Chapter 463

Earle, who was always serious, burst into laughter when he heard Silas’ words.

For a moment, the tense atmosphere eased.

Silas was about to breathe a sigh of relief. However, Earle’s next words immediately made the

atmosphere freeze again.

“Silas, don’t call him uncle from now on,” Earle sneered. Then he mocked, “I wonder why I keep such

an unfilial grandson. I’ll just think that I don’t have a grandson like him. I’ll let you and Adrian manage

Moran Group together in the future.”

Upon hearing this words, Maurice’s face darkened at once.

Silas saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly changed the subject. “Great-grandpa, let’s not

talk about it for now. You haven’t taken your medicine today yet, right? I’ll accompany you to take your

medicine first.”

It was only then that Earle stood up. But before he left, he turned to Maurice and said, “I’m going to

take my medicine. Stay here and accompany Aileen and Adrian.”

After Earle left, Maurice and Adrian looked at each other up and down with embarrassment on their

faces.

They couldn’t just stand here like this and do nothing. Then Maurice caught sight of the chessboard on

the desk. He asked, “Do you want to continue playing chess?”

Adrian couldn’t find a better way to get along with Maurice. So he just sat down awkwardly and started

playing chess with Maurice without saying anything.

Neither of them spoke, so the atmosphere was unusually quiet.

Aileen looked at the handsome Maurice and then at Adrian, feeling that they were really boring. She

shrugged and said, “You guys enjoy yourselves.” Then she ran to Ivy and drew with her.

Now, only Maurice and Adrian were left in front of the chessboard.

Finally, Adrian broke the silence. He couldn’t help asking, “What’s your relationship with my mommy?”

As he spoke, his little hand moved the pawn on the chessboard one step forward and launched an

attack.

Maurice moved his knight forward and responded with a question calmly, “Where is your father?”

Adrian’s hand holding the chess piece suddenly paused. But he quickly responded, “I’ve never seen

him before.”

Upon hearing this, Maurice became restless. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind at once.

How come Adrian hadn’t seen his father?

Could it be that Jonathan didn’t care about them at all?

But it couldn’t be. Didn’t Eliana live with Jonathan when she was abroad? But why would Adrian say he

had never seen his father?

Maurice didn’t pay attention to the chessboard anymore. And while he was distracted, Adrian had

already secured victory and put down the chess piece.

“Checkmate! You lost.”

Adrian took away Maurice’s queen with a complacent look on his cool little face.

It was only then that Maurice came back to his senses, and he couldn’t help laughing.

“Adrian, you won?”

Aileen immediately turned around and ran back to them with the paint box in her hand when she heard

the noise. They didn’t expect her to move so much that the paint spilled over and splashed on the cuff

of Maurice’s trousers. And the paint box fell to the floor.

She froze for a moment. Then she apologized timidly, “I’m sorry…” She was so afraid that she didn’t

dare to look at Maurice’s face.

“Don’t do anything to Aileen,” Adrian said to Maurice as he immediately stood before Aileen.

Maurice didn’t mind it at all. In fact, when he saw that Aileen didn’t dare to raise her head after making

a mistake, he was amused because he found her cute.

He couldn’t help teasing her, “Oh, you just say sorry? What else can you do?”

He didn’t sound angry, and he was smiling. When Aileen heard his question, she plucked up the

courage to raise her head. “Actually, I can fix it.”

“Really? Okay, fix it.”

With Maurice’s consent, Aileen picked up the paintbrush from the desk and began to paint on the part

of his trousers where the paint splashed.

After a while, a lifelike sunflower appeared on his trousers.

“It’s done.”

Aileen stood up happily with some paint on her little face.

Maurice looked at her. He found her so lovely that he couldn’t help reaching out and wiping the paint off

her face.

Earle had just come back from taking his medicine, and he happened to see this loving scene.

It seemed that Maurice was getting along well with Aileen and Adrian.

He stepped forward and said, “Since you and these children are now so attached to each other, why

don’t you take them to the Moran family to keep Silas company? You don’t need to support them. The

Moran family has a trust fund for Silas, right? The trust fund is more than enough to support the three

children until they grow up.”

The more Earle spoke, the more excited he became. It was as if he would really bring Aileen and

Adrian home in no time.

“Grandpa, stop for a moment,” Maurice interrupted Earle’s fantasy forcefully. “Have you ever thought if

the parents of these children would agree with it?”