Gloria glanced at Kenny, snorted, and took Tina to the dining room.
Kenny sat on the side alone, while Gloria and Tina sat across from him.
It was clear that they were in different team.
Tina was still well-behaved when she ate, and would point to the food that she wanted to eat. So Gloria would pick it up for her.
"I want that cauliflower!"
"I want a chicken leg..."
"It's okay to eat it, then eat some cabbage..."
Little kids weren’t very fond of eating green vegetables.
If Gloria wanted Tina to eat green vegetables, she had to negotiate with her.
Although Tina didn't like to eat cabbage, but for the chicken leg, she had to take a bite of it.
Kenny looked at the warm and harmonious scene opposite, then looked down at the bowl in front of him, and suddenly lost his appetite.
He slammed his chopsticks on the table, "I'm full."
Seeing that Gloria didn't respond, he deliberately repeated it loudly, "I said, I'm full!"
Gloria knew the reason why he slammed the chopsticks on the table. He just wanted to attract her attention.
She raised her eyes and glanced at Kenny lightly, "Well, I heard what you said. Tina and I are not full yet."
Tina raised her head from her small bowl, and said sulkily, "Tina is not full yet."
"Okay, continue eating." Gloria took food for Tina again.
Kenny's face was terribly cold. Although Gloria ignored him, he couldn't do anything to her.
He snorted coldly and got up to leave the dining room.
As soon as he went out, Tina suddenly raised her head, looked at the direction Kenny just left, and then turned to look at Gloria, "Dad is angry."
Gloria froze for a moment. It never occurred to her that Tina would say this.
She asked Tina curiously, "Is he?"
"He 'humph'!" Tina said, turning her head, and "humph" like Kenny did.
Gloria laughed and couldn't help but stretch out her hand to pinch Tina's face, "Why is my baby so lovely?"
Tina raised her head and said sweetly, "Because my mommy is Gloria."
Gloria taught Tina to read her and Kenny's names, as well as Carl and Edith's names. She remembered them all.
However, when she pronounced the name of Kenny, she always used to pronounce it as "Corny".
Gloria corrected her many times. She would pronounce it clearly occasionally, but in most cases, she would pronounce "Corny".
She may be used to it.
As long as she knew her father's name in her heart, it was okay she called him Corny. Gloria just took it as a pet name between Tina and Kenny.
...
After Gloria and Tina finished their meal, Gloria took Tina to the room to take a shower and get ready for bed.
She heard the maid say that Tina did not take a nap at noon.
If Tina didn't take a nap during the day, she would sleep extremely early at night.
She quickly lulled Tina to sleep.
After Tina was asleep, Gloria got up and went to the master bedroom.
She pushed open the door and found it empty.
Kenny hadn't gone back to sleep. He was still in the study.
Gloria walked to the door of the study lightly and quietly pushed the study door a little bit open, and saw Kenny sitting behind the desk and reading something.
His eyebrows knitted deeply, and there were several documents in front of him, as if he had encountered a very difficult problem.
Gloria stood at the door for a moment, and was about to close the door and leave.
Kenny noticed that there was someone at the door at this time. He looked at the door suddenly, and snapped, "Who's there!"
Anyway, having been discovered, Gloria stopped hiding and walked straight in.
"It's me."
Kenny saw that it was Gloria, so the look on his face slightly softened.
Gloria didn't approach, but stood not far from the door and said, "I'm going back to the room to sleep. It's up to you to come back or not."
With that, she turned around, opened the door and went out.
Kenny sat at the desk, still wondering what Gloria meant.
They had an unpleasant quarrel on the way back, and he thought Gloria was going to sleep with Tina tonight.
What Gloria meant just now was that... she was going back to the master bedroom to sleep?
With that in mind, Kenny was not in the mood to work. He quickly handled the work at hands, got up and went back to the master bedroom.
Gloria had already finished her shower and was lying on the bed.
When she heard the door opening, she wrapped herself in the quilt tightly and turned her back to the direction of the door.
Kenny walked in and looked at the bed.
Originally there was only one quilt on the bed, but there was one more at the time.
Gloria slept on one side of the bed wrapped in a quilt, and more than half of bed was vacant, on which there was another quilt.
Kenny walked to the bed and stayed for a while, but didn't say anything in the end. Then he turned around and went to the bathroom.
Hearing the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, Gloria pulled the quilt down.
She and Kenny were almost sixty years old together, but neither of them was mature in their relationship. They still often quarreled.
She sometimes thought arguing with Kenny was a bit too childish, but she couldn't help.
Kenny always felt that she was favoring James and protecting James, and she felt that Kenny was making troubles unreasonably.
She had tried her best not to meet James, but Kenny still had such an idea. She thought it was Kenny himself who couldn't get over it.
She thought for a while, and then took out her phone to brush Microblog.
The trending topic about Kenny and Su Mian was going to get married was still there. It was still in a heated discussion.
She thought that this trending topic had long disappeared. However, it hadn't.
What was Kenny doing in the office just now?
There was an unspeakable depression in Gloria's heart, and she threw the phone back.
This was originally something Kenny caused himself. Just let himself handle it...
After a while, Kenny came out of the bathroom and lay down directly beside Gloria.
This night, the two of them lay on the same bed with their backs to each other.
...
When Gloria got up early the next morning, the position beside her was already empty.
She habitually took the phone and saw several messages that Edith sent her.
"Come on, watch the fun."
"The official account of the Clarke Group refuted the rumor. What a powerful refutation."
There were two attached posting screenshots.
Gloria opened it and took a look, then quickly exited WeChat and logged into Microblog.
Sure enough, the trending topic was "The official account of the Clarke Group refuted the rumor".
She clicked into the Clarke Group's official account. The top one was a posting that was about the topic of Kenny and Su Mian yesterday. The content was very brief, "Fake, our president doesn't like women who surnamed Su."
This posting was posted in the middle of last night.