The moment that marked us
Chapter 43

Chapter 43:.

“You weirdo, I don’t care if you know me, you can’t hit your son, just like that, That’s against the law! I’m telling you, even if you know my name, I’m not afraid of you, I’m calling the police!”.

“Sherry!” William couldn’t look anymore and called her name coldly.

Sherry was so startled by the sudden shout that her phone almost fell out of her hand, then she finally recognized who it was, “You, you, are you Mr. Rowland?”.

She finally knew who it was, otherwise William would have run out of patience.

Yes”. A cold manly voice was heard from the other end of the line, it was deep, and the simple reply carried no emotion, but Sherry was startled.

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Oh, my goodness!

How could it be Mr. Rowland?

Right, she remembered when she was in Seoul, he said he had a son, could it be her son Samuel? This was quite a coincidence!

“Where is my son?” William asked.

“Yes, Mr. Rowland, I’ll bring him right now!”.

“No need!” William hadn’t forgotten that she was hurt, “I’ll pick him up!” –

“Mr. Rowland, could you please not hit him again? Sherry continued, “Do you know how sad he was, he was sitting alone at the bus stop crying, why did you do that?”.

“Sherry, I didn’t hit him, you stupid girl!” how many times did he have to tell her before she believed him?

“You didn’t? Why do you keep lying, and blackmailing me, you’re so cruel, Mr. Rowland, I had no idea you were so overbearing, so unreasonable, AND now you’re even a torturer!”.

“You!” William was angry, “You stupid woman!”.

“See! You’re cursing again, now I finally know why Samuel left home, You’re really a scary man, This poor child!”.

Sherry shook her head and sighed, it made her sad that Samuel was born into that Family.

“Sherry, where are you?” William had no time to waste on her.

“You have to promise first that you won’t hit him again, only if you do that, I’ll tell you where we are!”. Sherry hadn’t forgotten the reason she had phoned.

“Okay, I promise!”. William finally said, God only knew how resilient he felt, but this woman was a tough nut to crack.

“Are you sure?”

“I’m sure!”.

“Okay, I’ll wait for you at YX road number one!”. Sherry had to get Samuel there as fast as possible, she couldn’t let William replace out where she lived, this man was too dangerous, he had a wife and a son…wait, Samuel said he didn’t have a mother.

What a poor child, he never thought Lord Rowland would be so sadistic.

“Wait for me, I’ll be there in 15 minutes!”. As he finished, the line went dead.

Misunderstanding In Daniel’s room, Daniel had just turned on his computer, he hadn’t spent these days at home, and wondered if the man had left him a message, how he liked his game.

“Samuel, do you like the game I gave you?”. Daniel enthusiastically showed him his play.

“Yes!” Samuel was a little shy, but he had already approached Daniel.

Just then, Sherry had finished her call and came to replace Samuel, “Samuel, I’ve called your father, he’s coming to meet you, and he’s promised he won’t hit you again!”

“Sherry!”. Samuel didn’t want to leave, Sherry was very kind to her, her cooking was great, he wanted to stay there.

“What’s wrong?” Sherry asked him quietly, she had never imagined that boy was Mr. Rowland’s son, he didn’t even look like him, he must have come for his mother, Sherry thought.

“Sherry, is daddy mad?”. Samuel feared that his father was angry with him for running away, and he felt guilty about it.

“Your father has promised he won’t hit you again, don’t worry!”. explained Sherry patiently.

“Mom, does he know he was at fault?”.

“Yes, he knows, Daniel, go get dressed, we’ll send Samuel home!”. Sherry said.

“Okay!”. Daniel was logging into his MSN.

When he opened it, a chat window popped up, Daniel jumped up and shouted excitedly, “Wow, Uncle said my game design was really good, Mom, Mom, I did it!”.

Sherry paused, turned to her son and asked in confusion, “What do you mean you did?”.

Daniel was grinning from ear to ear, he thought he hadn’t talked to Uncle in detail yet, and Uncle already mentioned buying his game, he wondered if he meant it, and wanted to make sure of it, he couldn’t afford to be happy about anything, and immediately turned around, “Mom, can you get Samuel, I still have something to do!”.

“What could you possibly have to do?” Sherry had no idea what her son was talking about, “Don’t you want to walk Samuel?”.

Daniel reached over and took Samuel’s hand, “Samuel, I still have something to do, my mom will send you, if your dad hits you again, you can come to our house to stay, you can sleep in my bed, OK?”.

Sherry took Samuel’s hand, who looked up and took a look at Sherry’s soft face, he affirmed, and was happy to be able to spend some time alone with her.

“Daniel, I’ll be back soon!”. Sherry didn’t want to force herself on Daniel.

“Yeah, bye Samuel!”. Daniel went back to his computer and continued reading the comments.

“Bye Daniel!” Samuel said to him.

“Sherry, can I come over to your house to play again?”. Samuel asked Sherry on the way.

“Sure you can, you can ask your dad to call me when you have time and send you over to play! But Samuel, you can’t run away from home again, no matter what, your dad loves you, he’ll be worried, do you understand?”.

