Chapter 574

“Don’t move. This is the last stroke… And, we’re done!”

Finally, after a long while, Aileen and Adrian finished drawing the pictures.

Eliana flew off the sofa the moment she could. After looking at Maurice affectionately for such a long

time, she felt she was about to lose control of herself!

“Come on, let me see it. What are your paintings like?”

She moved to Adrian with a smile and picked his painting up. On the paper, Adrian drew a gentle and

affectionate image of Eliana in effortless strokes.

Eliana smiled in satisfaction, but her smile soon faded very quickly. Adrian’s drawing style took a

dramatic turn all of a sudden. Maurice, who sat next to her in the painting, appeared particularly

horrible. There were, in fact, two devil horns on his head. It looked like a painting depicting Beauty and

the Beast.

If Maurice saw this painting, he would be definitely pissed off!

In order to stop the tragedy from happening, she hurriedly hid the painting behind her back.

Unfortunately, Maurice still noticed it.

“Why are you hiding the painting? Give it to me and let me see.” Maurice felt something was off and

reached for the painting.

There was no way Eliana could hand him the painting. She began to take steps back with every step

he took forward.

“Children’s paintings are just so-so. What’s the point of looking at it?” She tried dissuading him.

However, the more she hid it from him, the more curious Maurice became.

“I’m going to count to three. One, two…”

“I’ll show you! Here you go!” She didn’t dare upset him, so she grudgingly handed over the painting and

silently waited for him to lose his temper.

Maurice didn’t lose his temper after seeing the painting. He chuckled instead. “This painting is pretty

good.”

What? Had she heard wrong?

Eliana and Adrian were both shocked by his words.

Adrian couldn’t refrain from asking, “You’re not mad that I drew you like this?”

“Why would I be mad?” Glancing at him nonchalantly, Maurice then turned around and picked up

Aileen’s painting.

Aileen’s painting was a lot more normal than Adrian’s. On the white paper, two adorable little people sat

side by side on the sofa, looking at each other lovingly, with lots of pink hearts floating around them.

Gently touching the faces of the two people on the paper with his fingers, Maurice couldn’t help smiling.

In this painting, he and Eliana truly looked like a loving couple.

However, the warm moments were always short. His phone rang the next second, interrupting him.

It was Earle calling.

“Where have you been, Maurice? We have important guests visiting. You have to come back quickly.”

Earle sounded very angry on the phone.

Maurice’s smile disappeared in an instant.

Eliana’s heart skipped a beat as she heard that. She hesitantly asked, “Is it a call from your

grandfather? Did he ask you to go home?”

As if nothing had happened, Maurice hung up the phone and calmly said, “Don’t worry. I’ll go back first

to handle it.”

Eliana’s heart became heavier at his words. She had broken her promise to Earle and gone back to

Maurice. No one could tell what would happen to them.

As Maurice was about to leave, Aileen pouted with tears in her big eyes. She escorted him to the door

and reluctantly said, “Can you give me a hug, Mr. Moran? I don’t want you to go…”

Maurice’s heart nearly melted at her gaze. There was no way he could refuse her. He squatted to her

level immediately and gave Aileen a big hug.

He then hesitated as he turned to Adrian beside her. The two stared at each other blankly. After some

time, Adrian turned around and ran back to his room.

Was Adrian finally getting nice to Maurice? Was he going to get Maurice a surprise gift? Eliana

suddenly began to look forward to it.

However, Adrian then soon returned with a bag of trash in his hand!

Under Eliana’s shocked gaze, he handed Maurice the bag of trash.

“As you’re leaving, why don’t you get rid of the trash for us?”

Eliana couldn’t help it, and burst into laughter. She sighed. They really were father and son.

Maurice didn’t know how to react as he stared at the bag of trash in his hand.

If it was someone else who dared to give him a bag of garbage and ask him to throw it out

shamelessly, he would have thrown that person away as garbage instead. However, when this little boy

did it, for some reason, he wasn’t angry. He simply felt helpless instead.

Finally, he picked up the bag of trash peacefully and accepted it. He bargained, “I’ll help you throw the

trash out. You have to reward me, right?”

Eliana was amused, so she humored him. “What do you want then?”

Raising his eyebrows, Maurice naturally stretched out his arms to hold Eliana. “A hug. That’s not too

much, is it?”