A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 43: Misunderstanding

"You weirdo, I don't care how you know me, you cannot just beat your child, that is against the law! I am telling you, even if you know my name, I am not scared of you, I will call the police!"

"Sherry!" William couldn't watch anymore, and called out her name coldly.

Sherry suddenly got so scared by the sudden yell that her phone almost fell out of her hand, then she finally recognized who it was, "You, you, you are Mr. Rowland?”

Finally, she knew who he was, otherwise William would have run out of patience.

Yes!" A cold manly voice was heard from the other side of the line, it was deep, and the simple answer did not carry any emotions, but Sherry was startled.

Oh my god!

How could it be Mr. Rowland?

Right, she remembered when she was in Seoul, he said that he had a son, could his son possibly be Samuel? This was such a coincidence!

"Where is my son?" William asked.

"Yeah, Mr. Rowland, I will bring him back right now!”

"No need!" William had not forgotten that she was injured, “I will pick him up!”

"Mr. Rowland, can you please not beat him again?’ Sherry kept going, "Do you know how sad he was, he was sitting alone at the bus stop crying, why did you do that?"

"Sherry, I didn't beat him, you stupid woman!" How many times did he have to tell her before she believed him?

"You didn't? Why are you still lying, and blackmailing me, you are very cruel, Mr. Rowland, I had no idea that you are so dominant, so unreasonable, and now you are even a torturer!”

"You!" William was angry, "You stupid woman!”

"See! You are cursing again, now I finally know why Samuel left home, you are really a scary scary man, this poor child!"

Sherry was shaking her head and sighed, she was feeling sorry for Samuel to be born into that family.

"Sherry, where are you?” William had no time to waste with her.

"You need to first promise that you will not beat him again, only if you do that, I will tell you where we are!" Sherry hadn't forgotten the reason why she made the phone call. Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

“Alright, I promise!" William finally said, only god knew how resistant he felt, but this woman was a hard nut to crack.

“Are you sure?"

"l am sure!"

“Alright, I will wait for you at YX Road number one!” Sherry had to bring Samuel there as quick as possible, she couldn't allow William to find out where she lived, that man was too dangerous, he had a wife and a child... wait, Samuel said that he had no mother.

What a poor kid, she never thought that Mr. Rowland was such a sadist.

"Wait for me, I will be there in 15 minutes!" As he finished, the line was cut.

In Daniel's room, Daniel was just turning on his computer, these days he hadn't spent at home, and was wondering if the man had left him a message, what did he think about his game?

"Samuel, do you like the game I gave you?" Daniel was showing him his work eagerly.

"Yeah!" Samuel was a little shy, but he had already gotten closer to Daniel.

Just in that moment, Sherry had finished her call and came to look for Samuel, "Samuel, I have called your father, he will come to pick you up, and he promised he will never beat you again!”

"Sherry!" Samuel didn't want to leave, Sherry was very nice to her, her cooking was great, he wished he could stay there.

"What is it?" Sherry asked him softly, she never had imagined that this boy was Mr. Rowland's son, he didn't even look like him, he must come after his mother, Sherry thought.

"Sherry, is Daddy angry?" Samuel was afraid that his father was angry at him for running away, and felt guilty about that.

"Your father promised that he will never beat you again, don't worry!” Sherry explained to him patiently.

"Mom, does he know that he was at fault?"

"Yeah, he does, Daniel, go and get dressed, we will send Samuel home!" Sherry said.

"Alright!" Daniel was logging into his MSN.

When he opened it, a chat window popped up, Daniel jumped up, and yelled out in excitement, "Wow, uncle said that my game design was really good, Mom, Mom, I did it!"

Sherry paused, she turned to her son, and asked confused, "What do you mean you did it?”

Daniel was smiling from one ear to the other, he thought that he hadn't talked to uncle in detail yet, and uncle already mentioned to buy his game, he was wondering if he was serious about that, and wanted to make sure about it, he couldn't allow himself to be happy for nothing, and turned quiet immediately, "Mom, can you bring Samuel, I still got something to do!”

"What could you possibly have to do?" Sherry had no idea what her son was talking about, "Will you not see Samuel off with me?"

Daniel came over and took Samuel's hand, "Samuel, I still have something to do, my mom will send you, if your dad beats you again, you can come over to our house to stay, you can sleep in my bed, okay?"

Sherry took Samuel's hand, who looked up, and looked at Sherry's soft face, he nodded, and was happy that he could spend some alone time with her.

"Daniel, I will be back soon!" Sherry didn't want to force Daniel.

"Yeah, bye Samuel!" Daniel went back to his computer and kept reading the comments.

“Bye Daniel!" Samuel said to him.

"Sherry, can I come to your house to play again?” Samuel asked Sherry on the way.

“Of course you can, you can ask your Dad to call me when you have time and send you over to play! But Samuel, you cannot run away from home again, no matter what happens, your father loves you, he will be worried, do you understand?"

