Chapter 1194 Do You Believe In Fate
“Wow, Vivi! You and Daddy managed to cut so many!”
“Yes, Mommy. But Daddy doesn’t know how to do it at all. Look, the flower petals have all fallen off.”
The little girl was wearing a patterned parka with two uneven braids done by her aunt as she collected the branches she and her father had cut earlier.
At the sight of her mother, she could not help but complain about the flowerless branch in hand.
Sasha was utterly speechless at the pair of siblings when she saw how disheveled her daughter had gotten and how there were a bunch of branches that had gone to waste on the ground.
“All right, that’s enough. I’ll handle this. Go ahead and play with your brothers.”
“Okay, Mommy.”
With that, Vivian left to look for her brothers happily in her puffy parka.
Sighing, Sasha crouched down and started to put the branches that barely had some petals left into the basket. Only then did she look up at the man who was still cutting the branches seriously.
“Sebby, is your sister experimenting on our daughter?”
“What?”
Sebastian, who was concentrating hard on cutting the branches, instantly turned to gaze at her.
The woman picked up the basket and said, “Look, she’s either preparing some kind of cursed food for Vivi or playing with her hair. Our daughter even told me that Sabrina wanted her to try out her milk this morning.”
Sebastian narrowed his eyes at her words.
After a moment, the sound of shears cutting the branches was heard, and he said coldly, “Tell her to get lost.”
Sasha trembled at his words.
Where is she supposed to go, then? Red Pavilion?
All she could do was shut up. About half an hour later, the couple finally managed to get a few branches with flowers still on them. Just as Sasha got ready to head back, she looked up at the man with the basket in hand and asked, “Oh, that’s right. It’s almost New Year’s. Should we pay a visit to Aquene Temple? It seems like you aren’t too busy anyway.”
Indeed, he had too much free time lately. He never went to the White House, nor did he hang around in the study. The man was either supervising his sons with their studies, making them nervous at the sight of him, or playing around with his daughter.
If she had gotten to the garden a little later, Sebastian and Vivian would have destroyed all the flowers on the tree.
Sasha waited for his answer, but he scowled instantly at the mention of a temple.
“Why should we go there? Do you believe in that stuff?”
“No. I just heard that the scenery there is really beautiful. We haven’t gone out to enjoy ourselves since we got here, have we? It’s a great time for us to visit places now since we’re both free,” she pleaded kittenishly.
Sasha was not a religious person. However, she had seen how he had gone through everything recently. Now that everything was over, she felt he should relax a little.
Her heart ached for him.
Fortunately, the man agreed to it after seeing how much she wanted to go.
“All right, let’s go. Should we bring the kids along too?”
“It’s fine. We’ll go ourselves.” Sasha wanted them to spend some time together because they had not had the chance to do that in a long time.
Their original plan was that both of them would be the only ones going to Aquene Temple.
However, right after they stepped out of Oceanic Estate the next day, they saw a black SUV. There was luggage inside, with a woman carrying a baby in the passenger seat.
Both Sebastian and Sasha were rendered speechless.
“Sorry. She heard that you guys are heading to Aquene Temple today and insisted on going there too. Apparently, she wants to pray for our daughter there.”
There was another moment of silence.
However, in the end, Sebastian and Sasha chose to tolerate them since they were family.
And so, their sweet date for the day was ruined. Instead, it became a four-person trip. Well, rather, it became a five-person trip, including the baby.
Sebastian’s expression was grim the whole journey there.
However, soon after they left downtown, their car drove up the mountain covered in fallen leaves, and his expression softened immediately from seeing the spectacular scenery outside.
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”
Sasha was also admiring the view outside.
It was rumored that because of the thousand-year-old temple on the peak, the government forbade any development in the area. It was also why the towering trees around were able to stand tall for more than a thousand years. The mountain felt like a different world, where no killing or power struggle existed.
All there was a peaceful paradise.
Sebastian’s body relaxed at the sight outside.
He, too, had never believed in religion. Ever since he found out about his sickness when he was ten, all he believed in was himself.
That was how he had developed such a cruel and perverse personality.
