Bring Your A Game, Mr

Chapter 766

Chapter 766

With a frown on the desperate expression on her face, Adelpha helplessly watched as Lyra swallowed the two large pieces of apricot almond cake.

Oh, Momma! Why are you such a glutton?! she quietly cried.

"My dear sister." Elise shook the apricot almond cake in her hand, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly as they glinted brightly. "Would you like to try it too?"

"No, no! No need for that," Adelpha blurted out as she waved her hands aggressively. Every inch of her body was outwardly rejecting the offer. "I-I have tried it in the cafe. I am so full that I can't take another bite now!"

"Is that so…" Elise lowered her eyes in disappointment, but a smile remained plastered on her face the whole time. When she turned around, she looked at Lyra with a kind expression. "Since Adelpha doesn't want to eat it and I have suddenly lost my appetite, please finish the pastries for me, Aunt Lyra."

Lyra froze for a second when she heard that. Is this really happening? she wondered before she started coughing when she nearly choked.

Her cough gradually calmed as she hit herself on the chest a few times. Pretending to be as calm as an elderly would, she uttered, "If that is the case, I have no choice but to accept it."

"Mhm, I am sorry for troubling you!" Elise kept smiling while she replied.

Now that her taste buds were satisfied, Lyra then returned to the kitchen with the cakes in her hand with light steps.

As Adelpha worried that her mother would finish all the cake, she quietly went around Elise's back to give Lyra a warning without Elise knowing.

She was only halfway there when Elise suddenly stood up, coincidentally standing face to face with her.

The smile Elise had on earlier had completely disappeared by then. "Don't slack off, Adelpha. It will be tomorrow in a few more hours. I feel like having plum pudding tomorrow. You can go prepare to make it now."

Adelpha instantly felt her throat constrict when she heard that. "Are you asking me to make it myself?"

"You won't do it?" Elise put on a sad expression.

"It is not that I don't want to, it is just that—"

"That will do." Elise didn't give her a chance to finish her sentence. "Learning is a lifelong journey, Adelpha. I know that you can do it. Cheer up!"

Without waiting for her to refuse, Elise proceeded to walk upstairs.

Adelpha could only keep mum at that as she had no other choice. When she remembered the box of cakes again after a while, she hurried into the kitchen to snatch away what Lyra had not finished eating, and threw it all away.

"My daughter! Why did you throw it away? It is so delicious!" Lyra couldn't help feeling like it was a waste.

"Momma!" Adelpha lowered her voice as she angrily stomped her foot. "I drugged the cakes! Why did you eat it?!"

"What?!" Lyra had only thought it was a normal pain that she was feeling in her abdomen at first, but after listening to Adelpha's words, her stomach immediately started cramping painfully. "Why didn't you say so just now?!" she groaned while pressing her stomach.

As she spoke, she felt an abrupt force trying to break out of her body. She quickly started to run out of the kitchen with her legs pressed together, all the while releasing foul gas.

Disgusted, Adelpha, too, quickly fled the scene with her hand over her nose.

When the next morning came, Onyx entered the house with his luggage, only to be greeted by the sight of a pale Adelpha lying on the sofa.

"Ahem!"

He pulled a face and forced a cough to wake her up.

She eventually woke up, her body shaking. She thought that it was a dream when she opened her eyes and saw Onyx, so she rubbed her eyes to confirm that it wasn't a dream. After confirming that it was her beloved father, she immediately stood up and ran over to hug him.

"Poppa, you are finally home! I have missed you so much, Poppa!" Adelpha began to sob as she spoke.

Onyx's attitude instantly softened then. As he pulled her away, he wiped the tears from her cheeks fondly and complained, "You are too old to be sobbing like a baby! Wasn't I only on a business trip for a week? Why do you already miss me so much? How are you going to live a married life in the future?!"

"I don't want to get married. I want to be your precious daughter for the rest of my life!" Adelpha took his arm and leaned against him as she acted like a spoiled child.

Elise happened to see them when she walked to the middle of the stairs. Indifference and ridicule appeared in her eyes at that very moment.

He didn't even ask about his own daughter who had died at sea despite how much she had suffered, but here he was, doting on someone else's daughters. Elise could only imagine how sad Anastasia would be if she was watching this unfold.

After all, Elise and Anastasia shared one similarity—they were both deprived of their fathers' love. Even though everything was resolved after Austin left, Elise could still relate to and feel the pain in Anastasia's heart.

Onyx soon noticed Elise standing there.

Before he came home, Lyra and Adelpha had reported to him everything that had happened at home these two days. Of course, they made it a point to exaggerate every detail.

Onyx, who was a loving father up till a moment ago, took a look at Elise and his face fell immediately. "Look at how haggard your little sister looks. You have done one hell of a job, huh?"
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