Chapter 843: I've come to take you home
The tests that pregnant women need to undergo are numerous and tedious.
Luckily, the two little ones were quite sensible and bought them some snacks and sat back and ate them. "Our Sweety and Solomon really know their stuff."
Rupert sighed heartily as he looked around at the bears running around and occasionally letting out a shrill cry.
Eloise smiled, the smile deepening in her eyes as her gaze fell on Sweety and Solomon.
It was nearly noon when Aisly finished her maternity check-up.
"Aisly, what do you want to eat for lunch? Or do you want to go home and eat?"
Rupert carried the word wife slave perfectly and asked in a soft voice as if he was afraid that Aisly would be hungry.
"Uncle, Sweety wants to eat pizza!" Sweety spoke in a slurred voice with bread still in her mouth.
"Solomon wants some too."
Seeing his sister speak, Solomon crisply followed suit.
Rupert glanced at the two children with amusement, then ignored them all.
Turn to Aisly and ask her again.
When the two little ones saw that it was useless to pamper their little uncle, they simply blinked their big eyes and looked at Aisly blearily. "Gee, Rupert, why don't we just go for pizza?"
Aisly is already a mum-to-be, and when she sees the two adorable little ones, her heart starts to flood with motherly love.
Rupert is certainly fine with that.
As he was about to walk out of the hospital, a middle-aged man suddenly rushed over at a fast pace.
He stopped Eloise in her tracks and took her wrist with a delighted look on his face, "Eloise, is it really you?"
The middle-aged man's voice was tinged with excitement and vague amusement.
Eloise was startled by the sudden appearance of a middle-aged man, and the feeling of a stranger's grip on her wrist made her wary.
Eloise frowned slightly, trying involuntarily to draw back her wrist while smiling politely at him, "I'm sorry... you may have the wrong person."
Rupert, who was walking ahead, noticed that Eloise was being pulled by a man and hastily turned around and walked back with Aisly.
Worried about the embarrassment of the middle-aged man in front of her, Eloise deliberately lowered her voice and said to Rupert, "Rupert, this gentleman may be mistaken for someone else." When he got a good look at the middle-aged man, Rupert recognised him instantly.
Rupert shook his head and first smiled politely at the middle-aged man in front of him and then, to Eloise, "Sister-in-law, he's not mistaken, this is your father, the real one." Eloise was slightly stunned.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember what happened before."
She smiled apologetically at Josh and explained.
This obviously somewhat detached attitude left Josh at a loss for words.
When she first disappeared before, Josh and her relationship had eased.
And although Josh had thought that Eloise might have encountered many things during the years when she was missing, he froze for a while when Eloise did not recognise him. "Eloise, can we find somewhere to sit and talk? We haven't seen each other for a long time."
Josh hesitated for a while, but could not resist making this request.
Looking at the restrained man in front of her, Eloise's heart did not waver.
However, despite her lack of affinity for Josh, she was at least her own father, so she nodded in response.
"Yes."
After promising to do so, Eloise added to Rupert, "Rupert, you and Aisly go to dinner, I'll be home straight away later."
"Okay, sister-in-law, call me and Aisly anytime you need anything."
Rupert nodded, instructed her, and took Aisly away.
"Eloise, is this, is this your baby, can you bring it along?"
Josh had long noticed the two small children that Eloise was holding in her hands.
When Rupert had gone, he looked at Solomon and Sweety with a loving gleam in his eye.
"Well, yes."
Eloise could see Josh 's restraint and took the two little ones by the hand and shook them gently, gesturing, "Solomon, Sweety, call Grandpa." "Hello Grandpa!"
"Hello Grandpa!"
The two little ones instantly shouted in unison and good-naturedly.
This made Josh 's eyes narrow with laughter, "Good, good, Sweety, Solomon, come and let Grandpa hug you okay?"
Josh crouched down and spread his arms to look at the child expectantly.
Sweety and Solomon did not come forward immediately, but looked up with their eyes for Eloise's opinion.
Eloise smiles gently and nods.
Only then did the two little ones dutifully burrow into Josh 's arms.
Josh picked them up in one hand and took Eloise out of the hospital to the nearest cafe.
As soon as Sweety entered the cafe, she saw a counter with a variety of desserts.
She lifted her little white, root-like hand, pointed at the counter and said in a soft voice, "Grandpa, Sweety wants some cake!" "Grandpa, I want to too."
"Yes, yes! Grandpa will buy you all!"
Josh immediately promised the two little ones.
He hadn't been this happy for a long time and had a kind smile on his face as he took the two little ones to buy a cake.
And then the four of them took their seats by the cafe's floor-to-ceiling windows.
Perhaps because of most things that have happened over the years, one becomes particularly fond of seeing offspring when one reaches middle age, let alone one that is so cute and well-behaved.
So, under the pretext of going to the washroom, Josh asked the waiter at the cafe for two red packets, and then, took out all the cash from his wallet, divided it into two and put it in his wallet.
He smiled as he walked back and handed the red envelopes to each of the two children and spoke, "Here, Sweety, Solomon, this is a gift from Grandpa to meet you, I hope you will always be healthy and happy." "Thank you Grandpa!"
Sweety lifted her face, which was eating like a tabby cat, and gave a Sweety smile as she reached out to accept the red packet.
Eloise froze for a moment and before she could react, Sweety had taken the red packet.
She was a little helpless and tried to take the red envelope out of Sweety's hand and return it to Josh.
Josh saw her thoughts and hastened to stop her, "Eloise, this is a small token of appreciation from me as a grandfather, it's not much, it's just a blessing for the two children." Eloise sniffed, and was not in a position to insist, "Thank you."
Solomon hadn't taken it, and when Eloise agreed, she took the red envelope and politely and graciously said to Josh, "Thank you, Grandpa."
Josh nodded repeatedly, smiled and complimented the two children before hesitating for a moment before inquiring, "Eloise, have you been ... okay all these years?"
Eloise didn't hold back and made light of all the things she had experienced over the years.
"It's good that you're back, it's good to be back."
Josh had a thousand words in his heart to say, but in the end, all he could say was this simple sentence.
As easy as Eloise said it, he could guess that those experiences must not really have been so easy.
However, the father-daughter bond had eventually created a gap in the earlier years and he was not in a position to ask for more specifics.
And so the father and daughter lapsed into silence.
Josh didn't ask for so much, he was already satisfied to see them once.
So, it was all about entertaining the two little ones.
Eloise doesn't remember Josh and, naturally, doesn't know what to talk to him about.
A little uncomfortable, he took out his phone and sent a message to Hector.
Later in the evening, Hector received a text from Eloise and came straight to the cafe.
Hector, tall and erect, reached out and pushed open the door of the café, his eyes locked on Eloise and he came striding over.
"Eloise, I've come to take you home."
When he saw Josh, he only gave a slight nod as a greeting.