Chapter 24: Do You Like It?

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Dorothy bit her lips and lowered her head without daring to say anything.

Reyes wasn’t satisfied with her timid attitude. “Are you deaf?” he threatened impatiently.

The surrounding students clearly felt the stiff atmosphere, but they didn’t dare to join their conversation.

Dorothy trembled. “I, I understand…”

She lowered her head timidly.

It was only when Reyes’s extremely oppressive aura disappeared that her eyes turned red.

What? She hadn’t done anything wrong. Why was he doing this to her?

At this moment, the students beside her roughly knew that the handsome man she called her junior did not know her. Even though they knew each other, their relationship wasn’t good.

How could reality be as wonderful as a fairy tale? The prince would not fall in love with Cinderella.

They saw Dorothy’s aggrieved look, but did not go forward to comfort her. Instead, they felt that she had deserved to be threatened by the handsome junior.

There were many artificial lakes in the school. The center of the school building was surrounded by water.

The water in the artificial lake was flowing and was very clean. In some remote places, there was even a large patch of straw. No one had trimmed it for years.

The untended thatch covered a large part of the lake. It was unknown who had thrown a group of ducks into it to be raised.

During the day, the ducks would swim around in the flowing lake, and some students would throw food at them.

Although they always stayed together, they would not be polite to each other when they were competing for things. They would flap their wings and fight over it.

Those who didn’t manage to snatch anything would even quack at the students who were feeding on the shore.

When Toya came out of the academic building, the ducks were flapping on the lake not far away.

She walked along the lake, and the ducks swam after her.

The ducks’ feathers were all grayish-white, except for the patch on their buttocks. It was snow-white, as white as her skirt.

She didn’t have any food to feed them, so they let out unhappy creaks.

The white feathers on their buttocks swayed as well, making them look extremely comical.

Toya didn’t walk fast. Reyes followed behind her.

He kicked at the pebbles on the road and sent them flying.

The kicked stone bounced on the lake twice and hit the buttocks of a duck.

The little duck was so frightened that it screeched. The other ducks surrounded it. They thought that the food had bumped into it, so they stuffed their heads into the water and swam around looking for it.

The ducks splashed and flapped their wings over the water, splashing it all over the shore.

Toya dodged to the side and glanced at the stupid ducks. She smiled lightly.

Reyes walked up beside her, blocking her view.

“Let’s have lunch together?”

Toya didn’t say anything. Actually, if she wanted to permanently stay in the Wilson family, she should really get along with this young master, Reyes. It was just lunch together. It was actually no big deal.

Anyway, she had breakfast and dinner at his house.

But at school, she didn’t really want anyone to know about her relationship with Reyes. She didn’t really want anyone to know that she had such an old son, even if he was just a stepson.

Although she was not a sociable person and did not have many friends, she had her pride. She did not like the feeling of her dignity being trampled on.

The pampered little princess of the Madison family had always been the one to trample on other people’s dignity.

She thought about it. “Stay away from me when we’re in school.”

“Why?”

“I don’t want too many people to know about me becoming your stepmother.”

Why didn’t she want too many people to know? Could it be that she felt that this marriage was not suitable for her?

Reyes didn’t answer the question he wanted to ask the most. “Surely no normal person would think of our relationship as such?”

The two of them were both young. If others saw the two of them standing together, they would only think of them as a couple.

At the very least, they might be considered siblings. Mother and son? No one would believe them even if they took the initiative to say it. They would even treat them as freaks.

Toya thought about it and felt that it made sense. She compromised and said, “Okay then.”

The two of them were silent for a while.

Reyes said, “You wanted me to call you my mother this morning.”

Toya was speechless.

Wasn’t she just teasing him?

Why was this person so serious?

Her scalp went numb as she tried to explain. “You can just call me that in private.”

“I can only call you that in private?” Reyes ignored the fact that he might not be able to bring himself to call her that. “Don’t you like this marriage?” he asked tentatively.

Toya frowned. She felt like Reyes was testing her loyalty to his father again.

The feeling of being tested made her feel uncomfortable.

But compared to how he was yesterday in the car, his tone was not so forceful, so she did not have the intention to scold him again.

Toya asked patiently, “What’s there to like about marriage? The Wilson family is a famous blue-blood family. Don’t you understand this logic?”

Reyes stubbornly showed that he just didn’t understand.. “If you don’t like the marriage, then what is your purpose?”