This song was a song that Karen Joy Kyle loved to listen to when she was a child. He remembered that she loved this lullaby very much even though many years had passed. Hence, when she asked him to sing a song, this song popped up.
"Okay," Karen Joy replied softly.
Although she was already grown up, the choice of a children's song didn't matter, she wanted to just listen to Brother Lionel's voice.
"Alright, then you should lie down and close your eyes," Nathaniel instructed her gently, and she followed his orders. It felt like she was still the obedient child who was willing to listen to Brother Lionel.
She learned these children's songs during the days when Brother Lionel accompanied her. Although she had not sung them for many years, it was still familiar when he hummed it again.
He hummed softly, and Karen Joy, who was at the other end of the phone, was smiling widely. Soon, she fell asleep happily.
After humming one song, he heard steady breathing sound from the other end of the line. Brother Lionel called her gently, "Karen?"
"Brother Lionel, I like you. I like you so much." She responded extremely softly.
It turned out that this girl was asleep and she was mumbling that she liked him in her dreams.
"Okay." He nodded as he gripped his phone a little tighter. "I know. Goodnight Karen!"
Even though he had said goodnight, he was still reluctant to hang up. He listened to her breathing until it was time to wash up and go to work.
Brother Lionel sang her a lullaby, and Karen Joy fell asleep happily. Her wide smile did not leave her face at all.
She slept well in the evening. When she woke up, it was already in the afternoon. She felt like a lazy sloth.
"Karen Joy, why did you leave me behind last night?" Samantha Lesley looked at Karen Joy sadly. "You don't even know how long I went looking for you. I was so scared that I cried when I couldn't find you. If it weren't for Uncle Perth who told me that you came back first, I wouldn't have known what to do."
"Samantha, I'm sorry!" Karen Joy gave Samantha a hug and smiled apologetically. "I had a stomach ache last night, so I came back first." "You had a stomach ache? How're you feeling now? Do you want me to get a doctor?" Samantha became so nervous that her face turned red.
Karen Joy apologized, "Samantha, I'm fine. Don't worry, or I will feel guilty about it."
Since she still didn't know who Brother Lionel was, the reconciliation with Brother Lionel was still a strange matter.
Karen Joy didn't want to tell Samantha for the time being, so she lied casually. She didn't know that she took her words seriously.
"It's good that you're alright." Samantha scratched her head and looked at Karen Joy. "Oh, by the way, Brother Dominic is here."
"Who?" Karen Joy's mind was focused on Brother Lionel. She couldn't recall Brother Dominic at first.
"Brother Dominic? He was with us the whole night last night?" Samantha was doubting that Karen Joy's memory was worse than hers.
"Oh, it's him." Karen Joy responded softly as she ate her strawberry puree.
While eating the strawberries, Karen Joy thought that Samantha's brother, Jason Lesley, was so considerate of her. He even knew that she liked strawberries.
Of course, Karen Joy would never have thought that these strawberries were specially requested by their Mr. President for her. Even if she was in a foreign land, he needed to make her feel like home.
"Karen Joy, Brother Dominic asked us to go out today. Do you want to go?" Samantha approached Karen Joy slowly and asked.
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