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Jimmy followed his line of sight and saw that he was looking at Franklin and Julia, who seemed to have no intention of leaving and were heading into a coffee shop.
Rex didn’t take his eyes off them. “That girl… Could it be true? Did Franklin really have a daughter?”
Jimmy wasn’t too concerned with this matter. “Maybe.”
Rex stood still, his lips pressed together.
“If that girl really was Franklin’s daughter, then Julia, being with him, would likely face a lot of hardship
in the future.
And there were also rumors that Franklin had already married. If that was true, would he and his ex–wife be tied to each other for the sake of the child? Wouldn’t that just make things harder for Julia?
Jimmy’s phone rang.
After a while, he put the phone down and said, “I have some things to take care of. Are you coming along?”
Rex came back to his senses, his eyes darkened. “No, I’m waiting for someone. You go ahead, we can meet
next time.”
“Okay.”
Jimmy walked off.
After his figure disappeared, Rex walked towards the coffee shop.
As he opened the door to the coffee shop, he ran into Julia, who was about to take Isabella to the restroom.
Both stopped in their tracks.
Julia saw him and said, “Mr. Hardin? What a coincidence.”
“Mm,” Rex replied, closing the door. His gaze swept around the coffee shop and landed on Franklin, who was ordering from a waiter.
x shifted his attention to Isabella.
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Just one glance, and he was almost certain that Isabella was Franklin’s daughter because she resembled him by four or five points.
Still, he asked, “Is this…?”
Julia lowered her head and answered, “Frank’s daughter.”
Sure enough.
Rex felt a weight in his chest.
At that moment, Isabella spoke up, “Aunt Julie, who’s this handsome uncle?”
Julie bent down, gently tapping Isabella’s little nose, and smiled warmly. “Auntie’s friend.”
Isabella said, “Oh…”
Julia then turned to Rex and asked, “Mr. Hardin, did you come to meet a friend-”
Before she could finish, Isabella interrupted her.
She shook Julia’s arm, “Aunt Julie, hurry, take me to the restroom.”
She had drunk milk tea earlier and now desperately needed to pee.
Seeing that Julia seemed like she was about to keep chatting with Rex, she couldn’t hold back and interrupted her.
Because she was in such a hurry, her tone even sounded a bit commanding toward Julia.
Rex noticed how tender Julia was with Isabella, but Isabella seemed to be bossing her around.
His brow furrowed deeply.
But Julia didn’t seem to mind at all. When she looked at Isabella, she remained gentle and patient, saying, “Okay, Auntie knows. It’s my fault, I’ll take you right now.”
She then turned to Rex and said, “I’ll go ahead. See you later.”
Rex felt even worse after seeing this.
But he didn’t have the right to say anything at the moment, so he just replied, “I also need to go to the Testroom. How about we go together?”
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Julia smiled and said, “Okay.”
Isabella was in a real hurry. Seeing that Julia was moving too slowly, she couldn’t wait any longer and let go of Julia’s hand, running toward the restroom on her own.
Julia saw this and couldn’t care less about Rex. She immediately rushed to catch up, calling out, “Isabella,
wait for me!”
Rex watched, feeling that Isabella was acting too willfully.
Just as Isabella was about to speak, she suddenly stopped and looked to the side.
“Isabella?”
Julia, who had caught up, noticed she had stopped running and instantly guessed she might have seen Maggie.
She glanced at Rex, who was quickly following behind, and her eyes flickered. She then pulled Isabella’s hand, saying, “Isabella, weren’t we going to the restroom? Let’s-”
“Mm.”
Isabella looked around a few more times, but didn’t see Maggie again. She figured she had imagined it and stopped looking, hurrying to the restroom.
Maggie was indeed in the direction Isabella had just looked, but she was blocked by someone. With the bustling crowd in the shopping mall, she hadn’t noticed them.
After a while, Julia, Rex, and the others came out of the restroom.
Isabella was at the age of curiosity.
Everything he saw along the way piqued his interest–looking here, peeking there, chatting non–stop with Julia.
Julia always smiled and responded.
Rex, watching from the side, felt that Julia was very responsible for Franklin’s child. He also felt more deeply that taking care of children wasn’t an easy task.
When they returned to the café, Rex immediately glanced over to Franklin’s direction and saw that Franklin was leisurely drinking coffee while flipping through a magazine.
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He looked like a carefree boss.
Rex paused for a moment.
Earlier, on the way to the restroom, Rex had mentioned that he was meeting some friends at the café.
Entering the café, Julia asked, “Has your friend arrived?”
Rex shook his head. “Not yet.”
“Then why not come sit with us?”
“You’re out on a date, so it wouldn’t feel right for me to join.”
Julia smiled. “It’s fine, Frank won’t mind.”
So Rex walked over with Julia and the others toward Franklin.
As they approached, the first thing Rex noticed was a bouquet of deep red roses beside Franklin’s seat.
There was no need to guess–the roses were definitely a gift from Franklin to Julia.
It seemed that Franklin didn’t think as badly of Julia as he had assumed earlier.
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