The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1004

There was only a pair of newborn babies' shoes with a tiger-head design in the box.

What was this?

Mango looked at Brantley with puzzlement. However, he looked much more agitated than Mango.

He took the shoes with trembling hands, and tears instantly welled up his eyes.

"I didn't know that she was still keeping this. Ah... I thought that she didn't care about it anymore!"

Brantley placed the shoes on his face with tears streaming down his face.

This scene scared Mango out of her wits.

Brantley had been a tough man throughout this life. Even when Queena passed away, Mango had never seen him being so upset.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you? Who is the owner of these shoes? Is it my mother?"

Mango took a guess, but Brantley waved his hand instead. He directly stood up with the shoes with a tiger head design and went to his room.

Mango turned to glance at Carmel with a confused expression on her face when she saw the lonesome and grief figure of Brantley.

However, Carmel shook her head too.

Mango didn't know what had happened in the past, but she knew that Brantley had recalled some sad memories because of her.

If she had known that this would happen earlier, she wouldn't have been so curious!

"What shall we do now?"

Mango looked at Carmel while asking.

Carmel frowned and thought for a moment before she said, "The ex- commander must have remembered some past. We should leave him alone for a while."

"Alright then."

In fact, Mango was getting slightly hungry, but it was obvious that she couldn't eat now.

She took out her mobile and browsed through the news to catch up with the latest happenings.

Suddenly, Toby came in with a bouquet of roses at this time.

"Toby, are you trying to win over a girl? Or vice versa? Wow! This big bouquet of roses looks beautiful!"

Mango teased Toby.

Toby placed the roses directly before her and said,

"It's for you." "Huh? Me?"

Mango was stunned when she heard his reply.

"Who ordered this for me?"

"Well, I have no idea. Someone from the military region sent it here."

Mango was even more astonished after hearing these words.

At that moment, Carmel kicked the roses out with her long legs.

"Wait! What are you doing here, Carmel?"

Mango felt depressed when she saw that the roses were now ruined because of Carmel's kick.

"I'm worried that something in the roses might harm you."

Toby wanted to hold his temple in frustration after hearing Carmel's reply.

"Hey! Can you stop being so oblivious? What kind of place is this? This is the Xiao family! Do you think that I will bring in anything potentially dangerous here?"

"Well, you can't say that for sure. Anyway, I don't believe in anyone except Madam."

Carmel retorted instantly to embarrass Toby.

Thus, Toby's expression darkened in a split

second.

"What do you mean? Are you trying to say that I will harm Ms. Shen? Huh?"

Mango quickly stood up and tried to stop them when she saw that the two of them were about to fight,

"Wait a minute... I know that you two are both doing this for my good. However, we don't have to panic this much and be too alert at home! Hey, is there a card over there? Carmel, take it for me, please. I want to see who has sent it to me. I'm already a mother, but I still am receiving roses. This is a pleasant surprise, isn't it?"

Mango felt weary emotionally when she said this.

Both Toby and Carmel had bad tempers, and it was truly dangerous for them to be in the same room.

Carmel glanced at Toby and went straight to take the card without saying anything else.

Mango opened the card. The message on it said, "Hi, my dear mommy, are you happy to receive the roses? I bet you must be very happy, right? Well, if you're happy, show me a brilliant smile! Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I wasn't the one who bought these roses. Instead, Mr. Ye was the one who asked me to send a dozen of roses to you every day so that you won't forget him. Alas, I'm your son, but I have to bear with your displays of affection every day! I'm such a poor child!"

Then, Zion had signed off the card with his name after the message.

After reading it, Mango immediately burst into laughter.

That brat!

She looked at the wreckage all over the floor and couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

"My son sent these roses to me. Also, these roses have my husband's blessings! So, both of you have to compensate me for this damage!"

Mango complained childishly, and she almost cried in front of Toby and Carmel when she said these words.

Carmel instantly felt guilty after hearing her complaints.

"What if I go out and buy you a bunch of identical bouquets?"

"How can they be the same? My husband and son were the ones who gave me these!"

After saying this, Mango squatted down, picked flowers and gave each of them one. When Carmel saw this scene, guilt flooded her, and she even wanted to beg for Mango's forgiveness.

"Madam, I..."

"What are you trying to say? Huh? You should be smarter next time!"

Toby directly scolded her instead.

Carmel immediately shut up after hearing his words.

She had been too impulsive just now.

Mango picked up the flowers. Then, she saw Carmel's guilty expression once she turned around. Although her heart ached, she still consoled the latter, "It's okay, I'm just joking with you. Let me go up and arrange the flowers first."

After finishing her words, Mango took the roses into her bedroom.

She found a beautiful vase to arrange the flowers into it and pruned them.

Well, Nathaniel was a capable person indeed! Even though he was in the police station, he managed to call Zion to send her roses.