Ever since the drunken incident, Leah hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol. However, the man seemed as if nothing had happened, remaining as silent and aloof as ever, so Leah slowly relaxed.

Delphine’s lawsuit with the Cloud Family had also come to a close; not only did she win the case, but she also cleared her name from the online slander. This impressive turn of events filled Leah with joy, especially since Aiden was bringing his medical team to the South Seas this week to attend a medical conference, so she had been in high spirits.

After Delphine Carter’s lawsuit with Melody Cloud, the second master of the Cloud Family, Yun Ji, sued the family head, Yun Tao, plunging the Cloud Family into internal strife. Richard Shaw already knew that Ignatius Leclair intended to move against the Cloud Family, but he didn’t comment on it, continuing his leisurely life as a butler-cum-chef in the South Seas.

He and Ignatius Leclair grew up together, and due to the complex ties between the Shaw Family and the Howard Family, their friendship was deeper than most. Ignatius Leclair was a man who would repay any grievance, and since the Cloud Family had crossed his woman, they were bound for a bad end.

But with the downfall of the Cloud Family, only three of the four top families remained. Griffith Squire’s influence in the South Seas would further expand, and with the Golden Triangle’s troubles resolved by him, the man squinted. It seemed a new reason had to be found to send Griffith Squire away.

Richard Shaw sent an order to Imperial City to move Griffith Squire to Eastern Europe, after which Aiden’s medical team arrived in the South Seas.

Following the address Leah had previously given him, Aiden arrived at the garden villa, only to find Leah had taken Casimir Shaw to a nearby mall for a shopping spree. The man was home alone, dealing with some matters from the Imperial City Military District while pondering the evening’s menu.

When Aiden entered by keying in the code, Richard Shaw thought Leah and Casimir Shaw had returned, quickly stopped handling official duties, and looked up, saying nonchalantly, "Back so early?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

This time Aiden had not stayed in a hotel with his medical team but had come directly to find Leah with his luggage. The man, standing at 190cm, was dressed in his best-fitting suit and a dark red tie, elegantly pulling his luggage as he entered, only to find Richard Shaw sitting in the living room.

The two men, one standing, one sitting; one tall and elegant, the other handsome and stern, exchanged a glance in eerie silence.

"Sorry, I’m looking for Aria, her Chinese name is Leah." Aiden, a Swiss Chinese of mixed descent, with facial features sharper than those of an Easterner, spoke elegantly with a smile, his Chinese fluent.

Richard Shaw immediately recognized Aiden’s identity. From the start, he felt that Leah’s relationship with her attending physician was overly intimate. Now, seeing that she had told this man the house code, it was not merely intimacy, but beyond ordinary trust, and his expression immediately cooled.

This foreigner acted so overly familiar, arriving with his luggage as if afraid people wouldn’t know his intent.

"Leah went shopping with my son and hasn’t come back yet," the man spoke coldly.

Aiden glanced at the wheelchair and said with a smile, "I’m Aiden, Leah’s attending physician. May I ask who you are?"

Richard Shaw was taken aback by the question, surely he couldn’t say he was just a chef. His handsome face turned somewhat unpleasant as he said in a low voice, "I live here."

Aiden’s smile froze; had Aria found herself a paralyzed live-in boyfriend? He figured he had to warn Aria. Since her fall from a horse, her body hadn’t fully recovered and wasn’t suitable for intense physical activities or a sexual relationship.

When Leah received Aiden’s call, she brought the bouncing Casimir Shaw home. Today had been fruitful; not only did she buy Casimir several sets of summer clothes, but she also purchased two sets of sportswear for old Richard. Watching the man wear those semi-retro outfits was too ascetic, too monastic, constantly challenging her nerves, so better to buy a couple of tracksuits. They even got a green turtle for Casimir.

Casimir Shaw was thrilled, clutching the glass tank with the green turtle and chatting away with the little turtle along the way. Richard Shaw never allowed him to have pets, though there were two ragdoll cats at the Shaw Mansion, no pets were allowed in the lodge.

It was the first time Casimir Shaw had his own silly little turtle.

When Leah returned home, she saw the man and Aiden occupying their respective spaces, one reading a book, the other on the phone, the atmosphere slightly strange.

"Leah." Seeing Leah return, Aiden’s eyes lit up. He quickly hung up the phone and approached for a formal hug.

"Aiden, why did you come early?" Leah’s beautiful almond eyes curved with delight.

Richard Shaw’s face suddenly darkened, and he pressed his fingers hard, creating a deep crease in the book he was holding.

Casimir Shaw noticed old Richard was upset and hugged the little turtle tighter, tugging on Leah’s dress hem, and said crisply, "Mommy, where are the clothes you bought for old Richard?"

Leah hurriedly went to find the paper bags piled on the floor.

Hearing that she had bought him new clothes, the man’s body stiffened slightly, and his mood inexplicably improved. His tea-colored eyes glanced faintly at the foreigner, struck as if by lightning, finally feeling he had regained a small victory.

"Leah, is this your child?" Aiden looked at the adorable little fellow, a bit dumbstruck, then immediately doubted, "No, for the past five years you’ve been undergoing surgical treatment, let alone having a child; even getting pregnant was impossible."

"Thomas is my godson." Leah smiled, bending to give Casimir Shaw’s small cheek a kiss.

Only then did Aiden breathe a sigh of relief. While he wasn’t a conservative man and could even accept if Leah had children, in the five years of treating Leah, he had gone from a staunch non-marriage advocate to someone secretly infatuated. However, seeing Leah seemed highly resistant to the opposite sex, he never confessed. Now, in just a few months apart, Leah not only had a godson but also had a paralyzed and coldly imposing man by her side; Aiden felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.

With his male instinct, this man was not one to be trifled with.

Casimir Shaw felt shy after being kissed by his mommy, picked up the paper bag, and went to ingratiate himself.

"Old Richard, these are the clothes mommy bought for you. And here’s my turtle; mommy said I’m to take good care of it." The young boy’s voice was loud and clear.

The man’s attention was completely focused on the blue-eyed foreign gentleman, responding absentmindedly, signaling his permission to keep the turtle.

"Old Richard, have you cooked yet? Aiden is staying for dinner." After catching up with Aiden, Leah remembered the matter of dinner.

The man squinted, noticing only now that she paid him attention, his face expressionless and coldly said, "I hurt my hand, can’t cook for the next couple of days."

The handsome, stern man said as he lifted his hand, newly bandaged, a flash of dark light hidden in his tea-colored eyes. As an Army Major General, he cooked only for his wife and son; anyone else shouldn’t even dream about it.