Chapter 650 - Six Hundred And Fifty: How Are You Doing, Son? (1/2)
The third point of view :
”Neon, what do you think about being my son?” Niklaus asked the ten years old boy. This was three years after his mother, Jennifer was locked up in an asylum.
He had watched the way the boy interacted with his kids and they were good with each other, although Allen once in a while posed to be a problem, it was nothing he couldn't handle.
Honestly, he had thought Reina would be the greater problem since this was the son of a woman he had a history with and who nearly killed her. To his greatest shock, she was the one who suggested adopting him.
”He's a good kid and I'll take better care of him once he's mine,” Was her decision.
And that motivated him to suggest the idea to Neon knowing the boy had to consent first before he could make any other move.
”Adopt me?” Neon asked, surprised.
”Yes, that means you and Ailee and Allen would be real siblings. You would then bear the same surname as them and of course, access to the privileges of being a Spencer. It sounds amazing, doesn't it? What do you think?” Niklaus enticed him the same way a salesperson would do to a customer.
”So If you adopt me....?”
”Yes?”
”I would be real siblings with Ailee?” he reasoned.
”Of course, you'd be real siblings for life,” Niklaus said proudly. He didn't need a soothsayer to tell him Neon would agree to his request. After all, what child in his right mind would reject such a tantalizing offer?
Neon thought over it and said, ”If I became your child, that means I can't marry Ailee, right?”
”Of course, Neon,” Niklaus laughed, ”You can't marry Ailee because she would be your...” He trailed off when realization set in.
Oh no, it couldn't be. No way. There was no way on earth this kid liked his daughter, right? He means, what does the kid even know about love and marriage?
[A/N: Well, he's been watching you and Reina. How wouldn't he know?]
”If that's the case, then I don't want to be your son,” Neon decided, eyes steel with determination.
Niklaus felt his head throb with a headache. This had to be the most absurd thing he had even heard. Who in the right mind would reject such an offer? Does he know how many billion people in the world wish to be a Spencer? To be in his shoes? Yet, all this power and riches, he threw them away because he wanted to be with his daughter. What does the kid even know about relationships?
So Niklaus attempted one more time to convince him, ”Look, Neon, you're young and don't know what you're talking about,”
”No, leave me alone!” Neon said and took off while Niklaus was left, dumbfounded.
However, he didn't give up and looked for diverse ways and techniques to convince him but the boy's mind was made up.
”Ailee and I made a promise never to leave each other and I intend to keep mine,” Neon would always say to him.
So Niklaus let him be. But then, he never told the real reason behind Neon's refusal to be adopted to Reina knowing how protective his wife was of her children. Moreover, he was sure Neon would change his mind once he grew up more - he simply had a crush on his daughter.
As Niklaus expected, he had no reason to fear as the kids grew up closer than he thought, to the extent that unless one knew of Neon's surname, they would never know he wasn't a true Spencer.
Most of his acquaintances even thought that Neon was his bastard son due to the way he treated him and their distinct appearances. He let them think whatever they wanted as far as it didn't make the front page of the media.
His only problem was that Neon had no girlfriend, unlike his son, Allen, who inherited his playboy lifestyle - if only Allen knew that would pose a problem for him in the future.
Everything was going well until this very moment after the boy's statement which caused an awkward silence to fall over everyone at the dining except Allen and the triplets.