Chapter 781 Suddenly enlightened
Born with a super-high IQ, Arthur had always been dismissive of superheroes when everyone else was worshipping them, but now, he really wished he had that kind of omnipotence, to find Lucia and their daughter immediately.
Arthur, lost in his troubled thoughts, did not even hear the doorbell ring until a soft voice called his name.
"Arthur, still no word from Lucia and the baby?"
That was his mother's voice!
Arthur jerked his head back and saw his gentle mother standing behind him. He had mixed feelings when he saw the worry in her eyes.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw Arthur who was in a daze and staring at the coffee table.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" Arthur had no idea Sophie was going home, but when he saw the look on Peter's face next to his mother, he understood.
"Mr. Davies, I'm sorry. I informed Madame on my own initiative." Peter apologized, but he had no regrets.
"I don't blame you," Arthur said, rising to his feet. He understood Peter's intentions. He went to his mother, who looked tired.
"Mom, I'm sorry I worried you..."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Sophie asked as she raised her hand to caress Arthur's cheek.
Arthur frowned and looked at Sophie silently.
Sophie's heart ached. She caressed Arthur's face again before asking, "Where's Otis?" owns this text.
"Otis is upstairs taking care of his comrades," Arthur said, knowing that he would have to come clean sooner or later. He told her about the injuries to Jack and the others, and then said,
"He'll be down in a minute."
"They're hurt?!" Sophie was shocked. She had been hoping that Spencer would just use the excuse to make things difficult for Lucia, but she didn't expect him to actually hurt them. It seemed that the matter was much more serious than she had imagined!
"Take me to see them." Sophie helped Arthur up the stairs to the room where Jack and the others were resting. She greeted them and assured them that they were fine before she relaxed. "Otis, Arthur, I want you to come downstairs with me. I want to know all the details," Sophie said to her two sons after the greeting.
Otis and Arthur looked at each other, and they obediently followed their mother downstairs. The three of them sat on the sofa together. Sophie went through the whole thing in detail. Of course, she knew that Esmae and Chris were at Athegate at this time.
"I wonder how Esmae feels now..." Sophie was not trying to cover up the fact that Esmae was the main reason Lucia and the baby were in danger. "What else could she think," said Otis, who could no longer hold back in her mother's presence.
"Up until now, she hasn't shown any remorse. She still wants Spencer to control Arthur and Lucia's relationship, regardless of Lucia's feelings. Is she able to control her life just because she once saved Lucia? Mom, is this the kind of person you should be asking for forgiveness over and over again? I think 70% of your grudge is because of her stubbornness. Dad never gave her any promise!"
"Otis, you can't say that about an elder," Sophie said,
"Esmae never took Lucia's feelings for granted, and she didn't object when she didn't know Arthur was mine kid, did she? Think about it from a different angle. If it were you, would you be able to be in-laws with someone you've hated for decades?"
"At least I'm not going to put my kid to hell." Otis' dissatisfaction with Esmae was in full bloom.
Arthur thought as Otis did, and now he said that it was impossible for him not to have a grudge against Esmae. Seeing that his mother still wanted to say something on Esmae's behalf, Arthur preempted her by saying,
"This time, Mom, Esmae has a responsibility, and I'm not going to hold it in any longer after we get Lucia and the baby out."
Arthur was fed up with the misery of being kidnapped by morality.
Seeing the fire in both sons' eyes, Sophie could no longer say anything to refute it, but what Arthur and Otis didn't know was that their thoughts would only make Sophie feel more and more guilty about Esmae. If she and Edwin hadn't wronged her, how could she have hurt Lucia...
It was really hard to tell right from wrong when the past was so intertwined and the cause and effect were so cyclical.
Just as Sophie was talking to her two sons, in a hotel downtown, Chris found his daughter and stopped her from trying to tell Otis.
"Helena, you can tell Otis, but you can't tell him that your mother has come to her senses."
"Why?" Helena wondered. It was the first thing she wanted to tell Otis and Arthur.
"Now that Lucia and the baby haven't been rescued, Arthur must be on the verge of breaking down. If he knows that your mother has let him go and agreed to be with them, he might do something drastic, and Lucia and the child would suffer the consequences instead."
Helena nodded her head slightly. Chris went on,
"Secondly, your mother has been hindering the relationship between Arthur and Lucia for a long time. Our families are very unhappy. After we get Lucia and the baby back, I plan to bring your mother to New York to visit the Edwins in person. I will formally apologize to them and put all the past grudges behind us."
"Is it true?!" At that, Helena's brow went up in the air, and she jumped into her father's arm.
"Of course it's true." Seeing his daughter so happy, Chris smiled for the first time in days.
"You and Otis, I'm sure your mother won't fight it anymore."
"Thank you, daddy!" Helena happily threw herself into her father's arms.
Chris smiled as he hugged her daughter, not realizing that the door was ajar in the distance, and that Esmae was watching them from the inside, listening in on their conversation.
Esmae was so happy to see her daughter's happy face, and her husband's constant love and care for her, that she suddenly remembered what Edwin had said to her. It was because of the previous experience she met her husband, gave birth to three smart children. This was her grateful happiness.
If she could go back in time and choose a different path and miss Chris, no, Esmae immediately stopped thinking about it. She wouldn't miss him! She will not miss this consistent, gentle man!