"Yeah!" Samuel nodded his head, his face was filled with a happy smile, he could see Sherry again, and that made him really happy.

Sherry wanted to give Mr. Rowland a lecture later, but she couldn't scare Samuel, that would leave a big hole in his heart. Samuel was a very cute boy, he would get shy really fast, William's horrible temper must be the reason for that.

At the road was already a blue Bugatti waiting when Sherry and Samuel arrived, a tall man was leaning on the car, smoking, the smell coming from him was the one of king of yesterday and tomorrow.

As soon as Samuel saw William, he immediately let go of Sherry's hand, and ran towards him, "Daddy!"

William went into his knees to hug the child, and said in a soft voice, "Why did you run away from home, what if you ran into some bad people?"

"Dad, I know it was my fault!" Samuel said, he just wanted to come out to get some air, to look for his mom, because his dad was too busy to play with him, and he didn't want to wait anymore.

"Why did you tell others that I hit you?” William asked with his soft voice.

"I am sorry!" Samuel kept apologizing.

“As long as you are alright!” William patted his back, so he wouldn't blame himself anymore.

Sherry was surprised to see this scene, how could this be, they looked like they were having a wonderful relationship, why did Samuel say that William hit him?

William turned to look at Sherry, his expression was complicated but loving. He looked at her deeply, and put down his son,

"Come, tell Sherry, Dad has never hit you before!"

“Yeah!” Samuel immediately went to Sherry, lowered his head, and said in a small voice, "Sorry, I was at fault, I lied to you, Dad has never beaten me, it was a lie!"

“Oh!” Sherry was perplexed, "Really?"

Samuel nodded his head, “Yeah, I lied!"

William came to them, his tall figure stood in front of Sherry, his face had an unreadable expression, "I have never touched him, never!"

He seemed as if he was explaining something else, but Sherry felt very awkward, she didn't expect that she misunderstood.

“Mr. Rowland, sorry! I didn’t know... I thought...” Sherry was too embarrassed to speak.

She had held him a long lecture on the phone, which was now all for nothing, since he had never hit Samuel, right, the child showed no injuries on himself, he was dressed neatly and pretty, how could a child like that be beaten at home.

“Samuel, wait for me in the car!" William said.

"Yeah!" Samuel looked at Sherry, then walked to the car.

Sherry felt distressed, he knew that she acted stupid, she hadn't asked first before she started to educate him, that would have made her angry as well.

“Mr. Rowland!" Sherry raised her head to explain, but when she saw William's dark eyes staring at her, she got so nervous that she held her breath.

William looked even taller under the dim lights of the streets, his tall shadow almost covered all of Sherry.

“Mr. Rowland, I will go home now, take good care of Samuel!" She noticed that the air was getting heavy, and wanted to leave.

“Wait!” William's deep voice said.

Sherry paused, she saw the smoke surround him, the smoke and the dim lights made her almost unable to see his face, only his eyes were as sharp as the one of an eagle.

“Is there something else?” Sherry held her breath.

“How is your shoulder?" He laid his eyes on her injured shoulder.

“Oh, it still hurts!" Sherry laughed, “But it’s much better, thank you for asking!”

"You don't need to come to work tomorrow!" William said.

“Okay!" She nodded, and suddenly remembered, "Will there be a salary cut?"

William was surprised, “Do you need money?”

“Just forget about it!" What a stupid question, of course she needed money, a gentleman loved money, but would earn it in a proper way. "Mr. Rowland..”

“I will pick you up tomorrow noon!” William suddenly said, interrupting her, he didn't look at her, and took another deep puff of

smoke, which oppressed his voice.

Sherry was taken by surprise, she had no idea what he meant, why would he pick her up?

Maybe he didn't hear her words, so he raised his head, his eyes squinted, and looked at her questionable, "Why, can't I?"

What did he mean? Why did he want to pick her up?

William saw that Sherry hadn't caught herself yet, so he raised his eyebrows, "Are you not allowed to leave the house

tomorrow?"

"Huh?" Sherry couldn't imagine what he wanted, "No, I can, but what do you mean, why pick me up?”

He looked as if he suddenly got interested, or maybe he just was in a good mood, and leaned towards her with a smile on his

face, "I want to thank you for taking care of my son, and I want to hear you talk more about taking care of children!”

He made it so high-sounding, that she had no chance to decline, but she didn’t want to have a deeper relationship with him,

“Mr. Rowland, I…”

“Then it's settled!” William took another puff, and blew the smoke out, "Do you have anything to say?"

"I will not go!” Sherry nodded her head, and sighed. She felt much better to decline his invitation.

"Why?" William looked unconcerned, and raised his eyebrow to look at her, "You don't wanna have lunch with me?"

"Exactly!" Sherry said in one word.

“What are you afraid of?" William had a pressing aura, and said with his deep voice, this stupid woman, she refused again.