Getting bored while waiting for his mother, he went over to the child department for a walk, but then he overheard a cringy conversation coming from past the rack.
“Darling, do you think our baby is going to be a boy or a girl?”
The man wrapped his arm around the woman’s waist and in a seductive voice, he endearingly cooed, “I’m happy with either, as long as you’re the mother.”
“That sweet tongue of yours!” The woman said while hitting the man’s firm chest playfully. “The Mason family is developing swiftly right now, so my future mother-in-law would probably prefer a boy to inherit the family business…”
Miles shivered and thought, ‘Ew, grown-ups are so gross.’
He curled his lips into a pout and moved to leave, only to accidentally see the faces of the couple through the gaps between clothes. He tripped and came close to losing balance.
That man was Jamie Mason, his biological father.
Ever since he could remember, he had asked about his father. Catelyn did not intend on lying to her, and with how intelligent Miles was, it did not take long for him to find out about Jamie.
When he found out that Jamie had abandoned him, he bit his lip and decided he did not need the man either; Catelyn was enough for him.
Miles rolled his eyes and pouted in contempt before trying to leave. All of a sudden, however, his phone started ringing.
He slid open the screen and saw that it was a spam message, but the sound of the notification had caught the attention of Jamie and Louella Atherton.
“Who’s there?” Jamie, thinking someone was trying to take pictures of them, shoved the rack away to grab Miles by the arm, only to realize that it was a child.
Miles’s limbs were hardly that long to begin with, and despite the pain of being grabbed, he could not escape.
“Let me go!”
He was beginning to resent Jamie.
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