Chapter 1085

Julian held back his laughter. He put back the disinfecting lotion into the first aid kit.

“That’s great! Betty’s so strong and brave! Daddy doesn’t need to give Betty an injection anymore.”

“Yes!” Betty nodded repeatedly, feeling that she had escaped death. She even waved her hands at Julian, worried that staying in the car a minute longer would make him think of giving her an injection again. “I’ll go find Mommy myself, then.”

She had long grown familiar with Nina’s place. Even if no one picked her up, she could make her way around this estate by herself.

Ever since she acknowledged Julian as her father, she had attended many self-defense classes—

something members of wealthy families often insisted upon.

Julian wasn’t worried that anything could happen to Betty right under his nose.

He waved his hands. “Go ahead, but don’t forget what you promised Daddy…”

He deliberately stopped mid-sentence, waiting for Betty to complete his sentence and tell him that she promised not to tell Diana he had sent her here.

Yet, Betty shook her head and looked at him in a daze.”

Daddy, what did I promise you? Can you complete your sentence?”

Julian wondered if Betty was usually this forgetful.

No, that wasn’t right.

She remembered exactly when she demanded him to buy her dolls and candies, down to the second.

By the time he was about to remind Betty about her promise, she had run off. She vanished quickly, as if someone was chasing after her.

Julian looked down, and realized that he hadn’t stored the needle back into the first aid kit. Perhaps Betty thought that he might chase after her and insist on giving her the jab.

How could he possibly know how to administer an injection?

He was just trying to scare her.

There wasn’t even a needle in the tube. The only thing he did was to use the disinfecting lotion just to make things look convincing.

Somehow, this injection…

It triggered memories of him and Diana in the hospital ward in the past.

At that time, he requested for her to administer an injection for him. She had glared at him so furiously in front of Oliver, her cheeks puffing up.

But now…

Forget teasing her, he didn’t even dare think about what would happen if she heard his name.

Diana had been in a bad mood ever since she returned from the cemetery.

She sat there for a long time, cleaning Grandma’s tombstone and talking to the latter as if she had never left— that she had never forgotten about Grandma.

The more she talked, the clearer Grandma’s smiling face became in her mind.

Diana recalled how Grandma would insist on wrapping dumplings for them each time the weather turned cold, despite being advanced in years.

That was especially so during those three years she was married to Julian. Then, it truly felt like they were a happy family. Diana could feel the love of her husband and his kin.

She couldn’t recall the exact taste of the dumplings, but she remembered that they were delicious. So delicious that she, Grandma, and Julian would end up smiling contentedly as they ate.

Even the lights in the room brightened up along with their smiles.

But now, Grandma was no longer around. Diana and Julian weren’t together anymore. Forget enjoying Grandma’s dumplings, he didn’t bother admitting that he was an investor of hers. He didn’t even care about her feelings as he left that day.

Forget eating dumplings with her, they hadn’t kept contact at all even until today.

Every time she called Betty, Betty would tell her that Julian was busy.