Tommy understood what Luke meant when he said that she was not their mother. Tears welled up in his eyes as he jumped out of bed and walked to Luke’s side. He held Luke’s hand and asked, “Daddy, that’s not our Mommy. Is Mommy in the hands of the bad guys?”
“Perhaps.” Luke did not provide him with 100 percent certainty.
He would give his all to look for Bianca. However, he could not promise the kids whether he could find her and how long it would take.
“Daddy, I’m sure you’ll find Mommy.” Tommy held Luke’s hand tightly with his tiny hands as though he was comforting Luke.
“Do you miss her?” Luke tried his best to hold back the tears in the corners of his eyes when he saw how sensible Tommy was being. He knew that Tommy did not want him to worry.
Tommy was the youngest in the family. He loved to fool around but when he showed his sensible side, he was no different from Lanie and Rainie.
“Yes, I miss her but Mommy has been gone for so many years. Tommy knows better than to make you promise that you’ll find her,” Tommy said.
Luke sighed and held his hand when he saw how well-behaved Tommy was. “I’ll find her as soon as possible.”
Tommy nodded and thought of Lanie and Rainie. He lowered his voice and said, “Dad, don’t tell Lanie and Rainie about this. If they know that Mommy isn’t back yet, they’ll be very sad. I don’t want to see them upset.”
Luke stared at him. Compared to Tommy, Lanie and Rainie only met Bianca when they were five years old. They did not have as many childhood memories of Bianca as compared to Tommy. Even so, after
Tommy found out about the news, he did not make a fuss but instead comforted Luke and requested that Lanie and Rainie be kept in the dark.
He did not want them to be sad…
“Daddy, what’s the matter with you?” Tommy noticed that Luke was keeping quiet. He was worried that he would tell the news to Lanie and Rainie, so he said, “I want Lanie and Rainie to be happy.”
The bedroom door opened, and Lanie and Rainie walked in. They looked at their brother and father, then walked up to them together.
“Lanie, Rainie…” Tommy looked at them.
Rainie touched her brother’s cheek and said, “We all know, Tommy. Don’t be sad.”
Tommy was relieved when he found out that they both knew about it. He was glad that there was no need for him to hide it from them.
Lanie looked at Luke and said firmly, “I believe that Daddy will bring Mommy home.”
Luke looked at the three children, nodded, and touched their heads with his big palms. He said, “It’s getting late. Go get some rest. All of you have class tomorrow.”
After he finished speaking, Lanie and Rainie left, while Tommy climbed into bed obediently.
After Luke tucked Tommy in, he turned off the lights. He then walked out of the bedroom and closed the door on his way out.
It was getting late. The entire Crawford Manor fell into silence. Luke watched the dim lights in the corridor and thought about the past.
Before going to bed, Bianca would always open the door of the kids’ bedrooms to see if they had fallen asleep. If she saw that they had yet to sleep, she would whisper and comfort them until they did.
Since the fake Bianca joined their family, she had not once comforted the children. The kids only managed to fall asleep because of the routines that Bianca helped them build in the past. They no longer needed anyone to coax them to sleep.
The children were growing up. They were so sensible that it was distressing.
Since Old Master Crawford knew about the fake Bianca, he no longer had to pretend that all was well. He went back to the master bedroom to rest.
He had not slept in the master bedroom for three years.
In the past three years, to help Bianca gain familiarity with the environment, he went with Tia’s suggestion and did not redecorate the master bedroom.
The master bedroom remained the same as before Bianca was kidnapped.
Luke did not lie on the bed. He would not lie on a bed slept by a counterfeit, so he took a new set of bedding and pillows from the cabinet. He lay down on the sofa instead.
With one hand resting behind his head, Luke looked at the ceiling, missing Bianca even more.
…
The next day.
Luca returned to work at T Corporation.
She did not rest all night last night, so there were two dark eye circles around her eyes.
While she was clocking in, Luca happened to run into Zoey Davis, the assistant.
Seeing her eye bags, Zoey asked, “Dr. Craw, did you not sleep well yesterday?”
“I have insomnia,” Luca said. She used to take medicine the instant she could not sleep. It was just that she still woke up from a dream in the middle of last night after taking medicine.
She dreamt about Luke again.
Zoey noticed how exhausted she looked and asked, “Dr. Craw, would you like a cup of coffee?”
“Okay, please send it to the laboratory later,” Luca said. She planned to go directly to the laboratory for some research after putting her briefcase in her office.
If she could, she did not want to stay in the office as she knew that a surveillance camera was installed there.
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“Okay.” After Zoey finished pressing her thumb against the device for verification, walked directly to the pantry.
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When she arrived at the laboratory, she saw several researchers sitting together discussing something.
Luca shook her head. If it was when they used to work at Watson Biopharmaceuticals, they would bury themselves in their research. Since they came to T Corporation, they seemed to chat more and had more opportunities to get together.
“Good morning,” Luca took the initiative to greet them.
“Dr. Craw, good morning.” The researchers saw her walk in but did not disperse.
Luca asked curiously upon seeing their reaction, “What are you talking about?”
One of the researchers replied, “Dr. Craw, didn’t you hear?”
“Hear about what?” Luca always found out about news much later than the others.
“T Corporation is about to organize an employee trip,” a researcher said, “But it’s yet to be decided where we’re going.”
Luca knew that T Corporation organized employee trips every year, but they were from Watson Biopharmaceuticals. They were not employees of T Corporation.
Generally speaking, anything to do with T Corporation did not involve the other subsidiaries.
“This has nothing to do with us,” Luca said. Generally speaking, the trip organized for the headquarters’ employees was much better than for employees of branches and subsidiaries. T Corporation’s affairs did not involve Watson Biopharmaceuticals at all, so their discussion was pointless.
“Dr. Craw, a notice came out saying that since our department is now in T Corporation’s office, we’ll also be going on the employee trip. We’re now voting on which tourist attractions to visit,” a researcher said while holding her phone.