I Am An Illegitimate Child With A Legitimate Reason For Revenge-Chapter 166: They’re not married

On getting to the living room, they found Paige coming in through the front door. At first glance, she wondered, ’If Ariel hadn’t died, would this be the image that I would’ve gotten used to?’

Honestly, they looked like a family.

"Paige." Raymond called and she walked towards them. "Steve isn’t here?"

"No, why?" She asked and it would seem Steve was still on his way from wherever he was.

"We want to take Romeo with us to the amusement park. We probably won’t return today so is that okay with you?"

"Amusement park?" She looked at them surprised. "What’s going on there?"

"Is that a yes or a no?" Raymond asked and Paige scanned the situation first.

It didn’t look like they were going on any business related issue. Then was it because Rachael wanted to go? They certainly wouldn’t reject if she was the culprit.

"I don’t have a problem with it but why are you taking him with you? Did he say he wants to go with? He’s not one to speak up about these sorts of things."

"No," Raymond shook his head. "...It was Rachael’s idea."

’Rachael seems to be calling the shots already.’ Paige thought and smiled. "Well, if Romeo says he wants to go then I don’t have an issue." She said, ruffled his hair and smiled at him. "But be sure to take pictures. I’d like to see just how much fun you have, okay?"

Romeo’s eyes glistened and he nodded.

"Yes, mummy." He said and she ruffled his hair one more time before attempting to leave when Steve walked in.

"Oh, she’s here already." He said. "Why did you call?" He asked Raymond who shook his head.

"You’re too late. It’s already been decided." He said and they made their way out of there, leaving Steve lost.

"What was decided?" He asked Paige who simply shrugged and said,

"Next time, learn to be on time."

As they left the mansion, Alexa couldn’t help but feel that those two were strange. Though they had a child together, they didn’t act like a couple and neither did they act like strangers.

They were more like friends who shared problems together.

"Was it an arranged marriage?" She muttered, accidentally sounding too loud. She looked towards Raymond but it didn’t seem like he heard her.

She breathed out in relief and thought about it some more. It wasn’t difficult to conclude it as an arranged marriage since big families actually did that a lot.

"They’re not married." Raymond suddenly said. "Paige is married but Steve’s single. He has no plans of getting married in the near future, know that."

Alexa was confused with this answer. How to connect such dots?

Raymond turned to look at her.

"You’re probably wondering how they got a child together if they aren’t married but they do have one." He said and turned around. "They don’t have a sexual relationship of any sort but if you want to know more, you’ll have to ask her personally. Paige, I mean."

Alexa was silent. She wouldn’t dare do that. Knowing this much was already okay for her.

"Thank you but I’ll stick it out." She said and Raymond nodded.

He didn’t know why he suddenly explained to her but he preferred letting her in on it than watching her furrow her eyebrows in contemplation.

One would think she was given a highly advanced and difficult math equation to solve when all she was trying to do was figure out the relationship between two people.

It was comical and he found himself smiling.

Romeo saw this and was surprised.

’Uncle is smiling,’ he thought. ’I have never seen my uncle smile like this before. Is it because of Rachael’s mummy?’ he looked back at Alexa. ’She looks just like the woman in the portrait but no one says so. Is she really uncle’s wife? Did they get separated? Mummy and daddy don’t live together so maybe that’s her situation as well.’

While dwelling so much in his thoughts, he found himself falling into sleep and so did Rachael, who had nothing to do.

"They’re asleep." Alexa said and Raymond nodded.

"We’ll wake them when we get there. The distance is a bit long from here so you can go ahead and sleep once we’re in the car." he said but she shook her head.

"Don’t worry, I’m okay."

Contrary to her own words, she fell asleep shortly after.

’She shouldn’t be stubborn.’ Raymond thought and adjusted her properly so her neck wouldn’t hurt.

Once that was done, he laid back on the chair and looked out the window. The past few days had been the most eventful days of his life. He didn’t go to work, didn’t drink himself to stupor and didn’t spend his time thinking about Ariel either.

Rachael was with him the whole time and when at night, instead of going to her mother’s side, she would stick close to him and hold his hand to sleep.

It was comforting and that was probably why he felt so relaxed that he didn’t pay attention to anything else.

Soon, he found himself sleeping as well.

When he said they probably wouldn’t return that same day, he was serious because the amusement park was a long distance away. They would probably have to stay the night and return the next day.

And to that, he had already gotten a villa ready.

MINI THEATER

On her way back home, Rachael overheard some middle aged women advising a young lady about love and immediately took interest.

"When you love someone so dearly and find him holding someone else, you’ll definitely get jealous. And when that happens, take him away from there. If not, you’ll lose yourself and lose him as well."

The young lady took note of that and nodded. Then, another middle aged lady added,

"And if you find him kissing someone else, that means he’s cheating. You can’t let that happen, do you understand?"

Rachael made sure to take note of that advice and went home. She found Raymond carrying Romeo and gave him a peck on his forehead.

"Stay away." She suddenly yelled and ran towards them. "Put him down," she cried out, tears rolling down her cheeks in the most dramatic way possible. "How can you cheat on me?"

Raymond, confused, quickly put down Romeo and carried her.

"Where’s this coming from? I only..."

"Wah!" Rachael cried louder. "You were cheating on me."

In the end, Raymond was only able to calm her down by patting her back and putting her to sleep. The adorable thing kept muttering ’no cheating’ in her sleep and he wondered where she got that from.