章 173: "Don't tell me."

"Where did you go? The food is getting cold."

The food was served, and Ethel wondered where the two went because of how flushed and troubled Christopher's expression turned.

"Who bullied my baby?" Ethel approached Christopher and fixed his messy hair that was flowing down on his forehead.

"I-I am not a baby! The baby is over there!" Christopher grumbled. He pointed at Anni while he avoided Ethel's hug.

"What happened? He looked troubled?" Ethel whispered to Mila. She didn't think of Christopher's trouble as that was serious because Mila remained calm, and she could also see traces of a smile on her lips.

Mila replied in a hushed tone, "Kimsmeth scared him, and it troubled him how they could speak the same sentence word for word."

The two chuckled at the same time and, of course, thought the same without the need to discuss it.

They sat across from Christopher while he sat beside his wife.