Chapter 95 – United as a family
Liliana and Jonathan took some time to calm their emotions.
They had a late lunch before going to see the kids.
It was late evening when they arrived at Liliana’s Villa.
Liliana called the kids to the living room and sent all the maids away.
“Nathan, these are our kids. Nathaniel Petrova Smith is older than Joyanna Petrova Smith by 15 minutes. I call them Li and Jo. I combined our names – Jonathan and Liliana – for both of them the best I could.” She introduced the kids to Jonathan formally.
“Li, Jo – your father and I are very sorry for not providing you with a complete family all these years. Let’s start over, okay. We both promise that we will do better from now on.” She explained to the kids and subtly hinted for them to not raise this issue over and over again.This is property © NôvelDrama.Org.
“Daddy!” Jo exclaimed right away and jumped into Jonathan’s lap. She already loved him very much but was coaxed by Liliana to keep the truth.
“Father!” Li called, solemnly. He also wanted to love his father carefreely as his sister did. But he was older and meant to protect his mommy, even if it was from his daddy.
Jonathan’s words were caught in his throat and he could not say anything to his own children as Liliana introduced them.
He picked Jo up and hugged her tight as tears rolled down his eyes. Li only greeted him formally.
Jonathan was too happy to mind the formality. He stepped forward and hugged Li in his arms as well.
He understood that a part of Li’s maturity came from having been raised by a single parent only. He wanted to show with his actions that his son could have a carefree childhood because he would be there to shelter them from then on.
Jonathan knew the differences between words and actions. He decided not to seek forgiveness via words. He would show his repentance via actions instead.
The kids could feel the strong emotions from their parents and the joy of being held by their father the first time was immense. Jonathan had hugged them before, but he did not know the truth at that time.
Jonathan finally broke the hug and went up to Liliana. He kissed her on the forehead and the family of four were engaged in a group hug once again.
“This feels perfect,” Liliana murmured.
“Yes, this does. I love you guys so much.” Jonathan said.
“When are you going to move in?” Li asked straightaway.
“Let’s go together to my Villa. I will pack my stuff and bring it back. I will show you our other house by the mountain. You guys can tell me what you want to change and I will ask the decorators to change it and update the security. We can move there when it’s time.” Jonathan answered.
He looked at Liliana and said, “We need to figure out accommodation. I have to go to the office every day and I don’t want the security to be compromised.”
Liliana nodded, “We will figure something out.”