Chapter 120: A Bad-Tempered Kid
“What a bad-tempered kid!” Scarlett exclaimed as she lowered her head to kiss him on the tip of his nose.
The doctor was a kind, old man. He had a colorful lollipop in front, which made Carlos smile and begin drooling. Carlos seemed to want the doctor to hold on to him.
Scarlett did her best to hold him steady and took off his pants and diapers, getting him ready for the injection. However, Carlos turned around to look at her in doubt, as if he was wondering what his mother was trying to do.
Scarlett noticed that the look he had on his face was the same look that Francis often wore. She was stunned for a while. She couldn’t help thinking that genetics had made her son in the shape of her husband– genes were such a powerful thing, she thought to herself.
While the doctor was playing with Carlos, the doctor took the needle from the nurse and hid it behind him. When Carlos finally got the lollipop he had been yearning for, he showed it off to his mother and got ready to suck on the brightly colored hard candy.
However, he found that the lollipop was completely tasteless. He held the lollipop in front of his mother and stared straight into her eyes.
Right at that moment, the doctor motioned to Scarlett to press the baby tightly, and he administered the injection. Because of the sudden prick, the happy baby suddenly burst into tears. He cried like no other children who just cried loudly and had no tears; instead, his tears were particularly abundant and kept falling in great drops.
Scarlett hugged him very lovingly while the doctor had injected the needle into his vein. The baby struggled to release himself from his mother, and in order not to break the needle, Scarlett had to strap the baby very tightly with her arms.
“Don’t cry, my baby. You are the best kid!” She comforted him gently. However, no matter how hard she tried to coax the baby, he still cried as loudly as ever.
After crying for a while, the baby’s crying grew lower and lower, and his voice became hoarse. As the baby stopped crying, Scarlett helped him put on his pants and kept thanking the doctor.
“Be brave, you cute little boy! It didn’t hurt that much! Did it? Come on, and you’re a brave boy, aren’t you? Yes, you are!” The doctor smiled as he stroked the head of the baby. With that, the baby seemed to understand what the doctor was saying and turned himself away angrily. He buried his head in his mother’s arms, the lollipop still in his little hands.
“Thank you very much, doctor, and goodbye!” She said. After that, she took the baby, who was still unhappy and left the clinic.Content provided by NôvelDrama.Org.
As she walked out of the clinic, she heard a soft voice calling her from a distance. She started looking around to see who was calling her. As she looked up, she saw Claire and her father, David, off in the distance.
“Dad, Scarlett is here.” Claire smiled as she took her father by the hand to walk towards Scarlett.
It had been a long time since Scarlett had seen her father. And although David was more than fifty years old, he was still handsome and didn’t look much older than Claire when he walked by her side. And it all came down to a successful career, happy marriage, and the lovely family he had.
At this moment, David took a look at the baby in her arms and asked, “Why did you come to the hospital while you were supposed to be at school?”
In fact, if she had not learned proper manners and etiquette from Francis, she probably would have just ignored them and walked away without another thought.
She just answered his question and said nothing more.
“Whose baby is this? He is so cute!” Claire smiled and walked much closer to Scarlett.
Although Claire was not as pretty as Scarlett, she looked better than Scarlett that day. She was wearing a beautiful blue dress. Meanwhile, Scarlett was wearing light blue jeans, a chiffon shirt, and a casual pair of white sneakers, which made her look very plain and simple compared to Claire, who looked glamorous.
“Why are you here? Is someone sick?” Scarlett asked.
“Well, dad doesn’t feel too well, so I decided to take him to have a general check done. What about you?” Claire smiled as she brushed her hair.
At this moment, Grace reached out her hands to take the baby from Scarlett, but as she reached out her hands, Carlos had his back toward Grace and held his mother very tightly.
“Come on, Carlos, let me take you, okay?” Grace said.
Right then, the baby stared at Scarlett and started weeping, “Mum…”
Upon seeing that, Scarlett patted him on the back to coax him and said to Grace, “He is uncomfortable now, so let me take him. Come, you can hand him to me. I got it.”
“Is this your kid?” Claire stared at Scarlett in disbelief.
It was so unexpected to them that Scarlett had a baby now. After all, they knew Scarlett very well. She had absolute tenacity and strong self-control. She was not the type of girl to do desperate things just to get money. Even in the worst of times, she was far too proud to ask for help. But now, the facts were right in front of them. They began to wonder if Scarlett had given in. Had she decided to become a mistress to the rich man?
Right at that moment, Scarlett broke the silence and said, “Well, I have something else to deal with, so I gotta go now. I hope everything turns out okay! Bye! See you later.”
Because David didn’t know what he should say to her, they just said goodbye.
“Dad did she…” Claire stared at her as she walked away.
“She is a grown-up now and has her own mind. So let’s go now!” David said as he looked at Scarlett getting into the black Merc.