A moment later, Dori had finished drinking the entire glass of wine. She gave a resounding
burp and fell asleep in the glass.
"Dori!" Josh grabbed hold of her and pulled her out of the wine glass. He gave Dori a good
shake, trying to shake the droplets of wine out of Dori's feathers.
Dori looked a little dazed. She stuck out her red tongue as her eyes rolled around in their
sockets.
"Josh, put her down right down!" Venus slid down from the sofa and ran over to Josh. She
grabbed poor Dori from him and yelped, "You can't shake Dori around like this! You'll make her
throw up."
Venus still didn't understand what being drunk meant.
"Oh, alright then…" Josh frowned crossly. He mumbled to himself, "Girls are too much
trouble."
Zayn's lips curved into a smile. He pulled Josh to sit down next to him and asked, "Tell me, what else do you like?"
"I like guns!" Josh said, his head tilted in thought. He said seriously, "I also like airplanes, cars, battleships…basically, I like everything that a man should take interest in, including pretty girls."
"Wow…" Zayn felt a little stunned. "You're still so young, and you already take an interest
in pretty girls?"
"Of course!" Josh's handsome face took on a rather haughty expression. "I had three
girlfriends in kindergarten, you know…"
"…"
Zayn was at a loss for words. He never thought the Giblo family would have such a
playboy among them—after all, both he and his father were known to be great romantics.
However, he heard that Jombo had used to be quite the playboy when he was younger too.
Beep, beep! Zayn heard his phone ring again. When he saw who was calling, he picked
up the phone immediately. "Hello?"
"Mr. Giblo, I…"
"Zayn, it's me." Shelley's voice sounded from the other end of the phone. He could sense how anxious she was from her urgent tone. "When are you going to stop avoiding me? Even if you have certain thoughts about me, can't you tell it to me face-to-face instead?"
"I've already warned you not to look for me at my company, " Zayn said, frowning.
"I was forced into it, alright? I tried calling you, and you refused to pick up. You even ignored all my messages and blocked my number? What else could I do but call you using Mosa's phone…"
"There's no point in calling me. Whatever is going to happen will happen. We'll decide on the
matter once Grandpa wakes up."
As soon as he finished saying those words, Zayn hung up the phone. He looked down at Josh, who was squirming around in his arms.
He looked a little frightened as he curled up in Zayn's arms and stared up at him.
"What's wrong?" Zayn asked, smiling slightly.
"You looked so scary just now when you were talking on the phone, " Josh said timidly.
"Indeed. I always look more serious when I'm talking about work matters, " Zayn mused, smiling slightly. "I only tone it down a little when I'm with the three of you and your Mommy."
"Oh, that's good, then." Josh heaved a sigh of relief. He tilted his head and asked curiously.
"Well, are you Mommy's boyfriend then?"
Zayn didn't know how to react to Josh's question. In actual fact, he was their biological
father, but since he and Nicole weren't married yet, they were technically still on
girlfriend-boyfriend basis.
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, I don't know if my jerk of a father is alive or not. If you can treat
Mommy nicely, I suppose we can accept you into our family…"
As Josh prattled on, he didn't realize that the expression on Zayn's face had changed
completely.
"Your jerk of a father?" Zayn repeated with a frown. "What has your mother been telling
you?"
"Mommy has never talked to us about him." Here, Josh looked a little sad. "We get teased
all the time in kindergarten. I went to ask Mrs. Borah, and she got very agitated. She said that
our father was an irresponsible jerk…"
"Although she recanted her words almost immediately, I knew at once that the man was a
good-for-nothing piece of trash. But you're different from him, Uncle Zay! You treat both
Mommy and us nicely, and you're even Grandpa's eldest grandchild."
"I've decided to accept you!"
Zayn felt rather stunned. He decided that he'd better talk this over with Carla first
before discussing it with the kids…
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