Mommy，We Got a Husband by Doris

Chapter 35 If I Can't See My Son, Then We'll Go See Yours

This was the second time Galatea had been in the passenger seat of his car. She had unintentionally brought up Ambrose Vale earlier, and her emotions were still not fully settled.

Sitting in the car, she kept her gaze fixed outside the window, pretending the world beyond could distract. Alaric caught a brief look at her forlorn expression reflected in the rearview mirror, and for reasons he couldn't fathom why it tugged at his heartstrings.

Shaking off her gloom, she stepped out of the car, strangely eager about the meeting ahead. She was curious about what Alaric's son looked like. Could the boy resemble Harry so much that Alaric indulged in fantasies about Harry being his own child?

"Are you sure your son is at this school?" Galatea had been waiting with Alaric outside the school gates, and even as parents came and went with their children, there was still no sign of his son.

Galatea was beginning to suspect the worst. 'Was Alaric delusional again? Could it be that his son wasn't even at this school?'

Alaric glanced at his watch and decided to call Caspian's teacher directly. The teacher's response unsettled him, "Caspian was picked up by his grandfather. Didn't he inform you?" Caspian's grandfather? Griffon?

"No, he didn't, but thank you for letting me know," Alaric said before ending the call.

He dialed Griffon's number, and the man answered with a hasty apology. "Alaric, I completely forgot to mention I'd take Caspian home. Sorry, it made you take an unnecessary trip-I'm slipping in my old age, meant to call you but it slipped my mind."

"It's okay. May I ask what made you decide to pick up Caspian so suddenly?"

"I missed the boy. We live close to the school, and it seemed a shame for him to board when he could be with family. Let's have him stay over this weekend."

But Alaric couldn't shake a nagging hunch. If Caspian went to stay at the Nash family residence, Orion would be there, right? What if Caspian was provoked, leading to another one of his episodes?

"I understand you miss him, but you know about Caspian's condition. He's finally been doing better lately, and I'm worried seeing Orion might set him off again."

Orion's away at a film shoot, and it's just me and your aunt at home. We'll take great care of

finished speaking, he handed the phone to Harry, sporting a warm, grandfatherly

realized it

Judging by the old man's demeanor, it seemed alright. Harry didn't want to raise any suspicions, so he reassured Alaric

took Alaric by surprise. This kid was suddenly

saying that Alaric, I guess you can stop worrying,

conceded, what else could he say? "Please

son had been

of why

on the phone. Why

real relationship between her and Alaric, so there was hardly any need to explain who she really

in the car!" Alaric barked suddenly, snapping her out of her thoughts. She looked up just in time

choice but to follow him into the car. Once the engine roared to life, Alaric

the request. "We aren't really a couple. Why do you want to

a story about having a boy, when in fact you only have a daughter, right?" Galatea couldn't help but laugh at his words. That was the funniest joke she'd heard in her two-plus decades of

admitting him to a mental institution if

"Lost your nerve?"

dare?" said Galatea. "Today, I'll have my son tell you himself who

what your

be so defiant and even accuse him of being the delusional one? So, Alaric drove to Galatea's current

he couldn't drive all the way in, so he parked at the curbside, and

called Harry and Elisa's phone,

"Elisa, you're home, right?"