Chapter 1005

“Okay,” Julian said with a nod, even before Noel completed his sentence.

He was probably annoyed with Noel.

Noel smiled bitterly. He did something he shouldn’t have done. It was right of Mr. Fulcher to be annoyed with him.

To his surprise, Cecilia refused to let him go.

“Mommy, where are you going?”

Her words stopped Noel dead in his tracks.

“I…”

Before Noel could say anything further, Cecilia pulled her wrist out of Shiloh’s grasp and clung to Noel.

Her touch made him feel like he was being thrown into a furnace. His entire body burned as he stood stock-still, staring at Julian.

Embarrassing.

Noel felt utterly and completely embarrassed.

He shoved Cecilia away, and said defensively, “Mr. Fulcher, please don’t misunderstand. Ms. Jarvis sees me as her mother. She’s not…”

“I know.” Julian pulled Cecilia back gently, and pressed her down on the stool. He said firmly, “Sit still and let the doctor check on you.”

With that, he gave Noel a look and dismissed the latter.

Shiloh thoroughly examined Cecilia, and came up with a prescription. “This is the prescription. I’ll get someone to prepare the medication.”

Many medicines in the market were inferior in quality, and Shiloh trusted only the ones he sourced himself. Julian understood it.

“Sure,” he agreed.

He walked Shiloh to the door as they spoke.

Yet when he returned to the room, Cecilia had disappeared.

It was still in the middle of the day. Julian was standing right there, so he didn’t expect her to slip away right under his nose.

No one was standing guard at the door.

She had disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Julian’s face darkened with displeasure, and he went off in search of her. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t find her.

After a long while, he received a call from Noel.

“Mr. Fulcher,” Noel stammered. “M-Ms. Jarvis has been running after my car for a long time…”

If it wasn’t because he drove slowly. If he didn’t bear to leave so quickly, he wouldn’t have realized that Cecilia had been chasing after his car.

Julian’s breath stilted. He paused for a moment before saying, “Bring her back.”

Since Cecilia refused to be apart from Noel, work in the office just had to wait. Julian assigned someone else to take over Noel’s work.

He didn’t expect Cecilia to demand Noel to keep her company, even during mealtimes.

Julian didn’t have a habit of establishing many rules in the household. When Noel’s father Albert Carter served the Fulchers while his father was still around, though, there were many rules in place. Noel picked up the habit of never joining the Fulchers at the table during mealtimes.

But now…

Cecilia refused to join the table and have her meals unless Noel was there. She even accused Julian of snatching her mommy away.

Julian looked displeased.

“Join us at the table,” he said to Noel, giving his approval.

Noel stood silent for a moment. Seeing Cecilia gaping at him, he slowly sat down.

“Be a man, won’t you?” Julian said, glancing at him.

Noel was stunned by Julian’s remark, and subconsciously straightened his back.

“I want this one,” Cecilia said, pointing at the wide array of dishes. She kept asking Noel to serve her food.

Throughout the entire meal, she ignored Julian completely.