Chapter 116: I Need Fair Treatment
At the moment, Scarlett was half awake and saw her baby struggling to have his meal. She had no choice but to sit up and hold him up, starting to feed him while she kept yawning sleepily.
Francis went back to bed and rested his head on his hands to look at the mother and the baby. They were the two most important people to him in the entire world.
He felt very happy and satisfied, and this feeling was so much greater than the sense of satisfaction he felt when he would cut a billion-dollar business deal.
As the sun climbed up gradually, a busy morning started the new day.
Scarlett had woken up so early that she was dozing off at breakfast. Her hair almost landed in the porridge.
“Are you that tired, babe?” Francis smiled at her and asked.
“Of course!” She squinted and mistakenly put a piece of ginger in her mouth.
Francis grabbed her hand to help her shake off the ginger and said, “Well, you’d better go to bed early and don’t mess around on your phone at night!”
Scarlett stared at him angrily and frowned, “It’s your fault, okay? I wasn’t on my phone last night at all.”
“Sorry, babe. But you had left me high and dry for so long.” He smirked. He had always had a huge sexual appetite that no woman had been able to compete with.
Right then, breakfast was served. To Scarlett’s dismay, it was chicken broth again. Scarlett used her soup spoon to poke at the bowl and then asked Shirley very carefully, “Isn’t this too greasy for breakfast? Do I have to have bone broth?”
“Well, you are nursing now! So you’d better need more nutrition, and then you can feed the baby with breast milk.” Shirley smiled.
“If you really don’t want that, you can choose not to. We can feed the baby with milk powder instead.” Francis said.
After Francis said that, Shirley sighed and retreated quietly from the dining room.
“But haven’t you told me that the baby doesn’t take the milk powder?” Scarlett asked in doubt.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.
“He will after he goes hungry for a bit. We can’t let him develop into a bad habit of being picky about food.” He explained as he wiped his mouth and threw the napkin away, and then went on, “Don’t you have class in the morning? Let’s go now! I’ll drive you to school.”
Scarlett hastily took a few spoonfuls of the soup and caught up with Francis. She took him by the hand and smiled, “Well, I really don’t think that’s a good idea. I can tell that he is as stubborn as you, what if he would rather starve than give in? And what are we gonna do about that?”
“Like me? Wow.” He looked at her incredulously.
“Well, the baby had better not be like me because I was very wild when I was young. There was nothing I wouldn’t dare to do when I was a kid.”
“As the saying goes, spare the rod and spoil the child!” He said as he opened the car door for her and pushed her into the car.
After they got in the car, the driver started the car and took one of them to work and the other to school.
In the car, Scarlett held his arms and said, “Yeah, that makes sense. The bad child deserves a good lesson!”
“I was talking about you! Who did you think I was talking about? You thought it was our baby?” He stared at her.
“Well, that’s a good joke…” She forced a smile on her face.
“You are not allowed to perform violent parenting. He’s only a baby right now, but that sets a dangerous precedent. You have to reason with him, otherwise, you’ll traumatize him.” He said seriously.
“So I’m the one who is gonna need violent education at home?” She asked in surprise.
“What did you say? Our home?” He asked smilingly.
“Don’t digress from the subject. I need fair treatment!” She demanded.
“Well, okay! You can beat our baby, and I’ll beat you. It’s very fair!” He said as he took her by the hand.
Upon hearing that, Scarlett was speechless. She didn’t know how to contradict him.
“You disapprove?” He asked.
“Don’t be absurd, Francis. I’m realizing now that having a son of my own isn’t the most wonderful thing in the world after all.”
“I don’t agree with you on that!” He said with great satisfaction.
“Will you throw me out from your house if I gave birth to a girl for you?” She asked.
“Of course not. What kind of monster do you think I am anyway?” He frowned and said angrily.
Scarlett knew that such statements would poke his ego and make him angry, so she wanted to make sure that she came up with something sweet to calm him down. Before she could think of anything, however, the driver pulled into the school parking lot. As Scarlett saw the familiar school gate, she made her great escape instantly, “I have arrived, so goodbye!”
Before Francis could react, Scarlett had already run away and headed towards the building. After Scarlett ran away from him, she felt lucky that she could escape his anger. It was so horrible to make him angry, but she always pissed him off.
Francis just smiled in the car and said, “Let’s go to the company!”
Since Francis had started seeing this girl, the driver no longer had to worry about Francis’s unpredictable temper. These days he was always very happy.
As for Scarlett, as expected, she was dozing off in class. Bell came to wake her up and joked,
“Wow, it looks like someone had a fierce fight last night!”
Scarlett heard what she said, but she just ignored her and went on sleeping on the desk. While she ignored Bell, she kept asking in whispers,
“Hey, have you two gotten registered for your marriage license yet? Your son won’t become illegitimate, will he?”
Upon hearing that, Scarlett was startled and looked up at her in doubt, “It can’t be like that, right?”
“So your son is an illegitimate child now?” She was surprised.