"Of course I will," Little Gary answered. "I feel like bullying Maria whenever I see her because she looks so familiar. She makes me feel as though she's a relative of mine."
"Why?" Heinz was puzzled. He started leaving the study room too, "I think you're just too used to bullying her to the point you're finding excuses to justify your own behavior."
"Forget it. You won't understand. It's not like you can give me any constructive criticisms anyway. I won't address you as my dad either, so let's just keep it to ourselves. I think you're right that I should find Mommy instead of you in the future too," Little Gary said with disdain.
"You turned so ruthless after extracting whatever information you wanted from me," Heinz lamented for himself.
"In ancient times, people have always killed their donkeys after it has finished its job." Little Gary said, "You should have seen this coming."
"Hey, little guy!" Heinz twisted his eyebrows, "I'm your dad, not a donkey, okay." "Oh, come on, you're worse than a donkey," Little
Gary smirked. "Good night, old man." "This little fella," Heinz sighed helplessly.
After seeing Little Gary go to his room, he went back to his own room as well.
Upon seeing him, Grace asked immediately, "So what was it about? Did he ask whether his teacher gave me a phone call?"
Heinz nodded and sighed, "Yeah, our son is really intelligent. I've gotten teased, criticized, even despised by him, and as usual he did not call me "daddy", nor do I know when he will ever do so."
"But now, I can't seek my revenge yet as it'll only make his disdain for me grow stronger!"
After that, he sighed deeply, "How I wish I could live long enough to hear him addressing me as his dad."
She felt uncomfortable about it and sighed as she apologized, "My bad, I didn't teach him well enough. I really didn't expect him to be so stubborn when it comes to this matter as he's usually quite mature. I really can't fathom why he is holding a grudge against you for so long."
"Maybe he has really high expectations for me. That's why he despised me for not treating you right, as well as the fact that I'm a divorcee which made it worse for you," Heinz held her hand, "Hearing what he said, I really feel as though I don't deserve someone like you as well." "It has passed, let's not talk about it anymore," Grace said.
"Okay, won't talk about it." he sighed again. "It's good enough that we have a son like him. I guess I'll leave it to fate on whether he would ever address me as his dad."
Heinz then felt Grace's belly and gently said, "I wish I'll always be able to stay by this baby's side, so that she could be my precious darling in the future."
She promised softly, "Don't worry, I'll make sure that this baby becomes super close to you."
"I'd rather be even closer to you!" He hugged her amorously. "I really wish we could do something, but for now, we can only resist ourselves."
The two of them went to sleep in each other's arms.
Throughout the night, Heinz couldn't sleep well though, because he had to take cold showers from time to time. He realized it felt extra uncomfortable after separating himself from her for such a long period of time.
He wasn't sure if he could last through the entire pregnancy, as he felt like he was close to exploding.
As a result, early in the morning, he appeared with huge eye bags in front of everyone.
This caused Little Gary to criticize him further. "Were you not able to sleep well? It's probably because you did too many shameful things and felt guilty about it, right?"
It was only then that Grace noticed his panda eyes, causing her to frown, "You couldn't sleep well last night?"
He looked a little embarrassed. Of course, he couldn't sleep well; how could he when there was such a lovely figure in his arms?"
"It was still fine," he answered in a perfunctory manner.
"That's just a perfunctory answer. If you slept well, you wouldn't have gotten those eye bags," Little Gary said to him before turning to Grace. "Morning, Mommy."
She looked at her son, "Hurry up and have your breakfast. I'll be sending you and Ernest to the kindergarten later."
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