Chapter 199 Meeting the Parents (2/2)

When the plane finally landed, Kyle got up in relief and gave everyone a great huge smile. As he walked off, the stewardesses sighed and hoped that they would be on duty again when he took his flight back.

✿✿ Back Home ✿✿

Patrick was staring at his son, Kyle. Delilah was by his side and she frowned as she listened to his outrageous request.

”Out of the question,” she hissed, ”You are only 14 years old and you think you're old enough to make your own decisions?”

”Mum,” Kyle said patiently, ”Are you basing your entire decision simply on the fact that I'm 14? Haven't I proven myself time-and-time again that I know what I'm doing?”

Delilah opened her mouth to retort when she stopped short. She couldn't think of one single incident that she could raise to prove him wrong. He had made countless decisions which she didn't agree with yet, none of them had been detrimental to him.

”I'm not saying that I don't need your guidance, but I do wish to be able to have the freedom to do what I want to do,” Kyle continued, ”My path is laid out as the next heir and I believe I've performed up to expectations in that regard.”

Patrick nodded, not refuting Kyle. In fact, his performance was beyond exemplary.

Patrick sighed and placed a hand on the shoulder of the seething Delilah who was going to blast at him again, ”Sweetheart, he's right and you know it.”

Delilah clenched her teeth and her heart was torn.

She knew. Yes, she knew.

In reality, she was well aware that there had been nothing that she could teach him for he seemed to learn on his own. She had been fighting that in the entire 14 years of his life, for she couldn't accept that her own son did not need her at all.

That's why she was tougher on him. A subconscious act on her part to be a part of his life, to be the one that could guide him. That's why she resisted so much whenever he wanted to do things. Her bottom lip quivered.

Kyle sighed and came up to his mother.

How could he not know what was going through her mind?

He kneeled down and looked up at her, holding her hands in his as he said softly and gently, ”Mum, you have been the best mother anyone could ask for. I'm sorry for being such a freak.”

Delilah's eyes watered at that, seeing how tortured his son appeared to be. To call himself a freak? He must have known that he wasn't normal yet he didn't show a thing. He must have suffered so much, yet she had treated him like a kid.

She placed a hand on his cheeks and asked, ”Was it so hard?”

Her son was a genius. How could she, who was so normal, have produced such a child?

Kyle smiled, a sweet and dazzling smile full of love as he took her hand and kissed the back of it. He looked at her in the eyes and said, ”Having you treat me like a normal kid made me happy. You didn't treat me like a freak. It's just that now ... I ... I just need to be free.”

Delilah looked at her husband, Patrick, who had been quiet this whole time. He nodded.

Delilah looked again at her handsome son. Capable, mature and growing up too fast.

Her son was like a dragon, stuck in this small pond. He needed to be let free to soar into the skies. She would not be the one that held him back. She knew this day would come, but she thought it was still far in the future. The fact that he was bringing it up now meant he was feeling stifled already.

”Fine,” Delilah said with resignation, ”I'll start on the paperwork immediately.”

In Country TZ, there was the 'Child Emancipation Law' that is similar to Country US, which allowed a minor to act for himself without needing an adult. At 16 years old, a child can petition to the court to disown themselves from their parents and be treated as an adult (legally).

In Country TZ, however, it also allowed a parent to voluntarily allow their child to be treated as an adult without having to 'disown' them. Thus, the child was still a part of the family yet legally an adult. There was no age restriction, so long as both parents were in agreement. This was the process that Delilah was talking about.

Kyle sighed with relief. That went far smoother than he expected.