"Randy…"
"Josh…"
"Venus…"
When they spotted them, the crowd of students started calling out the children's names.
The cacophony made Zayn's head throb with pain.
Instinctively, he narrowed his eyes, which made him seem more aggressive and annoyed
than he actually felt.
Instantly, the students stepped away, too frightened to approach the kids.
A girl in a ponytail was so alarmed that she burst into noisy tears at the sight of Zayn's
face.
"Dunra, don't be scared! He isn't a bad person." Venus kicked her little legs, signaling to
Zayn that he should put her down. Running over to the crying girl, she explained hurriedly,
"He's my…"
"I'm their father!" Zayn interrupted hastily.
He thought it would sound rather scandalous if he introduced himself as their mother's
boyfriend. Besides, the students were too young to know about this sort of thing.
He thought it would be best if he stepped forward bravely and announced his true identity to
the world.
Anyway, he was their father now, and he would remain their father for the rest of their
lives—this was an irreversible fact.
The three children turned to look at him, stunned. They could hardly believe what they had
just heard.
Sure, they had already accepted Zayn as their Mommy's boyfriend. They even took quite
a liking to him and were willing to let him join in their fun. However…wasn't he moving too
fast?
Were they really supposed to call him Daddy now?
This was all too sudden for them!
Randy gazed in horror at Zayn, his mind running at a mile an hour. He wasn't a stupid kid
by any means, and he was quickly analyzing Zayn's words to find any semblance of truth
in them.
Josh was looking at Zayn, too. His expression looked rather dazed. Had he heard
wrongly? Or was Uncle Zay merely saying this in front of the other kids so they would stop
bullying the triplets for not having a father?
Venus's mouth was wide open in shock. Her eyes were as big as strawberries as she gazed
open-mouthed at Zayn, scarcely believing what she had just heard…
All the students in the class, too, were looking at Zayn with a mixture of shock and
confusion. Since the triplets started coming to school, they had never seen their father. Even
the triplets themselves didn't seem to know who their own father was!
And yet this man had appeared out of nowhere and claimed himself to be their father!
Besides, he was tall and had a brutal look on his face. How—how frightening!
Even the teachers and the medical staff were gazing at Zayn in shock.
This was the third piece of startling news they had received from Zayn this morning, and
it wasn't even noon yet.
Firstly, he had decided to send the triplets to school by himself.
Secondly, they found out that he was, in fact, Carla's boyfriend.
And lastly, he had gone from being Carla's boyfriend to being the father of her children!
Thank goodness the paparazzi weren't hovering around right then. Otherwise, this shocking
piece of news would have spread across the globe like wildfire and caused a huge storm.
"Daddy, Daddy, burp—"
Dori was so drunk that she was barely awake. She gave a loud, sudden squawk from Josh's
arms.
This quickly snapped the triplets out of their daze.
Randy quickly wiped the shock off his face and replied politely, "Uncle Zay, please put me
down."
Zayn set him down on the ground hastily. As they met each other's eyes for a fleeting
moment, both of them registered the flustered look on each other's faces.
Randy looked up uncertainly at Zayn. He then bowed courteously and said, "Thanks for
sending us to school, Uncle Zay."
"Yes, thank you!"
Josh and Venus quickly chimed in.
In their hearts, Randy was the most important voice of authority after their Mommy and
Mrs. Borah. Thus, it was only right that they followed in his footsteps.
"And thank you for preparing these gifts for my friends and my teachers, " Randy continued
politely. "You must be busy at work. We won't trouble you anymore, then!"
Looking at Randy's stiff, indifferent manner, Zayn couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He
shouldn't have said something so shocking before thinking it through.
Instead, he should've discussed this seriously with Carla first before deciding on an
appropriate way to tell the kids. It would have come as less of a shock then…
However, the words had already left his mouth. There was no use crying over spilled milk.
"Alright, I'll get going first then."
Zayn bent down to give the triplets a hug, but all three of them moved backward
instinctively, as though they were afraid to get close to him…
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