Chapter 453

“Are you okay?“

After Alice helped Adrian upstairs, Joshua looked at Luna who sported a red, puffy palm print on her
cheek, his brows screwed tightly together.

“What bad can it be?“

Luna raised her lips coldly, took the ice cubes that Neil handed her, and held them gently against her
swollen cheek. “It won’t kill me.“

With that, she glanced at him, her eyes faint. “Mr. and Mrs. Lynch exerted yourselves to get me to bring
the two children back to your home because you wanted me to become your father’s punching bag.“

Joshua’s eyes darkened. “I did not know my father and grandmother would be here…“

Beside him, Granny Lynch rolled her eyes. “What do you mean you did not know?“

The old lady pursed her lips. “Before you came home, I asked the butler to inform you! Joshua, why

do you care what an employee like her thinks? Even if you asked her here to be slapped by your father
to vent his anger, so what? Doesn’t she at least deserve a slap for the things that she did?“

The moment her words left her mouth, the entire living room instantly grew quiet. His expression ice-
cold, Joshua ordered the servants to summon the butler.

“Granny Lynch did in fact ask me to inform you. but I was worried I would disturb you while you were
discussing business, and informed Ma’am.“

With that, the butler glanced at Joshua in confusion. “Did she not tell you?“

The living room was once again enveloped in silence.



Helplessly, Joshua massaged his aching temples with his long fingers. “Get back to your work.“

No wonder, since the start Alice kept insisting on bringing the two children back to the villa. And later, at
the Swan Lake Residences, she suddenly changed her mind and wanted to bring Luna along to his
home.

Not to mention Alice, any servant working for the Lynch household knew of the friendship between
Adrian Lynch and Dennis Walter.

Alice intentionally instigated Luna to come to the villa when Adrian was in the house… actually, it was all
for this moment, was it not?

At this thought, Joshua finally had an answer to the question of why Alice was so attentive to this father.

He heaved out a long sigh, helplessness creeping in between his brows, “Neil.“

He raised his eyes faintly and looked at the little guy who was sitting beside Luna. “Bring your Mommy to
you and your sister’s room.“

Neil frowned and looked at him, confused.

“Didn’t you have a lot to say to her? Don’t tell me you want to do that in the living room for all of us to
hear?“

Hearing the man’s words, Neil was stunned for a moment. A second later, he finally understood, Joshua
was giving him and his sister a chance to spend time alone with Luna!

And so, the little guy jumped up from the couch excitedly, dragged Luna behind him with one hand and
his sister in the other. “Let’s go!“

Luna laughed at the agitated expression on his face, then turned and glanced at Joshua.



He nodded at her, indicating to her to leave with Neil.

Only then did she suck in a deep breath, hold the hand of each child, and lifted her legs, and headed
upstairs to the children’s room on the first floor.

The sound of the door to the children’s room being closed drifted downstairs.

Only Joshua and Granny Lynch were left in the living room.

The old lady glared at Joshua coldly. “Why did you allow the kids to leave with her? So what if she
misses the kids, I miss them too! “

Joshua raised his eyes and looked at the old lady in front of him with faint eyes. “Weren’t you living
happily enough even before you knew you had great- grandchildren?“

With that, he glanced in the direction of the first floor.

“To us, the two children are unexpected surprises, but to her…they’re a family whom she can’t live
without, built over the past six years.“

He did not know why Luna took him and Luna Gibson’s two children. Maybe, like what she said, because
she met a useless man and gave up on marriage, that was why she took the children and raised them as
her own. But, since he and Alice decided to forgive her for her transgressions all those years ago, now
they should also understand the love they had for each other after spending every day together for the
last years.


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