Chapter 971 - Left Him Hanging (1/2)

Xiu was so tired today that when she went to bed, she had to force her eyes to stay open. She crawled her way towards Darren who came to lie down on the bed and placed her head on his ċhėst as she closed her eyes to sleep.

Darren pushed her hair back as he asked, ”Tired?”​​

”Very,” she answered in a small voice.

”Rowan went to sleep?”

”He is also really sleepy,” told Xiu and pointed towards the small bed in the room. ”See, he went to sleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.”

”Why did he close the curtains?”

Xiu snorted, ”Even though he repeatedly says he is a baby but he argued with me that a baby also needs privacy. So he'll be closing the curtains before sleeping.”

Darren chuckled at his son's antics and asked, ”Then why doesn't he just move to his own room?”

”As I just said, he is a baby who can't sleep alone!”

Just thinking about it gave her a headache. Clearly, Rowan was quite independent. He wasn't scared of anything. At least, she had never seen him scared of anything. But this little baby still insisted on sleeping in the same room as his parents. But he will not sleep on the same bed as his parents because he is old enough for that. However, he isn't old enough to move out!

What kind of logic was that?

Even the queen of nonsense logic, Xiu, couldn't understand that.

But anyway, as long as it made her son happy.

”He is growing too fast,” said Xiu as she sat up and forgot all about sleeping. ”I feel like pulling him back. Can't he slow down?”

Darren smiled fondly at her as he sat up and leaned against the headboard before pulling her back into his arms. ”You can't pull him back.”

”I know,” answered Xiu. ”But I feel like it would be soon time for him to say goodbye to us and move out of the house.”

”Isn't that better?” questioned Darren. His arms tightened around her, ”Then I'll have my Sweets all to myself all over again.”

”Stop trying to coax me,” said Xiu. ”Clearly, you can't live without him either.”

”But we can't be the selfish parents as well,” said Darren. ”Let time take its course. He is still too young. We have a few years. Let's just enjoy it. Don't you believe in living in the moment. Since when did you start worrying about the future?”

”Since I had a son,” answered Xiu tiredly. ”I feel like I have become a nagging mom.”

”But you don't nag him,” Darren pointed out. He had at least never seen it.

”I don't?” Xiu thought about it and nodded, ”Yeah, I really don't nag. Then how come I feel like one?”

Darren laughed out, ”Because you're used to feeling all sorts of things.”

”That's also a point,” agreed Xiu. ”By the way, let me tell you something. I feel like Asteria and Ava are turning into bro-cons. They are definitely on the road of getting brother complex.”

Darren soothed her as he told her, ”Sweets, it's already too late. They have already gotten the brother complex.”

”You think?”

”It's way too obvious from the way they hang around Rowan,” said Darren. ”Also, Jackie is no better. Although he tries to hide it, I can clearly see how his attention is always on Rowan.”

”Well, half of his attention is always on Asteria though,” Xiu couldn't help saying.