"I called you earlier. Why didn't you answer?" Kevin Kyle asked Karen Daly, who was standing beside him while he was blowing Little Karen's hair.
"I was bathing Little Karen. I left my phone in the living room, so I couldn't hear anything." Karen approached Kevin and then asked, "What's up?"
"I've brought back the person you're looking for. Do you want to see if you're satisfied with him later?" Adopting a child was still, after all, something to be decided between a couple. Kevin wanted to discuss with Karen before bringing Jayden home but Karen did not answer her phone.
Karen continued to ask, "A brother for Little Karen?"
Upon hearing the word "brother", little Karen's eyes suddenly lit up. She stared at her parents with her big gorgeous eyes.
"Yes." Kevin nodded and patted Little Karen's tiny head. "Do you want a brother?"
"Brother? Yes, I want a brother." In Little Karen's mind, the brother she thought of was Brother Lionel. She had been looking forward to Brother Lionel's return every single day. How could she say no to Brother Lionel?
"Our baby Karen is such a good girl. You must treat your brother well from now on, okay?" As long as she could make her daughter happy, whatever Little Karen wished for, Kevin would always go out of his way to get it for her.
"Daddy, I want to see the big brother." Little Karen couldn't wait to see Brother Lionel, so she didn't even mind that her hair was wet.
However, when she saw the "brother", Little Karen burst into tears of disappointment, and the loud cry echoed in every corner of the room.
The person standing in front of her was a thin little boy. The boy was staring at her curiously with his big eyes.
This person was not her Brother Lionel.
Her brother Lionel was very tall and good looking. Brother Lionel would hug her and let her ride on his shoulders. Brother Lionel would protect her.
She didn't want anyone else to be her brother. She only wanted her Brother Lionel.
"Baby Karen, what's wrong?" Little Karen was sobbing all of a sudden and it shocked Kevin.
"I don't want this brother. I only want Brother Lionel." Little Karen was crying so devastatingly in her father's embrace as if her world was going to end.
When she heard her father talk about a brother earlier, she thought that Brother Lionel had returned. Yet, the person she saw was not Lionel.
As she did not see Brother Lionel, the young Little Karen did not hold her tears back.
This was the most hurtful thing she had ever experienced.
She felt that this world was just full of malice.
As he saw how Little Karen was disappointed in his presence, the little boy's eyes turned red too, but he was trying his best not to cry.
He had a petite build, but he was already eleven years old. He understood a lot of things.
He knew very well that his parents passed away in a car accident, which left him all alone. He had become an orphan overnight, a child that no one would love or care for, so he did not have the right to cry.
"Baby Karen, look at Brother Jayden. If you don't accept him, he will be very sad." Karen wiped away Little Karen's tears and asked her to look at Jayden.
Little Karen looked up at the little boy again, only to see that the little boy's eyes were red too, and he looked very sad.
She couldn't bear it anymore. She didn't want the little boy to be sad because of her.
Karen persuaded patiently, "Baby Karen, brother Jayden will love you like how we love you, and Brother Jayden will go to school with you every day. Isn't that amazing?"
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