Chapter 92: Which Uncle Does Lily Want to Bring to the Parent–Child Activity?
How do you know you can’t be a professional racer again without trying?” Shane asked, understanding her passion.
She smiled, looking at the invitation, making a decision. I’ll send an email. If she replies, I’ll try for the race,”
Shane knew who she was emailing–her former navigator, her best friend, whom she hadn’t ontacted in five years since Luna’s retirement. Besides email, she wasn’t sure how else to reach Ber. She typed the familiar address.
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Remembering Shane’s question about her dreams, she thought of her friend. I want to be Luna again, to achieve our dream.*
She sent the email, her heart pounding. She hadn’t been this nervous even during the math competition.
The elevator doors opened. “I’ll take you home,” Shane offered.They could discuss the race on the way; she wouldn’t refuse him!
“Mommy!” Lily’s voice called out,
Willow saw Lily in a Range Rover, waving.A tall man sat behind the wheel, obscured in shadow.
Willow smiled at Shane.“My brother’s picking me up.”
Shane approached, then coughed.
“Uncle Shane, what’s wrong?” Lily asked.
Shane got into the car smoothly.“I
saw Fletcher at the banquet,
banquet, and…”
Lily was immediately captivated by his story.
Willow said goodbye to Lucian. As she was about to get in, Shane patted the seat beside him.”Hop in!”
“Get out!” Lu Fang barked.
Shane coughed dramatically.Lily patted his back; he coughed harder.
“Uncle, Uncle Shane is hurt. Can we take him home?”
Willow got
into the passenger seat.“Give Shane a ride.“While Shane’s injury was feigned, he’d put on a show for Fletcher.
Shane smirked.“Willow understands.Lu is too rough.”
Lu Fang thought,*If I had a gun, I’d shoot Shane.*
Willow buckled her seatbelt and saw Fletcher approaching Lucian.He was freshly showered, his hair dry. He saw the Range Rover and Willow inside.She ignored him. The jeep left the garage.Fletcher approached Lucian.“Uncle.”
“Disgraceful!” Lucian’s assessment left Fletcher pale.
Lucian didn’t look at him.“If I hadn’t told you about my brilliant student, if I hadn’t implicitly
allowed you to support Willow’s studies… things might have been different.”
Fletcher stared at the blanket
on
Lucian’s legs.“What do you mean,
Uncle?”
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He scoffed. “You never make mistakes. Your words are law to my father and grandfather. Do you regret something?”
For the first time, Fletcher felt Lucian wasn’t so distant.He, too, could make mistakes.
“Uncle, you feel sorry for my ex–wife?” Fletcher asked.He’d known from Lucian that Willow was special to him.
Lucian’s voice resonated.“I thought giving her to you would give her everything a girl desires.I overestimated you. You don’t deserve her.”
Fletcher clenched and unclenched his fists.“She’s so good. Why didn’t you marry her?”
“Mommy, look!” Lily handed Willow a document.It was Chongde’s annual outdoor parent–child activity notice.
Lily said seriously, “It says both parents need to attend. If one can’t, you need to explain why.” Willow had always attended these events; Fletcher never had.She’d excelled even while caring for two children alone.But his absence still affected them.
“Mommy will be there,” she said.
Lily explained, “I asked my teacher if I could bring another uncle since I don’t have a dad, and she said yes!“The teacher had initially refused, fearing negative consequences, but Lily’s situation‘ had changed things.
Willow asked, “Which uncle do you want to bring?”
Shane and Lu Fang both held their breath.*Pick me, pick me!* they thought.