Pierre hasn’t been home for long, but now he has to leave again. The night before Pierre left home, Selena pulled herself together and made a table full of delicious dishes. In the meantime, the children seemed to have grown used to Pierre’s absence for a month or two. While Juniper pouted and kept asking for hugs from Pierre, her brothers didn’t seem to show their feelings.
After dinner, Pierre summoned his two sons into the study. Then, the two boys were told to stand in the middle of the room, thinking they had just done something wrong that angered their father without themselves knowing it. Are we now getting punished for something wrong we did? Dad seems like he is going to punish us.
Time flies. Pierre looked at his sons, feeling glad to see both of them growing so much taller than they were. “Come here, both of you.”
Nonetheless, the two boys stood in place and looked at each other, wondering what their father was up to. “Now, you both won’t listen to me, will you?” Pierre glared at the kids, feeling frustrated that his words seemingly fell on deaf ears. How dare they disobey me! I’m their father, so they’d better show me some respect.
Soon, Joaquin slowly walked closer to Pierre, with Jameson following right behind his brother.
Then, Pierre hugged the boys and carried them, sitting one of them on the desk and the other on his lap. Since the man rarely had any intimate touch with his sons like that, Jameson was especially uncomfortable, whereas Joaquin seemed unconcerned.
“What are you going to do, Dad?” Jameson timidly asked.
“What am I going to do? I’m going to punish you!” Pierre gently knuckled the boy’s head. “You’re the naughtiest child of all!”
Jameson quickly kept his mouth shut, as he didn’t dare to say a single word more. At the same time, he was stuck with Pierre, who wouldn’t let him move, only obediently sitting on his father’s lap.
“I’m leaving home tomorrow, which means both of you will be the men in the house. Therefore, the two of you will have to protect your mother and sister. Can you do that?”
“Yes.” The boys nodded their heads.
“When I’m away, both of you will have to take good care of your mom. Make sure not to break her heart. When she is sad, do your best to make her happy, okay?”
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