to hand over Eddy.

After a moment of contemplation, she decided to put the baby into Kevin's boisterous arms, and said, "Be careful. His legs are very strong. Don't let him kick your belly."

With a hint of caution sinking into his face, Kevin listened thoroughly, but he was no longer as naive as before. He managed not to insist on asking whether if Anne said that because she cared about him. He knew that once he mentioned that, she would be quick to deny his suspicion and start eluding him immediately.

With Eddy in his arms, Kevin had no idea how to entice the child to calm down. Looking at the helpless look on his face, Anne grew restless and disappointed, but she still patiently explained,

"Now, Eddy is capable of understanding. Although he can't speak, he can probably recognize some of your words," Anne said awkwardly.

She was uncertain whether if she was right or not about the observation. She just knew that when she talked to Eddy, sometimes he would react if what he heard was something that she often mentioned.

"Eddy, I love you so much. You need to recover as soon as possible so that your mother won't worry about you anymore, okay?" Kevin held the baby’s shoulder with one hand and rubbed his nose with the other.

Eddy giggled and Kevin was confused if he understood what he had just said.

It was still too early to confirm the intellectual capacity of the child, but Anne appreciated his words.

"Don't tell him that. He doesn't understand that yet. I haven't mentioned it before. Why don’t you try asking him if he is hungry or not? Maybe ask him if he wants his milk? Or go out for a walk? These are the questions and words that he is familiar with," said Anne as she blushed.

"If he's not acquainted with such words, then I will say it more often until he will understand. Eddy, when you recover, you, me, and Mommy will be the happiest family in the world!" Kevin said in an imploring voice. When he saw Eddy react with a big smile on his face, the numbness of his face was

swept away by his son’s priceless beam of joy. He was a natural. Indeed, he was a father who loved his child very much.

"Eddy, it’s getting late. It’s time for him to sleep. I'll take him back now," said Anne.

She reached out to cradle Eddy, but he resisted as he pulled his arm back into Kevin's embrace.

'This stubborn boy has been with his dad for only a few minutes, and now he doesn't want me anymore?' Anne was lost in her thought as she was startled by the baby's persistence.

The strong sense of envy made Anne feel disturbed.

"Eddy, Mommy wants you to go to bed now," she emphasized. Kevin picked him up and was about to hand him over back to Anne,

but Eddy suddenly curled his lips and started wailing again in distress which frightened Anne.

"Fine. I'll let him stay there. I'll take him away after he falls asleep," Anne said helplessly.

Kevin pretended to be composed, but in fact, he was very thrilled at this moment. He could finally stay with Anne for a longer time.

It had been like this for the last several days. Eddy would be so hyper at night and there was nothing Anne could do about it but wait for him to grow weary. She pulled a stool to the bedside and looked at Eddy with a smile, but she couldn't resist her drowsiness as she felt heavy-eyed.

Her eyes opened and closed like a blinking light. While cuddling Eddy, Kevin paid attention to her every move.

He wanted to offer her to sleep on the bed, but he knew her temper very well. If she was awakened, it would be difficult for her to doze off again and she would be furious like a bear disturbed from

hibernation.

At last, he could only restrain the impulse to care about her.

Anne felt somnolent. Although she really wanted to entertain herself up, Eddy had refused to go to bed for a few consecutive days now. The servants had already gone to bed, so Anne had to no option but to take care of Eddy. She was exhausted, and faint dark circles forming already under her eyes.

Kevin felt sorry for her. When Anne finally closed her eyes to sleep on the edge of the bed, he reached out his hand and gently touched her face.

Seeing what Kevin did, Eddy, who was sitting next to him, wanted to crawl to Anne's side and touch her face as well as his father did.

When he saw Eddy’s intent to mimic him, Kevin was frightened.

He immediately pulled Eddy over and said, "Baby, don't touch your Mommy. If Mommy wakes up, then you will leave Daddy soon. Let's go to sleep, okay?"

Kevin said in a casual tone and gently touched his soft little fist with his relatively huge knuckles.

The two of them looked at each other dead in the eye, the giant versus the tiny in what appeared to be a staring contest. After a moment, they both smiled harmoniously as if they had made a partnership.

Finally, another hour passed, and Eddy succumbed to his lethargy.

Kevin was drained by that time. He didn't expect that taking care of a child was such a tiring responsibility, far more strenuous than working overtime.

He was amazed by how Anne had managed to hold on. He stared at her sound sleeping, lost in his realizations.

At the first light of dawn, the curtains were still tightly closed. The room was lurking in its dusk. The time read eight o'clock, and Anne opened her eyes to a quiet blur.

She had never slept so comfortably for the past nights. Since she went full-time in taking care of Eddy, she had been restless every single day. She was afraid that Eddy would lack attention and lose his sleep. If that were to happen, she would have blamed herself that she hadn't done a great job as a mother.

However, her intuition told her that she woke up late.

She stretched out her hand from the quilt and took out her phone. When she saw the time, she sat up as alert as a vigilante and lost the sense of sleepiness in a jiff.

"Oh my God! It's already half past eight. Where's Eddy?" When she was about to slip on her flip-flops on the bedside, she heard Eddy's cooing.

It suddenly occurred to her that this was Kevin's bed. She turned her head and saw her son sleeping beside her. As she recollected last night's events, she was sure she was leaning on the bed from a stool, so it must be Kevin who carried her to the bed.

Anne regretted it. It seemed that the aloof image that she had built up in front of Kevin was gone.

"Ha-ha!" Eddy's legs were kicking and his hands were grasping in the quilt. He was naughty yet lovely. Looking at him, Anne was full of helplessness.

"You do have your way around your mischief," said Anne in a pampering voice as she slapped Eddy’s bum as gentle as a kiss.

In the AN Group, Kevin was reclined in his chair. The warm sunshine outside embraced its way in his office. His smile was as bright and gorgeous as the first dazzling light he saw the moment he opened

her eyes in this world.

"Mr. Kevin, are you in a good mood today?" the assistant asked curiously when he saw Kevin smile from time to time.

"Yes. Did I miss any work the other day?" Kevin asked.

Since Anne left the company, Kevin had become a workaholic. He was always ill at ease and didn't want to relax at all.

The assistant was lost in bewilderment for a while, and said, "I'm afraid you didn't, Mr. Kevin. Although you took a few days off, except for this morning's paperwork, you are absolutely trouble-free for the next month."

Kevin was startled. He hadn’t noticed that he had done a thirty-days’ worth of workload.

"If that’s the case, then you can leave now."

Kevin walked to the window and stood there as he watched his staff come and go. The smile on his face did not decrease, and the window was wide open.

It was easy to see the once-in-a-blue-moon smile on Kevin's face from the lower office. People thought they had been dreaming, but when they repetitively glanced with concentration, they found that Kevin was indeed smiling from ear to ear. However, to everyone's astonishment, Kevin didn't notice it at all.

Suddenly, the news that the president of the AN Group, who was always as cold as the huge glacier began to melt spread everywhere.

The employees of the AN Group were famously known for their high efficiency. They didn't care about personal affairs as they plugged along with their line of duty, but those were general cases. Kevin was an icon beyond discipline because he was the legend that thrust the AN Group to its glory.

Just like the news about Anne being browbeaten back then, the image of Kevin's beam of bliss proliferated in an instant.