Blake trembled all over. He sped up his footsteps with Lilly in his arms, reaching the elevator within three quick strides.
"Let's go, we've seen a ghost!"
He said in a low voice.
Cloud held Blake back.
Stop running.
The enemy had already arrived at the scene of battle.
Blake mustered up all his courage. "Old Mrs. Crawford? What are you doing here!"
Bettany smirked. "I wouldn't have known that you brought Lilly drinking if I didn't come!"
Blake and Cloud had been drinking flower wine, which still smelt like alcohol and Bettany caught a whiff of it at once.
Cloud hurriedly said, "Mom, let me explain!"
Bettany said, " Margaret, get me my skillet!
What? Had she actually brought her skillet all the way here?
That was a little too much, wasn't it?
Blake coughed once. "We drank, but Lilly didn't! She just drank milk."
Bettany said, "You went drinking, and brought a child with you?"
Blake and Cloud was speechless.
Hell, it was like nothing they said was right!
Blake said, "Let me take Lilly to bed first… she's tired!"
Bettany could not help but say, "Oh, so you remembered that after all!"
Lilly looked so thin now!
The kid must have not had enough to eat in the days she was not around.
How much hope could she have in letting two men take care of her baby?
"Take her to bed!" Bettany held back her anger, lowering her voice as she hissed. "Don't wake my sweet baby up!"
Blake let out a breath of relief. Sure enough, Lilly was the best human shield there was.
He carried Lilly away, exiting at top speed.
Cloud, with nowhere to run to was speechless.
How dare Blake ditch a fellow soldier just like that! What a man of zero honor!
Cloud forced out a smile. "Mom…"
Bettany's hand came slicing over.
She had just finished a surgery, and did not have much energy. Bettany did not go too far either... she only properly hit the old man and no one else.
Cloud rubbed his head, taking her suitcase from her. "Have you booked a room? I'll get your bags."
Bettany scoffed. "I've booked them."
She handed her room card over. Cloud took a glance at it, and realized that Bettany's room was just across theirs.
To think that the kid had actually snitched on them.
The next day.
Lilly slept all the way till it was ten in the morning.
Her stomach was rumbling loudly.
She yawned, getting out of her bed and padding around barefoot. She opened the door and shouted, "Grandma… I'm hungry."
She was still in a post-slumber daze, thinking she was still at the Crawford household.
Upon saying so she returned to her senses. This was a hotel, how could her grandma be here?
Lilly ran a hand through her messy hair, when a delicious smell filled her nostrils.
She was staying in a suite with her father and Uncle Cloud. The bedroom opened to the living room, with a kitchen across it.
Lilly stopped short. Was Dad cooking?
Yet it was Bettany who walked out, holding a plate with a steamed bun on it.
"Lilly, you're awake! Come on, go brush your teeth and get ready for breakfast!"
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