My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 233

Howard was a talkative person, especially when it came to his two sons. He didn't have a good relationship with either of them, so he would talk at length to diffuse the awkward atmosphere.

One of his sons was Bill, the child he had with his ex-wife. Bill had been taken abroad at a

young age by her, so Howard hadn't had much contact with him. However, she had brought him up well, so even though Howard rarely talked to him, Bill had grown up to be an obedient son.

On the other hand, his current wife's son, Mark, whom he treated like his own son, treated him like an enemy.

No matter how well Howard treated Mark, the letter always kept a distance from him.

In spite of this, he was still partial to his

stepson.

Although he did pity Bill sometimes, he had

already grown up well past the age of needing

someone to rely on.

So, Howard wasn't too worried about Bill and had decided to just let nature take its course.

But he also felt that he should take this opportunity to show his affection to Bill, which he had seldom done.

After all, they had barely even spent any time together.

Howard felt like he could mend their relationship by doing that, but in fact, he was just doing it to comfort himself.

There was no gratitude in Bill's mind for his father's sudden affection to him. On the contrary, he felt very uncomfortable.

However, he had been taught from a young age to respect elders, so he carefully concealed the impatience that he felt and didn't let it show on his face.

This was the very reason that he had tried to signal Andy to divert Howard's attention to Rachel. However, Andy had misunderstood him and took her outside instead, leaving him all alone with his father.

His father was still rambling to him non-stop.

Bill really didn't want to hear all these unnecessary words from his father, but he had no choice.

'Well, if I'm forced to listen to this bullshit, I might as well make myself comfortable first,' he thought.

With a wave of his hand, he invited his father to sit down with him. Howard sat down on a nearby chair. It was only then that he realized that Rachel and Andy had left the room.

After hesitating for a while, he continued his conversation with Bill without asking where Rachel and Andy had gone.

For Bill, his father's show of affection was too much to bear. After a short while, he stood up to make some tea.

He dawdled next to the teapot for a while before slowly walking over with two cups of hot tea. Howard took one of the cups from his son and gave him a pleased look.

The expression in his eyes disgusted Bill. Fortunately, for the next few minutes, Howard was too busy drinking tea to continue rambling on.

With his head down, Bill fiddled with his cellphone. He looked at the time and realized that eleven minutes and eight seconds had passed since his father had begun talking to him.

'When is he going to leave?' he wondered impatiently.

He was still trying to come up with a way to make his father leave when the latter suddenly asked, "Bill, do you have a girlfriend?"

Bill, who had just taken a sip of tea, choked and coughed violently after hearing his father's question.

Howard instantly stood up and patted him on the back. "What's wrong? Why didn't you drink it slowly?"

Bill hadn't meant to choke on his tea, but he was glad that he had somehow distracted his father from that nonsensical conversation.

Just then, Howard's mobile phone rang, and he walked outside to answer it.

Bill was still holding the table, coughing intermittently as he tried to catch his breath.

The walls in this hospital were thin,

so Rachel and Andy, who were in the lounge, had actually heard the father and son's conversation, including the last part which had made Bill go into a coughing fit.

Rachel had just randomly picked a chair and sat down, but Andy had cautiously moved a chair close to the door and sat there.

Then, leaning against the door, he had quietly eavesdropped on the conversation between Howard and Bill.

His cute actions amused Rachel to no end.

Especially after hearing Howard's question and Bill's cough,

Andy had almost burst out into laughter. But in the end, he had controlled himself and just beamed at Rachel with wrinkled eyes.

Then, he pointed to the ward and shook his head as if to make fun of Bill.

Rachel had immediately recalled what Andy had said the day before—that Bill was still single.