“Yes!” Samuel nodded his head, his face filled with a smile of happiness, he could see Sherry again, and that made him really happy.

Sherry wanted to lecture Mr. Rowland later, but she couldn’t scare Samuel, that would leave a big hole in his heart. Samuel was a very cute boy, he turned shy very quickly, William’s horrible temper had to be the reason for that.

On the road there was already a blue Bugatti waiting when Sherry and Samuel arrived, a tall man was leaning against the car, smoking, the smell coming from him was that of yesterday and tomorrow’s king.

As soon as Samuel saw William, he immediately let go of Sherry’s hand and ran to him, “Daddy!”.

William knelt down to hug the boy, and said in a soft voice, “Why did you run away from home, and if you ran into bad people?”

“Dad, I know it was my fault!”. Samuel said, he just wanted to go outside to get some air, to replace his mommy, because his daddy was too busy to play with him, and he didn’t want to wait any longer.

“Why did you tell the others that I hit you?”. asked William in his soft voice.

“I’m sorry!”. Samuel continued to apologize.

“As long as you’re okay!”. William patted him on the back, so he wouldn’t blame himself anymore.

Sherry was shocked to see this scene, how could this be, they seemed to have a wonderful relationship, why was Samuel saying that William hit him?

William turned to look at Sherry, his expression was complicated but loving. He looked deeply at her, and looked down at his son, “Come, tell Sherry, daddy has never hit you before!”.

“Yes!” Samuel immediately walked over to Sherry, lowered his head and said softly, “I’m sorry, I was at fault, I lied to you, dad has never hit me, it was a lie!”.

“Oh!”. Sherry was puzzled, “Really?”.

Samuel nodded his head in affirmation, “Yes, I lied!”.

William approached them, his tall figure stood in front of Sherry, his face wore an unreadable expression, “I never touched it, never!”.

He seemed to be explaining something else, but Sherry felt very uncomfortable, she didn’t expect him to misunderstand.

“Mr. Rowland, I’m sorry! I didn’t know… I thought…” Sherry was too embarrassed to speak.

She had given him a long lecture over the phone, which was all for nothing now, as he had never hit Samuel, true, the boy showed no injury to himself, he was neatly dressed and pretty, how could such a child be hit at home.

“Samuel, wait for me in the car!”. William said.

“Yes!” Samuel gave Sherry a look and then headed for the car.

Sherry felt distressed, she knew she was acting stupid, she hadn’t asked first before she started to educate him, that would have made her angry too.

“Mr. Rowland!” Sherry raised her head to explain herself, but seeing William’s dark eyes staring at her made her so nervous she held her breath.

William seemed even taller under the dim streetlights, his tall shadow almost covering all of Sherry.

“Mr. Rowland, I’m going home now, take good care of Samuel!”. She noticed the air growing heavy, and wanted to leave.

“Wait!” William’s deep voice said.

Sherry stopped, she saw smoke surrounding him, the smoke and dim lights made it so she could barely see his face, only his eyes were as sharp as an eagle’s.

“Is there anything else?” Sherry held her breath.

“How’s your shoulder?” He laid his eyes on her injured shoulder.

“Oh, it still hurts!”. Sherry laughed, “But it’s much better, thank you for asking!”.

“You don’t have to come to work tomorrow!”. William said.

“It’s fine!”. She affirmed, and suddenly remembered, “Is there going to be a pay cut?”.

William was surprised, “Do you need money?”.

“Forget it!” What a stupid question, of course he needed money, a gentleman loved money, but he would earn it the proper way, “Mr. Rowland…”.

“I’ll pick you up tomorrow at noon!”. William said suddenly, interrupting her, he didn’t look at her and took another deep puff of smoke that oppressed his voice.

Sherry was caught by surprise, she had no idea what he meant, why was he going to pick her up?

Maybe he didn’t hear her words, so he raised his head, his eyes narrowed, and looked at her questioningly, “Why, can’t I?”.

What did he mean, why did he want to pick her up?

William saw that Sherry still hadn’t caught herself, so he raised his eyebrows, “You can’t leave the house tomorrow?”

“Huh?” Sherry couldn’t figure out what he wanted, “No, I can, but what do you mean, why pick me up?”.

He looked as if he was suddenly interested, or maybe he was just in a good mood, and leaned over to her with a smile on his face, “I want to thank you for taking care of my son, and I want to hear you talk more about child care!”

He did it in such a high-flown way, she had no chance to decline, but she didn’t want to have a deeper relationship with him, “Mr. Rowland, I….”

“Then it’s settled!” William took another puff and blew out the smoke, “Do you have anything to say?”.

“I’m not leaving!” Sherry nodded her head and sighed. She felt much better about declining his invitation.

“Why?” William looked unconcerned, and raised his eyebrow to look at her, “You don’t want to have lunch with me?”

“Exactly!” Sherry said in one word.

“What are you afraid of?” William had a pressuring aura, and said in his deep voice, this stupid woman, refused again.

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